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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 17 |
Jun 22 |
Comment |
Nice try at this. Your colleague Peter has given you a lot of advice. I will add that you might want to look up "Rembrandt Triangle" lighting. That is when the main light casts a triangular light under the eye on the dark side. It is a classic lighting setup. |
Jun 20th |
| 17 |
Jun 22 |
Comment |
I am all for your first instinct to make the expansive sky a co-equal subject with the Mission House.
You could do the opposite of your colleagues' suggestions, and emphasize the sky more and crop out the grassy margin and the white path in front. But I think that would still not emphasize the sky enough. I suggest going back and trying again, or trying similar shots. When human activity (the house) is made small in a grand view of nature, it makes a statement about the place of humankind in the natural world (this is an Asian art world view). Good luck should you take up this approach. |
Jun 20th |
2 comments - 0 replies for Group 17
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| 19 |
Jun 22 |
Comment |
Nice shot. Perfect.
Ah, Cinque Terra, I have been there hundreds of times in doctors' offices :) |
Jun 19th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 19
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| 22 |
Jun 22 |
Reply |
What a great choice for a birthday trip. You must have some fond memories of Orcas.
Our daughter worked on Orcas for a while at the State Park there. We visited her on Orcas a few times. She is in Seattle now. Our son is also in Seattle, and every time we visit, he organizes a family weekend on an island. We were just on Guemes in March, at North Beach. |
Jun 20th |
| 22 |
Jun 22 |
Comment |
Very cute. Signs like this are the most fun.
We have been in the San Juans many times. Which island, and which location if you remember? |
Jun 19th |
| 22 |
Jun 22 |
Comment |
Great diagonals, so simple. Good idea that you did not include the horizon. There is a whole genre of landscape photography that avoids including the horizon. |
Jun 19th |
2 comments - 1 reply for Group 22
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| 25 |
Jun 22 |
Comment |
Good shot, considering the difficulty.
If you were on the right shooting to the left, are these the sopranos and tenors? For Beethoven, it might be nice to be on the other side and shoot past the big strings, so typical of Beethoven (in the 9th, of course). |
Jun 19th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 25
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| 26 |
Jun 22 |
Comment |
I am in a small minority here. I like your shot, but I prefer it empty of people because I pretty much prefer all scapes empty of people: I like the tranquility of natural scenes; for city scapes, I like the architectural studies or the sense of empty street desolation. I don't think any of these require a "focal point of interest." |
Jun 19th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 26
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| 32 |
Jun 22 |
Reply |
SO COOOOOL!!! |
Jun 27th |
| 32 |
Jun 22 |
Reply |
I can't resist an opportunity for word play, nor to link photography to art, nor to comment on perspective.
I only do a silly picture in my group once every year or so. |
Jun 25th |
| 32 |
Jun 22 |
Comment |
Thanks to everyone for commenting on my silly picture this month. |
Jun 23rd |
| 32 |
Jun 22 |
Reply |
It IS a real word--now, for 11 years. The USA does not have a language academy, so real words are only defined by common usage. Not only did it go into common use right away, it went promptly into dictionaries. AND it won a new word award from an informal word-watching organization. |
Jun 23rd |
| 32 |
Jun 22 |
Reply |
What an interesting analysis, and a great key idea: "create a pathway through an image." |
Jun 23rd |
| 32 |
Jun 22 |
Reply |
Yes, it IS a tree stump. We just all see it as an ominous little creature :) |
Jun 23rd |
| 32 |
Jun 22 |
Comment |
Your worked hard on this and got a fine result. I also agree that the straight b/w is better than the sepia. I am beginning to wonder if sepia must be carefully chosen. |
Jun 18th |
| 32 |
Jun 22 |
Comment |
I am coming late to this, so all the useful suggestions have already been made by experienced people. Tom took the time to select areas to modify, and I think that works very well. But you yourself asked in your initial comments about darkening the corners a bit. I like that idea, but only to such a slight degree that it is not consciously noticeable, but hopefully helps keep the viewer's eye from following the rock lines out of the composition.
What a location! |
Jun 17th |
| 32 |
Jun 22 |
Comment |
This is striking, and a good quote of Magritte.
I really like the overall composition. A lot of effort here to get your friend/model in place and add the extra umbrella.
I also don't care for the grunge, not the strong sepia.
Magritte played a lot with surreal lighting effects. Can you try that here, for example, darkening the beach scene, but rendering the figure as if in bright light. Or maybe having the upper umbrella casting a soft spotlight downward from out of it onto the man. |
Jun 17th |
| 32 |
Jun 22 |
Comment |
It's hard to get a forested shot like this that has compositional coherence, but this is successful, especially that diagonal tree.
You know me about converging verticals. I really like the converging tree lines.
I see the little witch, and can't look away now. I think it's a cloaked death figure facing away from us. |
Jun 17th |
| 32 |
Jun 22 |
Comment |
It's a really great shot: the church is interesting; those little puffy clouds could not be better if you had them ordered custom-made; and the heart-shaped repair (and your modification to it) look perfect. Good eye to spot the repair.
