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"VOYAGER"


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SAILING TOWARDS THE UNKNOWN. Reflection image, converted 180 degree. Shutter priority: 1/250. Aperture: Auto. Time of day: About 11 in the morning. One of my last shot from last year. Recently I purchased the same type of camera which I started with 1978 (Canon AE-1) as a souvenir in my collection. Little later I went out with it and as the sky was without clouds and not very interesting, I decided to concentrate on useing my telephoto lenses. The reason for the waves on the surface of the sea is because a man abourd the boat started to pump seawater from it to the sea which made these effect. This vision made me travel in my mind back to those days I used to be a seaman myself many years ago. It was a nice feeling and I think I have captured it in a way, with this image. I am interested in your opinion. Image best viewed LARGE. Thanks in advance for your ratings and comments. Copyright: Baldur Birgis


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Aesthetically very pleasing. The darkness on the right (10%) bothers me somewhat and I wonder if you have tried a crop without it.
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Armindo and Sriram: Thank you for your kind comments. About crop: No. My feeling is that Voyager is sailing towards the unknown.

 

All the best, Baldur

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Wow. Different for you, Baldur, and wildly wonderful. I love the freedom of abstract reflections...hinting at but not totally revealing the source. You captured the feeling of the sea here...your intention. I really like it!
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Interesting and beautiful rendering af a ship. I had to look at the photo for a little while to understand how the picture represents the subject. I love the saturated colours and the dark area in front of the ship's stem needs to be there.
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Linda, Andrea, Pedro, Michael and Kurt: Many thanks for your kind comments. Like the others, they are very helpful and constructive.

Regards, Baldur

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Excellent tonal abstract design, Baldur. I like the tilt and negative space at right, too. Which reminds me that I plan to upload a full inverted cityscape reflection abstract soon. thanks for showing this one - Gary
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mike, Gary and Ringo: Thank you for your inspirational comments. I´m glad you have the same opinion as I do about this image. To Gary: I´ll take a look at that image. To Ringo: I noticed the colorful reflection and when the surface of the sea became like this (see technical details), the image became surreal and like an abstract. We travel through the life which can be beautiful and many things can be known and unknown.

 

Kind regards, Baldur

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Great photo Baldur, very sharp and interesting colors, I can realy see a boat and someone working on it. I thought in the begining that i would have cropped the right but when I started looking at the photo then I saw it is the front of the boat and it really makes this photo works. Great work
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As always, Baldur, a great eye for detail. I like the extreme concentric fragmentation that the bailing pump gives to this scene -- and the saturated color is delicious.

 

Now that the D-60 seems like a second skin, it's ironic to remember how much I disliked the AE-1 when it was introduced in the late 70s. It just seemed too bloody complicated compared to the instinctive simplicity of my F-1. Anyway, I still have an AE-1 and a 19mm FD somewhere in the back of the closet. You inspire me to go see if I can finally figure out how to use the thing! --jim

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Thank you Jim for your promotive comment. I´m really glad to hear that this image makes you want to look for and try your old AE-1 again. There was never any FD 19mm super wide angle lens, only 14, 17 and 20mm. It must have been FL 19mm f/3.5 or was it FL 19mm f/3.5R (http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/)? However, it would be very interesting to se the result from another equipment than your very fine Canon D60 and proper EF lenses. Good luck! Baldur

 

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