Activity for User 480 - Alan Kaplan - akaplan973@gmail.com

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41 Sep 25 Comment You have used your blending skills to perfection here. The use of your daughter's eyes in the one mannequin made me wonder if using her eyes in the other 2 mannequins in the front row would improve the image . . . so I experimented. Very nice work. Sep 9th
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54 Sep 25 Reply My experimentation category is full of possibilities I revisit frequently. Sep 15th
54 Sep 25 Reply Thank you for your feedback. I'm looking into more blending, but it's new to me so progress will slow. Sep 15th
54 Sep 25 Reply I agree with you. The tighter composition works better. Thank you. Sep 13th
54 Sep 25 Comment Maybe it's my American sensitivity, but I can't help seeing (as you said) a dominating (my word) glass Coca Cola bottle dominating the scene. You have a beautiful foreground of trees, shrubs, and warm, natural colored dirt plus a dead tree. And the flower is quite lovely. This image, though containing attractive parts, just doesn't work for me. Sep 11th
54 Sep 25 Comment The success of this image lies in the obvious fun you had putting it all together. This follows the fun you had photographing all of the images in the different towns. What looks like a violent scene at first glance, really isn't as the viewer takes a longer look at the image. The colorful characters are balanced well by the gray woman selling her wares. Nice work. Sep 11th
54 Sep 25 Comment This IS a dream lake. The mist is quite powerful, adding to the dream-like quality. The trees appearing in a break of the mist helps to draw the eye to the back of the scene. However, the swan on the left tends to keep the eye in the foreground. I see the size of the swan on the left being reduced and placed more in the background on the left to support the eye's attention to the background and the trees. I'm not in love with the dead tree being at the center of this idyllic dream. My comments are, of course, a matter of taste, as you have a wonderful image that makes one want to grab a boat and row into. Sep 11th
54 Sep 25 Comment You are showing a different side of your artistic self, and quite successfully I might add. Some of the words used by Peggy and Kirsti--mellow, dreamy, subtle, idyllic--describe what you have accomplished quite well. I wouldn't change a thing. There is a softness in the colors that control the feeling of the whole image that is very attractive. Nice work. Sep 11th
54 Sep 25 Comment The texture is the story in your image. As one who tries to create story-less images, I feel that one does not need to add artifacts to "write" a story where there is none. Your scene is eye-catching enough without a story, and the large bird adds wonderful perspective to the beach scene, but the squirrel, I feel, seems out of place. The texture certainly makes this a striking scene. Sep 11th
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