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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-05 02:50 PM
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Through the window shots
Let's see your through the window shots. Here's mine. I call it "Saturday night on Miami Beach". Tell me what you guys think.



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intheflow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-05 04:28 PM
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1. Excellent picture! and here's mine.
I really like the three different scenes you've captured! Like watching a movie with totally different but parallel plotlines. And can I just say, the inside guy on the left... yummy! :9


I took this picture many years ago in Northampton, MA. I think it's illegal to own a bookstore in Northampton and not have at least one resident cat. This particular store had three on premise at the time. They spent most daylight hours sleeping in the sunny front windows. I caught this kitty in a rare daylight waking moment.

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Longgrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-05 04:47 PM
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2. Great pic as usual Raging...
You certainly know how to capture the movement of the city...

Here's one from my hometown...more of a reflection shot. I was trying to get the outlines of the factories behind in the windows...

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idiosyncratic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-05 05:06 PM
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3. Here is one I took out a window of the Idanha Hotel in Boise, ID



It was an interesting juxtaposition between the modern concrete and glass building across the street from the ornate hotel from the late 1880s.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-05 05:30 PM
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4. OH! I really like that!
Juxtaposition and composition ... really neat!
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intheflow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-05 09:51 PM
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5. Very nice!
They must have just finished washing the windows for that clear high gloss! Looks like you wre staying in one cool hotel.
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bvar22 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 12:27 AM
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6. Through the Window:



Olympus Digital C-750 on Auto

(Please add camera type and settings data
to posts for educational purposes. I'm a
novice, and that info would be really helpful.
Thanks)
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intheflow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 01:57 AM
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7. That's a cool picture.
Behind the fish tank?

And you know, I'd love to add camera type and settings, but many of my pictures are so old I couldn't tell you what camera or setting. Even with my new photos I couldn't tell you settings. I noodle around with different light meters, lenses and depth of fields, usually taking multiple pictures of the same topic. I never write them down. I just seem to have a knack for taking good shots, I honestly don't know how I do it.
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bvar22 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 03:13 AM
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8. Thanks. I like your take...behind the fishtank,
Edited on Mon Feb-14-05 03:14 AM by bvar22
but it was a sliding glass door immediately after a rain storm, bright sun at my back with the interior (behind the cat) shaded by an overhang.

A spontaneous hip shot that came out much better than the ones I planned.


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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 05:34 AM
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9. That's a nice shot, it almost looks like one of those black light posters
FYI: I shot my through the glass photo with a Canon 10 D and a 50 mm, f 1.8 lens. I had it on manual and the aperture all the way open I exposed it on the guy on the left. I also used a flash to light up the couple sitting outside. It took me a few times to get it so the flash wouldn't reflect off the glass. You can see the light from the flash on the panel in between the two sections of glass.
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Samurai_Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 06:25 PM
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10. At the zoo...
This was taken through the glass of an observation area.



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intheflow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 07:27 PM
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11. Also through the looking glass at the zoo:


I'm not sure who was watching who here!
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:02 PM
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12. I love orangutans! (And all the great apes, actually.)
On the rare occasions I got to visit Balboa Park, I could spend hours at the orang habitats ... watching and being watched. That's a Bornean, right? (Clint Eastwood's was a Sumatran, I think.)
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intheflow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 11:09 PM
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13. I don't know the ape species.
I was thinking gorilla, so what do I know? I did take this at the San Diego Zoo.

I could watch them for hours, too. As this one does us. I suppose one learns to have patience or go mad if in a zoo. At least, that's how I've always interpreted incarcerated sapien behavior. This male certainly did give the impression of being philosophically resigned to being watched and watching back for lack of anything better to do.
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Pert_UK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 02:54 PM
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14. Here's one of mine....


View from my van window in Outback Australia last year....although to be fair, my girlfriend took it as I was driving!

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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 03:03 PM
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15. (Hmmm...) Looks like you printed it backwards.
:evilgrin:
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Pert_UK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 05:04 PM
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16. The Aussies have many faults......
but at least they drive on the correct side of the road!

Actually, it's a problem that they have over there....Tourists coming over from the European mainland or America and getting into big 4x4 vehicles to go touring. Apparently they quite often "pull" to the wrong side of the road during emergencies because that's the natural way for them to try to steer.
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Schema Thing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 10:38 PM
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17. Great Pic, Raging. The flattened perspective makes you take.....
... a second and third look, as something doesn't seem *quite right* between the foreground folks and the people in the restaurant.

Here's a couple of mine:

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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 11:11 PM
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18. Wow! She sure is photogenic! She looks right through the camera.
Neat.
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 01:38 AM
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19. Very nice.
This one is 10 cent horse

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intheflow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-05 01:59 AM
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24. Where was that taken?
It looks like it's stuck in a 1970's time warp. I loved those horses as a kid.
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noamnety Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 07:47 AM
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20. The Detroit Train Station



It's from a series of 5 photos: http://ideamouth.com/abandoned.htm
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Reverend_Smitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-05 01:45 AM
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23. We took quite a few photos of that building...
when I was in Detroit a few years ago. That's a place that just screams to be photographed. I wish I had a scanner, I'd share them with the group
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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-05 11:23 AM
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25. I like that photo and ones on the link
I really dig those old art deco type buildings. It's a shame they let it go to hell.
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noamnety Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-05 09:30 PM
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28. I don't know if it's possible
to have a crush on a building, but if it is, I have one of the train station.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-06-05 10:07 PM
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21. Here's three my Dad took while in Europe last year
(airline window)


Internet cafe


Orange


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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 02:48 PM
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22. Here are a couple...
Through the car window of Houston's skyline




Through the window of the tram station midway at Mt. Alyeska ski resort

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amazona Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-05 12:05 PM
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26. che under glass



Photographed from a street in Munich. Was thinking of printing it for a friend who is into Che but not sure if it's too weird with all the reflections. Thoughts?

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72




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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-05 08:43 PM
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27. 'Tom' the tabby, sitting in his kitchen window
I liked the abstract feel of Tom and the reflections; kinda like he's doing a "cheshire cat" and fading out of the shot.
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