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Stockport 2012
- Thread starter Tom Dinning
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Jarmo Juntunen
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Tom, I think this is simply fantastic. I like the mood and the finish but somehow the quiet humor in it is very appealing and makes the image.
Jerome Marot
Well-known member
"Champagne - fine wine - sky" is indeed fantastic, but I wonder what happens left and right in the clouds. Did flickr do that? Their recompression is sometimes brutal.
Tom Dinning
pro member
No, Jerome, I did it. I can't blame flickr for any of my misfortunes. Just shitfaced talentless old me, I'm afraid.
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Tom,
Presumably this is taken digital and then converted to B&W and not real film? I wonder about the distribution of gray scale and assignments from color to B&W. Was it snowing as the fellow on the left has a white coating on his shoulders and trousers, or is he receiving an energy beam and about to transport back up to the Starship Enterprise?
The dark billowing clouds come out especially well in this picture as in all your B&W photos, but is this conversion really what you need for the rest of the image too? Of course, it's unlikely that you are preparing every images for printing while you post them just for us, so I don't expect everything to be as it would appear in a final print and I know from your ebook, "LEARNING TO SEE" that your delivery is impeccable.
Asher
Tom Dinning
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My dear Asher.
Now you are really pissing me off.
You're satrting to sound like my mother.
"Tommy. tuck your shirt in and do that lace up properly before you go out."
"Geez, Mum, its me! This is the way I do it. You'd think by the time I got to 65 I know how I want to look."
Rest assured, Asher, if I missed something then I didn't consider it important enough to notice. I paint with a thick brush and use broard strokes. I also eat my lunch at the same time and sometimes a bit gets spilt on the canvas. Sometimes I bleed or cry or scream in rage as well. Its all there. Why, heaven forbid, I make mistakes as well. Mum, that's just me.
But since I value your needs as well, here's the 'snow'.
_DSC1896 by tom.dinning, on Flickr
Now you are really pissing me off.
You're satrting to sound like my mother.
"Tommy. tuck your shirt in and do that lace up properly before you go out."
"Geez, Mum, its me! This is the way I do it. You'd think by the time I got to 65 I know how I want to look."
Rest assured, Asher, if I missed something then I didn't consider it important enough to notice. I paint with a thick brush and use broard strokes. I also eat my lunch at the same time and sometimes a bit gets spilt on the canvas. Sometimes I bleed or cry or scream in rage as well. Its all there. Why, heaven forbid, I make mistakes as well. Mum, that's just me.
But since I value your needs as well, here's the 'snow'.
_DSC1896 by tom.dinning, on Flickr
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
My dear Asher.
Now you are really pissing me off.
You're satrting to sound like my mother.
"Tommy. tuck your shirt in and do that lace up properly before you go out."
"Geez, Mum, its me! This is the way I do it. You'd think by the time I got to 65 I know how I want to look."
Rest assured, Asher, if I missed something then I didn't consider it important enough to notice. I paint with a thick brush and use broard strokes. I also eat my lunch at the same time and sometimes a bit gets spilt on the canvas. Sometimes I bleed or cry or scream in rage as well. Its all there. Why, heaven forbid, I make mistakes as well. Mum, that's just me.
But since I value your needs as well, here's the 'snow'.
Well, maybe your mother was right! But I was taken by the white. Some happy guys here wear tight pants, earrings and the like but fur collars? Never. So I really wondered what you were up to.
Thanks for the new picture and now the old one makes more sense!
Asher
Tom Dinning
pro member
My mother wondered what I was up to as well.
"No good!" my Old Man would have responded. He was quite right and my mother had good reason to be concerned. Balancing fact with fiction was an art form I practised daily. Life was filled with the wonders of deceit. No single fact stood in the way of a good tale. No essence of truth could flavour the fraudulance of a fantacy. The only snow was that provided by the job I did on those whose search was for singing the gospel truth. Even my own reflection lacked verisimilitude.
"He can't lie straight in bed" was once written on my report card from a frustrated and somewhat bemused teacher. I thing he was French if that means anything.
"No good!" my Old Man would have responded. He was quite right and my mother had good reason to be concerned. Balancing fact with fiction was an art form I practised daily. Life was filled with the wonders of deceit. No single fact stood in the way of a good tale. No essence of truth could flavour the fraudulance of a fantacy. The only snow was that provided by the job I did on those whose search was for singing the gospel truth. Even my own reflection lacked verisimilitude.
"He can't lie straight in bed" was once written on my report card from a frustrated and somewhat bemused teacher. I thing he was French if that means anything.
Bob Latham
New member
I was born in Stockport and raised a couple of miles down the road....the buildings have changed a little in the intervening 35 years but the weather is pretty much as I remember it.
Seeing those clouds makes me realise how lucky I am....thanks Tom.
Bob
Seeing those clouds makes me realise how lucky I am....thanks Tom.
Bob