Introducing Year of the Alpha – 365 Days of Sony Alpha

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Birma wrote:Love the last two. Sury is spot on with the element in the train shot. My daughter loves 'drinking the rain' too :)
Thanks for the kind words, Birma. How old is your daughter? Just trying to put it into context and a bit curious as well.. :-)

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Season of Photographic Eye - Picture 6
Week 47, Saturday - The Purification
"The problem with learning your photographic eye is somewhat similar to what early art photography had in the eyes of its critics. It was difficult to justify photography as an art form because it didn't yet have its visual language and some of the early critics claimed that photography cannot ever be an art form because it doesn't take any refined skills to push a button. To establish photography's place next to other art forms, photographers had, not only to create distinctive works, but also to develop photographic theories which were often pretty philosophical and declamatory. Take 'the decisive moment' by Henri Cartier-Bresson, for example. [...]"

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Interesting Toni, blue seems to be a dominating these of late. Not that anything is wrong
with it. :lol: It's my favorite color too. :)

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sury wrote:Interesting Toni, blue seems to be a dominating these of late. Not that anything is wrong
with it. :lol: It's my favorite color too. :)
Found something that might interest you:

"If Your Favorite Color is Blue

- If this is your favorite color you are conservative, reliable and trustworthy - you are quite trusting of others although you are very wary in the beginning until you are sure of the other person. At the same time, you also have a deep need to be trusted.
- You are not impulsive or spontaneous - you always think before you speak and act and do everything at your own pace in your own time. You take time to process and share your feelings.
- You are genuine and sincere, and you take your responsibilities seriously.
- Having a personality color blue means you have a deep need for peace and harmony in your everyday life - you don't like having your feathers ruffled. You would benefit from daily meditation and quiet time for reflection, introspection and self-discovery.
- You appear to be confident and self-controlled, but may be hiding your vulnerable side.
- Being a personality color blue means you are generally fairly even-tempered, unless your emotions take over - then you can become either moody and over-emotional, or cool and indifferent. [...]

See more here: http://www.empower-yourself-with-color- ... -blue.html"
:lol:

When I was I child, yellow was my favorite color. Nowadays I really like violet..

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Season of Photographic Eye - Picture 7
Week 48, Wednesday - Slush
"In previous post I discussed the relationship with photographic eye and art. Today I'm going to look the problem of photographic eye through a another related concept: photographers identity. One can say that photographer has a strong identity when people recognize his/her work from the photographs alone. Maybe it's the distinctive style, way to photographer handles the subject or the subject in itself – all in all it means that photographer doesn't just capture the objects and things front of his camera, but instead imposes his/her personal interpretation into a photographs he creates. One could also say that photographer who manages to do that has found his/her photographic eye and utilizes it through photography.

If you want to be a commercially successful photographer with a distinctive identity and style, the path into that is somewhat easy to outline: [...]"

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Interesting subject, Toni. After seeing the train station, car and the street, I can certainly
identify you with this shot. :)

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sury wrote:Interesting subject, Toni. After seeing the train station, car and the street, I can certainly
identify you with this shot. :)
Thanks for the kind comment regarding my style. Not sure if it's style of manner, really.. :lol:

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Season of Photographic Eye - Picture 8
Week 48, Saturday - The Punctum
"In his book Camera Lucida Barthes has come up with a great term for a specific photographic quality that describes a certain ideal what I'm trying to capture with my family photography. This term is punctum and it could perhaps be translated to sting, stab or bite. In Barthes's thinking punctum relates to essence of photography and to describe this term, I'm going to offer a very similar kind of example which Barthes gives in his book – it's pure coincidence is that I too happen to have a similar kind of picture which Barthes uses in his book to explain the punctum. [...]"

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Nice shot Toni, though I was not able to relate to the concept of Punctum.
I assure you, it is me and not the image or the concept. :)

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sury wrote:Nice shot Toni, though I was not able to relate to the concept of Punctum.
I assure you, it is me and not the image or the concept. :)
Sury, I assure you it's the French intellectualism where they a habit of making things more complex with theory rather than explaining them. It's a kind of science in backwards!! :lol:

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Season of Photographic Eye - Picture 9
Week 49, Wednesday - The Photographic experience
"In previous post I told you about Roland Barthes, the French intellectual and philosopher, who has tried to explain the essence of photography and devised the term punctum to describe the unique feelings photography can bring up in us. Being especially a French philosopher his writings can be pretty abstract, but I do like what Barthes is trying to explain with his winding words. I myself used this term for my own purposes when I tried to describe what I am (ideally) searching for when taking family photographs – a certain sting that makes one see being, life and time in a lucid way. At best, photographs have that sort of effect on us. But what Barthes is really trying to do, is to create a new kind of understanding of photography that doesn't rely on any existing theories of art or cultural studies. [...]"

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Toni,
This one perhaps is a better example of Punctum of than the previous image for me.
I am beginning to see what you mean. This old dog is still can learn new tricks. :lol:

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sury wrote:Toni,
This one perhaps is a better example of Punctum of than the previous image for me.
I am beginning to see what you mean. This old dog is still can learn new tricks. :lol:
While I haven't ment my pictures to be examples of punctum (I'd be great if I could pulled it off just like that), I'm pleased to see if have got a new idea from my text. When it comes to dogs, I don't see any of those here, particulary old ones.. :-)

-Toni

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Season of Photographic Eye - Picture 10
Week 49, Saturdau - Vintage
"While the basic books of photography offer very useful knowledge, they often doesn't really touch the question of photographic eye: the individual way of seeing the world and things around us. The photographic eye is more about what you feel is worth of photographing, how you look it and what you expect to see in it. It might be difficult to answer of the bat, but the more you concentrate on what happens inside your mind during the shooting and how you value/rationalize the pictures you've taken, the better you start to learn why you shoot the way you do. In the following I have tried to come up with different kind of ways to see your subject through camera's viewfinder. [...]"

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