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UNICEF bears

Postby Sheila Smart on Tue Mar 21, 2006 8:51 pm

If you can get down to Circular Quay, there are a few opportunities to take some nice snaps of the UNICEF bears on display

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Postby Glen on Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:19 pm

Sheila,

Like your image, mine look like Where's Wally? - every image had someone in it

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Postby MCWB on Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:57 pm

Thanks for the reminder about this Sheila! Now that I'm working in the city I'll make sure to pop down after work some day. :) Nice pics, I think I prefer the added DOF of Glen's shots though.
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Postby Alpha_7 on Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:17 pm

Wow, didn't know about this, looks a like a popular photo opportunity.
Shelia - Lovely composition here, beautiful stuff

Glen - I found the wally!
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Postby thaddeus on Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:00 pm

I tried to improve the composition a little
Sorry for the quality - I only had a point-and-shoot on me
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Postby Slider on Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:01 pm

Nice Sheila. Great composition and no doubt where it is with the bridge OOF in the background. Well done. :D
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Postby Sheila Smart on Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:33 am

Thanks all. I particularly wanted a very shallow depth of field so I used my 135 f/2 at f/4 concentrating my focus on the most colourful bear. I do tend to have the bridge OOF in a lot of my images as I feel that, by doing this, it does not overwhelm the image but everyone knows which bridge it is!

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Postby leek on Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:07 pm

thaddeus wrote:I tried to improve the composition a little
Sorry for the quality - I only had a point-and-shoot on me


Nice leading line... Can't help thinking that it might have been a little better without the people in the shot... BTW... What the hell are you doing carrying a P&S around? :-)
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Postby thaddeus on Thu Mar 23, 2006 3:40 am

It was my little joke. If you look closely you'll see that my bears are arranged in a curve and everyone else's are in a straight line. And that I don't have a harbour bridge because I, err, have a foreign-looking set of traffic lights in the background. And the people are wearing parkas. That's because I took the photo in Germany in 2000, which also explains the P&S. I thought I'd give a strong clue by talking about the composition. Oh well!
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Postby leek on Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:51 am

thaddeus wrote:It was my little joke. If you look closely you'll see that my bears are arranged in a curve and everyone else's are in a straight line. And that I don't have a harbour bridge because I, err, have a foreign-looking set of traffic lights in the background. And the people are wearing parkas. That's because I took the photo in Germany in 2000, which also explains the P&S. I thought I'd give a strong clue by talking about the composition. Oh well!


:lol: :oops: Totally missed that... for some reason I thought they were in the Botanical Gardens... :oops:
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Postby Glen on Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:11 am

Well done Thaddeus, I look at your image and couldn't place it in context of what I saw at the quay. There was a curved section which was chock full of people but backgrounds were either Opera House, toaster, OPT or SHB.
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