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Critique By:
Ian Cameron (K:1163)
4/23/2007 3:31:51 PM
Hi John thanks for your comments. It is a little disconcerting isn't it. Actually the only true horizon is at the right third of the picture before the spit of land in black that juts out That bit is flat level and the horizon is about thirty miles away. The rock that juts out is actually pretty close a couple of hundred yards at most, the bay curves all the way around to it so it gives the impression that the horizon tilts strongly to the left.
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Critique By:
Ian Cameron (K:1163)
4/10/2007 12:50:37 AM
That's ok David, thanks for your comments very generous. The stacks themselves are like dragons teeth. They are also surprisingly colourful particularly in June when covered in lichen and thrift.
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Critique By:
Ian Cameron (K:1163)
3/29/2007 12:47:31 AM
Thank you Jason, there was a reason for this tight left side crop at the time, but for the life of me I forget what it was, definitely something I didn't want included.
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Critique By:
Ian Cameron (K:1163)
3/24/2007 3:40:42 PM
Hi Collin, no I didn't see Adam but when I was there I met up with a very talented french photographer and we hiked up to the summit ridge pretty sharpish and got some other very nice shots I will post these another date.
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Critique By:
Ian Cameron (K:1163)
3/22/2007 5:30:06 PM
Fair comment, unsurprisingly perhaps, I have versions with and without the lodge but I included it because the location means such a lot to me historically. I stayed here four years running to welcome in the New Year with a bunch of friends it was just brilliant.
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Critique By:
Ian Cameron (K:1163)
3/20/2007 11:03:58 PM
You are absolutely right Howie I put this cropped 6x7 image into a 35mm slide mount for the purposes of a slide show I was doing. You will be happy to know there is actually a lot more space around the horses when you take it out of this mount. I was just being lazy.
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Critique By:
Ian Cameron (K:1163)
3/18/2007 2:28:35 AM
Well Shane, thank's for that, I'm somewhat taken aback and it definitely gave me a laugh. For the next two weeks I'm a part time Police Officer after that I am a professional landscape photographer. I am fortunate to have been doing sufficiently well at this to make a reasonable living at it. Hopefully it will continue in the same vane, lots in the pipeline, calendars doing well and I will be starting courses later this year once my website is updated and fully organised. You are quite right photoshop is a useful tool but I do bu**er all to the original image as I spend a lot of time getting it right in camera. Basically I am far too lazy to bother messing around with pixels. All the best Ian.
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Critique By:
Ian Cameron (K:1163)
3/1/2007 10:46:34 PM
A pleasure Mark glad you enjoy it.
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Critique By:
Ian Cameron (K:1163)
2/20/2007 10:35:15 PM
Hi Luis thanks for looking and commenting, this matches the transparency as viewed on a corrected lightbox and is a good match for my memory of the scenery. The light actually got even more dramatic but unfortunately the little cottage never got lit again.
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Critique By:
Ian Cameron (K:1163)
2/14/2007 2:02:30 AM
Cheers Shirley
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Critique By:
Ian Cameron (K:1163)
2/8/2007 12:46:05 AM
I understand that desire and perhaps unsurprisingly I have a few compositions with a few golden foreground reeds close to the shore that will give you this added sense of depth, but I feel, only at the expense of the surreal appearance that this mesmerisingly pure reflection that is conveyed.
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Critique By:
Ian Cameron (K:1163)
1/19/2007 9:46:23 PM
This shot is excellent, a classic mountain shot. The contrast might be a fraction high but the overall outcome is great. Velvia tends toward magenta when it is underexposed. I can see a hint of that colour creeping into your clouds and in the grey of the rock. Try a touch more green to neutralise it. Composition is once again first class.
PS I have just seen YOUR colour corrected example that looks about spot on to me.
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Critique By:
Ian Cameron (K:1163)
1/19/2007 9:40:00 PM
Hi I see you are starting to get to grips with your new camera and you certainly took it to a wonderful location. The mountain range is tremendous. I don't know if you used a polariser up in the high peaks but maybe if you did it might be an idea to back off the effect as it can overdo the contrast a little. Your shot is very well composed.
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Critique By:
Ian Cameron (K:1163)
1/18/2007 12:46:07 AM
Hi Alessandro
I will have a look at your work again tomorrow. I hope yo enoy your new camera.
All the best Ian.
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Critique By:
Ian Cameron (K:1163)
1/17/2007 9:26:43 PM
Another very satisfying image Bernard the foreground silhouetted reeds are great and nicely separated. The reflected light is very pleasant with some intense colours in the sky. The silhouetted people are well defined placed as they are against the lightest area of sky but perhaps they could have been slightly more prominent in the shot, they are seated which obviously lessens there impact on the image. I still very much enjoy it and find the colours believable with excellent exposure given.
