stine's pictures - 16.05.2007

[stine]

hi guys!
after seeing so many of your great pictures i wanted to post some of mine, cause obviously all of you can give me some hints... :)

it's a collection of old photos and some newer ones, especially those i didn't post for the challenges because i was too late or i decided to pick another.

thanks a lot for making me take more pictures and inspiring me with all your great work -- i kind of forgot how nice it is to walk around with a camera in your pocket and look for pictures...

soooooooo, here we go. looking forward to any comments.


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/kaefer.jpg
bug




http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/fluegel.jpg
"oh, i think you've lost something..."


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/hyazinthe.jpg




http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/farn.jpg


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/gras.jpg



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/weihnachtskaktus01.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/weihnachtskaktus02.jpg




http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/sonnenblume.jpg http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/rose.jpg http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/flasche.jpg





http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/wald02.jpg
"natural barcode"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/distel02.jpg


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/amrum01.jpg
amrum no.1


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/amrum03---krebs.jpg
amrum no.2


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/amrum02---spuren.jpg
amrum no.3





photochallenge "animals"
wellwell, i didn't have internet-access at that time so i couldn't post those photos for the challenge...

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/berta.jpg
berta


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/schaf01---portrait.jpg


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/schaf04---profil.jpg


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/schaf03---augen.jpg




photochallenge "old"
some other pictures i took for the photochallenge "old" -- i decided not to post them there, but here they are anyway... :)

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/bricks.jpg
bricks


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/tree.jpg
"you know you're old when something starts growing on you..."

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/zeiss.jpg
my old camera (hey barrett, "great minds think alike", heheh!):)


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/cookie.jpg
nothing feels older than christmas-cookies in january...


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/apfel.jpg
"when i die i will become a pie"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/web02.jpg
"little spider on the wall no.2"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/orange.jpg
well, would've been better for the topic "young", but that's why i didn't post it for the challenge, right?! :)



thanks for stopping by...see ya!


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[Khshayathiya]

Congratulations, Stine!

I am looking at your pictures and wonder why on earth do you say your pictures are not good enough??? The forest, to name but one is simply lovely in its rythm.

Best of luck!

[stine]

thanks, khshayathiya (wow, that's a pretty tricky name...:))! really glad you like it. that forest reminded me of a bar code when i first saw it so i cropped it into that format...

[Morbid]

Nice pics! Its cool that you experiment with different subjects for the challenge. I think the apple idea was good. With some better lightning and a wider DOF it would be great for the challenge.

[Il Cielo]

I absoulutley loooove the middle seuquence of three picsin a row. Beutiful cropping and color cordination, trully profesional :)

I also love the grass pic with the morning dew i loved the mood.

One suggestion with the picture called amrum 1. It could do with some heavy cropping and becaus of the absence of colors it would look great in b/w. But other wise great stuff i love it, trully original in some pictures.

[Khshayathiya]

Allow me to contradict you, Il Cielo.

The pale blue of the sky is a perfect match for the grey of the road. The two colours are not in contrast, but rather in harmony. Moreover, the pure blue of the sky creates the fresh, cool atmosphere. A BW image would have kept the shape of things, but would have completely missed the mood of the whole.

[Il Cielo]

Point taken but i still feel theres too much negative space above the object :)

[stine]

thanks a lot, guys! hadn't thought about that photo that much... tomorrow morning i will actually give it a try and post the results (b/w and cropped) here, if you like.

[ShadeOfDawn]

I think this will be the fourth time that i vote for you in the photo contest!! I quite like your photographs! Especially the spiderwebs. And the set of three in the middle are very professional and also very good! I cant tell what is in the third picture at that size though. Is it a glass bottle? I also like the two flower pictures above. The first picture is very good too, but something bugs me about the Fly's position - it seems like it wants to be in a third up and to the right, but it isnt.

[kacklon]

Hi Stine!

Congrats on some beutiful photos. Im not familiar with the terms regarding feedback to photos so Im just gonna say, great work. The forest pic is stunning! Just love it.

[stine]

first of all thanks for posting your replies!

@ morbid: thanks for your response! i wasn't absolutely happy with the photo mainly because of the things you said: light and dof. so i took my spider-web-on-a-wall-photo for the challenge. but the apple is still here, so maybe i give it another try today... should have taken more time for the pictures but i shot all of the challenge stuff yesterday...

@ il cielo: really happy you like it! found your photos amazing, especially your trip. are you feeling better?


@shadeofdawn: thanks for your votes, man! an amazing portfolio you have there, big as sh*, but worth the download...:) glad you fixed the server-space-thing to show us more.
yes, the blue one is a bottle i sometimes used as a vase. actually the rose was in that bottle til i took it out and shot the blue photo... thanks for your compliments, i really appreciate that!

@kacklon: thanks, that's really nice. and you don't have to use those "terms" you're talking about... :)


so here we go, i tried to change the amrum-photo and this is what came out of it - but first i post the original so you don't have to scroll all the time...:)



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/amrum01.jpg


and the b/w one:


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/amrum-bw.jpg



i like it a lot, but xs (we agreed that i could use this short form to prevent my hands from falling off typing your name...:)), you were right it looses some freshness. it changes the atmosphere from holiday-pic to more serious, i think. what do you say, guys?

so next one's the cropped version -


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/amrum02.jpg


don't know why i didn't think about cropping it in the first place. because as you know i'm all up for cropping (some sort of illness maybe...:)) -- like it better than the original, so thanks for the suggestion, il cielo.

looking forward to any comments!

[Khshayathiya]

Well, Stine, the BW looks very good. But, as you say, it is a radical change of mood. If the blue one is uplifting, makes you ant to inhale deeply while enjoying the peaceful vastness, the BW looks like a manifesto against nuclear tests, or a warning against another world war. It is a completely different picture, with a completely different message.

[stine]

yep, strange what a massive impact the colors have on that photo... but i wouldn't see it that negatively in b/w - it seems more timeless or antique, cause nothing on the picture gives you information about the time it was shot. that's what i like about the b/w...

oh, and shade, i totally forgot to say that you're right about the fly-picture. there should be more space towards where it is running, but unfortunately it moved so fast i missed the right frame... :)

[stine]

i'm just re-organizing my digital portfolio right now and stumbled over some more photos. i'm not so sure whether to put them in the portfolio or not so your opinion is important to me... :)

looking forward to comments. thanks in advance!


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/lahnbruecke.jpg
"walking on the railing"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/brunnen.jpg
fountain



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/passage.jpg
hannover


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/herrenhauser-gaerten.jpg
"herrenhäuser gärten"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/sonnenuntergang.jpg


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/zugfahrt.jpg
"heading home"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/eistropfen.jpg


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/treppe-rudolphsplatz.jpg


oh, and here's another animal-photo i took for the challenge, totally forgot about that one...:)

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/elwood.jpg
elwood

[Khshayathiya]

Very nice, all of them!
I like the second because is seems to be the opposite of the platonic Immitation theory (that this world is an imperfect immitation of the perfect world of ideas and that art is an imperfect immitation of the world asn, as such, despisable): the real world appeares to be distorting itself on purpose, so as to resemble a digitally distorted image.

I also like the "heading home" - the atmosphere is masterfully grasped.

[Shin-Akuma]

Beautiful photos!
They gave me a much needed inspiration boost. :)

[stine]

xs - thanks a lot!

shin-akuma: glad i could help *blush* :)
i am still looking through my stuff and may post some more tomorrow... see ya!

[stine]

a small update - unused "material" for the detail-photo-challenge...


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/jeans.jpg
jeans


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/birne02.jpg
lightbulb no.1


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/lichterkette.jpg
"light-chain"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/tv.jpg
"tv's watching back"


and as always: any crits and comments welcome!

[ShadeOfDawn]

as usual great stuff - i think i prefer lightbulb number 2 to the one in the challenge though - but they're both really good

[stine]

thanks, shade. wasn't sure what photo to take - i thought the "lightbulb no. 2" didn't show enough "detail", so i went with the other one...
but i'm glad you like them...:) i'm still waiting for my photo-film, but they had some problems in the lab and probably won't make it til friday. tough luck...

[Khshayathiya]

Indeed, Stine, the Lightbulb no.2 is very good. The more I look at it, the more I like it! 's it psychedelic or am I just prone to getting high on beauty?

I love the idea of an almost imperceptible separation between interior and exterior and the artificial tension between the two. They are, after all, so much alike. I find your picture a marvellous expression of coincidentia oppositorum.

And the filament, naturally, is the romantic genius, wraped in contemplation, superior to all others but isolated because of this very fact.

Zen and romanticism in an artistic symbiosis...

(Yeah, I've just read the dictionary last night and I wanted to show off... I'm sure you haven't thought about this and you might even disagree, but the beauty of art lays in its openness to interpretation)

[stine]

thanks a lot, that's a nice interpretation! i didn't think about the subject this poetically, but i wanted to find something from everyday-life that you normally don't pay attention to or even want to hide but that has a strange beauty when you look close enough.
it was kind of hard finding a clear lightbulb (we only have the frosted ones in our appartement) and i actually was a bit suprised when i saw that the inside of a lightbulb is quite complicated...
i'm thinking about taking the "no.2" - but i don't know whether that's okay with the rules...

[CopyWrite]

I hate insects!, But very nice work

[dassem]

Very nice work Stine, my favorites are 'herrenhäuser gärten', and stairs with those yellow strips on them, just great.

[claudeEGYPT]

"Heading home" is real cool! so's fountain, new ideas always catch me off guard.

[stine]

thanks, guys! nice of you to stop by...
copywrite - i'm not totally fond of insects myself but they are a pretty great subject to take pictures of (when they're not running like the fly in the first photo) :)

dassem - thanks a lot, the picture of the stairs i actually took for a job about...well...stairs. :) glad you like them!

claude - nice to see you here, man! appreciate your comment! i know i should take more "interesting" photos and not so many "beauty-shots". so i find your post quite encouraging. thanks! :)

[stine]

okay, so once again: here are the challenge-pics i didn't use. as always: any comments very appreciated!
i wanted to go out and take some photos by the river (it's frozen right now), but i got sick and had to stay at home. so you can have a macro-look at my apartment. :)

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/eisfach01.jpg
my refrigerator



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/eiswuerfel02.jpg
"no, we aren't vampires..." :)
my roommate made cherry-juice-icecubes. and one of them broke...


