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

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54 Apr 26 Reply I personally like the swimming cellos the best. Apr 15th
54 Apr 26 Reply Enjoy every aspect of the renovation. It's miraculous that such a mess turns into livable space. Apr 15th
54 Apr 26 Reply Enjoy! Apr 12th
54 Apr 26 Comment Thank you for your thoughtful feedback of my dreamscape. The restful tones come from Nik Collection's Color Efex Cross Processing tool which I discovered for this composite. I was looking for tones that I don't usually use. Sometimes you have to be lucky. :) Apr 11th
54 Apr 26 Comment Art is a mirror. You only see in it what you already have inside of you. This is an adaptation of a line in "The Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Luis Zafon that I changed to fit art rather than books. I use Zafon's wisdom because for a long time the high school where I was an English teacher added a new wing next to the English office. The construction was a restful break from grading papers. For several weeks, construction equipment "planted" 3-foot-high beams before coming to attach taller, vertical beams to these bases. Once completed, more construction equipment came to lay beams horizontally across the taller beams. I watched as a construction worker crawled across all of the horizontal beams to secure them to the vertical beams. Your composite made me relive the whole construction of beams. I like the way your mind works, and I get the eerie scene, but 3+ weeks of watching construction outside my window is "already inside of [me.]" Apr 6th
54 Apr 26 Comment It's April 6 and I'm already too late to add anything meaningful to Brad's and Peggy's comments. Their comments are quite thorough. I agree with Peggy's comment about tonal range. I also like Brad's "Family Portrait" title. It fits what you've done here so well. Nice work. Apr 6th
54 Apr 26 Reply Thanks for the advice from your workshop leader. It's good to keep in mind. Apr 4th
54 Apr 26 Reply There are a lot of respected photographers that encourage other photographers to break the rules. I break a lot of them myself. However, when I enter competitions in my camera club, I adhere to the judges' bugaboo about the negative effect of bright objects near the edge. You like putting bright figures/objects near the edge so continue doing it. I've been brainwashed. Apr 4th
54 Apr 26 Reply I always enjoy words like "exquisitely balanced composition." Thank you for those words and your other positive comments. I do not have a halo effect in my image. Different monitors have different results, I guess. Apr 4th
54 Apr 26 Reply Thank you for your feedback. We'll agree to disagree about removing the woman and the hole. Apr 4th
54 Apr 26 Comment You couldn't make us seasick last month, so you've upped the ante. That's quite a sturdy little sailboat to be able to survive the tumultuous storm you've created so well. You even have the hint of a tornado to add to the power of Mother Nature. Your colors work so well to create a dangerous situation. One does worry about the people who took that sailboat out. I once saw an oncoming thunderstorm whose clouds were approximately the color green of your clouds. It was quite a storm! Your clouds bring back the memory of that storm. Luckily, I was inside. Apr 2nd
54 Apr 26 Comment The strong diagonal of the birds draws the eye to the center of the image where the viewer is rewarded with a dreamy waterfall. I mentioned in my comments last month that the photographers who judge competitions for my camera club really don't like bright objects at the edge of photos. I came across a quote about this situation that serves as an appropriate guideline for photographers: "Breaking rules like composition and lighting allows photographers to discover new perspectives." It's as wise as "less is more." Apr 2nd
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