Pictures thread 1.11 reboot

[Santo]

chapped up lips

[Sailor Star Dust]

God Bless CDJapan. (I'll buy a BD player at some point. Probably a PS3.)

Film strip discussion here: http://forum.evageeks.org/viewtopic.php?t=11403

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Also, I got my first ever pedicure last Thursday, here are the results. No, this doesn't mean I'm going to start doing stuff like shopping (unless it's nerdy stuff or clothes I need) or wearing makeup. Posting a photo of my feet might be weird, but eh whatever.

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Before anybody asks: The scars on my ankles (and other spots such as my wrists, neck, etc) are from my premature birth.

The pedicure was relaxing as hell, you got to soak your feet in a foot-jacuzzi (or whatever it's actually called) along with a foot/leg massage and as you sit with your back in a massage-chair. Loved it!

[InstrumentalityOne]

WOMEN GROW HAIR ON THEIR TOES TOO?!?

Nice pedicure, by the way.

[Sailor Star Dust]

If you're immediate family's European at least, then yeah, bad side effect. >_> I should probably start to take more pride in my physical appearance instead of my usual "not giving a shit" about looks. Although there are certain things American women (yes technically I am one since I was born here) do in the name of beauty or fashion I will never understand, such as spending over thousands of dollars on wedding dresses or weddings themselves, when that money could be used a house down payment or what have you.

And yes, blue's pretty. I like how there's some sparkles/glitter in the nail polish.

[UrsusArctos]

My sister's done blue, pink, yellow, green, red, and black - various shades and combinations thereof on both her fingernails and her toenails. The right color is actually less important than the right shade.

SSD, don't worry about the hairs on your feet and toes. They're very sparse by both male and female standards.

[THE Hal E. Burton 9000]

Although there are certain things American women (yes technically I am one since I was born here) do in the name of beauty or fashion I will never understand, such as spending over thousands of dollars on wedding dresses or weddings themselves, when that money could be used a house down payment or what have you.

don't take this the wrong way, but you have no idea how proud I am to her a woman say something like this

I blame the wedding dress fixation and other BIG wedding day tomfoolery on Victorianism, few ideas in history IMO have inspired so much unheralded human degradation

[Tokpile Quohog]

Film strip discussion here: http://forum.evageeks.org/viewtopic.php?t=11403

Is it just me or does the link not work?

[Mr. Tines]

Got merged here -- http://forum.evageeks.org/viewtopic.php?p=459836#459836

[Merridian]

It would be better without the trees in the background.

Only if he was going for heavy-handed simplicity. I think the trunk and the overhanging limb help emphasize the vertical & horizontal lines in the photo, while also managing to provide nice contrast with the sharply-defined angles of the concrete structures. Getting rid of the trees would make it look more like something out of a video game.

[Eva Yojimbo]

In other words: go cut down those trees and take a new photo, you lazy bastard.

No, I would've just preferred a more downward angle that emphasized the lines of the architecture. See below:

Only if he was going for heavy-handed simplicity. I think the trunk and the overhanging limb help emphasize the vertical & horizontal lines in the photo, while also managing to provide nice contrast with the sharply-defined angles of the concrete structures. Getting rid of the trees would make it look more like something out of a video game.

I really can't agree about the contrast or lines helping to balance or emphasize the lines in the structure. The problem is that you have two distinctly different elements here that are clashing for attention, and the eye will immediately go to the one that's brighter and more colorful. The trees and the light essentially serve to overshadow the strong and interesting lines of the structure where, ideally, the no-smoking sign and the lines above it should serve to lead the eye into the background. This might work if they were shot from a closer distance, but as is the distance and angle creates an imbalance with the structure on the right and the dominating trees/light in the background. Essentially, the trees/light background creates too strong of a contrast to give it that much of the frame without something equally strong in the foreground to lead the eye to it. It's a scene that wants to be a really strong composition but didn't quite achieve it.

[Tankred]

The pizza was gone in less than five minutes...

[Mr. Tines]

The pizza was gone in less than five minutes...

So, EGF is your waifu?

[Tankred]

So, EGF is your waifu?

Yes, yes EGF is my waifu...

Oh what have I done...

[Xard]

Yes, yes EGF is my waifu...

Fittingly enough that pink Zaku headlight (fuck I don't know what to call that "eye"= looks a bit like heart to me

[Tankred]

Fittingly enough that pink Zaku headlight (fuck I don't know what to call that "eye"= looks a bit like heart to me

This is no Zaku boy, no Zaku!

[toe mash]

[quote="Tankred":3jr8lse4][/quote:3jr8lse4]
Where's the Mountain Dew? I see no Mountain Dew.

[Xard]

This is no Zaku boy, no Zaku!

...now that I look at it again yeah it isn't.

WHAT THE HELL IS IT

[Merridian]

I really can't agree about the contrast or lines helping to balance or emphasize the lines in the structure. The problem is that you have two distinctly different elements here that are clashing for attention, and the eye will immediately go to the one that's brighter and more colorful. The trees and the light essentially serve to overshadow the strong and interesting lines of the structure where, ideally, the no-smoking sign and the lines above it should serve to lead the eye into the background. This might work if they were shot from a closer distance, but as is the distance and angle creates an imbalance with the structure on the right and the dominating trees/light in the background. Essentially, the trees/light background creates too strong of a contrast to give it that much of the frame without something equally strong in the foreground to lead the eye to it. It's a scene that wants to be a really strong composition but didn't quite achieve it.

What you're looking for is a more desolate photograph that emphasizes the rigid geometry and colorlessness of the concrete form, but that's not the photograph that essel took. The eye moves across the foreground and up the diagonal lines of the sidewalk and stairs toward the trees, and the trunk of the most prominent tree stretches upwards rather fittingly. Without the trees there, it'd just be an empty hollow; I think that would look a little too cliche, which is why I compared it to a video game. The only things that are of detriment to this photo IMO are the one overhanging branch (I liked it at first, but it's too dissonant with the rest of the image) and the width of the photo (which probably can't be improved, but I think if it were a little wider, giving the viewer more of that right wall face and shifting the stairs closer to the middle of the image, it'd be a bit better balanced).

I don't see a problem with the color contrast between the stairwell and the background, but if you think it's of detriment, then I'd suggest turning it black & white. That would maintain its compositional strengths but also cut down on whatever color issues are there.

[Tankred]

...now that I look at it again yeah it isn't.

WHAT THE HELL IS IT

An MS-07 Gouf.

Where's the Mountain Dew? I see no Mountain Dew.

It doesnt exist in Englandland.

[Miuzaki]

This is meh sporting my Pentel P205 and Prismacolor Kneaded Eraser.