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Subject: [Leica] La Barceloneta, a BAR
From: nod at bouncing.org (Philip Clarke)
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:06:32 +0100
References: <F4BFAE78-B5B0-4EA2-A0CF-D8B9DD65F87F@telefonica.net> <49E7DE09.4010202@bouncing.org> <F2139B75-4F51-4E7B-80D4-AAC2515A4B16@chartermi.net> <49E924CD.4040508@bouncing.org> <457A8882-3E95-4FEF-A1C2-6DE8E766BA4A@mac.com> <49E9CBDB.70809@bouncing.org> <145DBA43-79B5-42B6-9897-136F6936DB71@mac.com>

That would be the second rule "always come back with something
different". I did look at the "To Let" signs above, but it's much more
indicative of a recession to see that the letters are piling up with no
new businesses moving in.

George Lottermoser wrote:
> Hi Philip,
>
> Thank you for showing additional photographs,
> and for contributing more images to the "assignment."
>
> "Insolvent business, Pinner UK, 18th"
> struck me as the strongest of the group;
> for it's asymmetry and strong lines,
> as well as for the "different" quality of the subject.
>
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george at imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>
> On Apr 18, 2009, at 7:47 AM, Philip Clarke wrote:
>
>>
>> So here's the funny thing, my wife's working and I'm not normally out
>> alone, so on the way to pick up some medication from Tesco Pharmacy
>> (British supermarket chain) I see the glassworks, feel the DLUX in my
>> pocket and reckon I feel well enough to take some images. (the images
>> are backwards in the portfolio and moving seems limited to between
>> albums).
>>
>>
>> Walking out of the Pharmacy and bearing in mind Daniel Ridings
>> portfolio, I find this on the postbox advertising. Lucky Yes, but if I
>> weren't looking...
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Philip+Clarke/18th_April_2009/L1010241.jpg.html
>>
>>
>> This was taken with the camera above my head as it's quite high on the
>> wall, note the focal length is not to the full extent either way, I
>> found the image moved into position and then chose the focal length.
>> It's gracious that nervous people are always welcome but good to have a
>> safety net.
>>
>>
>>
>> I walk along to the Glassworks, it's not really suitable, because it is
>> a rare and beautiful sunny day in the UK, Really I need a polarising
>> filter in front of the lens to reduce the distractions in the windows,
>> but it's passable, and I'm slapbang in front of the door to stop my
>> reflection being there. I'm using a 24mm equivalent and pointing the
>> camera dead centre to avoid perspective shift (some of the floor and
>> flat windows above have been cropped) although not 100% successful as
>> can be seen by the slight divergent parallel line to the top right.
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Philip+Clarke/18th_April_2009/L1010243.jpg.html
>>
>>
>>
>> As I walk back along Pinner Green (you can do a google maps search), I
>> shoot the advertising sign for window blinds on a wall without windows
>> that I saw when walking to the glasworks. The camera is above my head
>> this time to avoid divergent bricks. This is at the 60mm setting
>> standing on someone's lawn and has been cropped slighty to reduce the to
>> the sign and wall, any different composition leads to the guttering
>> above the sign being shown.
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Philip+Clarke/18th_April_2009/L1010245.jpg.html
>>
>>
>>
>> Walking back towards the pharmacy I now shoot another insolvent
>> business, this one has a big sign by the bailiffs in the window but
>> that's too obvious. The piled up letters is a better picture, I use the
>> diagonals and the cameras on 4:3, I'm continually having to use program
>> shift because the camera wants a wider aperture. The reason the opening
>> times sign stands out so much is because of an internal shadow in the
>> shop, that was intentional it doesn't show from the other side. I did
>> consider cropping this but then it doesn't show the emptiness of the
>> shop. You'll notice the word closed appears distinct, I've joined it to
>> an envelope but used the shadow and blank space on the floor to make it
>> more apparent. None of these pictures have been "printed" btw, they have
>> been adjusted for contrast and color balance slightly and had some
>> reduction in saturation levels.
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Philip+Clarke/18th_April_2009/L1010246.jpg.html
>>
>>
>>
>> The next one is just outside the Tesco and my back would have been to it
>> when I walked out. I like the irony. This "new way" to shop on a old
>> sign with an advert for "nearly new" clothes beneath, on an old wall
>> with the shadow of a barbed fence (thereby making it impossible to
>> shop), is just my subtle sense of humour. The image was taken from a
>> bush that I had to climb into. I have three different shots, one of just
>> the signs, one taken from over the barbed wire after this one (I gained
>> access through the car park) and this one. The exposure is correct but
>> looks wrong because the wall isn't white, this has had some burning in
>> to reduce the patchiness of the paint. The tree framing the top and the
>> bush at the bottom are deliberate to keep the eye in the frame. Viewing
>> the EXIF data, you'll note that I'm not going to the extremes of the
>> telephoto end (nor the wide), any further right and the tree trunk
>> bisects the sign, any further left and edge of the spiked fence goes,
>> there are some divergent lines, I could have tried holding the camera up
>> a little higher if my arms were working after this walk.
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Philip+Clarke/18th_April_2009/L1010251.jpg.html
>>
>>
>>
>> I got myself home and thought bugger it, I haven't done a flower photo.
>> And about 50 metres from the house is a cherry blossom tree. It rained
>> last night and the blossoms on the ground are past their prime, shooting
>> the tree would have a view of a road and quite probably an H12 bus. We
>> already know it's blue skies and 1/250 at f5.6 ISO 80 so I find the
>> blossoms in the shade, hoping that I'm going to get a slow enough speed
>> to let the wind add some movement and I fail to get a slow enough speed
>> it's got even brighter and is now 1/250 at f8 ISO 80 in the shade and I
>> have to underexpose by a stop to keep the picture dark as it's an
>> entirely shaded area and start shaking the camera and you can see from
>> the frame numbers that something's gone wrong because I've skipped from
>> 10251 to 10263 for the last picture, I am shaking the camera at the
>> longest telephoto setting and I'm not getting enough blur and then I
>> work out that I've left the Image stabilisation on and I'm only moving
>> the camera in one plane. Lots of fiddling with the menu and it gets
>> turned off and I get the shot I want. The picture gets colour balanced
>> in photoshop and then flipped horizontally because upwards moving lines
>> are move attractive.
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Philip+Clarke/18th_April_2009/L1010263.jpg.html
>>
>>
>>
>> I have Chronic Pain Syndrome level 8 complication by Complex Referred
>> Pain Syndrome, so I feel the pain from my legs in my left arm and my arm
>> in my tongue, which is something you really don't want to have. I can't
>> lift my elbows up now from that little jaunt and my left shoulder will
>> dislocate inside the next 24 hours. I'll be partially paralysed for 3
>> days now which makes me pretty useless as a professional. That area is
>> one that I have never walked along, I visit the pharmacy every month so
>> that's ten times maximum. We (as in me and some other professionals)
>> used to play a game when we were young when we met up off-assignment,
>> about going to an unknown place and fulfilling a brief, it kept the
>> competition between us fierce and kept us sharp. Could I go to a bar in
>> Barcelona and practice what I preach. I believe so.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> George Lottermoser wrote:
>>> May we see some examples of your waiting and moving, Philip?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> George Lottermoser
>>> george at imagist.com
>>> http://www.imagist.com
>>> http://www.imagist.com/blog
>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>>>
>>> On Apr 17, 2009, at 7:54 PM, Philip Clarke wrote:
>>>
>>>> All of these pictures could be improve by waiting or moving.
>>>
>>>
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