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/gurke-detail03.jpg
"95 % water" (it's a cucumber)


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/glas01.jpg
"sparkling"

[stine]

hi there! didn't have much time in the last few weeks, so there are only a few new photos...
looks like everybody is quite busy right now, so i appreciate any comments even more than i normally do...:)


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/e-kirche02.jpg
"e-kirche"




http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/follow-me.jpg
"follow me"




http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/self-made-weekend.jpg
"self-made weekend"
(originally taken for the "misplaced"-challenge...)




http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/narzisse01.jpg
"springtime on my desk no.1"




http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/narzisse02.jpg
"springtime on my desk no.2"

[claudeEGYPT]

Oh stine! that one with the newspapers is really eye catching! I cant tell what i like about it.. but.. Wow!

[stine]

thanks a lot, claude! appreciate your opinion! :)

hmmm, strange that some changes i made here yesterday didn't "survive" the server crash... don't know whether anybody else had posted something before the server went down. guess not, but just in case: thanks and visit again. :)

[Infinit]

great pic I had to safe some of them imedeatly
thx for shareing I`ll watch this thread from now on

[stine]

oh, nice! a "landsmann"! :) thanks for stopping by! you can save those pics, but please remember that they are for private use only (sorry, but i've had some bad experiences with that, "gebranntes kind", you know?!)
have fun and visit again. :)

[Infinit]

I sure have fun^^
don`t worry I`m no "verschlagenes hinterhältiges arschloch" stealing your works
I`m just begining to photograph myself and you are a great inspiration

[stine]

:)
thanks a lot! looking forward to see some of your photos!

[stine]

hi there! once again some photos i took for the challenges. the last weeks have been busy, so i didn't make the deadline most of the time, but here they are anyway.
as always: comments most welcome!

photo challenge "addiction"

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/needforspeed05.jpg
needforspeed no.2



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/coffeecup-01.jpg
coffee to go




photo challenge "city life"

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/statue.jpg
former habitants




http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/dach.jpg




http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/gelnder.jpg
favourite place to be

[dassem]

Stine i like every one from your recent works, but damm why haven't you posted in photochallange?

[claudeEGYPT]

I dont like "Former Habitants"
I think its all wrong, there's a lamp on the side that shoulda been cropped out, and the exposure is just too high, it probably would have made a good photo if it was taken from a different angle.

However, i like all the rest.. Especially "Favourite Place To Be" lovely textures. And the whites and blacks really compliment each other there. I would suggest you raise the contrast a bit more to bring out the black.

Otherwise,, good job as usual, i wouldnt expect any less of you Stine :D

[stine]

thanks, dassem! as i said, i missed the deadline. but i'll try to take some pictures for the next challenge, promised... :)

and thanks for stopping by, claude, as always appreciate your comment. i still try to figure out what that white thing on the right is that's bugging you (and me, didn't realize it til you said so). i guess it's just the corner of the building (our town hall), but i'll go there again and check. maybe i can do a better version... :)

looking forward to the new challenge, hopefully i'll have a little more time...

[stine]

so, like "promised" some pictures i took for this week's photo challenge. was a fun topic, i think.

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/menu.jpg
"today's menu"




http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/reclam02.jpg
"brain-food"




http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/mausefalle01.jpg
"being picky can save lives"
-- no animals or fingers were harmed shooting this picture and i don't use this trap for killing mice, i use it to put notes who called etc for my roommate in it... :)

[dassem]

Great hob as always, Its kinda fun how everyone are focusing on shakespeare's hamlet (at least my every friends whom i showed this one ;))

[Infinit]

great stuff
Lessing jumps to my eyes first^^
"vavorit place to be" is my fav!

[stine]

thanks a lot! i guess you kind of focus on the book you hated the most in school. haha.
i actually put shakespeare in on purpose, because otherwise it would've just german stuff... :)

[Iiori]

Wow these are wonderful. I love the colors and the patterns you show us, they are things you see everyday but you force us to take a closer look. Im a big fan of yours!

[Marley]

This a great set of photographs. A real treat to look through, and I don't think you would have many problems finding work or profession. [Obviously unless you already are?!?]

One thing perhaps to look at in post production is the saturation, and like you have experienced on a few pics; play with composition to get the best feel. Printing [photoshop now adays!] is just as much a part of the creative process as is the seeing and taking of the photograph! So much can be enhanced with this. I would say that 70% of a great photograph comes in the printing, you could turn a very average picture into a beautiful piece purely with post production. And you have such a great foundation to start from.

Try some portraits now...I don't see too many of those ;)

[stine]

thanks a lot, guys. i'm seriously flattered.
great suggestions there marley, nice of you to take the time!
never thought about taking pictures professionally... sometimes i take photo-material for a website i make but that's all. i guess there's a lot missing to a professional level (starting with a good camera).

i normally use photoshop to enhance the picture, but i'm constantly afraid of "overdoing" it. simply want to keep it to a minimum... maybe i should experiment a little more.

and you're right, there are no portraits, but that's not because i wouldn't shoot them but because i'm VERY careful with posting pictures of people in the internet. i would never show a portrait without asking the person for his/her permission and some simply refused and some i couldn't contact. and i'm way too shy to ask strangers whether i could photograph them. but anyway, i should do more of those just for myself... :)

again, thanks a lot, guys, being around here is truly helpful!
cheers,

stine

[kacklon]

Great work!! I'm really impressed by your photos.

[Marley]

You don't have that much of a problem photographing adults...but becareful with children...this is a very dodgey area these days.

However, simply use a long lense and catch people in the moment...then either tell them you photographed them for your school project...99.9% of the time they will say "oh that's cool" and probably thank you.

Or just walk upto someone and say I'm doing a school portrait assignment and thought you'd make a great subject...can i take a picof you? Offer to give them a print, and if you use it in a show or gallery tell them to come and see it...friend for life, and more people who see your show.

DON'T be shy...just do it.

When I was doing my degree I went on hols to Florida in the US...and spent my whole time asking people, or just taking pictures of them anyway documentary style. I aksed some many people, police, security gaurds, those guys who swim with shamu...truck drivers [I went to truck stop and just hassled a few guys who had really big trucks...made up some story that sounded cool], even people just sat at the bus stop! I photographed a gaurd called Elmer at Disney World who I tlked to for 2 hours after that and offered to take me to his house to meet his wife and kids. Great guy!

It's difficult I admit, but once you do it and just keep doing it you soon buz off it...you get into conversations with people about alsorts....people introduce you to other people and so-on.

As long as you look confident and know what you are doing...they will love it! And what is the worst they'll say...no! Whatever, onto the next person :)


Use the skills you have with those pics done on here and photograph some people at school...at work...at the garage...the library...just make up a convincing story, be honest about your intentions and you'll be amazed.

[stine]

thanks kacklon, nice of you to visit again!
and of course thanks marley for the encouraging words - i think i'll give it a shot... :)

but for today i've got some makros i didn't chose for the photochallenge. there are some more taken with my analog camera but it's gonna take a while until the film is developed. maybe i'll post them later...

here we go, as always: comments and crits appreciated!



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/lampenschalter.jpg
"let there be light"




http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/steckdose01.jpg




http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/toaster01.jpg
"lightshow in my toaster"

[Infinit]

"lightshow in my toaster"

you make me laugh^^

allways a pleasure to visit your thread

[stine]

thanks, infinit! nice of you to visit again!

have been on a trip to the countryside for a couple of days and shot some pictures on the first spring-afternoon this year... :)
so here's the first load. as always, crits and comments most welcome!


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/pfahl.jpg



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/span.jpg
"birch"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/huhn01.jpg
"chicken run"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/binsen.jpg



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/wolle.jpg
"sheep's pullover"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/trecker.jpg
"horse-power"
(would've good for the "industrial-challenge", but it wasn't exclusively taken for it...)

[stine]

okay, so here's the second bunch of photos from my trip. i just hope the contrast is fine - i can only watch the pictures on my laptop...

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/roof.jpg
"shine-through roof"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/wurm.jpg
"traffic jam"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/huhn02.jpg
"panther-chicken"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/wespennest.jpg



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/wire.jpg
"locking the clouds"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/krokus01.jpg
"one nectar to go please"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/jumper.jpg
"clawless"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/yingyang.jpg
"ying yang fur"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/seil01.jpg

[stine]

some photos from an abandoned apartment. hope you like them...


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/holland.jpg

"holland in not" (sorry, title doesn't translate...)



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/rinne.jpg

"raindrops keep falling on my head..."



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/leitung.jpg

"handshake"

[claudeEGYPT]

Cute! Handshake is a real nice idea!
Rain drops is real nice! I think i woulda preferred cropping the right side out.

[stine]

thanks a lot, claude! always good to hear your comments! i actually cropped the right side of "raindrops" first, but then it looked unbalanced. but i guess i left too much on the right, so i'll give it another shot. good suggestion! what about your photos? looking forward to see some new one's from kairo! :)

[nathaniel]

i LOVE this one

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/pfahl.jpg

the isolation of color is so awesome. and the red vs blue contrast is great. good job

all the pics look very nice

[Infinit]

imo raindrop needs the right side to give the pic a good "stance"
it connects and emphasices the height of the fall

I just love your photographs
you make me envious!


the film with my own photos on it was hopelessly overlighted as I tryed to get it out of my camera
(stupid boy! stupid boy)
I´ll try to save the next one (Nothing can stop me^^)

[andres_pad]

dude i always love your stuff. its so crazy! theres just so much colour and variety packed into each and every one. i keep coming back all the time just for inspiration, thanks :)

[stine]

infinit: thanks a lot! sad to hear your film was ruined, infinit. and great to hear it won't stop you! looking forward to see some of your stuff! :)

and andres: thanks so much for your nice response! i know i'm a bit limited by my camera and most of the pictures aren't as crispy-sharp as a lot i see on this forum, but i try to get the best out of it...

again, thanks for stopping by, guys!
cheers,

stine

[stine]

hey guys, just some photos i took for the latest challenge...


