Largely inspired by some of John's recent stuff, I decided to try something different today, though I'm not convinced this is entirely successful. And if anyone, other than John, can identify what they're looking at (the title isn't a clue), I'll do them a print.
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comment byJohn at 09:51 PM (GMT) on 6 October, 2006
I wouldn't hazard a guess, but it's very well done.
comment byruss morris at 09:52 PM (GMT) on 6 October, 2006
not a clue, but it looks quite cool.
comment by john Washington at 10:04 PM (GMT) on 6 October, 2006
brilliant - but i would say that because i love abstracts.
comment by LL at 10:08 PM (GMT) on 6 October, 2006
Is that green thing a leaf? Rays of sun beaming through foliage? Naah, too simple I guess =)
Love the colours though. A very nice abstract indeed!
comment byAsh at 10:12 PM (GMT) on 6 October, 2006
Some abstracts I hate, some I like. This is one I like. It's really neat, love the colours. Almost looks like light coming through water, though I doubt that's what it really is. Normally I wouldn't even try to guess, but because I love your work and I'd die for a free print, I'm going to guess that it's light coming through a window and dispersed in some way?
As for guesses: three thin beams of light, coming from a very small opening (they're extremely skinny). Even though I'm sure it's not, it looks like a foyer of some sort in the top left, almost like something out of the Matrix (big ground floor with 2nd story stairway looking down).
comment byJamey at 10:18 PM (GMT) on 6 October, 2006
Hmmm... I was gonna say dandelion clock but then I saw it was 17mm so now I'm not sure.
comment byluminouslens at 10:20 PM (GMT) on 6 October, 2006
Rays of light beaming through water?
Whatever it is, it's cool.
comment bymooch at 10:21 PM (GMT) on 6 October, 2006
I like this. I rather like abstract shots. How much of this has been PS'd in though? For me the skill is in finding something of interest in the mundane but without having to post process the effect in after shooting. Great texture, shafts of light refracting nicely.
comment byJM° at 10:38 PM (GMT) on 6 October, 2006
after yesterday's 'debate' (how to explore/or go further into something...)- this one is quite convincing..i like abstract and i like experimental so : this one is remarkable !
as for the identify game : i would say "pure energy" but i know it's not enough !!!!
:-(
comment byphotojrny at 10:44 PM (GMT) on 6 October, 2006
Light coming through a window and the curtains blowing in the wind is my guess.
comment bypaflechien at 10:50 PM (GMT) on 6 October, 2006
funny composition
What about this one My picture of beach , my first step with photoshopthe "black room"
comment bypaflechien at 10:52 PM (GMT) on 6 October, 2006
What do you think about this tryptique, my first one too, may be perfectible !
comment bypeter at 11:01 PM (GMT) on 6 October, 2006
I think it's a wire whisk; or a similar attachment for an electric mixer...
comment byKevin at 11:02 PM (GMT) on 6 October, 2006
nice shot! very dreamy
comment byStuart at 12:00 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006
Makes me think of vibrating guitar strings, but they wouldn't overlap, so I'm stuck.
comment byAndre Malagodi at 12:20 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006
Nice one.
It's either wiper baldes in a car or curtains moving in wind or then again maybe I have no clue :->
comment byRobert at 12:23 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006
I think curtains from Andre is a good guess. Whatever it is, the image is graceful and a beautiful play with light and movement.
comment byantmanbee at 12:29 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006
Right david
It is obviously the back of a large jellyfish washed up on the shores of cape cod as seen through a broken beer bottle. The greenish tinge has been added using Hue and Curves just to put us off the scent.
comment byDarren Squashic at 12:32 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006
When I first saw it I immediately thought they were curtains. It's very surreal, I like it.
comment byDoug at 12:40 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006
lol @ antmanbee
I think maybe it's the underneath of one of the piers, maybe some water involved too, but i'm drunk, what do i know...
i like it though
comment byThinh Q. Thang at 12:56 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006
My guess would be a shower curtain because at the top you sort of see the image of a towel as well! Whoo....
comment bydieta at 01:30 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006
well johns recent work is all blurred images. and if thats your inspiration, then this isnt light, its just something blurry
im guessing a fork.
comment byToxic Lens at 01:36 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006
No idea what it is, but it's damn cool! And since I'd love a free print, I'll take a guess-- Is it the lost city of Atlantis?
comment bywesley hargrove at 01:51 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006
amazing.
comment byRichard Houtby at 03:48 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006
You stumped me.
It looks like 3 shots of something as it's rotating and moving across the frame... but I don't know what it is... water? light? vibrating strings of some kind?
