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Critique By:
Galeota (K:919)
9/23/2006 9:27:34 PM
Now Ms Karina, how should I express the joy to come across your path in here? I guess I've met you before somewhere else, right? I love the way you built this image and the ways it strikes and wakens up our imagination. She's heading to the light without hesitation because she KNOWS there is nothing beyond light to be feared. You know this would have also been good in black & white, perhaps even better, since there's already no colour and the subject lends itself perfectly for a timeless atmosphere. See you soon, around...
Be well
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| Photo By: cessy karina
(K:14205)
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Critique By:
Galeota (K:919)
9/23/2006 9:23:20 PM
Hello Abdullah. I confess I rarely come across a partial desaturated image that impresses me. I like yours very much. Composition wise, the diagonal made both by the hand and the face in the background is perfect. Lovely bokeh also, even though I'm not really sure you managed to have f2.8 with that lens...(either it's the wrong lens, either the aperture is just not correct). The depth of fiel is just enough to see her looking at us behind her hand. The vignetting adds to the atmosphere. Good work!
Cheers
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| Photo By: Abdullah Bailey
(K:6)
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Critique By:
Galeota (K:919)
9/23/2006 8:16:01 PM
'lo Robert. This is an interesting photograph. I like the way you framed the scene, and even though I would have prefered to see the boy looking slightly upwards instead of looking down, I can't help letting myself be carried by the way he seems lost in his thoughts.
Light is a bit dull, and that reflects in the washed out tonalities which don't really favour the subject. You'll tell me it has the advantage of representing exactly what you saw, but perhaps with a bit of post processing you'd be able to improve the overall appearance and quality (contrast wise) of your image. Of course, it would also help to bring out the textures of the wall and the wood, which make always a nice contrast when put side by side.
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| Photo By: Robert Waddingham
(K:3389)
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Critique By:
Galeota (K:919)
9/23/2006 7:52:45 PM
Hello Lin, this is an interesting composition with a tryptic of layers side by side, interconnected by a focus point which happens to be, paradoxically, out of focus. Even though our eyes move from right to left, which is not the traditional direction to read a photograph, this is done easily because the guy on the right hand side seems to be watching in the same direction where she's pointing at...well..yes...heu, heu, the magnificient example of Greek's hominus representation.
My only nitpick is related to your point of focus, actually, which is rather shallow (lovely bokeh) and is set on the lady's back...I don't know, perhaps focusing on her hair would have been more "logical" (logic by my own personal standards, of course).
Cheers
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| Photo By: Lin chan
(K:190)
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Critique By:
Galeota (K:919)
9/22/2006 2:52:20 PM
"resolution" do you mean conceptually?
'lo Mark. No, although you're using film and can actually go for large prints with a relative confidence, I meant the resolution rendered by the pinhole lens which has its limits. Soft focus may be a source of particularly moody atmospheres, but details are often put aside to the profit of an overall visual insight. I might be wrong though. Do you usually print your work? What kind results are you getting, definition wise?
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| Photo By: Mark Hamilton
(K:8387)
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Critique By:
Galeota (K:919)
9/22/2006 2:14:12 PM
Hello again Txules. I'll take a minute to tell you how much I appreciate your last two uploads. Not like the child looking upwards, these ones show us meaningful human beings looking straightforward into your camera, with an intensity that can't be ignored. Let me praise once again your superb black&white conversion technique, and tell you how much light has been well managed in thse interior portraits. The eyes do play an important role, and you do well in bringing up their brightness, but what impresses me the most are their mouth and the strength reveled by their facial expression. Now, how about a comment to accompany your photograph. Who is this man? How did you come to interact with him?
Cheers
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Photo By: txules .
(K:62768)
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Critique By:
Galeota (K:919)
9/22/2006 2:04:37 PM
Hello Benedetto. It is not the first time our paths come across, and I remember well having seen your photographs previously, somewhere else in the web. I am particularly pleased to find out your work here, with many photographs I'd never seen before. Of course there is a truly admirable work of post processing in your images, where you let your creativity flow and give birth to fantastic scenes. But what is more to be praised is the way you make feelings arise in those who look at your photographs, as dreams rising from our subconcious to be confronted to reality (or our perception of reality, if you prefer).
This painting portraying one of those dreams, in the rising sun of a golden day to come, appears to me as an unbelievable optimism and belief in life. I wish I could look at myself as a child, with my present eyes of an adult, and project my existence on that road that leads to light. Thank you.
Cheers.