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/tv02.jpg
"window to the...uhm...world?!"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/kreide04.jpg
"getting your hands dirty"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/vase.jpg
"revenge of the flowers"

[Bill Beaton]

This thread is a joy to view. Thanks & please continue to post

[Zergaloth]

Marvelous pictures, though I sometimes wonder if it might all well be caused by the quality of the camera and the arty black border. :)
Real good work on making dull objects look so intruiging and interesting.
Will check this more often.

[ohjay]

Wow, wow and wow Stine, your depth of field rocks. I love your shot of the Ikon! And 'Revenge of the Flowers'. And 'Natural Barcode'. And...you get my drift ;)

[claudeEGYPT]

Hey Stine! Congrats on your Page 2!!! (for me at least)
No new thoughts here, everyone's said everything that needs to be said.. My only advice is.. Snap your heart away, you dont have a site do you?
I dont have one, but i sure want to get into that, i dunno where to start though.

[stine]

wow, page 02...

nathaniel: i'm so sorry i didn't thank you right away, must've slipped my mind. thanks a lot for your comment, won't happen again! :android:

bill beaton: thanks a lot, i will certainly post some more pics, althought right now i'm concentrating a little bit more on my drawing stuff... but thanks a lot for saying such nice stuff...

zergaloth: thanks! yeah, that frame's fancy, right?! :teeth: actually i think frames make a picture a lot better. it's amazing what great impact they have... so i "blame" it on the frame, cause my camera sucks compared to most of the ones used around here (envyenvy): it's a nikon coolpix 775, 3 1/2 years old, 2 megapixels... :)


ohjay: hi, nice to see you in the photo-section. great sketchbook you have there... thanks a lot, i'm glad you like it here. :)

claude: thanks, man. always appreciate your comments here. i actually have a little portfolio site (in my signature) that needs a lot of work of "refreshing" it again. there's a photo section, but you will probably know most if not all of the pictures... :)

[stine]

so, that was a pretty tricky challenge for someone like me who always goes for the beauty-shots. well, somehow i discovered a little beauty in the rotten things... hope you like them. was hard to decide which one to take for the challenge...

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/pilz01.jpg
"making rotten stuff your home..."


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/tennisball.jpg
"rotten and forgotten"

[Infinit]

I´d go for rotten and forgotten
because of the perspective and well I just like it^^

the other one is more nature then rotten (imo)

[stine]

thanks a lot, infinit. how was the ski trip? :)

just a little "have a nice easter" - update. hope you all have a nice weekend... :)

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/hase01.jpg

[Rhynome]

Ah, Easter, when evil bunnies crucified a hippy.

That's the message of Easter that I've gathered so far this year. Bunnies are still cute though.

[stine]

:teeth:
nice of you to stop by, rhynome! hope you had a nice weekend anyway!

[Rhynome]

Gah, you know that how?

Just no activity for a couple of days?

That rabbit does look really evil.
Maybe it was the rabbit that told you.

[Le Gab]

Hey, thanks for droppin by on my thread!
Rotten and forgotten kicks monkey ass. :^^:
Also, cool Satanic Bunny u have there :) :P

[Ham-e]

Wow! wow! awesome work! You have a fantastic eye!! all of these are soooo good. some of my favourites are those wires conecting, the tennis ball is also very cool and I like the idea behind the revenge of the flowers...oh ya that shot of the light coming through the trees is amazing to! they are all great photos.
:yayca: :yayca: :yayca: :yayca: :yayca:

[stine]

thanks a lot for having a look, guys!
sorry for answering that late, but i had my hands full of drawing hands as ham-e knows... :)

rhynome & le gab: i guess that bunny was just pretty pissed that i didn't bring him more food... :)

ham-e: nice to see you in my photo-thread, bud. your "david" is coming along great, see you in the sketchbooks... :)

sorry for not posting more pictures right now and not being so active in the photo forum, the last days/ week has been quite stressy, but i'm trying to get some more photos. hope you're not bored by the makros, thanks a lot for visiting my small photo album here...

[stine]

so, here's my sp - damn, i look stressed, but anyway... :)

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/sp02.jpg

[claudeEGYPT]

Wow! Finally a picture to fit in that empty space in my head called "Stine"!
Good seeing you in the flesh!

[Rhynome]

Well the way you look doesn't quite fit what I'd attribute fully to stress. I'd say 3 parts stress 5 parts absolutely knackered. Then again, stress stops sleep, so it all works.

[Latu]

Dropped by in time to catch your self portrait, very cute you look a little embarrssed taking a snap of yourself, I'm just assuming from your rosey cheeks.Looks like you've got alot going for you on the phorography front want to learn macro stuff need a lense though. Is that a kind of thunderdome comp where you wupped them other photographers, good show. keep up the macro's those are great.

[zoharroy]

It's great to see so many photos. I especially liked rotten and forgotten. The textures really pop, and the subtle colors in the image enhance it. Did you play at all with widening the depth of field? you've got the tennis ball in focus, and the stone in front of it. I was wondering what it would look like with a little bit more of the space behind the ball sharp as well.

I'm not sure, but it's something to think about.

Congrats on putting a self portrait up. Those are tough to do. Some questions that I had:

Did you mean to have that beige corner visible in the top left? Is there any significance to the pipes where your left forearm would be? Did you notice how there aren't any arms or legs visible in the composition?

Thanks for posting

[stine]

hey guys, thanks for having a look! :)

claude - that whole sp thing was a neat idea. getting to know how all of you look is really cool. many empty spaces filled... :)

beiijing - thanks! birthday three weeks after christmas sucks, don't you think?! :)

rhynome - heh, stress and embarassement more than tired i guess...

nii - hey sketchbuddy! nice of you to stop by in my photo thread! as i said i prefer being behing the camera... that challenge thing is here in the photo section a weekly small contest. lot of fun and a great motivation to take pictures. unfortunately my sketchbook kept me quite busy as you know... :) again, thanks for visiting.

zuharroy - thanks for the comments! to the "rotten and forgotten" - unfortunately my camera leaves me very little choices. it's a 4 year old nikon coolpix 775 with 2 megapixels and no manual programs, so i basically have to take what i get. but i plan to use my analog cameras more often again and then i'll surely play more with dof etc. thanks for pointing that out!
the sp is an absolut fluke. i shot it within 2 minutes (didn't even comb my hair what i should've done...) and in front of the only white wall in my room that has no bookshelves on it. so the corner is my door and the pipes are my heating. it's a real snapshot and i only put it on because my photo for the challenge didn't show me at all... sorry if that disappoints you, i promise to do a better one some day... :)


oh, and sorry for not having any new pics... soon!

[stine]

ooookay, some more pics i shot in the last few days and mainly today. very nice challenge topic, evolution! :)
so here are some random shots and first photos i took for the "building" topic. i don't think i will enter one of them and will try to get something better tomorrow, so i can show them here...
comments as always more than welcome!

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/fenster-hof.jpg
"indirect sunset"

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/glasbausteine.jpg


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/schornstein.jpg
"chim-chim-eney"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/spiegel.jpg
"mirror mirror on the wall..."

[Rhynome]

4, 3, 1 and then 2. The order in which I'd rate them, the fourth being the one I like most.

2 is much the same as 3, but for some reason I just prefer 3. Either it's because it got me humming 'chim chim, cheroo, etc.' or because I just prefer the bricks and the shadow to the glass without a shadow.

Mirror Mirror on the Wall. It just looks really etheral; which, I suppose, is why you took a photo of it.

[claudeEGYPT]

Interesting shots Stine, I believe this is the most abstract i have seen from you so far.
I like the Glass walls, and the bricks shot the most of the lot.
I think indirect sunset woulda been nicer if there was more of a glow in the window.. i guess bad timing?
One more thing bothering me, its not a problem with you, but i am annoyed by the shadow of the line in the bricks photo to the right. It woulda been perfect without it.

Otherwise, i saved the glass one .. :D
Good stuff Stine, keep it up! (BTW.. what's your real name?)
Your building shot will come, just wait.. it'll be smashing!

[Rhynome]

Her real name might well be Stine, as I think it is a Northern European name.

Not sure how it's be pronounced though, if it is. Styn-ehr, or something...

[stine]

thanks for having a look, guys!
actually, no. 1,3 and 4 are all views from my window. the decaying building you see in 4 is actually the house i live in... :rolleyes:

the lightning for the last one is only possible in springtime, because otherwise the light would be blocked by buildings, so i'm glad i took that picture...

oooh, claude, you got me again. that little line there was bothering me, too. but i couldn't ask my neighbors to tear down their antenna. a little later and the shadow doesn't cover the whole chimney. so i took what i got...:)

so, tomorrow i'll have another look at the glass-brick house and see whether i get better light (thanks for the tip, rhynome!)

cheers,
stine

btw - stine is my nickname since i was little, (it's pronounced "shdeena", if you read that in english and that's right, it's a scandinavian name...) my "real" name is kristina, but nobody calls me like that... :)

[stine]

strolled around town a bit today. didn't find a great shot, but some decent ones i guess. struggled with decision which to take for the challenge...
anyway, here are the pics...

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/knockknock02.jpg
"knock-knock"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/ekirche01.jpg
"room with a view"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/putte.jpg
"little guardian" (pilgrim's cemetary)



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/mauer.jpg
"test of time"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/nature.jpg
"when nature takes it back"

[Rhynome]

I know it doesn't exactly fit what you normally do but would you mind taking a photo or two of Marburg? Nothing exactly artistic just a photo to capture a building or two, the architecture and terrain. If you can bring yourself to, or more importantly, have the time to.

I really like "Knock Knock", sort of like 'This is a door-knocker... concentrate on it.' Things we don't usually do. Might say to ourselves 'oh, interesting door-knocker', but that's it. That picture carries it on a bit.

