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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 3 |
Apr 25 |
Comment |
Very original rendering of this famous building. Well done.
Maybe just a bit too bright. |
Apr 5th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 3
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| 4 |
Apr 25 |
Comment |
Despite your shooting difficulties, this is an excellent clear and colorful shot.
But your title is *traditional clothing*. But this looks more like *dance regalia*. Is that the case? |
Apr 29th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 4
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| 5 |
Apr 25 |
Comment |
Yes, quite a good pattern.
Is it the Palouse? Or something else? |
Apr 1st |
| 5 |
Apr 25 |
Comment |
Nice shot. Sharp focus. Good framing. Did you used a tripod? Good conversion to monochrome, with suitable contrast.
I am guessing you got to shoot at a dress rehearsal of a drama group you know or belong to? From the dancing and maybe singing actors and piano design on the set floor, it looks quite obviously like a musical production. I wonder what the name of the musical is, especially if it is one of the classics. Maybe one of the actors is your relation or friend? I wonder if this is a professional or amateur production, and what city or theater it is in? How did you like doing this photo shoot? Do you shoot theater often?
I do wish you had told some stories here. |
Apr 1st |
2 comments - 0 replies for Group 5
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| 16 |
Apr 25 |
Comment |
Wonderful shot, respectful photo of a family at work.
Can you bring out the second person a bit more? |
Apr 5th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 16
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| 19 |
Apr 25 |
Comment |
Welcome to Turkey on your visit. My wife is Turkish, and we have been to Pamukkale several times. We hope you had a good visit.
Perhaps a bit more contrast to bring out the terrace pools in the upper left.
It is too late now, but I suggest this be shot from the position of the rightmost person in this image, looking across the bottom pool towards the upper one. |
Apr 5th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 19
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| 22 |
Apr 25 |
Reply |
Thinking it over, I now prefer your original shot, which is coincidentally the same framing, with legs cut off, as the original painting. Everything in the painting is cut off, a very daring composition.
The sculptor added glasses to the woman's face, a cute modernization.
I am amused that your colleagues all suggest fixing the umbrella, which I understand compositionally, but as I have known this painting all my life, the umbrella is essential to the original situation of a picture of a rainy day in Paris.
Also, the painting was an early image of the rebuilt Paris of the time. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_Paris |
Apr 27th |
| 22 |
Apr 25 |
Comment |
Nice shot of a fun work of art. Was there an angle from which you could have included the feet?
Here is the original painting by Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Rainy Day, 1877.
The painting is important to photographers, in my opinion, because it is an early example of a composition split in half down the center, something often done now by photographers. |
Apr 5th |
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1 comment - 1 reply for Group 22
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| 26 |
Apr 25 |
Comment |
Well done, and a good move to get the reflection in the mirror.
I particularly like this respectful image of daily life. Too many travel shots imply a superior position of the photographer capturing an image of inferior people. |
Apr 4th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 26
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| 32 |
Apr 25 |
Reply |
Putting a background behind the subject is surely a good idea when the situation allows.
My camera can focus down to as close as an inch. |
Apr 29th |
| 32 |
Apr 25 |
Reply |
$$$? No, for me just getting out my old tripod and making do with that. I just don't shoot enough to get a new DSLR and lenses. |
Apr 24th |
| 32 |
Apr 25 |
Reply |
Yes, I need to get ready if I am going to continue with macro shots of small life forms. |
Apr 23rd |
| 32 |
Apr 25 |
Reply |
Thank you. This is a truly fantastic result! I generally don't spend on software, but I am very tempted by this. How much does it cost and do I just shop at "Topaz"? |
Apr 23rd |
| 32 |
Apr 25 |
Reply |
Thanks for the ID. No macro lens. I shoot with a Canon G-10, a very good but modest camera with a fixed lens. I chose it as the best small camera I could get that would fit in my pocket, because I got tired of carrying around the old film camera and all the lenses. But it does have limitations. Only 4 f-stops is the main one. And it is a bit old now, so not too good in low light, as many newer cameras are now. |
Apr 23rd |
| 32 |
Apr 25 |
Reply |
Yes, I will try to be ready with a tripod next time, which I hope will be soon. I always shoot at ISO 100 if possible. Interesting what you explained about them being sensitive to CO2. Me, I am an arachnophile, and regard them as friends because they eat the insects. |
Apr 16th |
| 32 |
Apr 25 |
Reply |
Yes, quite right. I will get ready next time and have at the subject again in the next few months. Taking this shot has piqued my interest in insects and spiders. |
Apr 16th |
| 32 |
Apr 25 |
Comment |
I like that you included the moat. But I would have preferred a darker sky. See Tom's infrared image this month for a dramatic sky. Can you apply a post-processing red filter to get a darker sky? |
Apr 12th |
| 32 |
Apr 25 |
Comment |
Quite an assemblage of elements. The final monochrome is much better that the color version. Very well done to get those eyes in so well.
