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Critique By:
greg collins (K:12273)
10/18/2005 11:54:57 PM
Nice atmosphere here. Love it.
Greg
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Critique By:
Sally Morgan (K:9219)
9/21/2005 10:33:56 PM
Stitching six images of people must be pretty difficult - you did a good job.
You should have done two versions for us - one with, and one without the man - so we could pick our favourite!
Looks like a good day was had by all.
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Critique By:
Sally Morgan (K:9219)
9/21/2005 10:27:59 PM
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Critique By:
Martin Halley (K:580)
9/21/2005 2:18:57 PM
Sally,
I followed your advice and cropped off the left margin. The resulting print scored a perfect "10".
Thanks for the input, greatly appreciated.
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Critique By:
Martin Halley (K:580)
8/25/2005 1:13:53 AM
Sally,
Thank you for your kind comments. Yes, maybe the sky should be improved. It was a very cold, bleak, grey day and I probably let my memory of that over-ride the need for a stronger image.
Must try harder!
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Critique By:
Sally Morgan (K:9219)
8/24/2005 3:15:14 PM
I think the effort you've put in has really paid off - I see what you mean about the swan, and it works really well. I think you've done an expert job with the swan - I would never have thought to put in the reflection and the wake.
I think perhaps the sky needs a bit of attention - a bit more colour/contrast/interestingly shaped clouds (!)
But other than that - I'm enjoying travelling over the bridge and back!
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Critique By:
Sally Morgan (K:9219)
8/18/2005 7:06:46 AM
I wish that was true Martin - but it's not so simple - you can never, ever get a 7 with the ratings system - I challenge you to find just one rating higher than 6.6!
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Critique By:
Martin Halley (K:580)
8/17/2005 10:15:15 PM
Sally,
The rating you give is added to all the others and then averaged. If you rate 6 and there is already a 5 rating it will appear as 5.5.
Everyone who posts is looking for ratings, so please do unless rate they say "Critique only".
Regards.
Martin.
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Critique By:
Martin Halley (K:580)
8/17/2005 10:08:40 PM
Sally,
The trick to adding skies (in Photoshop) is to have a blank grey sky to start with. Then set the added sky layer to "multiply" and to convert it to a mask then rub-out the sky over the buildings and solid objects but to leave the trees alone. Let "multiply" deal with the branches and leaves. I usually find it necessary to run a 2 pixel 100% blur around the joins after flattening the image.
I take your point about the crop but this is a picture of the canal lock as much as the building. I did try cropping more off the left hand side but I couldn't decide if was an improvement, so I left it in. Now that you have commented I am obliged to get the scissors out.
The original image is as sharp as can be expected (hand-held, very low light, light rain, compact camera), down-sizing to an 800 pixel jpeg (from a 5,400 pixel psd original) hasn't helped. The other factor is that this little pocket camera does have noise problems in very low light. This does limit the sharpening options quite considerably. I used "sharpen edges" once. Twice produced too many artifacts to be acceptable.
Thanks for the critique, it is very welcome.
Kind regards.
Martin.
Thanks for the comments Now dig out those skies and try again!
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Critique By:
Sally Morgan (K:9219)
8/17/2005 9:03:33 PM
Nice composite - I've given up trying, I'm useless!
I think you could probably crop off the bit to the left of the ducks, and apply a little bit of sharpening - especially to the building.
I like the composition, and I like the info you've given in your about (I always read that while the pic downloads).
I haven't given it a rating - because the number never comes up the same as I awarded! (ie if you mark a 7 it comes up as 6.7, and a 6 comes up as 5.6 etc.)
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Critique By:
Hakan AKIRMAK (K:15913)
8/17/2005 12:56:28 PM
I understand now
Thank you for your explanation Martin!
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Critique By:
Martin Halley (K:580)
8/17/2005 12:18:25 PM
Hakan,
The words of Jeruselem (A favourite hymn of the English) refer to industrial buildings like this as "Englands Dark Satanic Mills".
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Critique By:
Ron Wilson (K:18362)
8/17/2005 12:13:31 PM
Great building lots of chacracter. Well balanced pic with an amazing sky. Well done.
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Critique By:
Hakan AKIRMAK (K:15913)
8/17/2005 12:12:08 PM
Good ambience but I don't understand, why is satanic?
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Critique By:
Bill Krul (K:5597)
8/15/2005 2:30:08 PM
And just who might be the recipient of this deadly meal? Great black humor.
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Critique By:
Lee Harris (K:14694)
8/14/2005 2:12:20 PM
This is good, loads of colors and the sharpness is excellent.
The composition is very good with the plant being in good focus as well.
Love those antennas
Lee
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Critique By:
David Stokely (K:1010)
8/14/2005 12:29:25 PM
What a very nice shot. Wonderful detail and what an interesting composition. This is my kind of shot.
Web
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Critique By:
Riny Koopman (K:19998)
8/14/2005 11:58:59 AM
Incredible MACRO. Good one Martin! 7++
Riny
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Critique By:
Marcus Armani (K:36599)
8/14/2005 11:52:46 AM
wonderful macro, the detail is perfect, I like the nice DOF and perfect lighting. very nice....
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Critique By:
Waleed AL-MARHOUM (K:223)
7/26/2005 4:39:24 AM
pure
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Critique By:
Adelino Barreto (K:12661)
6/26/2005 2:28:06 PM
Excellent photo, very good work!
Congratulations.
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Critique By:
Margaret Sturgess (K:49403)
6/16/2005 7:26:34 PM
Amazing how they get their trees to grow at the same height Excellent work
Margaret
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Critique By:
Ruben Joye (K:79)
6/4/2005 9:03:11 PM
I got it, it took me a while to understand what you meant with the title. Very original and it works well. Not gonna spoil the surprise for those who haven't found it yet, keep looking at the photo 'till you get it. It ain't that hard.
I've visited Wisley Gardens last year to, it's always nice to recognise something on usefilm that you've seen before.
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Critique By:
Jose Ignacio (Nacho) Garcia Barcia (K:96391)
6/1/2005 10:13:31 PM
wonderful 7
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Critique By:
Gustavo Scheverin (K:164501)
4/22/2005 12:44:39 AM
Exelente macro!...Hermosos colores!
Felicitaciones.
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Critique By:
none none (K:2302)
4/22/2005 12:16:19 AM
This photograph should almost be the poster announcing spring has arrived in Amerika! (Giggles) I adore this photograph for the richness of colour, which is brilliant, and screams of being alive. I much like the bees surrounding the flower itself. The background it absolutely brilliant for this photograph. Well done.
?Ndc
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Critique By:
James Bambery (K:13421)
4/22/2005 12:00:55 AM
Great capture Martin, excellent floral and the about is quite interesting as well. Welcome to usefilm.
Jim Bambery
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Critique By:
Cheri Meredith-Evans (K:1766)
4/15/2005 1:38:02 AM
Very cool catch! Nicely done. Great coloring and DOF. Great composition and a very lucky break.
Well done,
~Cheri
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Critique By:
DEVESH UBA (K:1925)
4/14/2005 9:00:15 PM
Great night shot and wonderful reflections .
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Critique By:
Petal Wijnen (K:50989)
4/14/2005 5:19:55 PM
Great night shot, nice reflection and good composition!!! Well captured!! But it's a good plan to go out and 'do it again'!!
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