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Critique By:
Toni Martin (K:5092)
10/23/2001 8:29:20 PM
You have good composition here, Paul. Try for good saturation on photos like this, especially fall leaves. The best way is to use a circular polarizer, and turn it until the fall colors pop their highest saturation. Polarizers are great. You can literally control the light and color with them. I like to get a highlight on the water like this from a breeze. Sometimes it will be your best photo. I like to watch where it is going and decide where I want it to appear in the shot. Another trick, from days when I had never heard of a polarizer, is to underexpose by 1/3 to 1 full stop, depending on how strong the sun is. Keep shooting and have fun!
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Critique By:
Toni Martin (K:5092)
10/23/2001 7:46:07 PM
We need better thumbnails! Hate to think how many photos don't get looked at because of the thumbnail. I love this! The moons are great, wherever they come from. But what I like MOST is the trees around the edge. That makes the image. Without them, the photo does not stand up that well.
You were very clever to include the trees. The little moon . . . . maybe it is Sputnick!
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Critique By:
Toni Martin (K:5092)
10/23/2001 7:41:17 PM
Paul, I really envy you on this one. You have very good feather detail, and bird detail. What kind of bird is it? I have tried for so long to get a decent bird of any kind, flying or not! I can never get a good focus, even with an autofocus. I think I have finally given up. My 400 mm is a little slow on the autofocus, and widest aperture is 5.6. You did a good job here. Be proud. Have noticed the Blue heron is back here. I can't even get a bird that size! Keep up the good work!
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Critique By:
John Charlton (K:5595)
10/17/2001 2:45:52 PM
Thanks Paul for letting me use this fantastic image in a colaborative effort. See Quick View ID# 7064
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Critique By:
John Charlton (K:5595)
10/16/2001 3:43:28 PM
Hi Paul. This is a remarkable photograph of the moon.
I was wondering if you would like to loan it to me to use in a photo I recently posted entitled The Edge of Night. (Quick View ID# 6925) I was thinking it would look great set behind the tree and against that deep blue background. I recently worked with Kevin Lanthier on a similar collaboration - see Quick View Id# 6531 and the follow up picture #6754.
I think I can pull it off, but would love to here from you and your thoughts on the matter. Email me at john.charlton@sympatico.ca if you are interested or have any suggestions for me.
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Critique By:
Toni Martin (K:5092)
9/27/2001 6:23:56 PM
Nice photo, Paul. But gee thanks, I got really bad vertigo sitting here in my chair, looking at this. Honest to God.
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Critique By:
David Timms (K:110)
8/31/2001 8:35:21 PM
Doesn't this come bottled with a Coors label???
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Critique By:
Chris Hayward (K:1519)
8/31/2001 3:59:10 PM
Ok, I find it amazing that at least two of the members
here follow buffalos around waiting for the right moment -
and then hold onto the photos, keeping them at hand until the time is ripe... This is a strange group.
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Critique By:
Beverly Gustafson (K:1572)
8/31/2001 12:27:25 PM
OMG!! Help me I'm laughing and I cant stop
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Critique By:
Debbie Groff (K:9569)
8/31/2001 10:51:57 AM
Artie, Paul says, Thank you for not making him go shoot his again, he will work on the before mentioned areas.
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Critique By:
Artie Colantuono (K:12275)
8/31/2001 8:24:43 AM
head and right side is underexposed...more light to the face..this doesnt look enough like Gary..hair needs to be greyer..watch that DOF
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Critique By:
Paul Groff (K:10)
8/31/2001 6:41:57 AM
I been waiting for a long time to post this picture. I knew some day this picture would get some laffs.
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Critique By:
Chris Whaley (K:3847)
8/31/2001 5:25:01 AM
LMAO..........i wish you guys new how hard i was laughinh now
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Critique By:
Chris Hayward (K:1519)
8/30/2001 10:55:54 AM
Really really like the lighting on the telescope. Nice work Paul -- or Debbie...