[Ham-e]

Test of time is really nice. Really works visually and conceptually. Well done;)

[stine]

ham-e - thanks! nice of you to stop by in my photo-album, too! :)

rhynome - sure, no problem. :)
these two were the ones i could dig out right now. i've got a ton of pics, cause i once co-wrote an architectual digest of marburg, but they're all on paper and not scanned yet... so these are only the typical tourist snapshots


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/mr01.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/mr02.jpg

[Rhynome]

Is Marburg built on a hill? Is there any particular history to that Manor-house looking thing at the top of the hill or is it just another generic Manor-house? The reason I ask is that it seems it's higher than the Church and in English towns there seems to be this thing (with old buildings at least) that the Church is always the highest building around, I don't know if it's meant to be, just it seems to be that way. You'll rarely see a building on a hill above a church. You could tell which town was which by the Steeple you were looking at; it's how people drew maps, they'd triangulate the landscape by using Churches. Ah, I'm fantastic at absorbing useless information.

Anyway, I take it it's not really the same case for Germany then, at least Marburg?

[stine]

yup, the town is built on a hill for defensive reasons. the castle was built originally in the 13th century and then modified all the time. the whole town is almost built around the castle, including the churches. so there's no "ranking" in height... the biggest church ("room with a view") came a bit later, after marburg became one of the most important pilgrim places worldwide. before that we had several cloisters, thought. it's a typical (german) medieval town i guess... :)

[Barret_wallace]

hey stine
your photography is getting awesome :D
but have you ever considered buying a wide angle lens?
most of your photos is of "details" i would really like to see some
wide open photos from you :D

nice self portrait btw :)

[stine]

thanks a lot barret! :)
you're absolutely right, i should definetely work on my range of pictures. somehow it always drives me back to the little things... i'll try! :)


hopefully i don't bore you with my next shots, just the result of walking around town looking for "time"...


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/time-is-money.jpg
"time is money"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/test-of-time.jpg
"test of time"

[andres_pad]

hahaha, i find the exact same thing happens to me stine, i reckon 9/10 of my photos end up as macro shots :P
nice stuff as ALWAYS dude :) i really like them.
you have such a good eye for things :)

[Dose206]

wow, really nice photos here. my favorite is without a doubt 'natural barcode' from early on in your posts. and of course, your sp is very cute although you do look a little stressed.

chris

[Norwin]

so, here's my sp - damn, i look stressed, but anyway... :)

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/sp02.jpg


Hah... I thought all the time you are a boy/man :D
No matter... sehr schöne Bilder! (insbesondere die Textur- und Makroaufnahmen!) 8)

[Morbid]

I havent commented much in your thread, dont know why because I love you pictures.

You seem to have a fashiation for old worn things. Good to see that you move away from macros sometimes with these new pics.

[stine]

thanks so much for having a look, guys and sorry for not answering such a long time... a lot of things to do and nearly no time for taking pictures...

andre - thanks a lot! yeah, macros are just so much fun, glad i'm not alone with my "addiction". :)

dose206 - hey there, thanks for stopping by in my photo-thread, too! i just came home from vacation today (went to switzerland to visit a friend), so i guess all that stress is quite gone now... :)

insane - dank dir! heh, really funny you thought i was male... :)

morbid - thanks a lot! yup, old stuff is just so interesting. all those textures and the different colors, just one of my favourite things to take pictures of. but you're right, i tried to get away from it a little. unfortunately my camera doesn't catch landscpaes very well, but i try... :)

well, as i said, i just returned from switzerland today. man, a lot has happened here in the photo section since i was gone, you guys have been busy! i try and look at all the new threads in the next few days... unfortunately my camera had some difficulties the last days (the menu button doesn't work anymore... :(), but anyway, here's a first glimpse at some pictures i took. the swiss landscape is amazing, and flora and fauna there even more interesting, so sorry for some macros and flower shots... :) hope you like them, i'll post more as soon as i can sort them...

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/poscht.jpg
"poscht"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/agnus-dei.jpg
"agnus dei"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/gras-1.jpg



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/sunset.jpg
"swiss kitsch"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/camouflage.jpg
"not-so-perfect camouflage"

[eazym]

I really like the idea behind Agnus Dei. the comp is very good. I wish there was a bit more sky and sharper focus, though. I've never thought I'd say that I liked something kitsch, but that is a beautiful landscape. I think I like everything about it.

[Rhynome]

Stine, STINE'S BACK! Ahem.

Swiss Kitch and not-so-perfect camouflage are my two favourite from this set. These are great, it's nice to see you're back. Post more if possible, and it's nice to know the stress is gone (hopefully).

[andres_pad]

wow, i like them all, but that last ones crazy. imagine falling on one of those things, ouch

is that a bug inside it?

[stine]

thanks a lot for having a look, guys.

eazym - yup, you're right about the cruzifix, should've chosen the angle better... glad you like the landscape, it's actually the view from my friend's balcony. *envy* :)

rhynome - hey there, thanks for the nice comment! :) hope you like the next set, too...

andre - thanks! those plants are vicious, i once fell into them as a kid, it's nothing you would like to do... :( never seen them such big, thought. those on the photo stood almost 2 meters tall... you're right, that's one of the weird bugs we found. :)

okay, here are some more. hope you like them, comments as always welcome!



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/woods.jpg




http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/lunch.jpg
"prey outsizing the predator"




http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/pusteblume.jpg
"nature's helicopters"




http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/achen.jpg
"a'chen"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/tor.jpg




http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/schaf.jpg
"blockhead"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/lady.jpg
"italian patience"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/tuer.jpg
"welcome"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/biohazard.jpg
"...and now to something completely different..."

[Le Gab]

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/lady.jpg
"italian patience"[/CENTER]








http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/biohazard.jpg
"...and now to something completely different..."[/CENTER]


Would very much like to see more stuff like these and maybe u'd also like to help us out (http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=69971). Great stuff as usuall. Thanks for the photo-feast :^^:

[vinc]

nice pictures, indeed. I like the textures of what you shoot alot, like the male sheep-macro.

[Rhynome]

I'm a sucker for land-scapes. All your pictures are nice, but no.1 fits my fancy almost perfectly.

Welcome and that last one I like as well.

[eazym]

The first one and the last 4 are my favs from this set. Definately like this set better than the last. The first one is absolutely gorgeous, like everything about it. And as for "Welcome" - brilliant. Bravo, and let's see more.

[claudeEGYPT]

Hello friend.
Good to know you are back on here and showing us your stuff.
How you been?
"Block Head" Looks scary, i thought that was a snake crawling up into someone's hair!!
I'm not much of a flower close-up person, i am not a big fan of flowers, however i like "Nature's Helicopters" I would trim it from the bottom.. but good photo.
Your last photo somehow reminds me of "The Hulk" with the steel warehouse and the industrial material.
Good to see you, i met a really pretty girl from Cologne, Germany this week.. all the time i was thinking.. stine stine stine :)

[Dose206]

Great photos. I'm a little envious though, I'd love to go to Switzerland, such a beautiful place (I imagine, and your photos show me that my imagination is not too far off). Anyway, glad to hear the stress is gone.

[stine]

thanks for the nice comments, guys!

legab - hey there, thanks for the tip with the urban/industrial-thread. unfortunately i don't live in a very industrial city, but i'll keep my eyes open... :)

vinc - grüße nach hamburg! thanks a lot.

rhynome - thanks! more landscapes are on their way... :)

eazym - thanks a lot!

claude - hey friend! stress level has risen already a little again, but everything is alright here. :) ugh, never thought of "block head" looking like a snake, but now that you've said it i can never look at it as a simple sheep head again! you're right about the "helicopter" shot, i should've seen that myself, thanks for poiting it out!
oh, and by the way: german girls are the nicest ones. :D

dose206 - thanks a lot! switzerland is beautiful indeed. don't knwo how colorado springs is like... have only been once to colorado, visiting relatives in estes park. and that's a lot like switzerland there. :)

oookay, last bunch of the swiss series. :) hope i don't bore you with these...
crits and comments as always welcomed!


first, another view from the balcony...
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/huegel.jpg



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/suicide-sky.jpg
"suicide sky" (naaaah, it's a clothesline...)


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/panetteria.jpg
"bella italia"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/hairy.jpg
"bob tried really hard to find his shaver, but in vain..."



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/taube.jpg



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/berg.jpg

[Alday.J]

I'm really impressed by the huge bunch of work and the very good quality of your pictures, bravo ! And your SP is... How can I say that ? "Wunderbar" ? ;) One of the most beautyful set of pictures I have see in this section.
Cheers.
J.

[Le Gab]

Bella Italia and Suicide Sky are definitelly my favs. Also number 5 for the angle. Actually I cant really say why i like no 5. It has that something so i'll just blame on the angle :P.

Just wanna stop right here and mention how much i like Suicide Sky. It's that whole contrast between the beauty and freedom of the skies and the sadness and ugliness of death. Reminds me of Beck's "Paper Tiger"...

*Adds the song to the playlist*

Right.. moving on. Bob really needs a shaving. Never been a fan of macro shots but this i like> Maybe because it's an unussuall kind of macro.

Right, before i end this just wanna say i really like Suicide Sky. :)

Great update, dudete! :D Cant wait to see more.

[Infinit]

nice to see some photo's from you again :)
the "test of time" pics are the best imo
I got to look for you threads more regulerly :/

cu around Infinit

[eazym]

Yeah, I'm with LeGab on the Suicide sky. Great concept. The last one is also very nice.

[Rhynome]

Stine, I have to admit that much of the reason why I love your photography is the captions.

I like Suicide Sky, well I'm not a great fan of the title in this one; I'm definately not having a go at you, not at all, it's just not my taste. Though the caption does bring it back again. The reason I like it is because of the lines and blocks of colours. There's vary little variation in colour on the concrete or the rope or the sky, etc. It just looks good, and the way the eye follows down to the 'noose' has quite a good effect.

Le Gab, you anti-macro heathen! Before you mention my lack of camera I have been away for a bit and I wish I did have a camera, but then again it would have been a bit touchy to take photographs as it would have been of old Warsaw Pact equipment that coincidentally is the exact equipment the North Koreans are using and that the RAF is currently training on. It was also the base of 'Blue Streak', an eventually scrapped plan designed to take nuclear war-heads to East Germany and beyond. Looked like something out of a Bond film.

