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64 Aug 18 Reply Absolutely. Heaven forbid us liking everything, where would the debate and challenge be then? Different and proud! Not the modern meaning ;-)
Two interesting sites you've pointed me to, thanks.		 Aug 13th
64 Aug 18 Reply I think it's difficult to comment without seeing the original prior to post processing and another picture of the subject taken from a completely different viewpoint so that we can understand its "real life" appearance to be able to more fully understand what you did to achieve more than a record of the artwork.
I think that architectural photography is a wide subject. Many good architectural pictures show fairly accurate and recognisable depictions of the building(s)from intersting vantage points, whereas others are not so and are using the shapes and geometry for interest etc. and so are "anonymous". Here I think if it were recognisable (to those who had seen it obviously) you'd lose all the impact of this work.
Despite that, as I said, I'm sure there's been real photograpic creative input here and would argue against anyone claiming it was not original. I'd quite like to see a "real life" version though.		 Aug 13th
64 Aug 18 Reply All fair comment and welcome. I'm quite new to portraiture so I'm just tending to copy others and to take the lead of the group leader and the models. Having said that, I'm constantly amazed by the work of some of the "great" photographers, much leaves me quite cold. All a matter of taste I suppose. I quite like this of course, I'm fond of contrast and strong lines in mono. My other pics taken on this shoot are more picture-like, but I suspect won't improve when converted to mono. I'll try one and see, it might or might not appear next month! Aug 13th
64 Aug 18 Reply Good point! I'll lighten it a bit. Or perhaps clone in some wall to remove it. It's better if the wall is all mid tones I think, and the contrast is in the model. Thanks.
How about this?		 Aug 12th
64 Aug 18 Comment A super catch! Good mono conversion.

This picture has my opinion oscillating between "leave it as it is" and "crop it more". I think on the whole I'd go for the latter; the insect is a rather tiny part of the picture, the black in the foreground isn't very helpful, some of the patchy blur at the top could be lost without loss if you know what I mean, and then the resultant letterbox doen't suit it so I'd lose a bit at the sides. Although the tiny strip of the ear does add context I think, so only the right has to go for me. 		Aug 12th
64 Aug 18 Comment A lovely picture. The light balance is lovely, window light can sometimes be too strong and lead to too deep shadows, but none of that here, it's spot on I think. Lovely composition

As a print, the frame will place a white border, but for projection I'd add a thin border. Personally I can't see Don's comments and whilst details are not razor sharp (but no doubt some has been lost in the low res image we post) but it's a soft picture, I think that's fine. We could I suppose ask for a contrast between the soft face and other details but I suspect that it would be no better than this. 		Aug 12th
64 Aug 18 Comment I do enjoy this picture. I'm please to see the Allies must have missed this building in 1945. I love the sky and the slight lightning behind the steeple top. Good composition and detail in the important bits.

Regarding the stars, I don't think that diffraction is related to sensor size (else most smartphone pics would be awash with stars), it's a function of f number and focal length. But that's a gut feel, I might be wrong, happy to be corrected.

Regarding hand holding, I've just been reading a review of the 12-100mm Olympus PRO lens which I'm considering getting. It has optical image stabilisation in the lens as well as the camera body (other Olly lenses don't have lens IS) and the two work in conjunction. Apparently 5 seconds hand held of stationary images is easy with the OM-D EM-1 mk2 body, 20 seconds is quite possible. The mind boggles. 		Aug 12th
64 Aug 18 Comment Yes, massive impact and curiosity as it's "too good to be true" to my eye. (But I'm often surprised!) I think you did a fab job on it, I'd have had suspicions without your warning but it's so realistic. That's the modern world all over, isn't it, what you see is not necessarily what you get.
I've heard many negative comments elsewhere about photographing the art of others. but you have brought photographic input so I think it's fair enough, a nice image with excellent technical quality, honestly presented and a lesson to all, not just judges!		 Aug 12th
64 Aug 18 Comment Absolutely brilliant, I love it, well done! Is this a new subdivision in street photography??
Could we have another mm or two on the bottom edge (if perhaps you have cropped it)?
Another thought, lighten the horse a little to make it stand out more?		 Aug 12th
64 Aug 18 Comment It looks a super place and the scene is very enjoyable.

I guess I'm one of the rare people who see nothing interesting in IR images. Many years ago in Kenya working for my company who owned the mineral rights at Lake Magadi I took some 35mm IR film and had a light aircraft flight to photograph the lake (a misnomer usually, it's a solid bed of sodium carbonate salts most of the time outside the rainy season)which did show features invisible to visible spectrum light and film and so was quite instructive for us. But that's the only time I've found IR interesting. So sorry, I can't comment on this image, but am very impressed by the processing description!		 Aug 12th
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