Gobsmacked

[jaapv]

June 2005, I took a shot of a net hung out to dry on a fishing boat, And yesterday I did the same and I just processed it. So- nearly 1 1/2 years apart! I assume they have been fishing in the meantime, although, with EU quota, one nevers knows... My mind must have jumped a groove, or it is a time warp...
The only difference, apart from the time factor, one is [Edit:]Agfa RSX II, one is the M8. It must be easy to distinguish 😉, so I am not telling yet. This was NOT a test, just a coincidence, or great minds think alike (mine, that is, twice 😀)
Find the larger shots in My Album, "The Fishing Fleet is IN" You'll see the differences better then. And PLEASE, don't make this a film vs digital thread.

 

[saxshooter]

Don't the dates and filenames as seen in your albums (while passing cursor over the image) give it away as to which is which? But yes, the M8 looks good. Cheers.

 

[jaapv]

They do, but this is not a test or suchlike...

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

They are both good photos.

 

[Magus]

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[BillRogers]

The photos are nice, but what does "gobsmacked" mean?

In our area of the world, a "gob" is two small pieces of chocolate cake with a gooey white icing between them, like a sandwich. When assembled, it's about the size of a child's fist. When made correctly, the icing will squeeze out of the opposite side from your mouth and fall in your lap. I would not want to be smacked by one of them.

Bill

 

[jaapv]

WorldWideWords:

It’s a fairly recent British slang term: the first recorded use is only in the eighties, though verbal use must surely go back further. The usual form is gobsmacked, though gobstruck is also found. It’s a combination of gob, mouth, and smacked. It means “utterly astonished, astounded”. It’s much stronger than just being surprised; it’s used for something that leaves you speechless, or otherwise stops you dead in your tracks. It suggests that something is as surprising as being suddenly hit in the face. It comes from northern dialect, most probably popularised through television programmes set in Liverpool, where it was common. It’s an obvious derivation of an existing term, since gob, originally from Scotland and the north of England, has been a dialect and slang term for the mouth for four hundred years (often in insulting phrases like “shut your gob!” to tell somebody to be quiet). It possibly goes back to the Scottish Gaelic word meaning a beak or a mouth, which has also bequeathed us the verb to gob, meaning to spit. Another form of the word is gab, from which we get gift of the gab.

 

[Magus]

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[iml]

Gobsmacked is very common colloquial English for "very surprised". Gobstruck is much less common, in England at least.

Ian

 

[Magus]

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[telenous]

Jaap, in the album you say that the film used is Agfa RSX 100, not Kodachrome.

I preferred the one that ultimately turned out to be film (BTW I quite like Agfa slide films) but both photos are fine.

 

[Magus]

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[zuikologist]

Nice photos - both worked well.

 

[jaapv]

You're right Alkis, my bad, it was still in my Agfa years....The second one is film the first one the M8

 

[mr roberts]

The structure (or relative position) of the colored (yellow & auburn) elements of the M8 photo is more pleasing to my eye, but I prefer the colors in the Agfa photo. The yellow, in particular, is a bit "blown out" and so vivid that the textural detail visible in the floats of the film shot is lost. I'm sure that you could recover some, if not most, of it in PS, but that wasn't the question.

Both are nice photos in their own way and unless directly compared, as done here, they stand on their own merits.

 

[Pherdinand]

the second one is more equilibrated in the colour arrangement, i mean composition.
The yellows are a bit burned out on both 😀 so it can't possibly become a digi vs film thread😀

 

[Magus]

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[mr roberts]

perhaps a new turn of phrase...pixelsmacked?

 

[Magus]

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[DougK]

Both photos look fine to me, nice work there.