Gianluca Drago
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Sorry guys, I realise now that I have posted a picture that is completely uninteresting. I'll free up space.
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Julian Tanase
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I'd want to see that completely and utterly uninteresting photograph. It intrigues me.
Gianluca Drago
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Gianluca Drago
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Did you want to see the incriminating photo? Here it is. I don't know what to make of it, it seems to me that it has every possible flaw, not just a few. The only thing that perhaps justifies it a little is its sense of unreality, its suspension over an almost theatrical scene where perhaps something is about to happen.
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Julian Tanase
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Well, it is a photograph, I give you that.
Jokes aside, I do like it, or rather I am drawn to it without having the faintest why. Looks to me like a scene from a movie, I guess that blue ray enhances this feeling (and I am clueless on why is that). An encounter which could be the main plot of the film perhaps? That balloon seller looks a bit shady to me, he could very well be the killer in disguise, and so the women are in some sort of a danger? I mean, that pier (or platform) is kind of empty, so it could be the prefect place for a heinous deed.
How am I doing so far?
Jokes aside, I do like it, or rather I am drawn to it without having the faintest why. Looks to me like a scene from a movie, I guess that blue ray enhances this feeling (and I am clueless on why is that). An encounter which could be the main plot of the film perhaps? That balloon seller looks a bit shady to me, he could very well be the killer in disguise, and so the women are in some sort of a danger? I mean, that pier (or platform) is kind of empty, so it could be the prefect place for a heinous deed.
How am I doing so far?
Gianluca Drago
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You are doing very well!
So well that you have discovered all my tricks. When I set out to edit this photo to see if it could be saved I got carried away.... The blue ray is my addition... is the platform deserted? Because I literally erased people and artificially lit up the void in the centre of the scene and shaded the periphery to make it look like a stage. So at this point I don't even know if it is a photo anymore
Not my usual stile of editing, BTW.
Julian Tanase
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You Hitchcock you...
Gianluca Drago
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You Sherlock...
Just for comparison and for your "pleasure" this was the out of camera JPEG.
Julian Tanase
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You had quite a bit of work there, I wouldn't never guessed the initial shot had so many people in it. Good skills!
Stevenson Gawen
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I'm glad you were persuaded to keep it, Ginaluca! It's interesting, and I had no suspicions that the light beam was, ahem, an artistic addition. 
Good stuff. I like Julians analysis too!
Good stuff. I like Julians analysis too!
Gianluca Drago
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I'm glad you were persuaded to keep it, Ginaluca! It's interesting, and I had no suspicions that the light beam was, ahem, an artistic addition.
Good stuff. I like Julians analysis too!
You are always very supportive of my photos, Steve, thank you, and to Julian. I don't know if you can read from the JPEG metadata the time I spent on it in Darktable to create what is ultimately nothing more than a fake. Maybe the editing metadata got lost when I resized the photo to post it on RPF, but I played around with it a lot and had fun learning. It's not my style, in fact I usually apply minimal editing, because I'm not interested in being cool, but in learning how to take pictures. However, my point of view is that this was a photo to be trashed.
Brian Moore
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Now I really want to see this picture!
Gianluca Drago
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Read along the thread, Brian, and you'll find it
Brian Moore
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I've seen it now. And I find it completely uninteresting.Read along the thread, Brian, and you'll find it
Just kidding. Actually I find the dark version rather interesting indeed. I imagine myself cropping it such that the man with the lights is gone leaving just the two women. I imagine such a crop might produce a sense of mystery or anticipation.
Gianluca Drago
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Thank you, Brian. You are too generous, too. But I agree with you, for me it is not the man with the balloons that is disturbing, but the two women. The one on the right (who, by the way, is my wife in real life) seems to be heading determinedly towards the one distracted by her mobile phone, to do... what?
Brian Moore
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And there it is,...the reason for the picture!
Gianluca Drago
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LOL.
Ivar Dahl-Larsen
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Many have said quite a bit, so all I'll say is; that I like them very much and they entice me and stir my imagination.
Gianluca Drago
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Thank you, Ivar!
