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James Cook
{K:38068} 4/11/2007
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Yeah, working in aperature priority mode really makes that sort of experimenting easy.
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 4/10/2007
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Yes, exactly. The limited DoF made the snow look like white stone. And I think that this is a nice method to "alter" the background to something different via suggestion created by a shallow DoF right on the camera/lens when shooting. This background can give many different impressions as one moves from a very extened to a very limited DoF while keeping sharp focus on the tree.
Nick
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James Cook
{K:38068} 4/9/2007
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I understand. The snowy slope looks like a granite stone cliff rising up some distance behind your subject. Very interesting effect. Presumably caused by the DoF...
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 4/8/2007
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Hi James and thanks a lot for the commet. That is the very steep slopes of the Loper Rock at Hergiswil - some kind of extended foot of Mt. Pilatus. The lines are the trees that grow there.
Best wishes,
Nick
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James Cook
{K:38068} 4/5/2007
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I really like the vertical lines in the background. Is that a stone cliff or something?
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 4/4/2007
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Hahaaaaaaaaaaaa! That was gooooooood! ROTFL!!!!
Thank you boss!!! :-)
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 4/4/2007
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Hi Nick,
We don't want you slacking off now :) :)
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 4/4/2007
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OK, boss, OK, I do what I can! ;-)
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 4/3/2007
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You have some work ahead of you then Nick :)
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 4/2/2007
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In any case no blessing can prevent me from thinking in a consequent and logical way, dear Salvador.
*Your* best wishes aceepted, God's blessings rejected. No need for another superstitious and self-contadicting policeman of the universe.
Nick
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Salvador Marķa Lozada
{K:69375} 4/2/2007
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In any case, you can not prevent me to say:
God bless you, dear Nick ”””
Best wishes,
Salvador
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 4/2/2007
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And as you know, Salvador, the concept of the world wide official celebrations of christianity is *not* a result of adapting the ceremonies of old cultures of the southern hemisphere but of if the northern hemisphere. Which of course means that it really doesn't take too main grey cells to comprehend that it is only a primitive celebration against winter covered by the white wings of a religion that came *after* those old cultures had blossomed.
You want a Lord? Don0't need the big books of lies for that - i.e. the hooooholy bible, the hoooholym Koran, or the hooooholy what do I know! Take a look at the mirror and you see the Lord. ;-)
Nick
P.S. Easter doesn't touch any logically thinking human being! ;-)
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 4/2/2007
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Oh yes, of course I already have 2/16=1/8 of the whole work - as you said, Andre, almost finished! LOL!!!
Nick
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Salvador Marķa Lozada
{K:69375} 4/2/2007
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As you know Christmas. for us in the Southern Hemisphere, is in the Summertime. But is Christmas anyway, the same, and we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, our Lord, in different climate and environment but with the same devotion that the Christians of the Northern hemisphere.
Happy Eastern ”””
Salvador
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 4/2/2007
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Hi Nick,
It was these two images that allowed me to come up with the suggestion. So technically, you were most of the way there with the idea :) :)
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 4/2/2007
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Thanks a lot Andre! So I have already two for the 16 small images of trees with different backgrounds! You gave me a very nice idea, you see!
Thanks again for that and have a nice day!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 4/2/2007
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Thanks a lot for the nice, detailed comment, Dave! I hoped to enhance that sleepy atmosphere, and so I used rather dimmed, almost lifeless backgrounds, which almost put the main subject to sleep too.
Best wishes,
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 4/2/2007
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Many many thanks for the nice comment, Salvador!
It's about the mediocricy of celebrational tendencies based on religion/god around a special day in winter, where we would not accept that it is only for mentally denying to go down only because it's cold. The hope for "better times" of those primitive minds some thousends of years ago, that didn't know that spring is coming anyway - with or without belief to such "godly births"! And so the whole construct of "godly birth" is perhaps revealed to be what it really is: Nothing more than the religious "order" of the world.
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 4/2/2007
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It looks fine like this Nick.
I like the varied look of your backgrounds in this series. This one is a nice contrast to the orange colour in the symmetry images.
Andre
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Dave Stacey
{K:150877} 4/1/2007
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I like the unusual nature of the tree, Nick, and the way the snow is scattered on the branches. The background is good here, too.
Dave.
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Salvador Marķa Lozada
{K:69375} 4/1/2007
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Remarkable winter image, Nick””” A great shot.Congrats.
Salvador
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