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Critique By:
Ethan Lewis (K:1536)
10/25/2004 2:17:19 PM
I really can't even guess at what the blurred shapes in the background are. A great shot. And a great song as well, incidentally.
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| Photo By: Patrick Jacobson
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Critique By:
Ethan Lewis (K:1536)
10/25/2004 2:03:07 PM
Wow...very creative composition. Is that a double exposure, or is that figure a reflection in a window, or is it something totally different from either of those?
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| Photo By: Panos Skouloudis
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Critique By:
Ethan Lewis (K:1536)
10/24/2004 9:19:58 PM
Great use of perspective and symmetry.
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| Photo By: Panos Skouloudis
(K:484)
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Critique By:
Ethan Lewis (K:1536)
10/24/2004 9:18:52 PM
A beautiful shot. I like the tones and mood. Very bleak.
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| Photo By: Aris Michalopoulos / OsirisiS
(K:1916)
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Critique By:
Ethan Lewis (K:1536)
10/24/2004 9:17:35 PM
I can't even guess at what that machine is doing, but you certainly did a good job of capturing someone "at work."
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| Photo By: Oliver Dienst
(K:452)
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Critique By:
Ethan Lewis (K:1536)
10/24/2004 9:12:57 PM
The way the dog has its paws up on the rail is a nice touch. It makes it look almost anthropomorphic.
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| Photo By: Mick Feuerbacher
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Critique By:
Ethan Lewis (K:1536)
10/24/2004 9:08:13 PM
An excellent job of capturing a moment of everyday life. Amazingly, it looks as if only one of the people in the photo is aware that you are taking a picture. Not that I advocate sneaking up on people...but usually to get a natural looking photograph you have to click the shutter before they are even aware that you are there.
On a technical note, I really like the lighting of this shot. Are those rectangular overhead lights fluorescent tubes or skylights? If they are fluorescent, I must commend you on however you made the light turn out looking somewhat white. Usually with fluorescent lights, I have a choice of photos looking green (unfiltered) or orange (fluorescent filter). While fluorescent light is less of a problem than it used to be, thanks partially to four-layer films, it still doesn't look quite natural to me. I don't know the details of Fuji Sensia, but if memory serves it's daylight balanced. Did you use any filters or post-exposure color balance tinkering? However you managed it, this is quite a good shot.
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| Photo By: Mick Feuerbacher
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Critique By:
Ethan Lewis (K:1536)
10/21/2004 4:44:20 AM
Great perspective. It took me a few moments to figure out which way is up!
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| Photo By: gary spillane
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Critique By:
Ethan Lewis (K:1536)
10/21/2004 12:14:39 AM
amazing shot.
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| Photo By: Ben Goossens
(K:491)
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Critique By:
Ethan Lewis (K:1536)
10/19/2004 3:11:53 AM
Excellent capture. I agree that a black border would enhance this great photo.
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| Photo By: Fern
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Critique By:
Ethan Lewis (K:1536)
10/18/2004 5:26:11 AM
Not a technically 'perfect' photograph (the blown out shoulder, like you mentioned in the description) but still a very compelling photograph and a great capture of the emotion of a moment.
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| Photo By: Laura Gariano
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Critique By:
Ethan Lewis (K:1536)
10/18/2004 3:53:21 AM
Very nice shot. One technical quibble, however. There's a considerable amount of digital 'noise', particularly in the sky. You may want to try a different method of scanning your film, or maybe a different file format or settings or something.
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| Photo By: John E Robertson
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Critique By:
Ethan Lewis (K:1536)
10/18/2004 3:51:02 AM
A good shot. The brilliant red sofa particularly grabs the eyes. The angles are very nice too - the sofa is at an angle to the rug which is at an angle to the frame. It has a significantly different 'feel' than it would be if it was squared up exactly.
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| Photo By: Jürgen Reinold
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Critique By:
Ethan Lewis (K:1536)
10/18/2004 3:45:21 AM
Amazing portrait! His hunched shoulders make him look sort of like a tortoise trying to retreat into its shell...you might try using a stuffed animal or something like that to make your subjects feel more at ease. At least crack a joke or two...
But seriously...His eyes are so intense in this shot. Some people look at the camera, some people look *through* the camera. how did you find your subject? A lot of photos of old men like that are "street" photos, but the background looks like it's a studio shot. Did he want to get a portrait done? Did you put out a classified ad? "photographer seeking wrinkly old men for artistic portraits..."
Your portfolio is full of amazing portraits, and this one in particular stands out.
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| Photo By: RC. Dany
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Critique By:
Ethan Lewis (K:1536)
10/18/2004 3:36:38 AM
Good shot. It's hard to take good photos of football players because the gear makes them look like faceless machines unless you're very very close.
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| Photo By: Claude Adams
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Critique By:
Ethan Lewis (K:1536)
10/18/2004 3:34:48 AM
Amazing shot. The fact that it's black and white makes it that much more surreal. The lone tree on the horizon also really draws the eye.
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| Photo By: Rafal Rygorowicz
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Critique By:
Ethan Lewis (K:1536)
10/16/2004 3:52:19 PM
Amazing use of light...I like how his suit actually blends into the black background.
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| Photo By: Piotr Niewierowicz
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Critique By:
Ethan Lewis (K:1536)
10/14/2004 8:31:31 PM
Very nice street photo. It would be interesting to see how it would have turned out if you had approached the same scene from a different angle, so you could capture the old couple's faces...