I will comment, as I often do, about perspective alteration: the grass-lines say "the viewpoint is to one side," and so does the side of the clock tower facing the roof. But the altered perspective says, "the viewpoint is straightaway." I recommend leaving a little of the original perspective, because that is what you actually saw. |
Jun 5th |
| 32 |
Jun 22 |
Comment |
Yes, you have everything in here: water, trees, sky, and it looks pretty good. I think Wes has a good point. For me, I think the fronds sticking in on the left side are distracting. Would you consider taking them out and leaving a bit of empty sea view there (I like empty)? You might also try flipping this image left-for-right and seeing which way you prefer it. |
Jun 1st |
7 comments - 5 replies for Group 32
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| 37 |
Jun 22 |
Comment |
Great shot: "Sweets by Sweet!" |
Jun 19th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 37
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| 40 |
Jun 22 |
Reply |
I bet you are right about that--if you can't afford a grand tour, just buy a copy locally. Thanks for the information. |
Jun 26th |
| 40 |
Jun 22 |
Comment |
I love seeing interesting shots like this, as members of these groups take us all over the world, or show us their home regions. Thank you.
My question is about the statue in this location: is is a copy of a Roman original, or is it an original, and might it have been collected by the estate owner in 1750 when they were on their "Grand Tour"?
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Jun 19th |
1 comment - 1 reply for Group 40
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| 44 |
Jun 22 |
Reply |
There are calcium travertine formations in a few other parts of the world, notably my wife's homeland, Turkey--Google "travertine deposits pamukkale, turkey," and select "images." |
Jun 19th |
0 comments - 1 reply for Group 44
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| 51 |
Jun 22 |
Reply |
Yes, I recall that flood, and that it took the Park Service a long time, I think, to repair the canal and tow path. |
Jun 19th |
| 51 |
Jun 22 |
Comment |
Great to see a familiar location around DC. I have seen the Potomac in flood many times. I have seen the flood markers at the Great Falls park on the Virginia side, showing historical flood levels that over-topped even the high ravine banks.
Where exactly were you standing for this shot? |
Jun 3rd |
1 comment - 1 reply for Group 51
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| 53 |
Jun 22 |
Reply |
OMG, I had to blow the image up 6 steps, and then I finally saw your two arms holding the camera. |
Jun 19th |
| 53 |
Jun 22 |
Comment |
Fascinating image, and very clever of you to spot the opportunity.
Where are you and the camera in the reflection??? |
Jun 19th |
1 comment - 1 reply for Group 53
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| 54 |
Jun 22 |
Reply |
Maria, thanks for considering my suggestion. I really like your new version.
There is a substantial history in art for making each section a composition unto itself.
1. US Postal Service scenic stamps are often composed like this. I remember a recent set of County Fairs.
2. The Smithsonian had an exhibit of artistic Japanese kimonos some years ago by Itchiku Kubota. Each one was a composition unto itself, but 30 in a row told the story of the changing seasons of the entire year. Much of his kimono work is multi-tics. Google his name and look at "images." |
Jun 19th |
| 54 |
Jun 22 |
Comment |
This looks really great. I have no idea about such creative techniques, including making a hill where there is no hill!
I have only one suggestion about the tryptic approach. Although not everyone will agree with me, I like each panel of a tryptic to be compositionally complete alone--then the combination is a super-composition. This image is almost there. You have the child in panel 1; you could put the tree on the hill in panel 2; and then something is needed in panel 3. If you like this idea, I would be eager to see the result. Thank for considering. |
Jun 3rd |
1 comment - 1 reply for Group 54
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| 71 |
Jun 22 |
Comment |
Great choice to not include the horizon line in this shot. It makes the view so intimate. |
Jun 18th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 71
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| 77 |
Jun 22 |
Comment |
I love market basket shots like this, and have been shooting them for 20 years. I call them "Jumbles." I never shot eggs, and I like your choice very much.
About the merits of this kind of subject. There is a very subtle study of the force of gravity going on here. It is gravity that holds the subjects in place and gravity that has created the random pattern. In the case of your eggs, there is another aspect: the mathematical/scientific "packing" of objects into a space. Your eggs have "tight packing" and probably cannot be packed any tighter. Check out your grocery store produce section to see two types of regular packing of apples or oranges. If your objects are not fragile, once you dump them into a basket, you can shake the basket and they will pack more tightly, by about 5%. Chemists are interested in the packing of long molecules, including DNA. |
Jun 18th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 77
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| 86 |
Jun 22 |
Comment |
is this possibly the rebuilt terminal that collapsed in 2004? I remember seeing the old terminal, and for the life of me could not figure out, as I looked up, what held it up.
Nice shot with all that airy space and sunlit shadows. |
Jun 18th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 86
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| 92 |
Jun 22 |
Comment |
This is an interesting composition, with a good balance of objects, near and far, in it. I am interested in how it might be interpreted symbolically. I see the Lucky Strike chimney (LSMFT--Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco. That's the old Lucky Strike ad text), and I think that a lit cigarette is a very small chimney burning up your lungs, and here is a very large chimney. Then, is the man on the bench perhaps lighting up--how ironic. How about that street lamp--it is like a huge match ready to light the world's largest cigarette.
Of course, in a different sense, you struck it lucky to get this shot. |
Jun 18th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 92
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| 99 |
Jun 22 |
Comment |
Great shot. And you were lucky that the nearest student is left-handed, so you get a nice view of her drawing hand. |
Jun 2nd |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 99
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