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Nuit americaine
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There is your "à contre jour" and your "nuit américaine" and your "effet de lune," etc.
But you can just say, "the sun is in my eyes!"
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Ok, being an American, I've got to know what "nuit americaine" means (yes, even if it is making fun of us Americaines  )
Translation please??!!
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nice shot
I like the top 1/3rd, if I knew what the bottom fence thing was, I might like it more, but it confuses me ...
Also interesting that you shoot the sun, like I do, few people around here do, because they have CV or Zeiss glass that just can't handle it.
Great photo.
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... or did I just screw-up the exposure?
As with bokeh it adds drama to an otherwise boring photo but it allows the use of slower lenses, gives one more to look at when tired of the gimmick and one gets more exercise walking round the subject ...
that photo is at sunrise btw, I don't do sunsets
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Noctilux with Fuji 400:
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Sort of missing the point .... the whole point of being different to bokeh is that they don't need that blurry background, the separation of subject and ground is achieved with strong contrast or silhouette
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ahh, goctcha,
how is this, is it a contre jour ?
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Ok, being an American, I've got to know what "nuit americaine" means (yes, even if it is making fun of us Americaines )
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6D1wn8n5DU |
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well ... more
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Ah ... I thought you were referring to the film
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Does this qualify?
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Hmmm. This very cool thread seems to have lost it's mo ...
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... give it a kick and see if it moves
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ah, I like that! "contre nuit" I guess.
on a sorta related note - I liked this quote from an interview with Tina Fey (of 30 Rock etc fame), who said What I've come to realize is that when people say "The thinking man's whatever " - there's no such thing. The thinking man also wants to f*** Megan Fox. |
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ah, I like that! "contre nuit" I guess.
on a sorta related note - I liked this quote from an interview with Tina Fey (of 30 Rock etc fame), who said What I've come to realize is that when people say "The thinking man's whatever " - there's no such thing. The thinking man also wants to f*** Megan Fox.
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it was coined by Frank Muir I think, he described Joan Bakewell as "the thinking man's bit of crumpet" ... she's not managed to shake off 40 years on
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contre jour and bokeh?
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Into the light..
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I love shooting into the light 
Contre-Jour, "bokeh" and a greasy window...
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My ... mostly the chaff ... these are a bit better ...
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Thanks Snap! Isorgb, the flare of #2 is very compelling.
Here is one from indoors:
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Some weeks ago I visited a Zoo, early in the morning, great long shadows - and had the fun to listen to a guy beside me, who told his wife: "No, you can´t shoot directly into the light, that will give you blurry pictures!" He used a digital P&S, so he could have tried it just for fun, but ...
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We`ll have no kicking in here young man and non of yer contre what`s it either.
We like proper photos in Manchester....photos that you can see....sharp photos !
Nice thread .Must have a go myself.
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i heart this thread
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