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Thanks for the comments everyone. Will post a higher quality copy of this image soon.

Am currently working on another version of this, with more wasps and

more details in the 'city', with traffic lines of wasps like they're

flying cars. Or should I not? The previous version of this have only

a single clock tower in the horizon, like a lone windmill in the

meadow plains.

 

Should the girl be made smaller, or even be replaced by a younger

girl? Does the present proportions tell the distance between the girl

and the clock city?

 

Pardon me for the pixelization. This jpeg is quite compressed. Before

compression, I resized this to the current dimensions and then

sharpened so it's a little bit different from the original.

Hand held with a Kiev88CM using sunny 16 rule. Think the exposure was

f11 1/125. Some post processing work.

Comments and critiques welcome.

Sorry about the letterings and compression (explains the pixelization). Had attached the wrong file, though the base image is the correct one.

Thanks for the comments on the artificial shadows. I've now figured out how to make them more convincing.

About the comment about 5 images- here's the list.Sky, Pigeon 1, Pigeon 2, Rat, Ground.

I was hoping to achieve a mirror effect without pointing out which one is reality. I hoped this would be more obvious with the second shadow on the two main flying rats.

About the title 'Flying Rats'; it refers to London mayor Ken Livingstones's description of pigeons in public spaces. He called them "rats with wings".

To see a sharper version please visit www.choen.com, it's on the main page itself.

Composite of 5 photographs. Critiques welcome.

FOR ALL YOU GEARHEADS OUT THERE! :)

 

This one was a long process. Need some comments on parts you find

unnatural (other than the gear headed creatures), and any other

flaws. Thanks.

I've seen this image in print somewhere before...

http://www.choen.com/images/fishingshark1-s.jpg

Need some advice with the colours. Does this version work better. Heck, is it even convincing at all?

How often do you see anyone fishing sharks, especially those that

doesn't swim in water? Ronald was put in as an after thought,

originally it was a flapping chicken in his place. Composite of

various photographs.

Too radical? Wrong?

 

Exposure set at -1.5ev, just about the only conventional 'manual'

control one has over this digital camera.

Dear sir, the reason why no one has commented on any of these individual images is because they are discussing it in this presentation.

Now, it does look kind of stupid that someone is actually rating this image isn't it? Thank you.

The subjects are so mind numbingly dull that as a collective it overpowered my,er, cerrebelum. Why do humans get addicted to repetitions, I wonder? See what your neighbour do, you must, too. Yes that is another X brand ad round the corner, just like the last corner, yes, sick of it, but don't mind actually buying another of that product, yes I just bought one yesterday. (yadda yadda bla bla).

 

I am not going to go anymore into this, and will just take it as a carefully arranged craft- a collection of mosaic pieces. Each piece unique, though the same when put together as a collection, when seen from a healthy distance.

 

 

Whoah, it must be 4am over where you are...don't you need to sleep? :)

This one's for you, Marge. Toned in some duck shit yellow/brown...

 

 

 

 

 

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I can't believe the amount of wicked humour there is in this photograph.

How would a straight print without dodge and burn look like, Paal? Whomever is responsible for the darkroom genius in this, I would like to congratulate him or her for the excellent work. The setting sun just behind Bono is the controversial point here, pictorially speaking- whether viewers decide it's a mistake or a bonus that will be the first thing they see. It's the brightest spot!

Tony, would'nt you want to see through the eyes of the others? I think Philip Dick wrote a few stories about this. Just imagine if your inbuilt camera (perhaps in the eye as you suggest) is not of a still type but actually a live video camera, where you can uplink your 'footages' to anyone interested. Would that world be a nightmarish one or one where knowledge and information can truly be shared by all humankind? OK, this is getting off topic already.

The decisive moment is not dead yet, just that there are far too many other undecisive moments out there flooding our senses, especially in print. I am one who is guilty of this.

 

I too fear for the death of the art as technology eats in, I'd hate to see the art turned into a science.

There's a little bit of Full Monty (the part where the guys line up at the job centre) in this image. Associating this with that, puts a smile on my face. But that's a personal interpretation.

THis I find to be rather amusing :)

This is a very strange study of Tibetan monks; (Well, to me anyway) remove their robes and replace them with t-shirts and jeans and they're no more different than pleasant youngsters in say, Shanghai or London. This portrayal of them is very human- and they're human indeed, just with a different 'job'.

The sign doesn't mean anything. If there was, it's been lost- it's now part of a 'picture taking' pose. My aunties do it, my cousins do, but I don't, and when I ask them what's that for, they don't know either.

I am sorry to say, old men like this are everywhere in Asia. It's another matter if he's photogenic or not, and willing to be photographed or not. Usually they will let themselves be photographed and then later comment 'ah, foreigners and their weird curiousity'. Then there are the other less usual ones who actually feel that they're being patronized. What's exotic- I bet they will find your house and any living old folks in it exotic too if they ever come over to your country. With a camera, one of them may even start snapshooting away at you. Will you wave hi? Those of you who work or stay in areas popular with tourists may understand what I mean.

And that old man's victory sign. Come on. If you look at any photo albums from east Asian families you'd find them in every picture. I once asked why, what is the sign for, and one answered 'Don't know. Everyone else do it, so why not?'. It's not more different from saying 'cheese' when you are being photographed in holiday shots.

 

Sorry, it is not a bad picture, but I find the interpretation made in this discussion to be veering off a bit from what the subject matter really is- 'oh, foreigner wants to take picture of me...ok, why not, maybe he will send me a back a copy later'.

 

Congrats on the POW. :)