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Critique By:
Ian Cameron (K:1163)
1/17/2007 9:21:34 PM
Hi Bernard. You requested a critique from me with respect to a few of your images. This one has captured all the colour and quality of the setting sun reflected in the water but more importantly also in the wet sand which is where the quality truly shines through. The lead line in of the sand ridge is very powerful and your eye is guided to the sun's reflection, which is oddly more intense than the corresponding area in the sky, almost as though the orb of the sun were missing. Perhaps ideally there would be something more in the water/sky area for the eye to be lead towards, but the overall effect of the image is never-the-less very satisfying.
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Critique By:
Ian Cameron (K:1163)
12/1/2006 1:44:03 AM
Thank you Bill you are very kind. The good thing about using the old Pentax 6x7 is that this will truly enlarge to the dimensions you indicate with zero loss of quality.
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Critique By:
Ian Cameron (K:1163)
11/6/2006 11:01:57 PM
Cor blimey. What a fabulous reflection of a fabulous volcanic cone in a fabulous location. It suggests just one thing to me you must be an equally fabulous photographer.
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Critique By:
Ian Cameron (K:1163)
10/30/2006 10:22:29 PM
Hi Gail thankyou for your kind comments. i was very pleased with how productive a two hour outing into the slots at Antelope could be. i could have spent days there. Basically it is when the sun is directly overhead that you get the legendary orange glow that seems to radiate from the rock itself. Having said that even when it was past peak I still found the deeper reds and the tumble weeds a source of inspiration in terms of both light colour and texture.
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Critique By:
Ian Cameron (K:1163)
10/27/2006 2:20:15 AM
Me to Jay but that contre jour lighting was making lens flare almost inevitable. As it was i tried with and without the mountain tops. I managed one that wasn't too badly affected but the sky was bindingly white and has the effect of causing the eyes to wander to the brightest prt of the frame.
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Critique By:
Ian Cameron (K:1163)
10/22/2006 12:44:20 PM
Hi Bill, I was at the slot canyons in 1998!! I was on a two year travel round the world trip which was one of the most wonderful things I have ever done with my life thus far. I had heard about the sloot canyons and seen some photographs by a fella named Michael Fatali who uses a giant sized 8 x 10 inch field camera and just had to see the place for myself. It exceeeded my expectations. I have only now decided to scan the trannies.
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Critique By:
Ian Cameron (K:1163)
10/22/2006 2:32:54 AM
By the way I didn't put that little scrubby bush there but I wouldn't mind betting someone else did.
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Critique By:
Ian Cameron (K:1163)
8/7/2006 9:19:39 PM
Hi Michael just for the record no vertical gradient used although I have to admit the effect is slightly strange. The grey stripe as I prefer to call it comes from the reflection of the light piece of sky in the moving surf. The filters used were a 0.6ND hard grad down to the sky sea horizon and then to get detail in the stones and deepen the sky still further the 0.3ND hard grad wasused on a diagonal down to the slanting line of the foreshore pebbles, hope that makes sense. I do however see how it could look like a grad filter error, though there would be no reason to use one off to the side in a vertical plane.
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Critique By:
Ian Cameron (K:1163)
7/19/2006 7:30:32 PM
They can and do Jessie though I believe Lossiemouth is slightly better for surfers.
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Critique By:
Ian Cameron (K:1163)
7/9/2006 11:57:57 PM
Thanks Jeanette do take a look throuh my website there are a lot more images to trawl through that I hope you will like www.transientlight.co.uk
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Critique By:
Ian Cameron (K:1163)
6/29/2006 1:06:14 PM
Hi Cathy it doesn't look turbulent does it thats the long exposure for you. The draw on this section is about 2m from top of the ide mark to the back of the receding wave. Not much I grant you but the bank of stones is fairly steep.
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Critique By:
Ian Cameron (K:1163)
6/26/2006 3:41:22 PM
Thanks to everyone for their kind comments. I agree with you Chris. I hadn't really noticed initially as my eyes went so quickly towards the jumble of smooth rocks and on to the colourful section but when your eyes relax and take in the whole image the black nobble extreme left does indeed catch your attention can could become slightly irritating, an easy crop of course but perhaps best done before I uploaded it.
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Critique By:
Ian Cameron (K:1163)
6/26/2006 1:34:32 PM
Please do visit my website at www.transientlight.co.uk and www.timecatcher.com
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Critique By:
Ian Cameron (K:1163)
6/8/2006 3:31:50 PM
Thank you Cathy and thanks to everyone else for the kind comments. I did not want anyone under the illusion that this scene did not actually exist, it does/did, albeit very briefly. The only photograhic rule I devoutly believe in, is, that if you, or anyone else had been standing next to me at that time, date and place, then you/they would have seen the same thing I saw. Every other rule is there to be broken.
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Critique By:
Ian Cameron (K:1163)
6/8/2006 7:50:19 AM
Thank you Roger and everyone else for their kind comments, they are greatly appreciated.
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