Topic: Sebastien's Photography Thread

I was lacking a place to share my photography wanderings.

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So cool.

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Oh, by the by. August 2017:

http://i.imgur.com/XOVTa9b.jpg

There's no way I'm passing this up.

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Oooh, I should tell my sister. ... If she's still gonna be living in the same place in a few years.

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I took a pretty close to total one. Sigma lens, no filters of any kind, just f22, 1/4000 shutter and 50 ISO to try and make it as little hurtful to the sensor as possible.

http://extendededition.net/Pictures/IMG_2207.jpg

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Saniss wrote:

Oh, by the by. August 2017:

There's no way I'm passing this up.

Plans are already in the works for me and mine to be in the path, near the middle of that map-- southern tip of Illinois.

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Wow, I'd completely forgotten this thread even existed.

I spent two weeks in the Alps this summer, hiking and taking pictures along the way. Here's a first work, more should come.

https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/173075291/m%3D900/3769b844d4b24d55123a7c9bf718469a

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It's friendlier without that Eye of Souron...

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That is gorgeous!

Witness me!

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Prometheus is right.

Teague Chrystie

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Some new pics for the folks who don't do social timewasters:

Living Ice

https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/292097941/m%3D900/v2?user_id=1154575&webp=true&sig=b592a69d61d5caf29a06b34f8601de2ba6b9d257b8c1a4b66eaf7cb28702a972

The Wave [yeah. I changed it.]

https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/294997687/m%3D900/v2?user_id=1154575&webp=true&sig=909eb4defdfd548cc2b50eb8597a1fd412b860088fb838b309aec8549f41b251

Finally gave my Iceland folder a proper look. There's a couple other pics that express stuff I like, so there may be more comin'.

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Not kidding, is there somewhere I can get a nice high-res of The Wall? My triple monitor setup thanks you in advance.

Boter, formerly of TF.N as Boter and DarthArjuna. I like making movies and playing games, in one order or another.

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Not publicly, but I can shoot you one for personal use. We can talk about it on Messenger smile

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Hiding In Plain Sight

 
https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/294998021/m%3D900/v2?user_id=1154575&webp=true&sig=d014a89676aa52f54b48e1f5989419823f0a72f61ed6a49b5a8f03137aeabf39

(that title made me think of Eddie; suddendoty.jpg)

There's a recurring theme in what I search for in photography, what we can't reach. This is a feeling I often get while contemplating high mountains. They always seem to me to be a universe of their own, hiding in their huge scale. It's very similar when I look at galaxies : they're finite objects we can more or less absorb with a single glimpse of the eye, but they hold billions of elements, maybe life, way beyond our grasp. Our imagination has the ability to make them infinite.

(this after-the-fact comment is actually the closest I've yet come to explaining such a feeling. I'm self-stealing it for my Facebook page.)

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Black Ice #1
https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/298266345/m%3D900/v2?user_id=1154575&webp=true&sig=32722201628ecc1396bf5b69c828cf35aa345248c8404e6c35cc7fbd0887d3c9

Black Ice #2
https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/298266591/m%3D900/v2?user_id=1154575&webp=true&sig=8822f5f3ce68933e63421590547fb23f754ef844d89d617b3023bcb2c744e856

Black Ice #3
https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/298266635/m%3D900/v2?user_id=1154575&webp=true&sig=d04a71f9ecfcf9fec1087f1c5fc1f5d8e761f984a21df587ed553a24449a2d3e

A sort of three-part texture study on the icy-rock mountains I keep bumping into in Northern Norway. Very ghostly, very Skyrim-like.

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1) Stop being in awesome places, you bastard

2) Don't stop. I'm just jealous.

Witness me!

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SPOILER Show
https://i.imgur.com/U4e1Cvh.jpg

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Hurlement (Howling)
 
https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/301441441/m%3D900/v2?user_id=1154575&webp=true&sig=d4285a5b3eae7e2c0ffa8b98a1c11e6e3bdd705ffe56ed499e67a298d394aaef

Throwback to a night out in the wild during a stay in Savoie in 2016, and a powerful sunset on the mountains looming over us. It took us a while to realize the biggest one in the distance (not pictured here) was Mont Blanc. We didn't recognize it from that unusual angle.

I actually processed that picture back in '16 but never published it. I gave it a finishing touch two days ago and sit for a while in front of it, trying to put into words how the scene made me feel. I was recalled of that feeling that the mountains were angry and spitting a fire before going to sleep. A "deafening silence" as I call it, followed by a quiet emptiness. It certainly was a memorable bivouac for us.

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A memorable bivouac at Mordor?

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I'm now on Instagram (which is somewhat ironic since I've also quit all other social media), you can follow me for shits and giggles at https://www.instagram.com/sebastienfraud/.

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I'm in the process of allowing myself to spend more active, productive energy on my expression. This is how about two weeks ago, I drove to my home region in the southern Alps and hiked up a mountain and slept there alone.

Getting there, I originally postponed it because weak storms were surrounding me and I walked a good 300 feet from my car before hearing thunder. I drove a bit around the area to capture some stormy atmospheres, and as the storms died in the late afternoon, I went back to hiking.

After about two hours of painful ascent (heavy bag + lame physical state due to a huge VFX deadline the week before), I reached a pasture area, still empty from any flocks and their associated patous (stupidly aggressive sheepdogs).

This is when the clouds born from the storms started breaking up and the huge mountain barrier I was coming to see revealed itself in the late sunlight. It was very cinematic. A turning point, between shrouded everything and clear evening. This is when the mountain resonates most visually with how I see it inside.


Le Trône des Abîmes (Throne of the Abyss)

https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/310389193/m%3D900/v2?user_id=1154575&webp=true&sig=aa49ae77e980ef6ef249905cbd74d73b788aa0516f5d2ad7286e7ed45e4703b9

I saw this kind of battle between the elements for a throne. But the storm is a temporary power. The mountain gives it birth and death all the same, and always wins in the end, magnificent and still - infinite also, to us humans at least.

After shooting lots of inspiring sights, I chose a right spot, put up the tent, and contemplated the solitary evening, filled with awesome atmospheres to bring back.

Sleeping alone in the mountain was a first, but nothing I did there was unknown. This is one of those instances I've waited a long time for in my life, where I felt actual trust in myself, enough to actually do this and never really question it. Everything felt right to me. I was as happy to be there alone searching for expression, as I was going down the mountain the next morning to go back to my loved one.

This picture may be the most speaking, but I have lots of other things to say about that experience.

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I feel like this guy could get really into Ansel Adams.

Teague Chrystie

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*googles*

Sold.

Edit: to be honest, I already knew about his work but didn't remember it as vividly. Thanks for making me go back to it, really expressive stuff.

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Oh, man — dude, you need to come to California; you need to see Yosemite; you need to take pictures of that valley. It's incredible.

(I'd be happy to go with ya. Actually, everyone's invited. Field trip!)

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I dig it. Followed.

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Calling

https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/310934147/m%3D900/v2?user_id=1154575&webp=true&sig=439f5c740faa8f4f5b7ac878d1de582697c1f893829270bee5ecbf99f5813967

From the same day as the previous picture. It was at the start of the hike, just after the storm had stopped, and the clouds started breaking up suddenly, creating this scene that resonated with me as some sort of calling. I knew I was on the right path, even though the feeling could stop the next second. But my ascent would only be accompanied by incredible atmospheres.

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