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another sunday in museum

riccadonna

riccadonna

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Hello everybody. The museum folks opened a new rearranged exhibition of sculptures giving me an opportunity to take some compositions. With these I guess to have done the museum theme for time being- and don`t panic, I`ve been to Paris couple times not visiting Louvre. By the way, I`ve visited north and south Egipt some twenty years ago not seeing the PYRAMIDS! A pyramidal mistake some would say. Anyway, here you go. Cheers Stanislaw.
 

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Thank you Christian. There were many other statues, single and in groups. I try to be very selective and it`s quite a job trying the working angles. I had with me A12 50 and A12 28. As one can see, all photos were taken with 50. The 28 took too many background elements in. Some of takes were further cropped to something like 75mm . Often I had to stop the lens down to f:8 to get background statues more defined with corresponding low shutter speed. One`s not allowed to use tripods, another challenge. All in all, a wonderful exercise in shooting discipline. Some statues were lit by the window light while many others were in kind of semidark making it quite diffy to have some light separation. Glad I got these four ones. Stanislaw
 
No joke Gerd. You are so right. Many outstanding photographers used just one lens and it was very often so called normal. HCB?
When I was in high school, I had an Agfa box camera, then a Zenith with 58/2 and I was o.k. The I moved abroad, earned money and started buying lenses. The camera was Nikon F and the first lens 105/2.5, then I got 35/2.8 then I swapped it for 24/2,8 and got furthermore micro-nikkor 55/3.5. The last one was 200/4. After finishing my studies and working some years as an architect I sold my gear, bought myself a Rollei 35 and went vagabonding for three years round the world. After return I had a brief affair with Pentax MX and some lenses to go (after using Rollei I wanted a small and compact system ). Finally I embarked on manys dream, Leica with different m and ltm lenses, german, japaneese and russian ones , most of them bought used ( it became bit of a hunt to find a good one for small money).
This year I bought Ricoh, my first digital system. Primarily to use Leica lenses which I love for their compactness and mechanical beauty. The reason I had a whole range of lenses for leica (from VC15/ to 135/4) was so called the pure shot at decisive moment to use HCB words. Minimalistic composition, no cropping. No with digital I relax much more. Often I go with one lens. When what I see is framed as 75mm or more I don`t worry not having additional lenses. Due to digital quality and ease of post I`ll crop it later. Of course the film time shooting discipline shows and pays of. In a way, it`s true that zoom lenses can be disturbing when trying to zoom yourself to the right frame instead of seeing it before putting a camera to an eye. All in all as wise saying goes on a big question about life. You have to do the best with what you have, this one your life. The same one could say about the lens you have with you and should it be so called normal, then it`s not bad at all. Tschus Stanislaw
 
As has already been said - nice light (#1 wins for me here) and juxtapositions (#4 here).
The statues are masterpieces. What age and origin are they, Stanislaw?

Peter
 
Orol.
The picts are taken in Copenhagen in the museum called Glyptotek. It`s, for a town as Copenhagen, magnificent building donated in 1905 by famous danish brewer Carl Jacobsen. CARLSBERG! that`s it. He and his wife Otilia were great art lovers and had a huge collection of etruscan, greek, roman art. Later they bought in modern like Renoir, Degas, Gauguin and the likes. The statues I photographed are by french and danish sculptors and are from around 1900 if I`m not mistaken. I use to go there for the interior sake on sunday when there`s free admittance. Next sunday I`ll try to remember to go there to get more details about them.

AlbertTRAL.
As usually, jpegs from camera, of course level and contrast adjusted in photoshop. Still havn`t got down to raws. Wonder how much better they would be. I guess at high ISO it should help to shoot in raw.

By the way, today is my namesday, imieniny in polish, so your voices of appreciation feel like a gift. Thanks Stanislaw
 
Gabriele, sei troppo generoso. It`s really too much. Thank you so much. I just feel to be a member of community that love to make good pictures. Stanislaw
 
Gabriele, sei troppo generoso. It`s just too much, I don`t deserve it. I`m just happy to be one of all you guys that love to make good pictures, if we are fortunate.
 
Peter, you`ve asked me about the sculptures. Last sunday I was there taking notes of them.
ROO 31056 Laurent Honore Marqueste 1909 French
ROO 31100 Stephan Sinding 1910 Danish
ROO 31104 H.W.Bissen 1890 Danish
ROO 31109 Stephan Sinding 1910 Danish.
In my first post sunday in museum there were as follows.
ROO 30505 Eugene Delaplanche 1878 French
ROO 30507 August Rodin French
ROO 30512 Antonio Canova 1800 Italian
ROO 30509 H.W. Bissen 1890 Danish
ROO 30502 Jean Gautherin 1881 Franch
ROO 30683 August Rodin French
The rest is in Wikipedia as they say in the school these days ;) . Stanislaw
 

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