Back to Stine, as the post should be, thanks for the landscape. It's fantastic, shame there's noise, but I can ignore that and focus on the mountain. It's a really nice shot and thanks for that.

[Barret_wallace]

nice pictures stine,
you are really good at titeling your pictures.
i need to start tilteling my own pictures :D

[Cigaro]

really really enjoying your macro's...focus is on the spot;)
favourites are lightbulb nr 1 and sparkling:)
great attention to detail;)

[Dieter]

Hey Stine, thanks for crits on mye photos, I think you have a lot of interesting stuff here, (the sheep was quite boring though hehe) My favourite is "poscht" I really like the colors.

Keep up the good work.

Well.. It's raining, it's misty and and eeearly morning now so I better go out to shoot some pics. hope to get something interesting out of it :)

[stine]

thanks so much for your posts, guys. sorry i didn't answer earlier, was really busy the last week...

alday j. - thanks a lot for stopping by and for the kind words. *blush* :)

le gab - thanks, gabriel! glad you like that photo - funny, cause usually the picture i'm most uncertain whether to post it or not gets the most positive reaction. strange. really need to work on my judgement abilities. :)


infinit - hey there! hope you're all right. has the "zivi" already started? thanks for stopping by, always great to welcome you in my threads again. :)


eazym - thanks!


rhynome - hey, every time a pleasure to read your comments! didn't like the title of "suicide sky" at first, too. found it a bit too rough, i guess. sometimes it's hard to transport a meaning in a language that's not your mother tongue. on the other hand, some titles are way more catchy in english ("natural barcode" e.g.). so i have to admit that for me thinking about captions is as much fun as actually taking the photo. :)

barret - thanks a lot for stopping by again! :)

cigaro - thanks!

dieter - thanks! good luck with the "early morning shots", looking forward to see more from you.


sooo, last week i scratched all my money together and bought myself a new camera (canon eos 350d).
a day later i was "set photographer" at a small diploma film project for a couple of days. took tons of photos (mainly portraits), but i don't think they're very "artsy". plus, i would'nt publish them here because i didn't ask the people there for their permission...
so sorry for not posting any new stuff, just didn't have the time to take pictures beside those jobs... hope i'll be able to be more creative in the next weeks working at summer academy here.

again, thanks a ton for stopping by! cheers

stine

[stine]

hey there, decided to post some pics from the film shoot -
the main problem was that my camera is quite loud for a film set(i don't own a noise reducer...), so i could only take pictures inbetween shooting. and of course i tried not to stand in the way, which isn't that easy (we were shooting in a hospital the first day). :)
so here we go, just a small serie...

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/suggestion/donnerstag/kamera.jpg


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/suggestion/donnerstag/annamaske.jpg


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/suggestion/donnerstag/silhouette01.jpg


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/suggestion/donnerstag/nils03.jpg



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/suggestion/donnerstag/lensflare.jpg



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/suggestion/samstag/rolandhauseingang.jpg



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/suggestion/samstag/sonnensegel.jpg



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/suggestion/samstag/unfall01.jpg



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/suggestion/samstag/nilsleiter02.jpg

in case you're interested, you can find the rest here (http://s32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/suggestion/).

[Rhynome]

I really like three, five, six and that last one you posted.
It's a shame in three that the man to the right's either so visible or not visible enough. It seems a bit like an unhappy medium.

I'm also quite taken with these photographs:
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/suggestion/donnerstag/spritzesetzen03.jpg
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/suggestion/donnerstag/lesen.jpg

The first one because of the way the people are positioned; staggered, going back into the picture. Though for reasons unknown I just prefer number 2.

(What's being filmed anyway?)

[stine]

thanks for your comment, rhynome. as always much appreciated!
it was a short film, a diploma project about a young couple.

sooo, been really busy the last weeks, lots of different projects going on... right now i'm working at marburg's summer academy and also taking an evening drawing class. so there's not that much time for doing personal stuff. but here are some pictures i took in the last days. the second is taken with a friend's camera, the rest with my new canon...


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/buglove.jpg
bug-love



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/stand-tall.jpg
stand tall



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/sandals.jpg
summer in the city



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/wool.jpg
woollen revolution



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/door.jpg




http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/cozyness.jpg
have a seat, please.



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/noodles.jpg
screenshot of my brain

[andres_pad]

wow, they're all heaps nice. i really like the green door and the insides of your brain! haha, mines just full of tumble-weeds and crickets chirping

[andres_pad]

oh yeah, and those shoes look cool! are they comfy?

[stine]

heh, "tumble-weeds and crickets", made me smile! :)

yup, those shoes really are comfy, it's a little like walking bare footed, cause they have this *damn, can't find the word in the dictionary* medical sole. is that understandable? :[
anyway, thanks a lot for stopping by, andré! :)

[absis minas]

Number 7 (first set) looks like an erection. I think you should either have a penis poking the tip of the flower, or have spread legs on the sides, surrounding the flower tip. Or any old thing to make it look blatantly sexual. I think it'd be funny.

[eazym]

These are nice, Stine, but I'm having slight problems with the composition or something on most of them. Can't put my finger on it, but something feels off. Woolen revolution is pretty cool.

[andres_pad]

Number 7 (first set) looks like an erection. I think you should either have a penis poking the tip of the flower, or have spread legs on the sides, surrounding the flower tip. Or any old thing to make it look blatantly sexual. I think it'd be funny.

haha, dont know whats wrong with your dong, cos mine sure isnt like that :wink:

[DieOxin]

Hey Stine .. First I want to say that I am floored by your photography .. the colours are soo vibrant it is amazing .. very inspired right now .. Especially the one on the first page, Former Residents, I think it is called .. absolutely gorgeous .. the lighting couldnt have been better ...
Second - I am curious as to the camera that you are using .. cause I am soon buying a rebel .. is it necessary to go that high because if I can get the same quality of shots as you are I am more than satisfied ..

[stine]

thanks for stopping by, guys!

absis minas - funny, never thought of it... :) guess that's an "eye-of-the-beholder"-thing... :)

eazym - thanks for having a look, mike. could you be a little more precise? cause i would really like to know what's bugging you!

andres pad - well, couldn't have said it better (if i was male...). :)

dieoxin - thanks for stopping by in this thread, too! all the pictures you've ssen on the first two pages were done with a 4 year old nikon coolpix 775. 2 megapixels, no manual control at all. the photos from this page were done with my brandnew canon 350d. i think the difference is surprinsingly small, but i like the fact that i can control the picture much better now. i guess deciding what camera to buy mainly depends on what you want to achieve and how much money you would like to spend. there's a great sticky thread about that here in the section and a whole lot of people a lot more experienced than me talking about this topic... looking forward to see your photos! cheers,

stine

[eazym]

Well, like I said, Ms. Stine, I'm not really sure. But, I'll give it a go, tell me if I'm crazy or way off-base on these. For example, "Stand Tall" seems a little of balance. It's kind of dead in the center but not really. Now I have no problems with centered images, nor assymetrical ones, but this one is somewhere in between, which i didn't know was possible.

Like I said this is hard to say because the pics are all nicely exposed and what not, and the stuff I'm pointing out doesn't ruin the picture, it just bugs me.

Same criticism applies to the complimentary color boards. I just think that this last batch is not up to your usual standards. I know most people have a love-hate relationship with their work, but take a look at some of your earlier stuff and tell me if I'm wrong.

[stine]

thanks a lot for taking the time to explain, mike!
made me think a lot and i took a little break to think about it.

so yesterday i decided to give it another shot (haha) and strolled through my parent's garden (i'm here on vacation right now) - got me 4 ticks and a couple of photos. i know i'm probably the only one around that really likes flower shots, so sorry in advance. :) hope you like the rest anyway... this is the first batch, more to come later today...


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/wespe-01.jpg


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/dahlie04-01.jpg
"come a little closer"
(that spider web reflection to the left really bugged me at first, but now i kind of like it...)


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/kiesel-01.jpg
"sticks and stones"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/farn01-01.jpg



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/hortensie04-01.jpg



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/knospe-01.jpg



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/korbstuhl01-01.jpg
"stuck in the middle of something"


edit: sorry for the klicking on the thumbnails, but as i understood that's only a temporary thing...
edit: replaced it with img-tags to photobucket, sorry for any inconvenience...

[Rhynome]

'Come a little closer' is, wow... just, wow.

13426 (no.6) is also fantastic, I really like that one... that's the one with the hanging thing of which I can't remember the word.

The rest I also like, but it's those two that really stand out for me.

And no, it's not just you who really likes flower shots. A little confession is that I have most of yours saved on my computer in case they ever got lost into the nether that is the internet.

The focus on Sticks and Stones isn't really great for me. It seems that there's too much going on down at the bottom for it not to be in focus and my eye seems to be drawn towards it, but I don't know if the photo would go very well without it, ah well.

[andres_pad]

nice stuff as ALWAYS! i really like that last one. im not sure why, but its just sort of... satisfying to look at.

[Norwin]

"come a little closer" is .. wow!
by far my favorite of your new serial..

[Rhynome]

"come a little closer" is .. wow!

Oi, get your own way of structuring mono-syllabic expressions of awe.

[Norwin]

Oi, get your own way of structuring mono-syllabic expressions of awe.
haha... well my treasury of words is not so big so most of the time I am refered to "mono-syllabic expressions" like "awesome, gorgeous, amazing, wonderful, nice, cool etc...
I didn't steel your phrase consciously.. I think I read over your comment and than I was at the point to find a new "mono-syllabic expression" - well I didn't find one so I used "wow" :D
I hope you are okay with that :eyecandy: =P

[stine]

thanks so much, guys!

rhynome - glad you like the set, always appreciated when you have another look! you're absolutely right about the focus in "sticks...", i guess, i'll re-visit the pond. still a lot of try and error with my new camera... :)

andres_pad: thanks, andre!

insane: thanks a lot! never getting tired of hearing a good ol' "wow", thanks! ;)

okay, as "promised" the second bunch.
a slightly more morbid touch and the clichée water droplets on leafs. couldn't help it. :) and since you seemed to like the flowers, another version of the dahlie (don't know the english term...).


