Activity for User 419 - Dr Isaac Vaisman - ivaisman@bellsouth.net

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4	Mar 20	Reply	Bill, very interesting result indeed.	Mar 27th
4	Mar 20	Reply	and, if it is reading a newspaper......	Mar 24th
4	Mar 20	Reply	Bill, you got it right !!! Thanks	Mar 24th
4	Mar 20	Reply	I missed that crane on my first view......	Mar 22nd
4	Mar 20	Reply	Much better Erik, thanks.	Mar 22nd
4	Mar 20	Comment	Bill, I like very much the way the shoreline is framing the grass and the wet bench. This must have been mid day given by the way the light is reflected in the water surface and the perpendicular shadow. Lately I have been scanning a lot of B&W prints I did in the late 60's-early 70's on my darkroom improvised in the guest room bathroom in my parents house, I was in my late teens.. early 20's. This past weekend I was digging into the garage full of boxes, and I found the long forgotten box (27 years since we moved back to the US from Venezuela) with all my B&W negatives. I will see what can be done scanning the negatives instead of the prints and will try to show some of those pictures in the future.	Mar 16th
4	Mar 20	Reply	So this is copy and flip ? Very cool result.	Mar 10th
4	Mar 20	Comment	Ian, great image created at the blue hour after sunset. the presence of the star effect on the lights,and with the additional reflections on the water improves the image. It is very sharp, and you can tell the time of the day. The long exposure also created a soft surface on the water.	Mar 9th
4	Mar 20	Comment	Joe, interesting building with the added gift of the other building's reflection on the non usual shaped windows. It is sharp, the colors are well handled and the lateral extension to the left of the frame (our right) gives a reference with respect of dimension of the structure. I wish you had a human component included.	Mar 9th
4	Mar 20	Comment	Erik, Fort DeSoto is a bird photographer's paradise indeed. This image of the Curlew is so sharp that all the details in the feathers can be appreciated. The colors are well balance. Your vantage point as described is ideal and the background is so uniform that resembles a backdrop in the studio with no distractions enhancing the presence of the bird. Great image. The falling drops from the beak's tip add interest and action to the image.	Mar 1st
4	Mar 20	Comment	Guy, perfect B&W interpretation of the night image, very sharp, the whites and the blacks are right on the spot. The leading lines created by the lamps on the wall and the markings on the street take my eyes all the way to the back being able to read and appreciate all the details in the image. The DOF is "super" focal.	Mar 1st
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58	Mar 20	Reply	Jim, is not a band of sidewalk. It is the delimitation of the area that was assigned to the artist.	Mar 30th
58	Mar 20	Comment	Hassan, I have been in Turkey and have enjoyed the tea boy experience. Your image indeed tells a story, but I see two problems with it. First what it has been pointed out about him, the center of attention and main subject of the image is blurred by the movement, and Second, those large blue water containers in the foreground which are competing very strongly with the main subject. I cropped them out, desaturated the remaining portion of the container and cart and added some gaussian blur to reduce the distraction, but; I can not regain sharpness on the tea boy.	Mar 16th
58	Mar 20	Reply	Gloria, I think it balances the large Neiman Marcus lights in the other side. If cropped, our eyes will go the other way. Now it pretty much goes back and forth and keeping in the center.	Mar 9th
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58	Mar 20	Comment	At this time I used extreme vantage points: the image of this month (details stated) and one from ground level with a camera with a 14 mm wide angle lens on a 2 incches minitripod, and operat from my iphone with live view (yellow circle). I am also attaching an image of the same artist from this vantage point. What do you think ??	Mar 8th
58	Mar 20	Reply	Gloria the camera and the lens have AF. It was set to continuous AF. I did not have any problem with it. The only thing I told my grandson was to take several images continuously ( 3 to 5). Perhaps this is when the AF really works.	Mar 8th
