Tag Archive: conceptual

Photo: The Tired Tree

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-11-23T23:18:05Z in Photography, Stock Photos, with these tags: b&w, black, branches, canon rebel xti, conceptual, contrast, ef 28-135mm, sky, the tired tree, trees, white, winter, 8 Comments. 483 words.

The Tired Tree

I crouched in the dirt below this barren winter tree, camera pointed straight up, to capture this shot. The sky was white and overcast. The tree is old and tired from all that heavy Spanish moss weighing it down. :silly:

This looks like something from a horror movie, where the tree falls on you and kills everyone… I had to be careful framing this, as there were more youthful palm trees to the left and right which I had to exclude. This is often a great perspective, and it was critical not …

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Photo: Bizarro World

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-11-23T16:27:16Z in Photography, Stock Photos, with these tags: abstract, architecture, b&w, bizarro world, black, canon rebel xti, conceptual, contrast, ef 28-135mm, waterscapes, white, 0 Comments. 142 words.

Bizarro World

In bizarro world, everything looks like this…

Alternate title: Fun at the Cemetery.

Dad and I stopped off at the cemetery to take photos. I didn’t find the tombstones as interesting as this white railing near the pond, though. From this vantage point, the center crossbeams and the beams of the railing on the other side of the walkway line up, but the ones on the left and right are divergent. An interesting effect.

The railing also appears to be slanted, or maybe I tilted the camera a little. Nothing seemed level in this cemetery. I had to watch …

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Photo: A Thousand Eyes

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-11-22T23:28:41Z in Photography, Stock Photos, with these tags: a thousand eyes, architecture, b&w, black, canon rebel xti, conceptual, contrast, ef 28-135mm, vignetting, 0 Comments. 118 words.

A Thousand Eyes

Holes in the red-brick wall, by the theater (bldg. 220) at Daytona State College. They made the wall like this because it looks interesting.

I converted this to black and white because the color wasn’t working. The repeating pattern plays tricks on your eyes, if you look at it long enough.

For editing, all I had to do was add contrast and vignetting. The image isn’t perfectly level, but it’s as close as I could get, and I got complete holes on the sides which makes the image aesthetically stronger (because they’re dark).

Think of this wall as …

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Photo: Day’s End

Day\'s End

The dishes are washed and the kitchen is closed. This was lit by a beautiful sunset outside my door. It was at dusk when I shot this, but I balanced the camera on the counter for a 2.5-second exposure to give the sensor enough light.

What goes on around the sunset is often a lot more interesting than the sunset itself. Or the solar eclipse, or full moon, or the big thunderstorm. Take shots of everything, or take shots of something and focus on it. Usually for me, the first shot I take of an object or …

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Photo: Vegetarianism

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-10-07T02:33:39Z in Photography, Portraits, with these tags: b&w, canon rebel xti, conceptual, creativity, ef 50mm 1:1.4, food, fun, humor, light bulbs, sarah 3, vegetarianism, 1 Comment. 93 words.

Vegetarianism

Sarah (another Sarah) pretending to eat a blue light bulb. No animals were involved in the creation of that light bulb. The light bulb is a perfect vegetarian snack.

You can’t see that the light bulb is blue, because I converted this to black and white. It makes more sense that way.

Sarah has some nice teeth. Eating a light bulb is probably a bad idea, at least as far as her teeth are concerned.

If you want to be more like Sarah, read Becoming a Vegetarian.

Canon Rebel XTi, EF 50mm 1:1.4, 1/160, F3.5, 50mm, ISO100, 2008-10-01T15:55:18-04, 20081001-195518rxt

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Photo: Isolation, Contemplation

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-10-04T00:41:44Z in Photography, Portraits, with these tags: beauty, canon rebel xti, conceptual, ef 50mm 1:1.4, emotion, isolation, isolation contemplation, sarah 2, 0 Comments. 154 words.

Isolation, Contemplation

The last shot from my adventure with Sarah, and the most artsy. We went to the college theater, where they have a meshed window that makes patterns of light like this on the wall. I had her sit on the carpet so the light was right on her cheek, and told her to look down like she was thinking, and that’s how we got this.

I’m proud of her; she was quite shy and this was her first time modeling, but she let go of her shyness and let her spirit shine through. I think there’s …

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Photo: Basketball Hoop

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-09-19T00:17:05Z in Photography, Stock Photos, with these tags: abstract, b&w, basketball hoop, canon rebel xti, conceptual, ef 50mm 1:1.4, gray, macro, shallow dof, sky, 0 Comments. 153 words.

Basketball Hoop

Looking up through a basketball hoop.

I tried thinking of a more abstract title, but nothing is better than “Basketball Hoop.” Sure, if this were a plain, ordinary photo of a basketball hoop, a creative title might add some jazz, but when the photo is creative on it’s own, a mundane title is a good contrast. A creative title would work too, but a mundane title for a creative piece is far better than an unfitting creative title.

I took this at F2.5, so even parts of the netting are out of focus. The background was a dull …

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Photo: Light the Way

Light the Way

A car with yellow headlights illuminates the road on a dark, cloudy evening.

This car had lights that were unusually colored. I bet they had a yellow filter over them, but they looked brighter than normal too.

For editing, I decided to go with really warm colors, much more so than the actual scene. It gives a better mood than bluish tones. Also, I dodged the ground to make it look like the headlights are brighter, while adding contrast and burning the corners to make the scene more eye-catching. Because I shot this at ISO400, I brought …

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Photo: Fiery Hearts

Fiery Hearts

I had this idea of drawing a heart with a laser pointer. I set the camera up on a tripod, set the timer to ten seconds, and then drew this with the laser in the 3.2 seconds the picture was exposed.

Actually, it wasn’t easy like that. It took me 50 tries to get right. Have you ever tried to draw a heart on the wall with a laser pointer? I did two of them, and getting them to look anything like hearts, timed to 3.2 seconds, is quite a feat itself. This was the best I …

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Photo: In the Fog

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-07-20T16:00:44Z in Photography, Stock Photos, with these tags: b&w, black, canon rebel xti, conceptual, contrast, dark, ef 50mm 1:1.4, fog, grain, in the fog, lights, night, white, 0 Comments. 100 words.

In the Fog — foggy traffic lights in black and white

This is what it feels like to live in the fog all the time. Took this of some green traffic lights at night. How did I get the fog? I blew on the lens, and the condensation made the photo turn out like this, no fog required.

I added a ton of contrast, burned in the sides, and switched to black and white. The added contrast amplified the noise considerably, so this is a noisy image. It works because of the lack of color, though.

Canon Rebel XTi, EF 50mm 1:1.4, …

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