The thickness of the lines on the left sides is confusing me. You better email me with an explanation!!
It's a very cool idea and abstract
comment byRichard Houtby at 03:56 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006
Is it 3 shots blended of a roller coaster track? OK, I'm done.
comment byjasonspix at 04:43 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006
Not sure what it is, my first thought is bicycle spokes, but i'm probably way off. The previous guess of the lost city of Atlantis is probably closer than mine. I dig it either way.
comment by Susie at 04:57 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006
It reminds me of being underwater, it is a very cool image... but I THINK it is looking up a stairwell in a building.
comment by Mattie at 05:35 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006
Strobe lights, perhaps?
comment byMark at 07:56 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006
The movement of light over water...
comment by Chris Booth at 08:46 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006
OK, it's a 2.5 second exposure, and those sure look like beams of light coming through vertical blinds, so I suspect it's the headlights of a car sweeping into your drive and raking its headlights past your window.
comment byMike at 08:49 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006
Nice image with dynamic diagonals. My first guess was that it was sunlight through planks in the pier - but near the top left there's what looks like a window. It could be a mix of the reflection in water with shafts of sunlight passing through the air? Looking forward to finding out.
comment bydjn1 at 09:18 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006
One of you is pretty close to getting right, but I'm not going to say which one, at least not yet ;-)
comment by The Plankmeister at 09:33 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006
I think it's a triple exposure where you moved the camera between shots, and it's of a municipal multi-storey car-park or something like that, taken from inside on the stairwell, and there's a skylight at the top of the stairwell. Maybe :)
comment bythomas at 09:45 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006
like the image very much, and i think we see an image of curtain with light. you move your camera three time.
regards
comment by Mark Ellis at 10:21 AM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006
got to be wisk or wires, or cables, or water, or floodlights?
comment byMark at 02:04 PM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006
I'm going for the Susie's stairwell idea. Oh and I also like it too :)
comment bytim at 02:26 PM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006
3 daleks blasting away at the Doctor? (sorry just been watching the last Dr.Who -- it takes this long to get to Australia...)
Probably beams of light through desking as viewed from below? tweeked of course in a Chromasiatic way...
comment by Troy at 04:09 PM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006
It´s a wisk beating
comment byRies at 04:13 PM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006
I don't know exactly what it is... but awesome effect!
comment byshooter at 05:13 PM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006
It looks like garments in plastic covers from the dry cleaners...
comment bychiara at 06:17 PM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006
Looks like some sort of theatrical lighting.
Love the effect!
comment byKarl Baumann at 06:31 PM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006
wow, very cool abstract shot, love it :)
comment bydjn1 at 07:41 PM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006
Thanks all, and the answer to what this is is posted on tomorrow's entry :-)
comment byElissa at 07:52 PM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006
weird... you can kinda see a blurred image of a face... it's kinda creepy. Though it would be creepier if I didn't think it was one of your kids hiding behind a transparent curtain :)
comment bydjn1 at 09:42 PM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006
Oh, and while nobody got it exactly right, Susie was the first to get reasonably close so I'll be sending her the print.
comment byTitus at 10:18 PM (GMT) on 7 October, 2006
Shall we beg for the original? :D
comment bypooyan at 09:35 PM (GMT) on 11 October, 2006
wow , its realy good one
comment byBen at 05:51 PM (GMT) on 18 October, 2006
Amazing image. Very dreamlike...calmed me right down. ; )
Largely inspired by some of John's recent stuff, I decided to try something different today, though I'm not convinced this is entirely successful. And if anyone, other than John, can identify what they're looking at (the title isn't a clue), I'll do them a print.
camera
lens
focal length
aperture
shutter speed
shooting mode
exposure bias
metering mode
ISO
flash
image quality
RAW converter
cropped?
Canon 20D
EF 17-40 f/4L USM
17mm (27mm equiv.)
f/22.0
2.5s
aperture priority
-1/3
evaluative
100
no
RAW
C1 Pro
2x1
I wouldn't hazard a guess, but it's very well done.
not a clue, but it looks quite cool.
brilliant - but i would say that because i love abstracts.
Is that green thing a leaf? Rays of sun beaming through foliage? Naah, too simple I guess =)
Love the colours though. A very nice abstract indeed!
Some abstracts I hate, some I like. This is one I like. It's really neat, love the colours. Almost looks like light coming through water, though I doubt that's what it really is. Normally I wouldn't even try to guess, but because I love your work and I'd die for a free print, I'm going to guess that it's light coming through a window and dispersed in some way?
I like it.
