Introducing Year of the Alpha – 365 Days of Sony Alpha

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bakubo wrote:
Kalainen wrote:Season of Touit - Picture 21
Very nice one!
Thanks Henry! I do photograph a lot Aura's life, but quite rarely get something I feel is worth sharing. :-)

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Season of Photographic Eye - Picture 1
Week 45, Wednesday - Introducing the last season
"Tampere is my home town and constitutes a creative limit of my last theme called Season of Photographic Eye. With this season I will be exploring the streets and other places of my home town. I will circulate small alleys, wander around town squares and explore other places of interest. The city of Tampere with its diversity will be my playground for the last season and I will be exploring it during the night time mostly. In some ways this theme is also dictated by the current natural season in Finland. This time of year in Finland there isn't a lot of light during the days, and if there is it's mostly grey and comes together with rain. It does set up a challenge for photography, but I hope to make it through until the snow comes. In effect, the last season will be a sort of street photography, but done with my way.

As I'm exploring the streets, I will also try to open up my photographic eye: a particular way of seeing things and subjects, which is partly subjective and partly cultural. I will try to explain to myself how I approach the photography the way I do. My aim is to make myself more conscious about it and hopefully offer some inspiration for others to contemplate their own photographic eye. [...]"

Read full post at my blog: http://www.yearofthealpha.com

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Look forward to this series, Toni. The image looks slightly blurred to me.
Could be my eyes?

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sury wrote:Look forward to this series, Toni. The image looks slightly blurred to me.
Could be my eyes?

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Could also be the bad weather as it is horrible right here this time of year. No snow, but no light either. Just rain and darkness.. :lol:

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Season of Photographic Eye - Picture 2
Week 45, Wednesday - Streets
"During this season I will discuss my photographic eye: a particular way of seeing things and subjects, which is partly subjective and partly cultural. I will try to explain how I approach the photography the way I do and I hope it's useful for others too. But to understand my way of seeing things I have to revive the history a bit and start from the beginning. You see, before my current Sony Nex-5N I had never owned a camera myself and if I had to use one I always loaned it from someone. Even my first real experience with photography happened with a loaned camera. [...]"

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Interesting shot Toni. My eyes went to that blue arrow at first rather than the light.
I don't know why. :D

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I like the light reflected in the wet road, in contrast to the dark and silhouetted figures.

You have Christmas lights already?! :)
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Sury that's' interesting. I had to look and look to see what arrow you were talking about and once I saw it, my eye kept going back to it.

Toni those are a couple of nice shots of the city lights.
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sury wrote:Interesting shot Toni. My eyes went to that blue arrow at first rather than the light.
I don't know why. :D
Hah, you're not the first one to say that. They have designed the traffic signs too captivating here... :lol:

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Birma wrote:I like the light reflected in the wet road, in contrast to the dark and silhouetted figures.

You have Christmas lights already?! :)
Thanks for the kind words, Birma. As for the lights, the autumn gets very dark and black in Finland and lights are there for brighten up the black nights. They will take them off when the snow comes and makes days more light. :-)

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the_hefay wrote:Sury that's' interesting. I had to look and look to see what arrow you were talking about and once I saw it, my eye kept going back to it.
Hah!! Kind of distracts me too now! :lol:

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Season of Photographic Eye - Picture 3
Week 46, Wednesday - Searching for colors
"With the last post I told you about my first significant experience with photography and how I used an antique Canon Powershot 600 (1996) to make an art exhibition. The second significant experience with photography happened to me when I was leaving from Finland to Japan to study as an exchange student at 2006. I'm not very happy to travel with airplanes so instead of flying I decided to take a train from Finland to Japan with Trans-Siberian railway (and of course I needed a boat at the end from China to Japan). Knowing I was going for an unforgettable trip I needed to solve how I was going to photograph the adventure. [...]"

Read full post at my blog: [urlhttp://www.yearofthealpha.com/?offset=14153954 ... inate=true]http://www.yearofthealpha.com[/url]

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Those glass panes certainly skewed my perspective Toni.
I was having hard time (in a good way) to sync the angular
perspective of the entrance and straight down view of the walkers.

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sury wrote:Those glass panes certainly skewed my perspective Toni.
I was having hard time (in a good way) to sync the angular
perspective of the entrance and straight down view of the walkers.
Interesting you mentioning it. It was my first experience as well. But having edited it couple of times, I lost the original perception and forgot that this certainly is a skewed perspective. I only saw the walkers there and liked the perspective around them. Moral of the story: it's very useful to show work for others. :-)

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I love all the lines and angles in that shot.
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