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| Photo By: Benedetto Riba
(K:15792)
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Critique By:
Galeota (K:919)
9/22/2006 1:48:15 PM
Hello Luis, sorry I won't share the opinion of previous criticers. Although I have nothing against head crops (on the contrary), I really don't thnk your composition is working here. Seems like if he was leaving the room and suddenly remembered he had forgotten something behind. The crop seems unnatural, like if you had actually taken your photograph two seconds too late (or too early). Half an eye, half a nose, you have, imho, just half a photograph. As for the journalistic value of this, perhaps a photographer's comment in the "about" would have helped. Otherwise, we learn nothing about him, not even your view on the subject, which makes me think he could just be another kid anywhere in south america. Hope this doesn't sound too harsh. Just a matter of personal opinion.
Cheers
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| Photo By: Luis Soto
(K:354)
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Critique By:
Galeota (K:919)
9/22/2006 1:38:27 PM
Hello mark. A particular atmosphere well rendered both because of the long exposure and the particular effect of the Pinhole camera. Don't really know if it's on purpose, but the tilted horizon works well and adds a touch of creativity (should I say chaos?), in what otherwise seems to be a timeless, harmonious, scenery. Lovely tones. In the minus side, I guess it really lacks resolution and I doubt it would make its way to make a fine art print.
Cheers
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| Photo By: Mark Hamilton
(K:8387)
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Critique By:
Galeota (K:919)
9/21/2006 9:46:53 PM
Hello Davide. Composition is superb, as far as I'm concerned. The square middle format suits well the scene, and your photograph has a wide range of tonalities showing details in shadows as well as highlights (perhaps a bit overexposed in the upper background, but not really an issue). Although the image quality and resolution seems already excellent (thank you couple Hasselblad/Planar), it could take a bit more output sharpening for web posting. Good work.
Cheers
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| Photo By: Davide Bressanello
(K:3103)
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Critique By:
Galeota (K:919)
9/21/2006 9:42:24 PM
Hello Txules. Technically, I have nothing but praises for the quality of the lens used and also for your b&w conversion technique, together with the pp work on his/her eyes. I'm a bit deceived by the way you chose to photograph your subject though. i'm not personally very fond of these kind of point of view, where you look at children from above, making them lift their eyes in a sort of imploring/admiring/submitted way. Then there's the lack of context in your photograph. Ok, she's cute. But every child in the world is cute. What else can we learn from Madagascar, from her life, from the link that took you to take her photograph? Nihil. Sorry, doesn't really work for me. Filling the frame with a cute face isn't quite enough to make a good photograph. Hope this doesn't sound to harsh. Just expressing my personal opinion as honestly as I can.
Cheers
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| Photo By: txules .
(K:62768)
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Critique By:
Galeota (K:919)
9/21/2006 9:35:00 PM
Hello Arnoldas. What a subtle and poetic image. Of course, working with an Hasselblad is already a delicate in itself, in the sense you make place to the extraordinary world (composition wise) of middle format cameras. This is well succeeded, imo, even though I have the feeling it works better seen exposed on the web, than it would on a art paper print..would have to see, perhaps I'm mistaken. I love the details allowed by these high quality cameras and lenses; the small branches cutting the background are like veins assuring a breath of life to the environing night. Beautiful work.
Cheers.
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| Photo By: Arnoldas Jurgaitis
(K:2)
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Critique By:
Galeota (K:919)
9/21/2006 9:26:14 PM
Wow, this came out lovely. I wish you could brighten a bit the butterfly. Otherwise, B&W really suits this subject, giving place to the curtain's pattern and the delicacy of the scene. This is a dreamy image, taken out of minimalism. But pure beauty is minimalist in its essence. Doesn't need any show off. Good work with a certain sense of aesthetics.
Cheers
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| Photo By: Branimir Fagarazzi
(K:38367)
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Critique By:
Galeota (K:919)
9/21/2006 9:21:08 PM
Hello Koray. YOur image vehicles a good sense of speed, but the foreground is cruelly missing a strong subject to anchor our view. The reflections (?) of the women on the left handside aren't really enough to make i work. I want to like your photograph, but my eyes keep turning in circles not knowing how to read it properly. Something to retry, in my opinion.
Cheers
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| Photo By: Koray Türker
(K:471)
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Critique By:
Galeota (K:919)
9/21/2006 9:15:53 PM
Hello Hanggan. Lovely tones, seems like a brownish duotone, and a good management of light/exposure. The composition is suffering from the lack of symmetry. I guess this is a good example of a photograph where the subject should be perfectly centered (which is in contradiction with basic photographic rules, but who cares, anyway...). I guess the prow should be slightly to the left, which is now impossible, unless you're willing to crop 1cm on the left handside. Oh, a bit of contrast wouldn't hurt either.
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| Photo By: Hanggan Situmorang
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