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 abandoned-echoes
   
Location: Creemore, Ontario
Gender: Female
sky might be fallin' but remember you can fly high...
 |  |  | Re: You down with OPP?
<Reply # 20 on 3/14/2009 6:54 PM >
|  | | | Posted by Intrinsic
If you want wide angle photos, check the DB. I really enjoyed the photos from E-Photog and I'm sure others did as well. It's all open to interpretation (which includes your own, but don't make blanket statements on why a photographer does something when you don't know at all).
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seconded. I think his close up/detail shoes were much stronger and more interesting than the wide angles of the place. It's easy to point a camera and take a picture, but it takes a photographer to see the little things.
"Nothing is static, everything is appalling, everything is falling apart."
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oCtAnE
  
Location: TORONTO, CANADA
Gender: Male
EXPLORER AT LARGE
| | | Re: You down with OPP?
<Reply # 22 on 3/14/2009 10:55 PM >
| | | | Posted by Intrinsic
Mr. McGrouch,
Photography is something that is personal to every one of us and we each have our own style. Compare it to writing a book, painting a picture, or composing poetry.
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I'm not criticizing anyone's individual style at all.
One could also say the opposite regarding this location, that there are too many wide shots that make it look like just another jail. I might further argue that close-up shots capture things that necessarily don't stand out in the wide-angle shots.
The last paragraph of your reply is presumptious - you really have no idea why a photographer takes close up shots. |
I'm not complaining about close ups at all. However, if you are going to go to the trouble of exploring something and telling us all about it, you should have ample shots of wide and close varieties. While close ups can look great, it's really not helping people who want to see what the location really looks like.
This goes back to an earlier debate that is similar, wherein some 'explorers' are too concerned with the photography aspect rather than the actual exploration of the location. If you are going to explore something, then explore it and make a good visual photo collection that will appeal to everyone, especially on a site like this where people want to see the locations.
If you are there just to get a few 'money shots' to appeal to yourself, then keep it to yourself.
| If you want wide angle photos, check the DB. I really enjoyed the photos from E-Photog and I'm sure others did as well. It's all open to interpretation (which includes your own, but don't make blanket statements on why a photographer does something when you don't know at all). |
I do go to the DB. But when someone makes a forum post and shows photos, everyone likes to look and critique, so don't be surprised when someone does.
Also, I don't pretend to know what others do when they explore. I don't get nto that ESP stuff. It gives me a headache.
-O.
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rexdale
| | Re: You down with OPP?
<Reply # 23 on 3/14/2009 11:20 PM >
| | | | would someone be able to point me to this location in the DB? name and location or the link would be awesome. thanks 
nevermind I was able to locate the site. funny enough one of the guys coming to check this site out with us is an OPP officer.
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Intrinsic
Location: Collingwood
Gender: Male
| | Re: You down with OPP?
<Reply # 24 on 3/14/2009 11:35 PM >
| | | | Posted by rexdale
would someone be able to point me to this location in the DB? name and location or the link would be awesome. thanks
nevermind I was able to locate the site. funny enough one of the guys coming to check this site out with us is an OPP officer.
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It's in Woodstock.
Surely there are other closed OPP stations like this across Ontario. I know North Bay is giving up theirs but the new location won't be completed for a few years.
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Spydr26
Location: Near London, Ontario
Gender: Male
| | Re: You down with OPP?
<Reply # 25 on 6/4/2009 8:05 PM >
| | | | After my failed attempt in Fergus, I decided to check out the Merc in Woodstock.
It is in fairly decent shape, after some research I believe it is a 64 or 65 300se W112. The 4 speed manual makes it somewhat rare. I would be very interested if anyone has any further info on the car,especially the owner.
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femaledragonx
 
