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NevadaJack

You have some great images Germaniac...the G series Canon's are a nice camera and the 20D should really provide you with a great tool to develop your talents.

I tried your desaturate with the sponge tool and it works real well. I will try it on something that will have more effect than the one below but I wanted to see how it worked. The sponge allows quicker selection and you don't have to tweak it much like when using the lasso tool. Thanks for the tip.

El Zorro

Yep, that's how I would like to have my pictures Jack! But as you say, the picture you chose is not ideal for this effect, because your car is already white-coloured. I would turn this picture completely black-on-white, which would be nice because there'd be much contrast...

notic

very cool picture Roberto

Rob

Thank you notic ...I appreciate your compliment.

Ahh, thank you very much Germaniac. I guess it reflects my control-freak nature ...seriously though, my favourite type of photography is the spontaneous type ...photojournalism at its highest level ...like the work of the Magnum photojournalists -- I wish I was a quickly perceptive as they are ....they have a kind of sixth sense that allows them to capture the perfect moment ..or as Henri Cartier-Bresson called it, "The decisive moment".

I found this sample of well known photographs from the Magnum photographers.

http://www.andrewsmithgallery.com/ex...gnum/index.htm

Germaniac

Wow... very nice images... I actually took photography as a subject last year in Year 12 and though I did pretty well in it, the more I was exposed to photographers, the more I felt that any of my effort was in vain - the sheer overwhelming magnitude of absolute quality within the artistic/photographic community; simply its depth and breadth, was pretty depressing for little ol' me

All that said I absolutely adore Bill Brandt's stuff, though my favourite photographer I think would have to be Richard Avedon... not sure if you're aware of him but basically he was a photographer who cut down all the pretexts and constructs of the subjects he shot (mainly people of fame, influence etc) and portrayed them in a brutally honest and sincere manner - the meaning and depth behind even some of his most basic portraits always astounded me.

Here's some of his stuff, sadly he passed away in 2004


A photojournalist named James Nachtwey, working for Time, did a piece on the Sudanise Genocide last year which blew me away, literally had tears in my eyes seeing some of these images for the first time.
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101...say/index.html

And finally, here's a couple backgrounds I've made - one of a couple of Trent Parke's works, an amazing Australian photographer, and the the other the master of form, Bill Brandt.

Rob

Thanks for the great photos Germaniac.

I am very familiar with the work of Avedon , actually I used him as an example in THIS THREAD a few weeks ago ...he is a great photographer.

One of my favourite classic photographs is the portrait of the composer Igor Stravinsky taken in 1946 by Alfred Newman.




Those pictures by James Nachtwey on Darfur for Time are truly beautiful ...but therein lies the personal dilemma for me. I find it slightly irritating that these photographs are so aesthetically attractive when they are depicting tragedy ....it kind of turns suffering into art -- in a way, it sanitizes suffering and poverty for western "consumption". It's like a Puccini opera, at once tragic but also extremely beautiful. I know this is a very cynical attitude and I struggle with it ...but maybe Bob Geldof is correct when he talks about the "pornography of poverty" we see on our TV screens.

Matt

This ones going in next weeks photo competition....
taken with my olympus in Van Couver.

Rob

Rob

Here is one I really like. I have adjusted the colour obviously ..it was taken at night.

Matt

great shots dude!