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http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag20/BenjaminMRogers/Steam%20Locomotive%20NKP%20765%20on%20the%20Main/Facebook6_zps17b1410f.png~original

VERY proud of this one. Caught former NKP 765 highballing an employee excursion train. First steam train on the main line around here in 40 years! The sharp contrast between the old and the new is caught in this. Happy and sad at the same time... (At least for me.)

http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag20/BenjaminMRogers/Steam%20Locomotive%20NKP%20765%20on%20the%20Main/Facebook1_zps8e7338fa.png~original

Happy with this one as well. The sun wasn't cooperating in the morning, but the photograph still turned out. The wind was blowing in the right direction, and catching a rail fan waving as 765 passed was awesome.

Shot with a Canon 60D, 18-135 MM lens.

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Good job RedBrick! mini/wink

Not a perfect composition, but the first picture is interesting.

@Jayem:

Nice lighting.

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Black and white. Put them in black and white. Especially the second one; the first does gain something from the yellow color of the modern car that I'm a terrible train nerd for forgetting the name of, but the second one I think would be really nice in b&w.

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Nice Redbrick!

Moved an have no room to animate, but I do have a Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/84070766@N07/ My friends and I have been composing a Comic Series: http://cosmosquestcomic.com

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Oops doublepost.

Moved an have no room to animate, but I do have a Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/84070766@N07/ My friends and I have been composing a Comic Series: http://cosmosquestcomic.com

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https://scontent-b-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1.0-9/q71/s720x720/1240449_848636678483847_1820342650738608737_n.jpg

A lighting test for the opening scene from Welcome to Darkmoor.

I'm animating this shot soon.

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Nice shot, Squid.

I guess I can't comment on the composition because the car will be moving?

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My composition here is really bad, really bad.

I did take another picture, but I seem to have accidentally bumped the camera whilst taking it.  However, the lighting remains the same nonetheless, and that was my main concern.

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I dunno', Squid, I think the composition's quite interesting (except for the bit of tree hanging in the top right of the frame). A lot of films with odd or at first seemingly compositional poor shots can make for interesting viewing. The only specific example I can think right now of is the handheld nature of the flying shots in the TV series Firefly. During a sequence in an episode where they're flying through the mountains on some icy planet, you can barely see the ship itself. It goes against every rule of cinematography and yet it's the best flying sequence in the series.

EDIT: There's this Mexican film called Y Tu Mama Tambien (which I hated) that messed with perspective to create this weird effect, like the foreground and background were completely separate scenes. It's only done in two or three shots and it's really unconventional, but it looks great.

Wow, I got off-topic. Basically, the only rule you should worry about not-breaking is the rule of thirds. Everything else is liminal, and knowing what your films have been like in the past Squid I think experimental composition would work really well.

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"I wear black even when I'm not animating. I'm like a walking funeral parlor."
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A Big lady at the Montreal Botanical Garden (Last year):

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7437/13998067839_e861273a30_b.jpgBig Lady by Loïc F-B, on Flickr

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That looks so strange, so surreal, and so weird.  It's like something that doesn't exist, and I really like it.
Nice job with the editing.

jampot wrote:

I dunno', Squid, I think the composition's quite interesting (except for the bit of tree hanging in the top right of the frame). A lot of films with odd or at first seemingly compositional poor shots can make for interesting viewing. The only specific example I can think right now of is the handheld nature of the flying shots in the TV series Firefly. During a sequence in an episode where they're flying through the mountains on some icy planet, you can barely see the ship itself. It goes against every rule of cinematography and yet it's the best flying sequence in the series.

EDIT: There's this Mexican film called Y Tu Mama Tambien (which I hated) that messed with perspective to create this weird effect, like the foreground and background were completely separate scenes. It's only done in two or three shots and it's really unconventional, but it looks great.

Wow, I got off-topic. Basically, the only rule you should worry about not-breaking is the rule of thirds. Everything else is liminal, and knowing what your films have been like in the past Squid I think experimental composition would work really well.

Well, that was an accident, in the film it's centralized in the middle of the frame around mid shot with a slight movement throughout the shot.  I wasn't really going for anything experimental with that.  Though I am planning on doing a lot of really weird stuff for this film.  Many of these things will be very experimental, and just about all of these things are in the red scene.  I'm really looking forward to doing it because in that scene certain things like continuity and making sense are all entirely non-relevant.  I can do almost anything, and I'm going to do a lot.
If you know where you can find and example of that cool thing from that bad movie I would be interested in seeing it.
Nothing is too extreme for the red scene.

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Squid wrote:

That looks so strange, so surreal, and so weird.  It's like something that doesn't exist, and I really like it.
Nice job with the editing.

Thanks Squid.

I love ''surreal pictures''. A good editing can transform a common subject into a superb image, although the sculpture in my picture is not really common.

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It's very interesting how you've made the green be grey, which makes it look in a way more like a statue rather than a well kept bush, and yet it still looks like a plant which is a delightfully confusing.

EDIT: Also, I am reminded now of this song because of her: Steven Universe - Giant Woman

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Squid wrote:

It's very interesting how you've made the green be grey, which makes it look in a way more like a statue rather than a well kept bush, and yet it still looks like a plant which is a delightfully confusing.

That's funny because at first, when I took the picture last year, I didn't find it really interesting...

Editing is pure magic.

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Interesting image Loic, I'm a fan of the surreal.

Part of the reason I haven't released much in the way of brickfilms this semester is that I've been putting a lot of creative energy into photography. I've been shooting mostly on black and white film, but here are some images from the little bit of digital I did. I'll probably post more once I digitize all my film from the past few months.

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7327/14209077863_5b133a7ddd_z.jpg

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7409/14002268969_c14de4d411_z.jpg

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2922/14186364592_23526c0a67_z.jpg

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I like the first and last pictures, backyard.

I don't really understand what you were trying to do with the second picture. Why are the windows cropped?

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That's just the way the image was taken. It's more about the shadow of the bird than the exact framing. I shoot with a very reactionary style, so sometimes framing isn't always perfect; it doesn't really bother me. I have another version with better framing where the windows aren't cut off, but there's no shadow, and it's not nearly as interesting.

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backyardlegos wrote:

I have another version with better framing where the windows aren't cut off, but there's no shadow, and it's not nearly as interesting.

Yeah, you just can't remove the shadow, I agree.

Anyway, you have some great pictures in your Photostream.

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New pictures:

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5525/14214242823_7f9a018442_h.jpgVirginia deer by Iconograff, on Flickr

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5509/14271444891_f013b67303_h.jpgReflections by Iconograff, on Flickr

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2907/14271490121_a9264f9bd3_h.jpgJapanese Window by Iconograff, on Flickr

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3814/14088151658_8a34881038_h.jpgChinese Building by Iconograff, on Flickr

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5545/14088164160_5c1fbd0133_h.jpgGuardian Lion by Iconograff, on Flickr

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3798/14088140689_9ca2529ccc_h.jpgJapanese Maple and Chinese Window by Iconograff, on Flickr

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5071/14088139268_f37a91033c_h.jpgLadybird by Iconograff, on Flickr

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5550/14272723682_542fff5976_h.jpgChinese Tower by Iconograff, on Flickr

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5504/14088216607_58b866fb29_h.jpgChinese Window by Iconograff, on Flickr

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