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kevissimo — Reflections - Prague

Published: 2004-02-22 04:07:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 4119; Favourites: 183; Downloads: 744
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Description From one of my last days there.
After my friends had moved on to other adventures and I was left with just the city for a companion.
It was a day of rain.
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Comments: 70

radioPooh In reply to ??? [2004-02-22 18:41:49 +0000 UTC]

that is so GREAT .. very well done .. composition sets the right 'tone'

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melissah [2004-02-22 18:22:10 +0000 UTC]

the dark contrast and tones work beautifully...i love the mix of different textures. looks beautiful and lonely at the same moment.

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nicodeema [2004-02-22 17:46:23 +0000 UTC]

I feel like that alot-always makes me sing the RHCP song "under the bridge" in my head:
"Sometimes I feel like my only friend, is the city I live in, the city of angels, lonely as I am, together we cry..

I drive on her streets
'Cause she's my companion
I walk through her hills
'Cause she knows who I am..."

but anyways that is a nice photo, I've been noticing alot of reflections like that recently as I walk down the street, and I always wonder about the best way to capture them in a photo, but I think you've accomplished that perfectly here...

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acey [2004-02-22 16:42:13 +0000 UTC]

the reflections are really really nice.

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Septuagent [2004-02-22 16:12:04 +0000 UTC]

this is gorgeous.
you do it all.

bravo.

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cogwurx [2004-02-22 15:59:21 +0000 UTC]

Nice shot. I like the composition. Feels sad and lonely, but has a contemplative nature to it.

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fiercesoniaa [2004-02-22 15:27:53 +0000 UTC]

Elegant. Classic. Perfect for a Sunday morning viewing.
The lonliness is profound: tho I agree with a previous commenter that a city and a camera make perfect companions to me.

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tuakinopta In reply to ??? [2004-02-22 15:14:05 +0000 UTC]

simple but deep.

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temabina [2004-02-22 14:32:49 +0000 UTC]

interesting...i like it

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shatterdrose [2004-02-22 14:22:56 +0000 UTC]

I dunno, personally I don't like the reflection of the lamp. I think the lamp takes away from the Impact of the lonely rain drenched street as your friend walks away and doesn't really add to to the atmosphere.

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OmriKoresh [2004-02-22 13:29:01 +0000 UTC]

the idea is nice and the composite is good and the colors are great!
one tiny little problem..... the reflections (the whole concept) are stuck! they are too bright to be reflections and they don't even look like water...
puddels cannot be so clear and cannot be so bright in that surrondings and besides puddels don't disappear at the edges they weld into the floor so they look as a part of it and the reflections are a bit see through...

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kevissimo In reply to OmriKoresh [2004-02-22 18:22:04 +0000 UTC]

Hmmm. Interesting. It's a completely unretouched shot...so I guess they can be... (not everything on DA is compositied in photoshop)

I'll look at it again, maybe sit with it awhile and see if I want to adjust anything....thanks for that tho... food for thought.

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kevissimo In reply to kevissimo [2004-02-23 06:52:20 +0000 UTC]

I'm not quite sure what you think needs fixed.... This IS the photo. That IS the way the puddles were. It's totally fine that you don't like it, that's cool. Can't expect everyone to like everything.... Except that I think your reading of it is being informed by the first notion that it was constructed in photoshop... look at it again as a straight photo. If you still hate it.... well, ok....

I just know that I'm not going to go in with photoshop and start adding textures under the water or moving the puddles or whatnot. Quite frankly I think PS is beginning to breed a generation of lazy photographers who think they'll just shoot whatever and construct it later....(that's just a general comment and not directed at anyone specifically...)

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OmriKoresh In reply to kevissimo [2004-02-22 19:16:37 +0000 UTC]

untouched?!??!?!?!?!?!?!
it looks like you made (badly) it in photoshop!
wierd as hell!!!

well please fix it!((:

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jaakobou [2004-02-22 12:26:37 +0000 UTC]

excellent idea... love the street light in the pond

cheers

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bitterness [2004-02-22 09:23:12 +0000 UTC]

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aussiepoida In reply to ??? [2004-02-22 09:18:40 +0000 UTC]

I think I would be more than happy to spend a couple of days walking in Prague along with my Camera - It's such a fantastic city

Great photo mate - the reflection is great and the atmosphere is amplified by your use of B&W.

Very well done indeed

Cheers

aussiepoida

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lambi In reply to ??? [2004-02-22 05:00:51 +0000 UTC]

Those reflections are real?? Wow!

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kpsartwork [2004-02-22 04:14:36 +0000 UTC]

the only thing i can say is WOW!!1 thats a reallly really awesome pic!!! i mean the mans legs, the light post in th ereflection....just AMAZING!!!!!!!! rock on!!!

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