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/rueckenschwimmer-01.jpg
"swimming lessons"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/teich01-01.jpg
"floater"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/zombie.jpg
"zombie"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/droplets.jpg



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/dahlie05.jpg

[Le Gab]

Long time no see, dudete! :D

However, the waiting was worth it. These are a feast to look at.
I really like swimming lessons phtoto for the focus. dahlie has to be my second fav for the chromatics.

The very least powerfull of the set has to be Floater, which i dont qite "undertand" but nevertheless a great cromatic.

Cant wait to see more!

[stine]

thanks a lot, gabriel! glad you like them...

"floater" (term for a dead body in the water) is just a small part of the more morbid serie -- i realized how many "corpses" are in a single garden. all the dead leaves, animals and everything. so i looked for the dead and dying. well, that doesn't sound that wonderful, but actually i found it quite interesting. and in the end that's the basis for new life, eh? :)

hope i could explain a little... thanks for stopping by!

[Le Gab]

Heh, yeah, kinda see it now. Good stuff! :)

[Infinit]

I LIKE FLOWERSHOTS
as long as they are of such quality
lovely pics where ever I look in your thread <3

[Rhynome]

Stine, are you going to post any more [of the] macabre/morbid series? I'd love to see it.

Most of all, come back to us! I'd say you're the least apathetic member here, we kinda need some energy back again.

[stine]

le gab: :)

infinit: hey there! great sketches from denmark! :) glad you like my photos, thanks for stopping by.

rhynome: hi! i've got plenty of pretty morbid shots (it's been really rainy and muddy here...) - just thought, it might be too much. but since you asked, here come some more. :)
oh, and i think there are quite a lot more energetic persons around here than me (including yourself), so i think you can handle everything quite well. but i'll definetely try to take a photo for the next challenge, promised! :) anyway, thanks for your kind words.


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/forbidden-fruits.jpg
"forbidden fruits"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/love-dont-live.jpg
"love don't live here anymore"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/crime-scene.jpg
"crime scene (police line - do not cross)"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/dungeon.jpg
"dungeon"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/dying-from-the-inside.jpg
"dying from the inside"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/first-cut.jpg
"the first cut is the deepest"


and a little fun shot:

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/king-has-left.jpg
"the (frog)king has left the building"

[Morbid]

The dahlia is stunning. We have a lot of rain here too at the moment. Rain makes stuff more saturated and contrasty but also takes away some texture. Anyways, I enjoy your photos, keep it up!

[Rhynome]

These are, as per usual, brilliant.

I love "Forbidden Fruits", especially with the title.

Don't really have time to talk about them all individually, but whoa. I really like the dying from the inside one as well.

[stine]

thanks!

morbid - thanks for stopping by. yeah, it's still raining most of the time - gives the pictures a slightly darker look and feel. funny, how much a little water can change... :)

rhynome - thanks a lot, you're too kind. :)

okay, some more shots from today - while waiting for a fake wasp to come around for the challenge i took these... hope you like them.


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/dead-fly.jpg



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/asseln.jpg
"running round in circles"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/libelle.jpg

[andres_pad]

wow! those last two are sweet. i like the first one too, but i really REALLY like those second two :P
how did you get the cool background on the last one?

[AdamDillabo]

great stuff, stine.

[born_stubborn]

i love all your photos, i never can get enough :) especially the insect ones :D

[Alday.J]

Nice job with the last set, the last one is fantastic. :)
Keep posting the good stuff, Stine.
J.

[MattiasA]

Wonderful photos, very serene

[stine]

andres_pad - thanks, andre! the background on the last was a total fluke. i had tried to get a photo of the dragonfly for a couple of days, but those are damn fast when they're hunting. that day the dragonfly sat underneath a plastic tarp and it had rained before... it didn't move at all, maybe because it was so cold and so i managed to get a few shots before it flew away... :)

adam 278 - thanks a lot! :)

born stubborn - thanks for the kind reply! i will stop by your sketchbook later today, promised! and...sorry,no insects this time...

alday j. - merci bien, julien! .wow, that rhymes...:) thanks for stopping by, greatly appreciated.

matthias a - thanks! wonderful sketchbook you have there, glad you like my pictures.



okay, probably last set of garden photos, cause tomorrow i'll be going home to my little dark garden-less apartment and spare you with the nature shots. :)
it's been raining for days, but then the sun came out for about 10 minutes and i took some photos. after a while i decided to look for movie titles in the garden and i even found some. but before i could collect some more, it began to rain again...


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/nacktschnecke.jpg
"berta still watches her shadow carefully, being really scared that i may move faster than herself"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/sonnenschirm.jpg
(sorry, i'm just a huge fan of water droplets, can't help it)


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/droplets02.jpg
"frozen"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/himmelsstuermer.jpg
"skywalker" or "i am your father, luke"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/scarface.jpg
"scarface"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/seerose.jpg



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/spinnennetz06.jpg
"master degree in architecture"

[Alday.J]

Yeah, I like your flow ! :P So you speack a bit french, right ? :)
Okay, back to crit... Strong update here, aside "Skywalker" the weack one of your last update. I can realise how hard it can be to shot that, but something is wrong [or anecdotic] with the composition for me... Feel free to forget that comment.

"Master degree in architecture" is GREAT !!! I have save it. :^^: The rest of the bunch of picture is very strong, good job !

Cheers.
Julien.

[Le Gab]

This new update... it's strong dudete... Made me feel chilly.

Thats all the crits you'll ever get from me. :P

[samsite999]

nice update, as always :) right im going to make a attempt at a constructive comment!! bare with me
"master degree in architecture" this one is a great shot, you ahve though long and hard about the angle here and the image works very well

(sorry, i'm just a huge fan of water droplets, can't help it) the one with this above it, this is beleve it or not one of the best shots i have sceen from you composure wise along with : "forbidden fruits" you have the lighing SPOT on and the depth of feild is just what the image needed. All in all, you have developed a hell of a lot and i like to see some more of you stuff

[Infinit]

frozen is great, lovely fantastic ... all of it
methinks I have to do my first thread rate and rate yours 5 stars :)

[AngryScientist]

The slug picture I took for ref, but the "Master Degree in Architecture" not only made me laugh, but is also extremely beautiful. :)

[stine]

thanks so much for the kind replies, everyone!

alday j - thanks a lot, julien. i unfortunately only speak a tiny bit french, sorry. :) i guess you're right about the skywalker-photo. i was just so happy to find another movie title in the garden that it got a little off composition wise. thanks for your crit and i'm glad you like the spider web.

le gab - heh, gabriel, thanks for stopping by! :)

samsite - hey sam, welcome to my thread and thanks for having a look. glad you like the update - hmmm, your comment on the "i just like..." photo really surprised me. i thought about not posting that pic. interesting to hear that you like it...

infinit - hah, manuel, that's too kind! :) *freufreu*

angryscientist - thanks! the slug i acutally took for reference reasons, too. it was huge and i thought i probably never get that close to a slug again... :)


okay, just a small small update. those are taken out of the car on my way back home (no, i wasn't driving myself...). first one's a crash-barrier/guardrail at high speed, in case it's not obvious. for the second i know it's usually not good placing the focus dead center, but i wanted to give it a shot... :)

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/leitplanke02-1.jpg


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/windrad-1.jpg

[Morbid]

The sencond one has a very ominous feeling, I like it.

[andres_pad]

wow! berta looks scary! im glad we dont have slugs like that over here :S

[andres_pad]

then again, i guess they dont really chase you if you run away

[Le Gab]

You really do a lot of photography, dont you? :P

Hey! :D

Er... the crash barrier, i had a hard time realizeing what it actually was. And then it hit me: Its a barrier that keeps you from crashing :D. Well, actually it lacks thatcertain crispness and sharpness that i ussually enjoy in your photographs . But then again, it's a very nice abstract. If you were going for abstract. Were you going for abstract...? Cauase if you weren't going for abstract... :P

Number 2: I really like the cold and lonely feel of the photo. The clouds are just awsome. I, for one, would ahve tried oe with more negative space, i think negative space gives you some great composition oportunities. Anywayz, great stuff. :D

Cheerio!

[stine]

hey guys, long time no see. sorry! right now i have 4 jobs and besides that i'm working on my thesis and trying to draw/paint in my free time. so photography was a bit neglected...

morbid - thanks for stopping by, glad you like it!

andres_pad - wow, that's a cool new avatar, andre. the orange sweater gives it a slight prison touch, though... :) thanks for stopping by - that slug was huuuge and i was actually surprised how fast they are... :)

le gab - thanks for the crits, gabriel! with the first one i surely went for the abstract. was a little tough, though because the car went with about 180 km/h and was shaking quite a bit. would've liked it a little sharper myself... the negative space thing on the second is spot on, i see it myself now. thanks for poiting it out!

so here's a small collection of photos i did over the last few weeks - didn't have the time to actually go out and take photos, but i hope there's something in there you like. i studied books on composition for illustration and painting and so some shots are simply practising basic rules or getting nice shapes etc. as always, crits and comments appreciated!


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/lampe.jpg
"let there be light"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/borderline-02.jpg
"borderline"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/e-kirche.jpg
"family ties"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/pflaumen.jpg




http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/bornemanns.jpg
"butchering the color palette" (it's a butcher's shop...)



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/kueche.jpg
"kitchen comp"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/fireman.jpg
"fireman"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/moon-shadow.jpg
"moon shadow"

[born_stubborn]

i think moonshadow is my favourite, i find it peaceful....i like the one with the basket "Let there b light" and "Family ties" is also a great shot. Good to see pictures from you stine! keep it up

[eazym]

Moonshadow is a gorgeous shot, kind of looks like an illustration in a nice children's book or something like that

[Mr. Mu]

Hi Stine,

I just read through and watched all of the photos in this wonderful thread.

Apart from the actual quality of the photos I like that there seems to be a clear line you follow which makes everything look like a logical progression.

And I would like to tell you that I laughed my head off at half of the titles. You have a great sense of humour.