58	Mar 20	Comment	Randy, nice night shot of New York's 10th Avenue North. It has a great DOF all the way to the back. Good management of the Blacks and Whites. I like the presence of people crossing the street over the white lines. It looks like your vantage point was high (maybe a bridge over the street ??) given by your almost central position on the frame.	Mar 3rd
58	Mar 20	Comment	Daniel, typical example of off camera flash being held by an assistant rather than a light stand. The photographer is lining on the pillar. The bride and groom are standing well posed and the image is complemented by the reflection of them and are also framed by the line of pillars. Agree with Ata about the simplistic and non professional set up.	Mar 3rd
58	Mar 20	Reply	Randy, the camera was mounted on a monopod completely extended and held over my head as high as possible. It was tilted down so that it would be perpendicular to the ground, and triggered by my assistant (my 12 years old grandson) with a remote control.	Mar 3rd
58	Mar 20	Comment	Gloria, typical case where the photographer gets photographed !! Good vantage point, and the subject is off center with a uniform blue background which is non distracting and working as a studio backdrop. The red of the jacket and the white gloves contrast very nicely with the blue sky. The man's face expression is of making sure that his image of you is well captured. It is sharp.	Mar 1st
58	Mar 20	Comment	Jim, interesting image of Paris and the Eiffel Tower, where the emphasis was not placed in the tower (most iconic structure in Paris). I like the way you cropped the image to bring the interest to the other sculptures in the foreground and midground, and leaving the tower as background. All the levels are sharp, and the presence of the human component adds scale to it. Now; I see a very strong blue hue (raining ??, people walking with umbrellas) and the presence of the very red bus which takes my eyes directly to it overpowering the rest of the image. I did do a white balance adjustment and lowered the saturation of the red bus so it gets blended with the rest of the image.	Mar 1st
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67	Mar 20	Reply	It happens to all of us	Mar 10th
67	Mar 20	Comment	Richard, just out of curiosity, why didn't you go all the way to 500 mm (750mm full frame) ? and is the 420 mm you describe already including the x1.5 crop factor of the D500 ?	Mar 10th
67	Mar 20	Comment	Larry, this is a jaw dropping image. Nothing else to say.	Mar 5th
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72	Mar 20	Comment	Abhijeet, looking at the original image I can sense that from your vantage point you were caught between the wall and a hard rock in reference of moving to one or the other side to remove the presence of the unwanted additional birds. Your PP is nice and I agree that Stuart's additional adjustments made the image better. If it is not for pure nature, as is our group (Nature +) you could clone out the American Bittern in the background which is competing very strongly with the white egret.	Mar 16th
72	Mar 20	Comment	Walt, nice composition rich in layers: foreground with partially illuminated flowers and one type of pine trees, mid ground formed by the other type of pine trees, and the background with multiple shades and shapes with the subtle colors of dawn right before sunrise. Indeed the center of attention is on the flowers.	Mar 5th
72	Mar 20	Comment	Mary, beautiful landscape with the contrast of a snowed mountain, and planted green fields. The zoom lens @ 240 mm did compress somehow the image. The clouds on the ski add drama as well and from its position, you were at a pretty high altitude. It is sharp and nicely composed. The brown stroke also separates the image from the black background.	Mar 5th
72	Mar 20	Comment	Adrian, I can feel the vibrations on the ground.... What a great capture of the elephants family lined up and posing for you. your PP brought a lot of light and detail on the skin. Good crop in a panorama like frame.	Mar 5th
72	Mar 20	Comment	Marie, nice image, very sharp, beautiful colors and the turbulence in the water adds interest to the image. I recently listened to a group of international judges about nature/bird photography, and this one would not be counted for the competition. First of all the duck is navigating away from you (you can not see the eye), and there is no action going on, and finally; it was shot from a high vantage point. The best images are shot at eye level (if possible).	Mar 5th
72	Mar 20	Reply	Mary, come to Florida !!!	Mar 5th
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