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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
10/6/2006 11:43:35 AM
Hi Jo,
Thanks very much for the compliment.
It's an Ebony RW45 - the simplest (and cheapest!) of the Ebony 4x5 cameras.
Best wishes,
Helen
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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
4/2/2006 2:26:38 AM
Thanks very much for the kind comment!
I should have explained that it is only here as an example of an extreme enlargement from 35 mm film.
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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
2/26/2006 4:21:46 PM
Rashed,
Thank you very much for the apology. That is a generous act. I was not angry with you, I just don't like being accused of something I am not guilty of.
Best wishes,
Helen
PS, I'm not a man, not that it is important.
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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
2/26/2006 3:06:40 PM
Rashed,
Thank you for your kind comment. It is appreciated.
However, your statement that I have made bad comments to anyone else is not appreciated. You should not make entirely unfounded accusations like that. I think that I deserve an apology, but that is up to you. If, on the other hand, you find any bad comments that I have made I will apologise unresevedly for the misunderstanding.
I did not make any negative comments on your image, I only asked questions about why you took a picture when you had been asked not to. I did not make any statements. At the time I wrote this, you have not yet replied to those questions. I would like to hear your view: that is why I asked questions instead of making statements.
Best,
Helen
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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
2/19/2006 5:42:26 AM
Park Avenue South at 32nd St, looking downtown (south). Easy for those of us who live in NYC, but this picture captures that bewildered feeling. Nice work.
Best,
Helen
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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
2/7/2006 3:23:04 AM
I still wonder why he was standing exactly at the end of the double yellows.
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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
2/4/2006 8:48:01 PM
Thanks very much for the kind comments Anson. I took the shadow detail in the rocks down a bit, so that it was just visible on my monitor. Maybe it is just the difference in our monitor setups.
Best,
Helen
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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
1/19/2006 3:38:55 AM
Hi Chuck,
Harry Callahan? He was a strong influence on me. I bought his 'Color 1941 - 1980' when it came out - the first book of photographs I ever paid a serious amount of money for.
Best wishes,
Helen
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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
1/15/2006 12:32:44 PM
"Graden Notebooks" Ah, yes. Oops.
Thanks for the kind comment Dan, and yes, I confess. I'm the Helen Bach on photo.net and the Helen B on APUG.
Best wishes,
Helen
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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
1/14/2006 3:33:25 PM
I like this picture. It's nicely balanced and well structured. You've done well to make it so faithful to what the original prints must have looked like.
It caught my eye because I've just posted some snaps I took in '73 on High Speed Ektachrome.
Best wishes,
Helen
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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
1/7/2006 6:41:31 AM
A very fine view of the Grand Tetons. However... I will join the minority who prefer the original version. The original is certainly more natural. The modified version looks kinda theatrical to me - but that might be what you want.
It's the mismatch between the deep blue pure white biting clarity of the ridge with the band of haze that sets off my 'unnatural nature' alarm.
The original version evokes 'strong sun, mountains and clear sky' much more strongly, even though it is a more subtle image.
The other thing I get from the original, probably because it is such a direct evocation of the place itself, is the strong sense of what is outside the frame. That I am in the landscape, not just looking at it. It's all around me, and there's more over the horizon. There's nothing in the way. Maybe the road helps with that.
Of course it all depends on what you wanted to achieve.
Best wishes,
Helen
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Photo By: Mary Sue Hayward
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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
1/7/2006 5:48:30 AM
I rather like this picture. The corner puts me off a little though. My first thought when I saw it was 'a pot of lavender in a corner'. The existence of the corner, with its perfect verticality and definition, is too large in my awareness of this image - it distracts me from the delicacy and subtlety of the lavender, dried grass, wall and pot. Everything else is so right, so balanced - including the colour.
Fortunately it would be a simple matter to modify it from an abrupt tonal change to a more gradual one. I'm referring only to the corner above the lavender, of course.
I do hope that I have not misinterpreted your intention in making this picture. If I have, I aplogise.
Maybe it got few comments because it is a quiet picture. Quite lovely.
