Upside down boat
- Thread starter Hamish Gill
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Pete Askew
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Now isn't that interesting. It actually looks more real than the real one!
Hamish Gill
Tech Support (and Marketing)
It does doesn't it ... Do you think it should be flipped horizontally?
Glenn Clabo
Well-Known Member
I find myself staring. Reflecting on a reflection? .... Need more coffee.
Pete Askew
Admin
No, I think it works well this way. Because one often reads images left to right I think this way rounds adds to the slightly unreal feel to the image. And your eye stays with the main boat rather than flowing towards the horizon for some reason. Maybe it is because the shapes looks a bit like a face without the writing. Also the eye doesn't flow up towards the horizon but down into darker tones.
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Brian Moore
Moderator
Wait,...whut? Upside doon? Left tae right? Face withoot the writing? (Pete,...how much o' that Lagavulin d'ye huv left? 
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Bonnie fotie, Hamish. Love the fade intae the mist.
)Bonnie fotie, Hamish. Love the fade intae the mist.
Hamish Gill
Tech Support (and Marketing)
haha, cheers ... I think ...
Thats what i thoughtish
Wait,...whut? Upside doon? Left tae right? Face withoot the writing? (Pete,...how much o' that Lagavulin d'ye huv left?
Bonnie fotie, Hamish. Love the fade intae the mist.
Cheers Brian
Chris Dodkin
West Coast Correspondent
Excellent Hamish - I reckon you could have posted this from the get go, and only Pete (With Eagle Eyes) would have noticed the inversion
Pete Askew
Admin
I always wondered why, when I scratched the back of my neck, I got so dizzy! 
Paul Lange
Moderator
It somehow manages to look real and unreal at the same time. I think what does it is there is no obvious horizon as it is hidden by the mist.
Hamish Gill
Tech Support (and Marketing)
Cheers Paul!
I keep turning my phone upside down to check what I'm looking at ... ... And I made it ... Baffles me!
I keep turning my phone upside down to check what I'm looking at ... ... And I made it ... Baffles me!
Julian de'Courcy
Well-Known Member
It still confuses me. on flickr at first sighting it looked great but did not know what it was. Upside down boat throws me as it appears on its side? Never the less it works and is a cracking photo. Of what, it is does not seem to matter much, if at all.
Dizzy
Dizzy
Beth Carter
Well-Known Member
this just begs for the flaming pear flood effect to be applied.
i say leave it as is, it works for me.
i say leave it as is, it works for me.
Hamish Gill
Tech Support (and Marketing)
The flaming pear flood effect?
cheers both!
if you are in a position to look at it upside down Julian, it just snaps into reality... I've done it on my iPhone a couple of times this morning. Else the original is a few images back on Flickr and on here somewhere
its making me wonder what else I can turn upside down now
cheers both!
if you are in a position to look at it upside down Julian, it just snaps into reality... I've done it on my iPhone a couple of times this morning. Else the original is a few images back on Flickr and on here somewhere
its making me wonder what else I can turn upside down now
Glenn Clabo
Well-Known Member
its making me wonder what else I can turn upside down now
Me thinks a certain man named Pete has this thing with standing on his head...and now is influencing us all.
http://www.realphotographersforum.com/abstract-still-life/10139-drop-can-see.html
Julian de'Courcy
Well-Known Member
The flaming pear flood effect?
cheers both!
if you are in a position to look at it upside down Julian, it just snaps into reality... I've done it on my iPhone a couple of times this morning. Else the original is a few images back on Flickr and on here somewhere
its making me wonder what else I can turn upside down now
Mad and brilliant. I had been seeing something completely different. my own interpritation was not of a row/ line of moored boats, but one boat with different deck levels on its side? Its for me like one of those , is it out or or in images an illusion.
Now my itouch thingy has packed up as all my apple products do. My computer screen cannot swivel into portrait mode which would be nice. If so I may have seen what I see now earlier.
I have a spine that cannot move at all. Not a millimeter from base to head. Shot to pieces. So cannot even put my head to one side, to view from a different angle.
Thanks for pointing me to the original Hamish it has been quite a revelation , cheering me up for the morning I have had, which was to put a red pair of trousers in with my nice shirts which are now pinky yuk colour. I might add they are not my red trousers. I still love my daughter dearly though.
Pete Askew
Admin
Give her some nice pink shirts for her birthday Julian!
Hamish Gill
Tech Support (and Marketing)
I thought that must be how you were seeing it ... that pleases me no end!!
Sorry to hear about the shirts, and your spine for that matter... but I do think Petes suggestion is a good one!
Sorry to hear about the shirts, and your spine for that matter... but I do think Petes suggestion is a good one!
Julian de'Courcy
Well-Known Member
Give her some nice pink shirts for her birthday Julian!
Funny thing it is tomorrow.
Pete Askew
Admin
See, she's saved you a fortune!
