The unofficial debate room

It IS a hard one....

You think I believe that?

That it is hard?

All the men seem to say so....

Hello Cavfancier

Heres my portrait of you....Funny how it seems....When I took this your name came to mind.. enjoy
http://www.pbase.com/image/8445389

I am honoured Algis. I love your work.

And you thanked me with a good post number too!!!

Thank you for mentioning it.

Mrs. cav is venturing into a bit of photography, with my old Pentax. She is fond of black and white, not so comfortable with colour. Some of her pics show promise, but the hobby is still in a hatchling stage. I am hoping to show your photos to her soon, for some inspiration.

Yes black and white is far the most expressive of mediums. In a certain way it is easier than color because one does not have to calculate color values.With B&W one merely focus's on the composition and fires.

Many a time with color the best angle is unobtainable because of certain color problems.These when in B&W are not noticible and therefore irrelavent to the images siccess where as that yellow poster on the wall is too distracting near the subjects head.

See what I mean ?

Now the trick with black and white is keeping a wierd and wonderfull balence amonst all the images componets. Simplicity is one of the secrets and learning how to juxtapose values to achieve maximum brillance with the final print.


These are some of my fave B&W
http://www.photography-match.com/cv/alkeme

see little girl running and the cyclist with balcony rail.
Learn to keep a light orange, or light yellow filter on for many good reason like better sky temperature and clouds stand out to more detail in the greens when photographing trees with shawdows on them .

You probably have an old spotmatic Cav?

It might be Algis. All I know is that it's a regular camera with removable lenses and no fancy shmancy gadgets.

I'm loving the whole page - Stoli reminds me very much of an area just north of Kingston.

i keep a Canon F-1 always loaded with black/white and a point and shoot Pentax with colour film. get my drift?

I stopped shooting b/w many years ago. For the life of me, I can't remember why. Your artistry is amazing, Algis. It has inspired me. I'm going to buy some b/w film and start again. Thank you.

I took both b & w film and color film to italy with me. When the b & w was in the camera I would turn a corner and see a great scene for color film, and vice versa. Two cameras makes sense..

i would like to have an unofficial debate on why dlowan keeps starting animal threads. first it was the non woodchucking woodchucks, then the hamster thread and now one on chimps and culture.

because I like aminals - like you.

Would it help then if I change my avtaar to a lion cub (prince of the jungle) ???????????

Not at all - I like you quite sufficiently as you are....

Everyone loves Gautam, that's just a given. The bunny's obsession with animals may just be something to talk to the shrink about, but I certainly wouldn't want to cast aspersions on her character.

Now, in all good humour, I would like to pretend I am a gay Indian man in London or India, and want to pick up another gay Indian man. What would be the best pick-up line?

"Papa dumb, but hot as Vindaloo, and just as rich."

"Come to my tikka hut, I really think I'm raita about this connection we've made..."

"Well grease me up in oil and call me Aloo Gobi you cute thing!"

"Well, I do saag a bit, and I'm poori at the moment, but I'm faithful, and naan can do what I do, if you know what I mean..."

"Okay, let's screw, but my parents must never know."

All in fun.

I suspect the last one would be most appropriate !!