I am new to this forum, I hope a reply in here gets me subscribed to this thread.:)

[Infinit]

imo the 2 night shots and the chair with the shadow are the best from this update
how did you dio the nightshots?

[Rhynome]

Leaping and hopping on a moonshadow...

Ah, it's nice to see you're posting photographs again. The butcher's shop is actually just too painful to look at.

What's the line in 'borderline'?

Family ties is nice, as is fireman and I really like kitchencomp.

Though of course, favourite of the set has to be moonshadow.

[stine]

thanks a lot for your kind replies, guys!

born stubborn - first of all: happy birthday, stub! :) and thanks for your comment. glad you like them!

eazym - thanks, mike. i actually took the photo for that reason, too. i want to get mysef some sort of "library" with different lightning conditions for drawing and painting and the full moon was a great opportunity...

mr. mu - thanks a lot for having a look and for your nice words. coming up with the captions is actually half the fun for me when taking photos, so i'm really glad you like them. :)

infinit - thanks, manuel. the shot of the butcher's shop was actually done a night before my tripod arrived, so i did that free handed. leaned on a wall and then basically stopped breathing. :) because i used iso 800, it had an aperture of 1/10 sec. i took 3 or 4 of those and was really surprised that all of them became relatively sharp. the moon shadow pic was done with the brandnew tripod on my desk (that's the view from my desk you see there). open window, me with pj's, but jacket and skarf, freezing and 1 o`clock in the night. :) i used iso 200 to avoid any noise and so it needed 30 seconds. it was really hard to get the houses in focus, because it was so dark, i couldn't see anything through the viewfinder. took me 5 tries or something... that was real fun! :)

rhynome - thanks for stopping by, rob. glad you like them. "borderline" is a cracked tile in our bathroom that always catches my eye - dunno why. :)

okay, i got some new pictures, but i will have to post-process them, because they are raw's. hopefully i'll find the time tonight to do that. just wanted to thank you guys for your support.

see you!

[Le Gab]

I'm late. Sorry! :) (damn, I'm always late)

The first 3 are the magic 3 for me.

Their simplicity is simply brilliant. Family ties is the strongest for me. Just like the previous Suicide Sky and Wind Catcher Rotor thinghie (sorry, I'm missing the word... our englrish sucks kk, thx!) it has that certain mood that makes me shiver.

Congrats dudete! It' s really great to see new stuff from you. I've been missing you arround here!

Cheers!

[stine]

thanks so much for the nice words, gabriel! really makes me glad that you like the pictures. hope i can make you shiver with some of the new stuff, too. ;)

went for a walk in the woods with my best friend today - it's been an overcast day and in the end the light really wasn't that good anymore, but it was fun and i finally got some fresh air after days in my apartment. :)


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/zaun.jpg



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/feder.jpg



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/blatt01.jpg
leopard leaf


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/follow-me-1.jpg
follow me



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/zaun02.jpg
metal waves



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/apfel-1.jpg
waiting for eve



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/bench.jpg
tattoo



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/blatt02.jpg
x-ray



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/borke.jpg
if keith richards was a tree



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/stacheldraht02.jpg
no "offence" (okay, i'm officially fascinated by fences right now)



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/baumgruppe02.jpg
schoolyard bully



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/wallflower-1.jpg

[eazym]

One word: Tattoo. Although I wish that a little more would be in focus, its still a wonderful photo. The texture and mood make up for everything

[Le Gab]

Well, Eazy is right. But not only one word. Rather more words: tattoo, follow me, leopard leaf. :D

As for, no "offence", none taken. It's just brilliant. Yes, shivers again. :)
It's the starlet of this last bunch. A great compo with awsome colors and silhoute play. The darkness of the barbed wire, which is a symbol of captivity makes great contrast with the blue sky in the bg, and blue has always represented majestic freedom for me. Just brilliant.

I am amazed... No wait, I'm not. :P Your photos are always great!

Cheers dudete!

[stine]

thans so much for stopping by and for your nice words, mike and gabriel! much appreciated!

yesterday i went to a spring with my best friend - she goes there once a week to get water and i came along and took some photos. hope you don't find the nature shots too boring, i just find fall quite intruiging...



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/hortensie.jpg



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/heide.jpg



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/baum02.jpg




http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/baum.jpg




http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/schild.jpg
"clouds have right of way"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/dolde.jpg
"brothers and sisters"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/gras-2.jpg
"grass tide"




http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/kuh.jpg
"mad cow"




http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/strom-1.jpg
"power pole choreography"

[cH_aos]

I enjoy your photographs very much, you manage capture the mood by using lights very well. Although I have not seen much, so far your style seems very experimental, so my advice would be to keep experimenting! Take pictures of anything, anywhere and every angle!

Your rockin' so keep shootin'!

[DieOxin]

soo much eye candy ..
what I love more than the actual photos is the titles ..
never stop updating //

[Infinit]

how the hell did I miss those updates for so long? *sichselbsohrfeigend*
30 sek? wow, thx for explaining everything to me :) (I want to learn)

I developed my first film and posted it here (some of it)
the next one is nearly full (B/W this time)

schoolyard bully is my update fav :)

[Swoz]

All are amazing, a joy to look at.

I am envious of you...

:D

All the more reason to keep shooting.

[SamIce]

Looks verry good! nicely taken!

[stine]

thanks for your support, guys. i'm so terribly sorry i wasn't as active as i would like to in the last couple of weeks...well, months actually, i guess. been really busy with work and thesis... but i more or less constantly took pictures (for my daily photo blog etc.) - i just didn't want to ask for crits in a time i wasn't able to give any...
well i hope to have slightly more time, so i decided to show some photos i took in the last 3 weeks or so. as always: crits and comments most appreciated, hope you like my little update...


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/birch.jpg
"skin peel"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/bucket.jpg
"bucket full of clouds"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/ladder.jpg
"stairway...ähm...ladder to heaven"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/laterne.jpg
"let there be light"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/levels.jpg
"levels"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/white-stripes.jpg
"the white stripe(s)"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/padawan.jpg
"relax, young padawan - soon enough coming is spring"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/sun-comb.jpg
"sun-made comb"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/lifeline.jpg
"great expectations"

[Rhynome]

I've noticed that sometimes when you stick a caption/title on your photos they become a whole lot more interesting. Not just because the caption is amusing or thoughtful, etc. and so adds a little more, but also because sometimes it seems to make the photo make sense.

For example the photo "Bucket Full of Clouds" on its own is nothing much, sorry to say it, but it's true. Though as soon as the caption is added it suddenly becomes an entirely different photo altogether. I think that's one of the great things about your photography.

No crits, I pretty much like them all.
Levels is brilliant, for example, those sharp angles and the lines. Same goes for the Sun made Comb. The white stripe is just so crisp and, well, nice basically.
Coming Spring is also great, really nice idea. Though how many times have I told you not to use those web-translators to get English from German? You'll just come out speaking like Yoda and to be honest there are some thoughts about Yoda I'd rather not have...

About Great Expectations: Well, all I can say for now is that you're all coping better than anyone I know would and now go wash that ink off your hands you mucky pup.
It's also a pretty witty picture, nice touch.


Cheers. Thanks alot Stine, especially for showing us some photos again!
Do it more often... or Hugo might disappear for a day or two.

[eazym]

these are clever, I like that. cheers

[Le Gab]

Mrs. Stine. We've been... expecting you! :)

It's really awsome to see new photos from you, dudete. The textures in Skin Peel and Relax, young padawan are very very nice. The composition in Levels, with sharp angles and diagonal lines really gives a dynamic feeling.

However, you may very well know that Sun Comb and Great expectations. Sun Comb is so very awsome given simple composition. :heart: minimalism A great find! But then again, ot's nothing compared to Great Expectations. For me there are really no words to describe the first contact with this photo. Not even the secon, or third... or any other. It's just... brilliant.

It's great to see new stuff from you, Stine.

I really hope everything is okay for you. I, for one, am really missing you arround here, and i dont think i'm the only one.

Hugs and kudos! :)

And some more hugs!

[stine]

thanks for your kind words, everyone!

small update - since i have to update my daily photoblog, well...daily... i have quite a lot of photos lying around.
hope you like my small selection, mostly nature shots - hope i don't bore you with these. whenever you have a "wish" or suggestion what to shoot next, just let me know...

thanks for looking, crits and comments as always appreciated.

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/amsel.jpg
"flight no. 39263 cancelled"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/blockhead.jpg
"blockhead"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/bodenfenster.jpg
"i can see clearly now the rain is gone"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/edge.jpg
"living on the edge"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/feuerschale.jpg



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/kitsch.jpg
"pretty in pink"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/make-up.jpg
"make-up"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/notausgang.jpg
"take the money and run"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/petromax.jpg
"mi casa est tu casa"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/schafsnase.jpg
"counting sheep...one..."


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/tina.jpg
"DU SEI WIE DU, immer - Paul Celan"

[alucard]

swet ...realy like all of them ...my fav must be "flight no. 39263 cancelled"

[Mr. Mu]

unique and instantly recognizable. And those titles really enhance the photos as always...

[Rhynome]

"flight no. 39263 cancelled" and "take the money and run" if just for the names alone. Though I've never looked at a fire escape sign like that before; I'm going to giggle every time I see one now.

I like the portrait, Du sei wie du, also... more portraits?

As always, beautiful. Cheers!

[Ham-e]

wow stine these are great! "mi casa est tu casa" is my pic for best photo of the bunch but "living on the edge" is also good...no wait they're all good damn;)

[klips]

Holy moly, these are amazing, Stine! Looking back at your first post, the difference is amazing. You have amazing control over depth of field and exposure, your composition is fantastic and the colours are gorgeous.

I try not to only praise people in my comments, and, while you make it hard for me, I a have a few crits.

blockhead: a slightly deeper field wold have been nice, just one stop more to get a bit more of the body in focus. This would be to bring a bit more of the 'goatishness' into the portrait, just to drive home the stubornness and blockheadedness of the animal.

make-up: I would love to see this in a high-contrast black and white version. I love the contrast of the red and white, but I think the way B&W reveals the grain may also bring a new life to the photo.

