You know, back in high school, I tried to do something like this with a pay phone and a film camera. This one here has its flaws, but it’s much more successful.
March 24, 2007
March 24, 2007
You know, back in high school, I tried to do something like this with a pay phone and a film camera. This one here has its flaws, but it’s much more successful.
March 24, 2007 at 1:09 am
Hmm, I like it – bare to the essentials.
March 24, 2007 at 2:07 am
see, i can be quite jealous of this one. in fact, i am. lighting … good. color … good. its just a damn nice photo!
March 24, 2007 at 6:00 pm
Why thank you muchly, Paul and Raindog.
March 24, 2007 at 6:58 pm
an interesting intersection between the lonely and social aspects an object
March 24, 2007 at 9:38 pm
Eat chocolate!
x
March 24, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Thanks for the add, Josy
I’m going to put a link on Hemingway, ok? I get more visitors there, usually.
March 24, 2007 at 10:41 pm
great shot joshi (said as if i had a mouth full of braces like stan’s sister in southpark). i may have taken it with the phone closer to the right with more perspective down the luminous brick corridor, but that is my opinion and i am but a pod
;0p
March 25, 2007 at 12:46 am
BDPH- …Wow, that’s actually a brilliant interpretation. …I mean.. That’s EXACTLY what I was going for, and I’m glad you caught it.
*cough*
Ame- EAT A CAKE, you svelt Californian you! And sugar flowers. Everyone needs some of those.
Paul- Would you prefer I linked to your Hemingway page? I’ve already got the “Place (People)” theme established, and I thought your Bergamo blog fit that a little better. But I’m open to ideas.
Pawd- That is exactly what I wanted to do! Unfortunately, it’s a shopping plaza, and this was the best angle I could find without getting a storefront in the shot. (“Cost Cutters” is exactly out of eyeshot.)
March 25, 2007 at 1:21 am
Josy, I don’t know – I didn’t know about the people theme. But if you want to steer people to your blog – I know Hem gets many more visits. I’ll put a link on Bergamo, too.
March 25, 2007 at 1:37 am
Thanks, Paul.
I’m not actively seeking to steer people here- I don’t think my photography’s good enough at this point, nor am I very on-the-ball about responding to people’s comments, so why bite off more than I can chew? So thank you for helping me passively steer people here.
By “Place (people),” I mean the format of my Blogroll.
March 25, 2007 at 4:45 am
how could i have been so untrusting and stoopid not to realise that there was good reason…how could i ever have doubted you?
i beg forgiveness
March 25, 2007 at 11:22 am
You may not actively be seeking to steer people here, but (1) your photography is better than good enough and (2) your blogging style and the snappy repartee of the commenters make this a gem of an accidental find for me. (I was actually Googling to see if the Auto Bath car wash had a Web site when I stumbled upon your vacuum pump photo.)
March 25, 2007 at 4:08 pm
Pod- Mmm, I’ll think about it.
John Y- Wow. I mean, wow. That’s terribly high praise. You have made a stranger smile rather broadly today.
March 25, 2007 at 6:26 pm
did you think yet?
and yes, listen to johny and the rest of us. your blog is great!
(and i’m not just trying to grovel now ok)
;0p
March 29, 2007 at 6:54 pm
Simple- but very nice
April 3, 2007 at 12:51 am
I’m very pleased to have made you smile.
And now that I see other comments to relatively old posts (y’know, for a daily blog), I have a little more confidence in revisiting this one. I had wondered, with your discussion with pod of trying to compose this shot a bit differently, whether you had cropped this at all. Until the latest posts, I didn’t know if you edited your pictures before putting them up. For all I knew, keeping them as-is was one of the “rules” you set for yourself. And perhaps you still preserve framing even as you allow yourself to alter other aspects (especially if you feel you don’t have enough resolution to play with).
April 3, 2007 at 1:16 am
John, cropping is one of the first things I do to a photo. I am sorry to disappoint you, though I’m glad you hadn’t noticed I edit (much like the woman who applies makeup to look like she’s not wearing any makeup at all). I do generally try not to post-edit too much (aside from cropping and messing with contrast).
The only rules I set for myself on this photoblog are that the photo should be taken in a publicly-accessible spot within Monmouth County. Every other aspect of the photo is fair game.
April 4, 2007 at 12:53 am
I did not mean to come across as making a value judgment as to whether preserving the framing (or any other aspect) is more or less desirable than altering it. I only asked about the framing in this case because you could conceivably cut the top, bottom, and right edges more aggressively to get the phone closer to the right edge, if that was indeed your goal, and if you don’t mind the phone being bigger relative to the wall. Then on top of those artistic considerations, there is also the practical matter of whether the original was of sufficient resolution to afford further cropping.
I’m sorry if I’ve gone from being the friendly stranger inducing warm, fuzzy feelings to the pesky, overanalytical commenter (who, by the way, is a math geek and appreciated the blurb for your 100th post).
April 4, 2007 at 12:00 pm
John Y., as long as you don’t flame me, I am happy to hear any critiques/musings you may have. I’m actually a little annoyed that the phone is as big as it is, so I didn’t want to crop it any more than necessary… although every time I look at this photo, the bright light on the left bothers me.
In terms of resolution, well, this is an amateur photoblog, and it’s not exactly making any top 10 lists… you may have noticed that some of my other photos seem a little grainy, and that’s usually due to excessive cropping. For a show, I’d worry about it; for monmouthdailyphoto, I’m not overly concerned.