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Critique By:
Debbie Groff (K:9569)
8/30/2001 5:47:42 AM
Artie, from Debbie, I printed this out and sure enough had it been a picture that I would want to put on my wall for the family "wall album" I will definitely redo and use a light to shine on his face, as the telescope had his face shaded. I just get excited now when something is in focus. LOL. I did read the scanning article, have all my equipment set up for the right stuff. It's the photo shop buisness I need to work on. hehe
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Critique By:
Artie Colantuono (K:12275)
8/30/2001 2:05:14 AM
Ray Wearn got some articles up here on scanning..read and follow....pretty cool iamge Paul.....
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Critique By:
Paul Groff (K:10)
8/26/2001 8:45:57 AM
thank you for the great ideas.I havent even thought about double exposures. I just got a telescope attachment that lets me look through an eyepiece to focus while the camera is attached.Now I can get some star field pictures. Its going to take alot of practice and time. will post one as soon as I get one back.
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Critique By:
Martin Mora (K:4666)
8/26/2001 7:39:34 AM
Paul, do you know, that when you load a roll of film in your camera, mark it in some way, so that when you load it the second time, it matchs frame for frame, perhaps a 12 exposure roll would be best, take your moon photos placeing the moon near a corner of the frame,(write down or remember where) and not a moon this big  then you rewind your film. make sure you dont rewind the whole thing into the canister, then you laod your camera again with this same roll, matching up the referance marks like I mentioned, and you can go shoot some landscapes, leaving the corner, where you know your moon is open, thus double exposeing your frames, and all your landscape shots will have a neatO moon in them kinda fun to play with..
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Critique By:
Martin Mora (K:4666)
8/26/2001 7:31:36 AM
very very cool shot, lots of impact here, I can almost hear Darth Vadar breathing
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Critique By:
Martin Mora (K:4666)
8/26/2001 7:28:21 AM
wow,, what color and sharpness,, beautiful shot Paul
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Critique By:
DENNIS CARPENTER JONES (K:74)
8/23/2001 2:01:14 PM
Nice job, I love taking pictures of the moon, you took a good shot, this is a great picture, keep them comming.
Dennis c.
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Critique By:
Debbie Groff (K:9569)
8/21/2001 7:43:53 PM
Lalitha, Yes we were able to use flash, but at the time we visited these caves we didn't realize how much stabilization a tripod would give us. As for us girls behavin...We try don't we. Gotta just let lose ever now and again
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Critique By:
Artie Colantuono (K:12275)
8/21/2001 1:08:30 PM
no Lalitha dont go there......light....this is going to a black abyss....
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Critique By:
Pedro P. Luz Cunha Filho (K:325)
8/17/2001 1:16:39 PM
Very nice. I really like shots like this one!
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Critique By:
Katie Nielsen (K:279)
8/15/2001 2:03:07 PM
I see by your profile your interest is astronomy pictures. It's always fun to adventure out and try something else. You could probably improve this shot by eliminating some of the background clutter (try a different camera angle). In an animal "portrait" such as this, it's important to have the eye in focus, where in this image, the lower part of the neck seems sharper than his head. And...to bring out the eye, try a wee bit of fill flash to get that "catchlight". Good Luck and keep shooting!
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Critique By:
Chris Whaley (K:3847)
8/11/2001 11:58:46 PM
Nice job Paul...great color....have you thought about doing double exposures with this to add the moon to a landscape?
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Critique By:
Robert McDonald (K:511)
8/11/2001 7:23:25 PM
Knew this one was yours when I clicked on it, you are getting some great colour there
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Critique By:
Paul Groff (K:10)
8/4/2001 1:47:59 PM
Gary, I'm (commenting) Debbie (it's me). Anyway, after our little talk last evening, I was so puzzled about the scanner I scanned this picture in again and started messing with all buttons on the scanner page until I got what looked decent to me and then sent to Adobe and finished up. Hope I get better at this. I think it still looks a little dark at the bottom and to the right and then a bit overexposed in the right middle. We're working so hard, thought we were playing, should think we're working but really playing? Psycological type thing?
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Critique By:
Chris Whaley (K:3847)
8/3/2001 8:01:39 PM
The good ol' days...nice one Paul.
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Critique By:
Martin Mora (K:4666)
8/3/2001 7:05:43 PM
LOL, I didnt read the title before bring this one up.. LOL, but I gotta say I love the rich wood tones, thats what caught my eye to start with. nice shot Paul
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