MSA Sep/Oct 2017 - "Polyptych"

NedL said:

I'm loving this -- from everyone! I'm going to have to choose??

What's a "hemispheric pinhole"??

( my attempt is going to be pinhole too.... but I have to build a new camera for it... 1st try wasn't exactly what I was hoping for )

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In the hemispheric, the film plane is a semi-circle, instead of flat. That way, no falloff or vignetting at the corners because the entire film plane is equidistant from the aperture. This can be a serious problem for a panoramic pinhole, because the corners are so much farther from the aperture than the center.

Got it, thanks TFC!

Here's a hiccup, pardon me, a pentaptych ..

I love how my eye is drawn to that point on the right ... like a swirl of impressions around a point of interest... it's uncanny... if you were standing there by this stream "taking it in", it's kind of like looking at this! Well done.

Yes I loosely interpreted the rules
"Reflections of a Lost Man in the Third Draw Down"

awty said:

loosely interpreted

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but very creatively interpreted!

Marttiko said:

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Another one!

This and my previous post are my first tries on a certain old technique. That's all I can say without revealing too much!

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Hmmmm, let me see here.... this? I'll be honest, at first I though 'bracketing' but I figured probably not because that wouldn't really be something you would want to show off and then looked closer at the images.

Polyps? I doubt there'd be much interest in a sequence from my last colonoscopy. (Sorry, I just couldn't resist.)

silveror0 said:

Polyps? I doubt there'd be much interest in a sequence from my last colonoscopy. (Sorry, I just couldn't resist.)

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LOL. I'd been resisting polyp jokes since this round started - someone had to do it.

Truzi said:

LOL. I'd been resisting polyp jokes since this round started - someone had to do it.

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I'll be colon on you to hold those in. Might put some folks in a bowel mood.

Automatic disqualification for that.... lucky if you aren't banned for life....

I'd never even heard of the word "polyptych" before I had the idea of using diptych or triptych as the theme, and wondered if there were names for more than two or three....

NedL said:

Automatic disqualification for that.... lucky if you aren't banned for life....

I'd never even heard of the word "polyptych" before I had the idea of using diptych or triptych as the theme, and wondered if there were names for more than two or three....

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You can extrapolate the others, but it does after a while get somewhat silly. Quadtych or quadriptych, quintych, sextych, septych, octych, nontych, decatych.

I decided to make a quadriptych for no other reason than the word is sort of ridiculous... well, I built a 4 pinhole panoramic camera, came up with a ( clever, I think ) way to make the panorama work... and then made a quick prototype which shows the idea works. Then I worked more on the geometry and discovered something that is mathematically very remarkable and extraordinary. There is only one single unique possible configuration that can work... and it just happens to be the one with 4 pinholes! I'll write more about it later, and hopefully come up with an example quadriptypch by the end of October!

I've enjoyed seeing all the creative posts so far... that tri-color made me scratch my head for a few seconds, but yes, it's multiple photographs meant to be viewed all together! So it certainly fits the letter of the definition, if not the usual meaning!

Is it a diptych? Is it a triptych? How many parking meters are there, and do I have to feed all of them?

Another diptych, different orientation, and different concept this time.

Up in smoke.
Maybe not exact a "polyptych" or "pentaptych", but there is 5X a lot of smoke

Bertus said:

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Maybe not exact a "polyptych" or "pentaptych", but there is 5X a lot of smoke

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That absolutely counts. It's a five-frame series, presented together. For the mother of all polyptychs, take a look at F. Holland Day's Seven Last Words of Christ:

And as an FYI, that's seven platinum prints.

I agree

A sax quadriptych.

Sorry, I was unable to figure out how to get my Diptych and Triptych into the forum. I did however post them in the MSA gallery and hope you will "take a look" !

At the exhibition - triptych

People heading to ...


Pictures at the exhibition ...


People leaving ...

or maybe as a collage ...

collage exhibition by Andreas, on Flickr

oh gosh November sure snuck up on me! I will be busy with work until this evening, so you can still make a last minute entry until at least 6PM Pacific Daylight Time ( 01:00 UTC Nov 2 )

Sorry folks, tired tonight...will get to it tomorrow!

Thank you all very much for participating in this MSA. I loved seeing how different aspects together make a whole impression, and it is striking how the whole impression and feel can be so different or so much more than the parts.

Matt: got us started with diptych portraits ( not elig ) a great example! Like "where we are" and "who is there".
peter k: triptych different formats and orientations to make the whole
Bertus: diptych two sides of a face, unique and striking and somehow unsettling! Really cool.
Sly: triptych canning season, beautiful prints make a set that fit together in more ways than one.
Marttiko: triptich three aspects of same scene, intriguing and subtle....pretended I didn't know what it was
sly: diptych Rathtrevor great resonance and "reflection" and rhythm.. the two middle trees speak to each other! Love this.
Matt: diptych texture/color makes beautiful pair ( not elig )
Larry the sailor:triptych three aspects give stronger overall impression of stone stairs, like memories!
Martiko: triptych another color sep!
TFC: diptych day and night, neat balance and counterpoise
peter k: pentaptych another with different formats and orientations form whole, something about this really struck a chord.
awty: pentaptych photo of 5 photos in drawer, very clever, meta....nicely arranged.
Martiko: tricolor result! We really are seeing 3 at once here!
TFC: diptych? Parking meter reverberation... makes photos of parking meter into something you actually want to look at
TFC: diptych, same scene, flowing in time, the child and people enter your imagination.....nostalgic or wistful, I don't know a word for the emotion this made me feel.
Bertus: pentaptych up in smoke, neat!
TFC: gave us a polyptych example 7 last words by Day ( not elig ), invites attention to each frame....
Bertus: quadiptych sax cool photos! I enjoyed looking at this very much!
barbara ann: triptych rose different from perspectives together
barbara ann: diptych plant and its shadow, I liked this one...it's different from the others because it's like you want your eyes to go back and forth between them rather than take them in all at once. Viewed side-by-side, each is less without the other.
macfred: triptych exhibition and this is very well done... the first is a diptych in itself and the 2nd is a 3-ptych or maybe 4-ptych, but altogether they form a bigger whole with balance between "arriving" and "leaving".

I was going to choose "winner" and some "honorable mention" but it's impossible because there are too many great entries to mention and there are multiple entries that deserve to win in different ways. Thanks again to everyone!

I'm going to choose peter k's pentaptych of the stream scene: like mind's impression of a moment...
Larry the sailor's steps though stones is "runner up" it's like a series of fleeting moments...