This particular orange
It was a stunning reversal.
I first shot this in black and white. But even I could tell that was wrong, so I switched cameras to get a portrait of this orange peel, bathed in misty light.
Santa Monica Pier
Los Angeles, California
photographed 2.19.2017
Posted on February 22, 2017, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, california, los angeles, Los Angeles Center for Photography, melinda green harvey, one day one image, photo a day, photography, postaday, Santa Monica Pier. Bookmark the permalink. 24 Comments.
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I like this a lot, it’s beautifully and intensely composed.
(You must have had your eyes peeled to see this.)
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Have you been working on that pun since Sunday?!
I’m glad you like this one, which is by far my favorite shot of the weekend.
I worked really hard to get this shot – I made about 25 shots in all. This one was about half-way through the series.
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12 ‘wasted’ shots in the denoument? Far better than the 50 or so I had in a couple of my compositions – especially the waves. I love the simplicity and how well everything is aligned and so well considered. Unlike my off the cuff pun which needed some macrocomposition (for starters).
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Do you think that macrocomposing puns would lead to the realization that they’re just not worth the effort?
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Probably. Puns are best enjoyed as spontaneous uncomposed utterances of the moment. Verbal being best, written a poor second.
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Yes, in moments so fleeting that you can (try t0) pretend you didn’t even really hear what you heard. (I say this as a daughter of a punster.)
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Pretending to not hear puns is a part of the art of punning. After all puns are nothing without an audience, and the right kind of audience at that.
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The orange is cool… the yellow pipe is kind of cool too, like it really wants to hang out with the orange.
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Like, maybe if I’d gone back later, the pipe would have moved closer to the orange?
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Maybe… you could have documented the love story of the week… or at least the hour.
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So, we’d need a “couple” name, I guess. Porange? Pinge? Oripe? Ripe? (But by now, this joke’s gone on longer than their relationship.)
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Seems we’re fruitfully plumbing the depths of creativity, but to no avail.
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Yep, it works really well, great attention to the components of this capture….
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Thanks, Sue. I was shooting this during a workshop where there was a lot of talk of careful composition. I hope it shows that I was paying attention in class!
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Think you were!
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Go Big Orange! (the first U.T.) glad you did in color. Awesome !
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B&W was terrible. You couldn’t even see the orange. It was so bad that even a dedicated B&W photographer like me could tell it was wrong.
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I do like the orange but my eye keeps wandering to the yellow hydrant thingy on the right edge.
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I didn’t finish my thought…I really like the yellow thingy!
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I put the hydrant thingy in there on purpose, so you wouldn’t get bored looking at just the orange peel.
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Having looked carefully at Sam A’s website, you can really see the influence he had on this composition. Your use of balance in the colour is definitely your own and very effective!
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Thank you so much, Kate! I took a weeklong class from him two years ago, and it changed the way I made images. The weekend class was a good reminder of the things I’d gotten lazy about!
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Beautiful color, mood and balance.
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Thank you very much. This is one of my current favorites.
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