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Seven,

 

First I must say that this works as I would have guessed you would have intended. It stops the viewer dead in his tracks with an image a'splash with color and unusual context. What drew you to this fianl result?

I don't know about 10's yet because I think you have just started in on your own uncharted territory....your on to something. I think the "Ten" will be seen down the road. As for Samuel's regard to experiment, Lest we not forget that this medium, unlike painting or music, did indeed emerge as a science. While the look of film is hard for me to let go of, the prospect of having the cost of "Experimentation" almost eliminated is a wonderful one.

 

Of COURSE artists are going to try really wacky things if they are not spending $15-20 bucks a roll on film and proccessing.

 

While I think that this image works to arrest the viewers attention well and is indeed beautiful, I think your vision, what drives you will bring out picutures with more insight. I am still trying to find what drives me....and I make a living doing this picture thing!!!!

 

Keep this up!! I like it!! For what it's worth, I am traveling for a year.....my computer screen is my wall, consider it hung up:-)

David,

 

Thanks for the input. Anything is helpful when your mind is in a rutt. As for Tony, I actually met him down in Sydney back in August, the lady was with me too. He's a great chap, he showed us all over the city and we had a few laughs watching his two dogs try to attack four legged creatures 50 times there size. Tony if you read this, I have not emailed ANYONE really since my split w/ Amy, pretty lame excuse I know. Going to Tasmania to try to "Hike" it off for the next few weeks.

 

Dan

Maurice,

I guess the process of scanning 40-50 slides in a row at 5 minutes a piece is what is taking heaps of time. They used to take 15-16 minutes each until I bumped the ram on my powerbook up to nearly 800MB. One gig is the most I could put in it but alot of Mac user's are having problems with having two 512 chips right now as I have noticed on the Apple discussion board.

 

Anyway, it's fast, I have just been scanning all day.

 

Dan

Paul,

Vuk and David could very well be bored. I kind of like the abstract way of how things pop up here and there on this site....kind of goes with the tempermental artist type way of thinking.

 

I am sitting here scanning 50-60MB files that are taking heaps of time, so I suppose I am bored somewhat too, it's been raining here all day. Good reading and lens cleaning time maybe??

 

 

David,

 

Start that fund raiser man!!!!!

I left my full time staff shooting position at the Aspen Times back in June to move down here to Australia to be with my girlfriend......who broke up with me in August!!

So if you guys envy my life.......don't! I have been one sad and lonely puppy since that happened and it has made it really hard to even think about tooting my horn for work.

 

So here I am in Australia trying to pick up the pieces from my failed love life and seeing if I can find something that Geographic has not yet done.........and do it, not to mention any other work I can P/U. I have gotten bits and pieces here and there but I know I am not bieng confident or trying hard enough.

Not so easy when the economy has taken the road it has either.

Hats off to all of you have not screwed up your relationships and still have a real income and medical benefits.

 

I will post stuff when I feel it is worth posting I suppose.

 

Thank you for all your kind words everyone.

 

Dan

Axel, There virtually no Photoshop on these images. That's how clean the D1x was as far as image qualtiy goes. Almost a little TOO clean for my tastes. Look at the sequence in my coment above, they are raw there.

 

By the way folks, I appreciate all the comments on this, it's kind of why I joined .net in the first place. Not to get published, I already do that plenty, but to get simply get feedback.

 

While I would not put all the Goodwill Games photos in my portfolio, I am fairly happy with the results considering it was my first whack at a major "Olympics" style sporting event. You HAVE to understand here, they are SO DARN TIGHT on where you can shoot, it makes it really hard to come up with original stuff. We all know that by how my other work looks, I will get something different but here, you take what you can get.

 

Keep the comments coming,

 

Dan

Hi Guys,

 

Here is the sequence taken at 3 frames per second with no time to get "Creative". The Nikon D1X is a Digital camera shoots a max of 18MB file sizes, I was using it in it's highest setting so the buffer loaded up pictures before the crash was done. I was the only photographer out of some 30 that got anything of it . Right place, right time, maybe not the right camera though, 4 is all I got. As for it getting picked for POW, I don't have any influence over that, I agree that my favorite shot out of that folder are "Gymnast's Hands. "Marion's medal" might come in second as it is a bit unusual and the other shooters were wondering "Just what the hell are you shooting a medal ceremony with a 600 for? the throw is only 20 feet mate!"

 

I like the shot because of what is going on, the lack of hands in the far left is less than desirable to be sure but...Hey! you DO take what you can get.

 

:-)

the Nikon D-1x , there is one before and two afters in this sequence...at the camera's 3 FPS rate. As for the shutter speed, I was shooting a different kind of shot when this happened. had I been doing pan shot's at a 30th, I would have been totally screwed!!! It's a matter of just shooting when you don't have time to think.