But the eyes being the windows of the soul, these eyes are not suffering. So I think you have a very successful image that could be call Cogitation, or The Birth of an Idea.
For suffering, could you add knitted brows, like in Michelangelo's famous David statue or one of the old Medusa faces? |
Apr 8th |
| 32 |
Apr 25 |
Comment |
Great subject, and nicely done that you included a little of the made-up face of the second woman.
Could be my screen, or my eyes, but the red flowers in the woman's hair seem to still have a slight red tint. I am not objecting. It looks good. As I seeing right? |
Apr 8th |
| 32 |
Apr 25 |
Comment |
By taking out the base of the rightmost column, you avoided the worst of the distortion, which I do not have a problem with anyway. I think this is an appropriate use of the wide lens and its distortion is limited, acceptable, and allows you to get the image.
I don't personally care for architectural shots with people in them. I prefer the architecture to speak for itself. Reference Thomas Struth's architectural images. |
Apr 7th |
| 32 |
Apr 25 |
Comment |
I think this shows infrared photography at its best. The dark sky sets out the white building and the white foliage harmonizes with the white building. Good idea to reverse the image to make the drive flow left to right.
I wonder if you would comment on the generality of infrared, for which we have a lot of groups concentrated on it in the DDs. Mostly, they are lost on me, as it just looks to me like random shifts in tones, and most of the images do not seem well-composed. |
Apr 7th |
| 32 |
Apr 25 |
Comment |
Very interesting, and great that you had fun.
I will comment more later, but please show some of the original pictures. |
Apr 1st |
6 comments - 7 replies for Group 32
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| 42 |
Apr 25 |
Comment |
I don't think you intentionally jumbled the image. Perhaps it was a scanning problem.
But the Mystic Seaport shot is very pleasing. |
Apr 3rd |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 42
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| 43 |
Apr 25 |
Comment |
Love it. I love shadow images like this. It is not clear from the shadows that you are all taking pictures, which I think is a plus. |
Apr 3rd |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 43
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| 67 |
Apr 25 |
Comment |
Great shot! See also group 72 this month. |
Apr 2nd |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 67
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| 72 |
Apr 25 |
Comment |
Great shot! See also group 67 this month. |
Apr 2nd |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 72
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| 78 |
Apr 25 |
Reply |
It is entirely possible that this is Chinese *Export Ware*, which could be ordered from abroad. If so, the artwork on the pitcher may have been based on photographs or drawings sent to the producer. Hence, the spelling of Whisky could be either what you said or an error in ordering this pitcher from halfway around the world. |
Apr 24th |
| 78 |
Apr 25 |
Comment |
Nice action shot. Novel that it is in the rain.
I have been in Taipei years ago. Is this location in Taipei? Where exactly? |
Apr 2nd |
1 comment - 1 reply for Group 78
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| 86 |
Apr 25 |
Comment |
My family traveled a lot in Asia in the 80s, and I remember this place well. It is nice to visit it again through your image. Lovely composition.
I would prefer, as others have said, to see the architecture without tourists, but you are right, that is just not possible.
Did you take this with a wide-angle lens and tilt upwards a bit? Consider a little straightening of the perspective, as in my sample. But the disadvantage of the straightening is that the buildings get a bit squatter. You choose. |
Apr 23rd |
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1 comment - 0 replies for Group 86
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| 87 |
Apr 25 |
Comment |
Good photograph with a nice combination of foreground and background.
Truly a fascinating travel/science image. I love being able to travel there with your help in this photograph. |
Apr 2nd |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 87
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