Location: Detroit & Everywhere Else I can dream up to go to
The singularity is near
| | Re: You down with OPP?
<Reply # 26 on 6/4/2009 8:11 PM >
| | | | warning, useless contribution:
"you down with O.P.P.
...yeah you know me!"
http://www.youtube...atch?v=qmuFlaFYdgE
sorry, just could not help myself.
"Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd." -Bertrand Russell
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." ~Annie Dillard |
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abandoned-echoes
Location: Creemore, Ontario
Gender: Female
sky might be fallin' but remember you can fly high...
| | | Re: You down with OPP?
<Reply # 28 on 6/5/2009 1:56 AM >
| | | | Posted by oCtAnE
This goes back to an earlier debate that is similar, wherein some 'explorers' are too concerned with the photography aspect rather than the actual exploration of the location.
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but aren't you completely disregarding the fact that maybe some of us are photographers who like to explore? if you want to see the whole location, GO SEE IT. i don't think the DB should be used for a complete virtual tour of the place.
just my two cents...
"Nothing is static, everything is appalling, everything is falling apart."
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Abaddon
Location: Toronto, ON
Gender: Female
| | Re: You down with OPP?
<Reply # 30 on 6/5/2009 12:52 PM >
| | | | Okayyyy oCtAnE. I don't usually write negative comments because they're a waste of time, but come on. It doesn't take a genius to line up the horizon and take a picture of a building or a room. We're talking about art, personal expression, and capturing the actual feel and emotion in a picture. Some people definately show a lot of skill in achieving that with wide pictures, but there's something to be said for seeing things that other's wouldn't. I wish they hadn't given you the satisfaction and posted the exterior shots, it was much more mysterous and intreguing before.
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logtec
Location: Logtec is the UER representative for Scarborough, Ontario.
Gender: Male
Nice head, what's in the bag?
| | | Re: You down with OPP?
<Reply # 31 on 6/5/2009 1:17 PM >
| | | | Posted by stizzy
Why are all your pictures such extreme close ups?? Cant even tell what the site looks like at all.
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lets see some of your photos.
They say "you can't judge a book by its cover!" I say "YES you can, if the cover has a girl on it with a cock in her mouth, its PORN!" if she's 18 and the cock is black, its GREAT porn! |
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oCtAnE
Location: TORONTO, CANADA
Gender: Male
EXPLORER AT LARGE
| | | Re: You down with OPP?
<Reply # 32 on 6/5/2009 11:27 PM >
| | | | Posted by Abaddon
Okayyyy oCtAnE. I don't usually write negative comments because they're a waste of time, but come on. It doesn't take a genius to line up the horizon and take a picture of a building or a room. We're talking about art, personal expression, and capturing the actual feel and emotion in a picture. Some people definately show a lot of skill in achieving that with wide pictures, but there's something to be said for seeing things that other's wouldn't. I wish they hadn't given you the satisfaction and posted the exterior shots, it was much more mysterous and intreguing before.
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I don't have a problem with people expressing themselves. However, if your going to go to all the trouble of getting out to a location and exploring it while taking pictures, then take all kinds of pictures.
There are too many 'explorers' who are 'photographers' first, and while they like to go visit the locations, their visit is nothing more than a glorified photoshoot to take 'professional' grade images, so they can get there compliments on the three close-ups of the same door so that it eases the pain of spending $2000+ on their camera equipment to do so in the first place.
I might not be the best photographer out there, but when I explore and take my pictures, I am more focused on letting the recipients see what I saw when I post said images. I want the viewer to get the same feel for the place that I did. If I can get a cool close-up or artistic shot here and there, it's an added bonus.
Cheers,
-O.
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Intrinsic
Location: Collingwood
Gender: Male
| | Re: You down with OPP?
<Reply # 33 on 6/5/2009 11:58 PM >
| | | | Posted by oCtAnE
I don't have a problem with people expressing themselves. However, if your going to go to all the trouble of getting out to a location and exploring it while taking pictures, then take all kinds of pictures.
There are too many 'explorers' who are 'photographers' first, and while they like to go visit the locations, their visit is nothing more than a glorified photoshoot to take 'professional' grade images, so they can get there compliments on the three close-ups of the same door so that it eases the pain of spending $2000+ on their camera equipment to do so in the first place.
I might not be the best photographer out there, but when I explore and take my pictures, I am more focused on letting the recipients see what I saw when I post said images. I want the viewer to get the same feel for the place that I did. If I can get a cool close-up or artistic shot here and there, it's an added bonus.
Cheers,
-O.
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You do have a valid point. If I'm going to travel 300 km to a location, you can be damned sure it won't be just for doorknobs, switches, levers, buttons and broken glass. There will be some wide angle photos (probably more than close-up shots) so that others can see what the location is like.
Taking only close-up photos seems to be more of a "these are my photography skills you are seeing" whereas a wide angle is more of a "this is my appreciation for the location" <-- my opinion only.
Having said all that, photography is a personal choice of what to shoot and how to shoot it. Really if someone wants to take close-up shots who are you to criticize someone.
It's like saying: I really think your poetry sucks because you only used 3 words per sentence instead of full length sentences. Your painting sucks because you only used two colors instead of the entire palette.
"To each their own" - words to live by
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Abaddon
Location: Toronto, ON
Gender: Female
| | Re: You down with OPP?
<Reply # 34 on 6/6/2009 12:05 AM >
| | | | Somehow, I don't think they're goal was to give you a personal tour. I was way more interested in the place before I saw the exterior shots. There is something to be said for being mysterious.
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e-photog
Location: Kitchener, Ontario
Gender: Male
This IS in fact me...
| | | Re: You down with OPP?
<Reply # 35 on 6/9/2009 1:57 AM >
| | | | *facepalms*
Why does this always happen.....
P.S.
| I really like your use of boarders E |
Shut up! This is an old post and you know it! =P Who brought it up again anyways?! Hahaha
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Lexi
Location: Oslo, Norway
Gender: Female
I'm getting old.
| | Re: You down with OPP?
<Reply # 36 on 6/9/2009 2:42 AM >
| | | | These shots are pretty sweet, and despite what other people say, I enjoy personally shots that have more macro focus - I tend to shoot this way myself.
It's the little things in life, people, the little things. All these tiny objects, details and textures may indeed be separate pieces of one puzzle, but on their own they stand as small treasures.
So kudos to you, sir, and don't mind the assholes.
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[15:00:33] <SeeThirty> cause you're not likely to be anywhere that other people haven't been who didn't have protection
[15:00:41] <SeeThirty> still better safe than lexi |
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