 

David, your comment made me laugh:-)

....were talking about. The agency must love the nice space in this super clean image, Lots of great area for text. It was Great working with you at the Games, good energy from you mate. Keep posting you pics on "Net" it's a great venue for any fellow "shutterist"

......Goes the hair on the back of my neck when I remember the last time I took lightining pictures by water. You have big "potatoes" for trying a shot like this, lightning and bodies of water are Dane-ger-rous. Great shot though, I know what you mean by the only good one in the bunch delema.

...is funny! Is it a double exposure? Is it a photoshop composite? It got my attention. You should do a series on this, maybe have the giant embryo casting a shadow over someones awestruck face.

 

Dan

This image was taken with my good old manual focus 400 2.8 @2.8 with non pushed 100F at 1/400 of a second. I had to hand hold this whale of a lens with out the use of a monopod for the boats ideling motor would usually cause too much vibration. I know that this a rather cliche' shot but I think the light is what makes it for me. There is a fair amount more film for me to edit through, I just got it back yesterday so more will pop up I'm sure.

 

As for the whale's behavior, The young sub-adults mug the boats like crazy. If you stick your hand out, they like to reach out and touch you with a fluke or a head rise. The mums and calves who are sometimes only 6 weeks old, who I will be photographing later, come into the bay to learn the ropes with mom.

Hi there,

 

I just noticed that you have dubbed my image of Hale-bopp a composite. When this image was selected by the Associated press in 1997 for a top award, they too, thought that it might be a composite. Well, it won the award and after they looked at the physical negative....it's no composite,

It's just simply a culmination of years of prep, the right conditions and God's voice echoing. If you think this is a good image, wait till you see what I do with the first human recorded total solar eclipse in Antartica in 2111. National Geographic is helping me plan for this one.

 

Cheers,

 

Dan

And thank God for that!! When I first glanced at this image, I thought, "Wow! Is that........? It's simply stunning! and I mean simply does it here. No hinting or partial hiding, no power of suggestion, just the beautiful simplicity of a woman bieng a woman. Photography gives us the rather profound ability to express ourselves in ways that will echo in the eyes of the human exsistance. Thank God.

This nice light on a white cat. The wicker thing.....I think that's what it is, in between kitty's paws, breaks the "fur" part of the picture up. I can't decide on whether it detracts or not.

Nice soothing image.

Dan.

This the real Apollo 13 space capsule about to have one man at

a museam restore it's insides. This shot taken with a Kodak

NC2000 digital camera (huge tank) ran in the New York Times

and won several awards. It's nice to get feedback on shots that

are a bit older in your collection.

The blades were not moving, just out of focus.

I just thought that the lack of color in what I saw made black and white the right awnser for this scene.

 

Easy there on the Photoshop ethics war. It is one of those images that will always be subjest to attacks on it's validity. I have just down loaded a folder with a few more star pics from a story I did on snowmaking, it won an award in the Colorado Press Association in 2000 for best photo essay.

http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder.tcl?folder_id=124725

Hi guys, I cropped this to about 100mm but the transparency in the sky was truly exeptional from a storm covering town like a blanket, best time to shoot.

 

It's wonderful to have the neg. on this because even A.P. questioned the possiblity of a "Sandwhich". I did use all the information on the film by using by burning and dodging tools before tugging on Photoshop curves or levels adjustments. I use this alot to allow newsprint to retain the range of the printed image.

 

I got into photography at first to "Shoot" the moon, planets and stars when I was 10 years old....alots happened in my life since then. :-)

Thank you Kyle!

Yes, I make my entire living with photography and shoot almost daily. I am currently on staff at the Aspen Times in Colorado but when I was in Kansas, my then managing editor said to me in a deep coversation, " If we could just give this stuff away and not worry about the money crap, it would just get better." I have thought about that alot in recent years and just when I need a chunk of change for a piece of gear or something like my departing my full time paycheck for a trip around the world, the money always pops up. Maybe not in large amounts but certainly enough.

 

I have been taking pictures since I was 10 years old, that's 24 years now. When I was a child, I would escape my sometimes unpleasant childhood to my camera and day dream. Now I get paid to do that. So If people take my pictures to use as wall paper or whatever, so be it. I hope it brings them as much joy as it has brought me over the years.

 

Thank you everyone for your great comments. I am building a website that will be up before I go to Australia, www.dbPIX.com, should be up in about two weeks.

 

By the way, the windmill is still, it's just a tad out of focus because the depth of field at F1.4.

I have hundreds of lousy stars pictures as growing pains that have been the journey to this image.

 

Happy shooting everyone,

 

Dan.

Just in case you are all curious, I got the lens shade wet the camera was so low to the water hanging upsidedown from the center colum of my tripod

This guy had no idea I was shooting his pic. I managed 3 frames and this was the only one where he was totally still....luck.

A medium warming filter was used as well as color balance adjustments in Photoshop 5