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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 9 |
Apr 24 |
Comment |
This is an interesting and unique viewpoint. I like it.
Please tell us about the place and your experience there getting the shot. |
Apr 10th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 9
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| 26 |
Apr 24 |
Comment |
Nice shot.
Good thing that you corrected that this is the Blue Mosque, because I was going to point out that the Hagia Sophia museum was re-consecrated as a mosque last year by the sitting Turkish government. All the Christian mosaics have been covered up by curtains. (Back in the Ottoman Empire, they were covered up by plaster in the first consecration as a mosque.) |
Apr 9th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 26
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| 32 |
Apr 24 |
Reply |
Thank you, Diana, for working on my image and making suggestions. You bring to my mind the idea of deliberately arranging the bottles (no chance to do that now, after the fact) into a formal composition. I could have played around in the shop back then with the permission of the owner. I am sure he would not have minded. |
Apr 20th |
| 32 |
Apr 24 |
Reply |
Thank you, Tom. |
Apr 20th |
| 32 |
Apr 24 |
Comment |
I don't study the bird pix the way you do, but I like some of the features in this image. First, a full view of the plumage of the body and the tail. Second the turned head giving us a great view of the head, eye, and beak. Third, I like the angle at which the branch travels, and its entry points at the edges of the frame.
We have had some discussions in the past about flower stem photos and where the stems enter and leave the frame. In those discussions, we talked about the tension in the image of the stem entering or leaving the frame exactly at the corner. You might consider the the composition of the "stick" is an underlying composition supporting the primary presentation of the bird. |
Apr 10th |
| 32 |
Apr 24 |
Comment |
Nice shot, with good clarity of the body and especially the light color horns against the darker background. Looking straight at you, too. Good story of your adventure. |
Apr 5th |
| 32 |
Apr 24 |
Comment |
This is a really interesting and successful use of these fancy filters. I have never experimented with them, but this works very well. As an aside, I notice that real estate agents in our area often give painterly images to their customers of their houses for sale, and I can see that they are computer-generated from photographs, but they look very impressive. |
Apr 5th |
| 32 |
Apr 24 |
Comment |
I think this is just perfect. I like the wide format because it makes me feel the motion of the trail. You caught the skiers in mid-stride. The snowy trail has good detail. The snow on the trees looks great. |
Apr 5th |
| 32 |
Apr 24 |
Reply |
Sounds good. Thanks. Here it is. |
Apr 5th |
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4 comments - 3 replies for Group 32
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| 33 |
Apr 24 |
Comment |
Here is the other sample. |
Apr 9th |
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| 33 |
Apr 24 |
Comment |
Stunning image, with great night colors.
One consideration. When you look up at architecture, your will see converging vertical lines. This is accurate perspective, and OK (to me) to leave as is. Many people prefer to alter such images. I prefer to leave some of the vertical convergence. Architectural photographers will often pull the vertical lines parallel. Here are a couple of sample to consider. |
Apr 9th |
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2 comments - 0 replies for Group 33
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| 34 |
Apr 24 |
Comment |
Franz, this is a beautiful composition. It has all the delicacy of an Asian composition of a natural subject. It has the spaciousness of Asian compositions.
But I think you have added some personal and modern elements. First of all, the high key tone is very interesting. Then, the bird flying from below is, I think, a modern personal innovation of yours, and very dramatic. |
Apr 9th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 34
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| 49 |
Apr 24 |
Comment |
Nice shot of a good travel subject. It looks like the wheel on the ground travels in a circle and rotates the top of the mill holding the sails to face into the wind. |
Apr 9th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 49
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| 51 |
Apr 24 |
Comment |
Wow! A Hasselblad. What a legendary camera, and such a great shot of it. |
Apr 9th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 51
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| 53 |
Apr 24 |
Comment |
Fascinating subject and a good capture of the process. I like the protective clothing, the simple rack holding the cup of molten metal. |
Apr 9th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 53
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| 59 |
Apr 24 |
Comment |
Wow! Good polo shots are extremely hard to get. Tell me, how many shots did you take to get this one? |
Apr 9th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 59
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| 63 |
Apr 24 |
Comment |
This is interesting. I hope you make a whole body of work with M&Ms. Seriously. How about stacking them, balancing them, cutting some in half, etc. |
Apr 9th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 63
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| 67 |
Apr 24 |
Comment |
Great shot. So glad I was not there with you. |
Apr 9th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 67
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| 70 |
Apr 24 |
Comment |
This is a lovely composition. It reminds me of an experience I had and I would like to tell the story.
A while back, I took my children, one by one, on some of their college tours. Left alone while they visited with host students, I often went to concerts or to the special collections section of the college libraries. At Grinnell, they had the letters of Rachel Carson, the environmental writer. I was given a pair of cotton gloves and a box of her letters. In one of her letters to her friend, she wrote something like this, "We [with her husband] sat out on the porch [of their vacation cabin home] last night looking at the full moon. You know, if you wait long enough, you can see a goose fly across the face of the full moon." |
Apr 8th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 70
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| 78 |
Apr 24 |
Reply |
It's a great combination detective/anti-racism story. |
Apr 15th |
| 78 |
Apr 24 |
Comment |
Such an interesting subject. I very much like such challenging photographs of statues. They have all the lighting problems of shooting live models.
To digress, following Brenda's comments that she has read all of his books, I strongly recommend several of Twain's lesser known works, The Innocents Abroad, Life on the Mississippi, and above all Puddn'head Wilson. |
Apr 8th |
1 comment - 1 reply for Group 78
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| 81 |
Apr 24 |
Comment |
Lovely shot. It really takes me back.
I started with a Minolta SR1 (speeds to 1/500, no built-in meter), then advanced to an SRT101 (speeds to 1/1000, built-in meter). |
Apr 8th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 81
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