As for guesses: three thin beams of light, coming from a very small opening (they're extremely skinny). Even though I'm sure it's not, it looks like a foyer of some sort in the top left, almost like something out of the Matrix (big ground floor with 2nd story stairway looking down).
Hmmm... I was gonna say dandelion clock but then I saw it was 17mm so now I'm not sure.
Rays of light beaming through water?
Whatever it is, it's cool.
I like this. I rather like abstract shots. How much of this has been PS'd in though? For me the skill is in finding something of interest in the mundane but without having to post process the effect in after shooting. Great texture, shafts of light refracting nicely.
after yesterday's 'debate' (how to explore/or go further into something...)- this one is quite convincing..i like abstract and i like experimental so : this one is remarkable !
as for the identify game : i would say "pure energy" but i know it's not enough !!!!
:-(
Light coming through a window and the curtains blowing in the wind is my guess.
funny composition
What about this one My picture of beach , my first step with photoshopthe "black room"
What do you think about this tryptique, my first one too, may be perfectible !
I think it's a wire whisk; or a similar attachment for an electric mixer...
nice shot! very dreamy
Makes me think of vibrating guitar strings, but they wouldn't overlap, so I'm stuck.
Nice one.
It's either wiper baldes in a car or curtains moving in wind or then again maybe I have no clue :->
I think curtains from Andre is a good guess. Whatever it is, the image is graceful and a beautiful play with light and movement.
Right david
It is obviously the back of a large jellyfish washed up on the shores of cape cod as seen through a broken beer bottle. The greenish tinge has been added using Hue and Curves just to put us off the scent.
When I first saw it I immediately thought they were curtains. It's very surreal, I like it.
lol @ antmanbee
I think maybe it's the underneath of one of the piers, maybe some water involved too, but i'm drunk, what do i know...
i like it though
My guess would be a shower curtain because at the top you sort of see the image of a towel as well! Whoo....
well johns recent work is all blurred images. and if thats your inspiration, then this isnt light, its just something blurry
im guessing a fork.
No idea what it is, but it's damn cool! And since I'd love a free print, I'll take a guess-- Is it the lost city of Atlantis?
amazing.
You stumped me.
It looks like 3 shots of something as it's rotating and moving across the frame... but I don't know what it is... water? light? vibrating strings of some kind?
The thickness of the lines on the left sides is confusing me. You better email me with an explanation!!
It's a very cool idea and abstract
Is it 3 shots blended of a roller coaster track? OK, I'm done.
Not sure what it is, my first thought is bicycle spokes, but i'm probably way off. The previous guess of the lost city of Atlantis is probably closer than mine. I dig it either way.
It reminds me of being underwater, it is a very cool image... but I THINK it is looking up a stairwell in a building.
Strobe lights, perhaps?
The movement of light over water...
OK, it's a 2.5 second exposure, and those sure look like beams of light coming through vertical blinds, so I suspect it's the headlights of a car sweeping into your drive and raking its headlights past your window.
Nice image with dynamic diagonals. My first guess was that it was sunlight through planks in the pier - but near the top left there's what looks like a window. It could be a mix of the reflection in water with shafts of sunlight passing through the air? Looking forward to finding out.
One of you is pretty close to getting right, but I'm not going to say which one, at least not yet ;-)
I think it's a triple exposure where you moved the camera between shots, and it's of a municipal multi-storey car-park or something like that, taken from inside on the stairwell, and there's a skylight at the top of the stairwell. Maybe :)
like the image very much, and i think we see an image of curtain with light. you move your camera three time.
regards
got to be wisk or wires, or cables, or water, or floodlights?
I'm going for the Susie's stairwell idea. Oh and I also like it too :)
3 daleks blasting away at the Doctor? (sorry just been watching the last Dr.Who -- it takes this long to get to Australia...)
Probably beams of light through desking as viewed from below? tweeked of course in a Chromasiatic way...
It´s a wisk beating
I don't know exactly what it is... but awesome effect!
It looks like garments in plastic covers from the dry cleaners...
Looks like some sort of theatrical lighting.
Love the effect!
wow, very cool abstract shot, love it :)
Thanks all, and the answer to what this is is posted on tomorrow's entry :-)
weird... you can kinda see a blurred image of a face... it's kinda creepy. Though it would be creepier if I didn't think it was one of your kids hiding behind a transparent curtain :)
Oh, and while nobody got it exactly right, Susie was the first to get reasonably close so I'll be sending her the print.
Shall we beg for the original? :D
wow , its realy good one
Amazing image. Very dreamlike...calmed me right down. ; )