DU SEI WIE DU, immer - Paul Celan: This is just absolutely amazing. No crits, just love. This is a photo that proves a picture really is worth a thousand words.

Keep posting, and I'll keep watching.

Cheers,
Klips

[XenoX]

Nice work.

[Morbid]

The first three and the last one are very nice!
Thats one dirty bus(?)! How did it get like that?
I always enjoy your work, its simple and good.

[Infinit]

since you luckyly came back, we will just break your legs so you don't leave again :D
*hugs* I've missed you

[Le Gab]

Meh, you know what i like best! :P

Congrats on the feature. :)

Hugses!

[stine]

thanks, everyone and special thanks to you who gave my thread the stars, i'm so flattered!

alucard - thanks for stopping by!

mr mu - thank you for your kind words - much appreciated!

rhynome - thanks for your constant support and the motivating pm, robert. glad you like them! will try to get some more portraits done.

ham-e - thanks for having a look, ham-e! i've seen you've done some hand studies?! is our "who's got 100 pages with hands"-contest still on? :)

klips - thanks so much for your words, klips. you're absolutely right about the sheep, it should've been a slightly deeper dof. problem was, that it was evening and i was loosing light so i opened the shutter to avoid the photo from getting blurry. but as i said: you're right, could've been a lot better. about make-up: i'll give it a try in bw, thanks for the suggestion!

xenox - thanks.

morbid - thanks for stopping by, daniel. wicked entry for this week's challenge! the window is actually from my office's attic (had to get some files from up there) - i guess it was last cleaned somewhat in the 60's...

infinit - haha, i didn't know you took "break a leg" literally. :) thanks for having another look, manuel. hope you're alright and the application/ portfolio phase isn't too stressy?! hugs!

le gab - thanks, gabriel. and thanks for suggesting my photo for the feature. hugs!


okay, i went to my sister's for a couple of days. testing my old lenses (bought myself a m42 adapter, so i can use the old lenses i had with my 350d) - it's a lot of testing and trial & error, so i haven't got that many quality shots available. but it's so much fun. hope you don't mind seeing some more sheep, i'm just truly fascinated by their funny shaped skulls... hope you like my stuff anyway.



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/bahnhof.jpg
"eyes half-closed"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/dach-1.jpg
"greenery"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/gaspfahl.jpg
"how on earth did that pole get into the windows-screensaver?"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/ikebana.jpg
"ikebana for beginners"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/mud.jpg
"turn right to enter mud"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/rosa.jpg
"sunbath"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/schaf-2.jpg
"what to eat next"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/strassenschild.jpg
"lift"


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/tailfeather.jpg
"shake your tailfeather"

[Infinit]

do you tend to crop your photos?
I think about it since "greenery" is out of focus in the foreground only (and can't think of a way to achieve it without cuting a part of the photo off)
ikebana for beginners is too blured too fast imo

"lift" is my update fav, nice idea :D

portfolio phase hasn't reached me to much up to now, I'll try to get my zivi done first (ony 27 workingdays left, counting backwards)

cu Manuel

[eazym]

Nice update, especially like the clean simple stuff like "Lift" and the pole. The "Mud" photo works so well on texture, too.

[Ham-e]

haha...I love this http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/strassenschild.jpg
see you in your SB:)

[iriskillsthecornea]

i love "greenery" and "eyes half closed". awesome pictures

[stine]

thanks so much for stopping by, guys!

infinit - glad to hear you're fine, manuel. so in 2 weeks you're done with your zivi? congratulations! to your question: i usually don't crop my pictures, as i try to concentrate more on composing it in the viewfinder. in this case, no cropping done, it's all an "in-camera" effect caused by the extreme dof of the old lense i used. to prevent over-exposing the picture, i used a greyfilter. so it's all "natural"... :)

eazym - thanks for your input, mike!

ham-e - thanks for having another look! i hope i'll find the time to update my sketchbook soon. your new stuff looks cool - unfortunately i couldn't post anything, because i couldn't open it when logged in. happens to me in a lot of threads, lately. so sorry for not responding there... :(

iriskillsthecornea - thanks so much!


okay, a few more pictures. hope you like them...

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/creep.jpg
"creep of the deep"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/kerzen.jpg
"open window"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/laterne02.jpg
"cut through the blue"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/car.jpg
"newest car EVER"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/smokehouse.jpg
"smokehouse"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/statue-1.jpg
"natural leader"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/rot.jpg
"color contrast"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/sp.jpg
"2 nasenlaengen"

[Morbid]

I like your short dof pics, but you can see clearly when you have the aperture fully open or not. In some pics, ie. "what to eat next", the out of focus areas are not very nice and are pretty distracting, where in "ikebana for beginners", its very smooth and nice.

As always good work on the latest batch! I think "smokehouse" is in a class of its own, but I cant tell what Im looking at.

[RockinAkin]

Wow... i just discovered your photography thread - Your photos are magnificent! You've got a wonderful eye for color and composition.
Thanks for the inspiration! Keep up the great work!

[Mr. Mu]

Hi Stine,

your point-of-view is getting more and more abstract lately and I really like that.
You are one of those people who are able to depict something quite tangible yet the whole image borders on an abstract photo. Amazing.

EDIT: only crit I have... I don't like the crop on the last one, I am sure it is quite deliberate a choice so I am aware it's neither carelessness nor a "wrong" trait of that image. I just wish the close eye was complete.

[eazym]

hi, stine, would you be surprised if I told you that I liked "cut through the blue"? I'm sure you knew. Its even got a lamp creeping in!

[Ham-e]

Hi stine:) this is a great bunch of photos! you have such a great eye for these things. You definitely have a few different styles your playing with which is nice. I always enjoy the funny ones, and your technical skills are obviously good. I just love the last one, but I've always been a sucker for a beautiful woman.

what? my SB is broken? that sucks. I hope it doesn't stay that way.

see ya

[purplerose]

"smokehouse" is my fave. =)

[Asadex]

Natural leader shows your taste for the minimal sign and his relative mean, very good

[stine]

thanks so much for your kind replies and (again): sorry for not being more active on the boards these days...

morbid - thanks daniel! i'm still learning a lot about aperture and DoF - the old lenses act quite differently from what i was used to, so sorry about some testing shots inbetween the others. :) "smokehouse" is a shot from inside a mongolian living tent (a "jurte") my brother-in-law owns. it's big enough to light a fire in there, so the photo shows the smoke rising. glad you like it!

dividebyzero - thanks so much, i'm seriously flattered!

mr mu - thanks so much for the kind words, glad you like my shots. with the crop on the last photo, i see your point and i guess, i'll re-visit that shot. thanks for pointing it out!

eazy m - thanks, mike! yup, i put that shot in for you. since we're both big fans of lamps and lanterns, i thought you might like it. :)

ham-e - thanks so much for stopping by again and for your nice remarks (especially on my self-portrait *cough*) :) i'll make sure to stop by your book and check whether i can post now.

purplerose - thanks!

asadex - thanks!



okay, small update. it's a collection of some shots i did during the last 2 or 3 weeks. i've been experimenting a little bit more with still-lifes and colors, but tried to find some interesting stuff outside the house, too.
hope you like the shots, as always: crits and comments highly appreciated!


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/warm-cold-contrast.jpg
"warm-cold-contrast"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/canned-spring.jpg
"canned spring"




http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/architectual-abyss.jpg
"architectural abyss"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/x-ray.jpg
"x-ray"




http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/spreading.jpg
"spreading"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/fossil.jpg
"living fossil"




http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/break-on-through.jpg
"break on through (to the other side)"




http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/pear.jpg
"blushed pear"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/fluff.jpg
"fluff"




http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/magnifying.jpg
"magnifying magnifiscent"




http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/antenna.jpg
"antenna"




http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/artificial.jpg
"artificial vs. natural"



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/jonas.jpg
"jonas"

[Le Gab]

Well, it was about time! Where ya been? :P

Hey, dudete!

Great update. The experiments are really paying off. Fluff, magnifying magnifiscent and artificial vs. natural are looking very clean and natural. Not to say how i love the colors. jonas i like as well, as it is an interesting portrait idea, tho i think it migh have been better if you kept the framing but had made it in portrait mode.

Other than that, all dandy. :) Soryy i dont have time for a full photo by photo crit.

Anywayz, what have you been up to? :D

[born_stubborn]

heeey, good to be back here and enjoy your pics :) their great, the colors, everything, there are some that are cropped in an unusual way but they look good :)
i realy like "x-ray", i want a wallpaper with it :P

[in.essensce]

I really love all your work, your concept and contrast and composition are amazing, great job on all of these.

[klips]

Damn it, you make it so hard for me to return the crits you give me because it's so damn hard to find anything wrong! Break on through is SO DAMN GOOD(!!!) that if you want to send me a slightly larger version it will go into my wallpaper folder and I will love it (and you) for at least a week :D Architectural Abyss is also excellent, the colour is perfect for the mood and the symmetry is brilliant.

In short: your work is a pleasure to behold.

[eazym]

they all very well compositionally. I really like the play between warm and cool tones as in: "warm-cold-contrast" , "break on through (to the other side)" , "fluff" , and "artificial vs. natural"

[Le Gab]

oh, btw, we need you in the Workshop. :)

[Morbid]

They are all excellent photos, the ones that stood out for me was "x-ray", "blushed pear" and "fluff". The soft background and the colors work very well in the latter two. Xray has nice light and looks very sharp. It looks like you have put some red in the blacks, looks cross processed.
Thanks for sharing!

[purplerose]

Great update! :)

I really like the textures in "architectural abyss," I think it may be a bit overexposed on the left side though.

"x-ray" is really dreamy and I'm lovin' the warm tones. :)

I love how you handled the lights and darks in "living fossil," but maybe it could have a better composition?

"blushed pear" is a really excellent abstract. :)

Nice timing for "artificial vs. natural!" Though I'm not sure if the composition is the best for the concept.

[Cigaro]

you've improved your compositions and dof a hell of a lot :D my favourite from your recent shots has got to be the pear :)