Best,
Helen
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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
1/6/2006 7:02:28 AM
Thanks for the comment Mohammad, and thanks for the alternative view - that's an interesting interpretation. The roses are dusty, faded and long dead. The 'revelation' in this series is supposed to be that the nature of beauty is impossible to capture, or define, or record, or analyse. So I'm trying to be as faithful as possible to what I see as the subtle beauty (or non-beauty) of the objects and present them in a way that does not conform to a conventional ideal. I don't want them to be noticeably unconventional either.
Best wishes,
Helen
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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
11/15/2005 1:58:38 AM
Graham,
Thanks for the comment. The reflections are deliberate in this series, so I didn't use a polarizer for any of them. If I was going to use a polarizer I would also have switched to an SLR, because the M6 isn't the ideal camera to use a polarizer with!
Regards,
Helen
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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
10/4/2005 5:51:44 PM
Thanks for the comment - it made me think. The image was sharpened very little - I was wary of applying sharpening because it is a such a high contrast scene with a lot of fine detail. I'm glad that you've made the comment, and I'll see what I can change to make it look less sharpened.
Thanks,
Helen
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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
9/27/2005 2:26:22 AM
Ian,
Very good. Very, er, crabby. They have a Marine Section in Kew Gardens? It's strange that my grandmother never mentioned that. She was in the Marines, at least I think that's what she said.
Best,
Helen
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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
9/27/2005 2:17:29 AM
Ian,
Yes, this is rather good. Please show us more of your abstract leaves.
My grandmother had one of those abstract plants, but it died of overwatering before I managed to get a picture of it.
Best,
Helen
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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
9/26/2005 4:23:21 PM
Nick,
That?s a very interesting comment, and a hint of our differing values. What you take to be positive ("a good candidate for a bottle of mineral water!"), I'd take as a denigrating comment.
Best,
Helen
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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
9/26/2005 3:18:53 AM
Thanks for the kind comments. I guess the noise is what jpeg compression makes of the film grain - TMax 3200P is a fairly grainy film, and I developed it to emphasise the grain for this series.
Best,
Helen
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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
9/24/2005 3:36:24 PM
As we had suspected all along, the official answer was wrong.
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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
9/24/2005 3:33:12 PM
Conclusive proof, if proof were needed, of the existence of shepherds.
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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
9/20/2005 1:26:06 PM
After pressing the button, I thought of another way of saying what I wanted to say: "It's a good choice, it's just not mine".
Thank goodness we all see things differently.
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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
9/20/2005 1:21:23 PM
Thanks for the well-intended suggestion, but that is a completely different photograph, with very different abstract and aesthetic qualities.
Best wishes,
Helen
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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
9/20/2005 1:06:17 PM
Thanks for the kind comments. Much appreciated.
As far as the footptints go, well they were there, and I intended them to be in the photograph, believe it or not!
Thanks,
Helen
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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
9/16/2005 2:20:37 PM
Glen,
I think that they work best as a comparative series rather than individual images. I'm going to try combining four into one view to see if the images are still large enough.
Best,
Helen
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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
9/16/2005 2:16:37 PM
Glen,
I feel your pain. It is, of course, a crushed cigarette packet. One of the golden Benson and Hedges type, as I recall.
Best,
Helen
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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
9/15/2005 12:18:06 AM
Hi Pat,
Thanks for the kind comment. I don't paint any more - but my paintings were more like my 'roadworks' or 'garden notebooks' series that my hill pictures.
I've just had a look at the superb pictures in your gallery and I must go back and look at them again.
Best wishes,
Helen
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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
9/14/2005 5:15:18 AM
I find it very evocative of the joy of nature. I look at it and think 'Yes, real gardens are like that. That's how they are, that's how nature does things.'
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| Photo By: Aurobindo Saha
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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
9/14/2005 4:56:14 AM
Another one of yours that stands out. The three textures balance well with their shapes and area in the frame.
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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
9/14/2005 4:31:35 AM
An intriguing picture - strange light, mysterious shadows, especially the shadow of the ball.
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