Eccentrus
Geekernaut
Oh my god, I can't believe that this thread can be dead for so long, I think another year is an apt time to revive what is a magnificent and should be a lively thread
I don't know if this is cool by your definition, but I found these gems among hundreds I shot last Sunday (coincidentally an exact year after Andy's post) with my new spanking Canon G15 (yay, finally, a proper camera with some manual control!)
Waiting for the world to change
For some people, traffic jam is notorious for the stress and is hated because of it. But I see differently. For me a traffic jam is like having the whole road posing for you, it's an entire scene in which slow motion you can capture many emotions. In this picture, which I composed purely by instinct (that's what 4 years of oil painting did to me) I managed to discard all the anxiety that is usually invoked by the activity of having to wait for your turn to move, instead I centered upon the direction boards and an outdoor ad, which have this particularly fitting portrait of a woman who seems to be waiting, but in an expression that is so serene. A very unique thing that I have managed to found out about traffic jams as I have 23 years of experiencing it is that, when the jam moves, the whole world moves with you, and so it gives the illusion that as you are changing, the world follows you with it, or the other way around. So this picture, at least for me, invoked a feeling that rather than rushing all the things around and being impatient, we can just be happily waiting, for the world to change.
In Line
The separator line, which here is very long like a snake, in a rare moment before one of those cars would try to slip into any space that they can find, which would have ruined this kind of composition, but luckily I captured it right in that moment, and with the motorcycle in the edge acting as if it's the head of the snake. And of course, the wet asphalt and the diffracting red light of the lamps from the windscreen adds a particularly beautiful ambiance.
Infiltration
Some people just can't wait, in this particular situation, the whole gap which purpose is for a safety net is being used by impatient drivers to go their way, and the effort to drive in one of those is like climbing up the mountains of troubles that is in front of you, a stark contrast to my previous photo which captures the sereneness of traffic jams, this one, just 15 minutes later, captured the hurrying folks who just can't wait.
In anticipation
I captured this particular frame in what is near the end of the jam, there's a crossroad ahead of this picture, an exit from the torturous hell of a journey for many, leaving them in anticipation of what's ahead, and this particular composition left me a little bit of the feeling.
Three's A Company
I was aiming for shooting the ambiance created by afternoon lights peeking through the clouds and along came these three motorcyclists. I was walking and they were moving through, and luckily my hands were fast enough to half-click the shutter and expect them to come in this formation before they all exit the junction, and their movement, and regularity were thus frozen forever in time.
And my favorite amongst them all
The Daily Confrontation
I have always liked to capture the life of everyday working people, whenever I'm on the shuttlebus or just in the commuter cars seen in this picture, I've always been imagining myself capturing the moment, to spill it out later when I have the time (and the urge) to work it on my canvas. 5 years later, when my brush is all dry and I still can't bring myself to take all those toxic paints into my small habitat, I finally got myself a camera, and when I brought it to this trip here, I was blessed with my favorite lighting. The contrast and bluish hue brought in by the foggy sky and the reflecting surfaces made by rain water just after a rain is just beautiful and within this perfect environment, I found this gem.
all except for the "Three's A Company" were shot from inside a shuttlebus, and I was lucky enough to have the front seat available and yes the distortions which came from the wet windscreen are particularly pleasing for me. I tried to as much as possible to shoot at aperture wide open and minimal zoom, to maximize my camera's potential, since it doesn't have a fancy APS-C sized sensor. I still don't know which's the better photographer in here, the camera, or me, but we should learn to know in the next month or so
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I don't know if this is cool by your definition, but I found these gems among hundreds I shot last Sunday (coincidentally an exact year after Andy's post) with my new spanking Canon G15 (yay, finally, a proper camera with some manual control!)
Waiting for the world to change
For some people, traffic jam is notorious for the stress and is hated because of it. But I see differently. For me a traffic jam is like having the whole road posing for you, it's an entire scene in which slow motion you can capture many emotions. In this picture, which I composed purely by instinct (that's what 4 years of oil painting did to me) I managed to discard all the anxiety that is usually invoked by the activity of having to wait for your turn to move, instead I centered upon the direction boards and an outdoor ad, which have this particularly fitting portrait of a woman who seems to be waiting, but in an expression that is so serene. A very unique thing that I have managed to found out about traffic jams as I have 23 years of experiencing it is that, when the jam moves, the whole world moves with you, and so it gives the illusion that as you are changing, the world follows you with it, or the other way around. So this picture, at least for me, invoked a feeling that rather than rushing all the things around and being impatient, we can just be happily waiting, for the world to change.
In Line
The separator line, which here is very long like a snake, in a rare moment before one of those cars would try to slip into any space that they can find, which would have ruined this kind of composition, but luckily I captured it right in that moment, and with the motorcycle in the edge acting as if it's the head of the snake. And of course, the wet asphalt and the diffracting red light of the lamps from the windscreen adds a particularly beautiful ambiance.
Infiltration
Some people just can't wait, in this particular situation, the whole gap which purpose is for a safety net is being used by impatient drivers to go their way, and the effort to drive in one of those is like climbing up the mountains of troubles that is in front of you, a stark contrast to my previous photo which captures the sereneness of traffic jams, this one, just 15 minutes later, captured the hurrying folks who just can't wait.
In anticipation
I captured this particular frame in what is near the end of the jam, there's a crossroad ahead of this picture, an exit from the torturous hell of a journey for many, leaving them in anticipation of what's ahead, and this particular composition left me a little bit of the feeling.
Three's A Company
I was aiming for shooting the ambiance created by afternoon lights peeking through the clouds and along came these three motorcyclists. I was walking and they were moving through, and luckily my hands were fast enough to half-click the shutter and expect them to come in this formation before they all exit the junction, and their movement, and regularity were thus frozen forever in time.
And my favorite amongst them all
The Daily Confrontation
I have always liked to capture the life of everyday working people, whenever I'm on the shuttlebus or just in the commuter cars seen in this picture, I've always been imagining myself capturing the moment, to spill it out later when I have the time (and the urge) to work it on my canvas. 5 years later, when my brush is all dry and I still can't bring myself to take all those toxic paints into my small habitat, I finally got myself a camera, and when I brought it to this trip here, I was blessed with my favorite lighting. The contrast and bluish hue brought in by the foggy sky and the reflecting surfaces made by rain water just after a rain is just beautiful and within this perfect environment, I found this gem.
all except for the "Three's A Company" were shot from inside a shuttlebus, and I was lucky enough to have the front seat available and yes the distortions which came from the wet windscreen are particularly pleasing for me. I tried to as much as possible to shoot at aperture wide open and minimal zoom, to maximize my camera's potential, since it doesn't have a fancy APS-C sized sensor. I still don't know which's the better photographer in here, the camera, or me, but we should learn to know in the next month or so
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