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Peacock Feather Diptych
Started July 11, 2010 @ 7:35am by Flo
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Flo
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| Peacock Feather Diptych | July 11, 2010 @ 7:35am | Shot with a Nikon D300, Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 lens plus a 10X Opteka macro lens attachment - window light on a cloudy day. F/2.8 - don't remember the shutter speed.
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I was surprised I could get the rainbow colors in the absence of sunlight.
Flo - PPY
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
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Usha
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| July 11, 2010 @ 10:15am | I loke this dyptic a lot Flo.....one thought...would you consider making it a tryptic by taking the first panel and flipping it and putting it t the right? Just a thought. Don't know what it wold look like.
Thanks for sharing
Usha - PPY
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Tim Gray
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| July 11, 2010 @ 12:03pm | | Or maybe flip the right one so it points to the left - then they would point at each other. A diptych is a good approach. |
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Wes
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| July 11, 2010 @ 3:30pm | Beautiful iridescent colors Flo. Were these still on the bird? . Nice choices for the diptych.
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Flo
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| July 11, 2010 @ 3:36pm | Thank you Usha and Tim - I really hadn't thought of doing what either of you suggested. Food for thought. But I had thought to make a triptych, as I also shot a close up of the lower part of the feather shaft which looks entirely different from the fancy part. But I decided it just didn't look right because it's so different.
Thanks, Wes. No, this feather had parted company from its maker long ago. I keep it with a collection of other feathers.
Flo - PPY
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
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Becky
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| July 11, 2010 @ 8:32pm | Nice concept, Flo, and the colors are so wonderful.
Becky |
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Ted_Byrne
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| July 12, 2010 @ 4:22pm | Okay, you've probably heard me rant against B&W photographers for surgically removing the powerful emotional content of color from the feelings they communicate. And these images reinforce my narrow minded, zealotry. Just lookit how powerfully emotional the palettes here are. How they vibrate along with the patterns which support them. You've distilled out throb... (hmmmm can I use "throb" as a verb? Oh wuddahell.... ). Yeah... these capture THROB... a thingee that kind of plucks at me.
BTW... There's a strange sort of effect that comes from a video monitor which I've never noticed in prints... An effect of vibrant color against black. Could it be because black is a sort of absence of color on monitors so that anything we set upon them is particularly showcased as the electrons dance about to create pixels?
Wuddever it is... you've exploited that phenomenon here. Luvvit! 
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Flo
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| July 13, 2010 @ 8:37am | Thanks, Becky.
Ted! You are absolutely the LAST person I'd expect to be moved enough by this image to comment on it!!!
Funny, but I did think of you when I posted it and concluded that you'd probably dismiss this like you do with most flower shots!
To me, after I photographed the wonderful, throbbing colors of this feather, the images lost that throbbing, which always attracts me to iridescence of any kind. Yet you still see it!
Also, you like images that have visual depth and that tell a story. To me this diptych does not tell a story - other than perhaps we can imagine that when the peacock lost this feather, it might have hurt a little! But in the image there's no depth and layers of story.
The reason we see "black" is because black surfaces suck into themselves ALL vibrations of light that we see as colors. Black gives back heat, but not colors.
Which might be the reason why bright colors pop so much better against black backgrounds - subconsciously we know that these colors escaped the black surface's tendency to act as a black hole for colors.
White surfaces, on the other hand, reject all the vibrations of light, causing us to see all of them together - and we have learned from our studies of light that white light results if there is no filtering of any of its individual vibrations.
So put bright colors against a white background - and all the colors that make up white are really competing in our mind's eye with the individual vibrations that form the individual colors. Those individual colors then seem dimmer, by comparison.
So, Ted, back to the subject of THROB, which you used as a verb - how about a "present participle" which is a hybrid noun/verb - I'm very glad that you see THROBBING in my diptych! Or you see my diptych THROBBING!
Flo - PPY
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
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Pixelle
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| July 13, 2010 @ 10:01am | Flo, Your diptych is very appealing to me. The colors are well processed, vibrant but very close to nature. I like the straight line (diagonal_left part) combined with curves ones, that introduce us to the oval shape in 2nd image.The colors unify the whole picture. What I appreciate most is probably the graphism of your diptych. Interesting also the fact that both pictures relies on two similar diagonals.
Bravo Flo!
We had a good flight to Paris and are staying in our apartment in Paris for 2 or 2 1/2 weeks. Maybe I could take the members challenge #5 if nobody does.
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Flo
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| July 13, 2010 @ 12:05pm | Thanks, Micheline.
And if you can, please take the Member's Challenge!
Flo - PPY
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
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