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Photo By: audra erin
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Critique By:
Ethan Lewis (K:1536)
10/14/2004 8:27:00 PM
Wow...I've never seen a 'photograph' quite like that before... Your equipment sounds interesting. I'm still not sure what it is I'm seeing (I know, that's sort of the point of an 'abstract' photo, but it looks almost like a...stone or plaster wall with some sort of carvings in it? Arabic perhaps? Are the carvings in the exposure itself, or is that what you added in photoshop?
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| Photo By: Jim Gamble
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Critique By:
Ethan Lewis (K:1536)
10/14/2004 8:20:24 PM
Being able to use DOF like this was one of the biggest changes in my photography when I bought a SLR. Point and shoot and disposable cameras tend to have far slower lenses, which is a good thing if you want to get in-focus pictures every time (since the larger the depth of field is, the harder it is to 'miss'). The downside of being easy to use and almost impossible to screw up, it makes everything in the picture equal. DOF is a great way to draw attention to one aspect of a scene.
And you're right - this one photo has gotten more comments than any of my other photos here.
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| Photo By: Ethan Lewis
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Critique By:
Ethan Lewis (K:1536)
10/14/2004 12:03:24 AM
Very good shot - composition, lighting, shadows, tones...everything.
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| Photo By: Bartek M
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Critique By:
Ethan Lewis (K:1536)
10/13/2004 11:59:00 PM
It's a cute face, and a well composed photograph, but this is yet another victim of electronic flash. The details in the face are all washed out.
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| Photo By: Lisa Speck
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Critique By:
Ethan Lewis (K:1536)
10/13/2004 4:48:58 PM
An interesting expression. I'm not quite sure what it is (maybe "hey...what's with the camera?") but I guess that's what makes it interesting. I know this isn't your fault, but is the subject male or female? I honestly can't tell with any certainty from this picture. The hair on the head seems rather masculine, but I've seen girls with hair that short as well. "She" is wearing an earring, but plenty of guys wear earrings as well. Is that a trace of hair on the upper lip? But then again, that doesn't necessarily mean anything either. It's light enough that it could possibly be a woman's as well. The glasses seem somewhat feminine, but not definitively so (subject could be an fan of EMO?) If forced to take a guess, I would probably say subject is female, because unless my eyes are deceiving me, the subject is wearing lipstick...
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| Photo By: Huw Ge
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Critique By:
Ethan Lewis (K:1536)
10/13/2004 4:41:39 PM
This has to be the subtlest 'sepia' I've ever seen...
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| Photo By: Huw Ge
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Critique By:
Ethan Lewis (K:1536)
10/13/2004 4:16:23 PM
It's interesting how some of the people are completely blurred while others are relatively motionless. Approximately how long was the exposure time? Judging by how much some of them are moving, I would guess 1/4 to 1/2 second (I assume they weren't running around.)
I rated it a 4 simply because it seems to lack a clear 'subject'. The perspective (from above) is interesting, but there are no faces (naturally, because of the blurring) and nothing else that 'grabs the eye'. It looks like an image captured by an automated security camera. Or was that your intent?
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| Photo By: Chris Hayward
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Critique By:
Ethan Lewis (K:1536)
10/13/2004 4:11:08 PM
Wow...intimidating subject. How deep underwater was this? In a perfect world, the scene would be more brightly illuminated, but I understand the severe lighting difficulties inherent in underwater photography.
There seems to be almost a 'polarized' effect all around the subject, but never on the subject itself. Is this a post-exposure modification, a digital artifact (result of compression or something?), or something else that I've never heard of before?
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| Photo By: Patrick Barbary
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Critique By:
Ethan Lewis (K:1536)
10/13/2004 4:05:44 PM
Were you using auto or manual focus for that shot? (or does the digital rebel have manual override functions at all?) It's possible for autofocus sensors to be fooled, especially in fast-action shots where the subject isn't dead center. I don't know how exactly the digital rebel's auto focus sensors work, or how easily they can be 'fooled' in to focusing on the wrong thing. I use a manual focus camera, which makes focused action shots difficult. The best I can do in such a situation (I believe I have at least one action shot posted in my portfolio...it's not focused as well as I'd like, but it's acceptable, I think...) is pre-focus to the point in space where I anticipate the subject will be when I take the picture (timing is EVERYTHING) and stopping down as much as possible to allow for maximum depth of field, therefore making it more diffiuclt to miss.
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| Photo By: Tobiah Deutsch
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Critique By:
Ethan Lewis (K:1536)
10/12/2004 2:58:24 AM
Great composition. I love the textures on the walls. I also like how it shows the "light at the end of the tunnel.
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| Photo By: Jürgen Reinold
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Critique By:
Ethan Lewis (K:1536)
10/12/2004 2:50:29 AM
A good shot. His pants are so light they almost blend into the sky, but there's not much you could do about that ("excuse me, but could you change into darker pants?"). It seems as if it is focused more sharply on the concrete to the right then the skater, who is further from the camera. If one follows the steps across, the parts which are closer appear to be more sharply focused. It seems reasonable to guess that the skater is slightly out of focus. It's still pretty well in focus (thanks in part to the fact that digital cameras have great depth of field due to their small sensors) but the focus could be better.
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| Photo By: Tobiah Deutsch
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Critique By:
Ethan Lewis (K:1536)
10/12/2004 2:26:47 AM
A very good still life, especially how the objects put together seem to tell a story.
On a side note, Dulce Et Decorum Est is a favorite poem of mine...
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| Photo By: David Firth
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