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Critique By:
Jürgen Reinold (K:1651)
8/10/2005 4:54:37 AM
Thank you for your comment, Trish. It was a beautiful day in Berlin, just bperfect for these kinds of shots.
Jürgen
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Jürgen Reinold (K:1651)
8/10/2005 4:51:07 AM
Thank you for your comment, Gabrielle. I guess nothng comes for free any longer ... :-)
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Critique By:
Jürgen Reinold (K:1651)
8/10/2005 4:48:27 AM
Dein Deutsch ist sehr gut verständlich, Timur. Herzlichen Dank für Deinen Kommentar.
Jürgen
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Critique By:
Jürgen Reinold (K:1651)
7/23/2005 6:11:08 AM
Very nicely done, Mark. Great exposure ? nothing too bright or too dark. I have tried many moon pictures lately, but a lot of them landed in the digital trashcan.
I saw you are using the Tamron 28-300mm. How do you like the lens? How fast does it auto-focus? I am looking for a zoom lens that reaches 300mm to 400mm and have been a little discouraged by the slow focus of the Nikon 80-400mm.
Jürgen
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Critique By:
Jürgen Reinold (K:1651)
7/20/2005 10:35:43 AM
Like this, Carsten? It looks interesting in B&W but I have not made up my mind yet which one I like better.
Thank you for your recommendation.
Jürgen
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Critique By:
Jürgen Reinold (K:1651)
7/18/2005 2:04:09 PM
Not over yet, Larry. Much more action still to come including cavalry attacks. Not clear who actually won. By that time, I was in the middle of the battle field (trying not to get kicked out) and too far away from the narrator to hear the end. Everybody looked happy though.
Jürgen
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Critique By:
Jürgen Reinold (K:1651)
7/18/2005 2:01:33 PM
Thank you, Margaret.
I?ll post a couple of nice close-up shots with the 500mm lens. Was a great afternoon out in the woods.
Jürgen
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Critique By:
Jürgen Reinold (K:1651)
7/18/2005 1:59:21 PM
Indeed, they made remarks about the authentic thick wool clothes they were wearing. I was in shorts and t-shirt and it was uncomfortably hot for me.
Jürgen
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Critique By:
Jürgen Reinold (K:1651)
7/18/2005 7:03:11 AM
Nice shot, Claudia. It is always challenging to take photos against bright windows.
Is this by chance the Frederikskirke in Copenhagen? I was there earlier this year (actually twice) but only early morning and late evenings so the church was locked and we could not get in.
Take a look at my two sunrise photos of the church at http://www.usefilm.com/image/782282.html and http://www.usefilm.com/image/781883.html
Jürgen
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Jürgen Reinold (K:1651)
7/17/2005 3:09:03 PM
Hmmm. And I thought it had been proven that water runs downhill, not uphill.
Great capture and composition. As I see this I will probably ?dare to angle? in the future, too. Makes for interesting perspectives.
Jürgen
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Critique By:
Jürgen Reinold (K:1651)
7/17/2005 3:06:57 PM
This is a fantastic shot, Petal. The arrangement on an angle and the framing is just outstanding. I have not finally decided for myself if virtual framing and 3d effects are better or not, but your abstract definitely is enhanced by the framing.
Greetings to Maastricht (we lived in Aachen for 12 years and spent many happy hours in Maastricht).
Jürgen
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Critique By:
Jürgen Reinold (K:1651)
7/17/2005 3:00:54 PM
Very nicely done, Jeff. It is very hard in these cases to avoid total burn out of the brightest area of the picture.
I had the chance to try something similar in the Nativity Church in Bethlehem very recently. Take a look at http://www.usefilm.com/image/852850.html .
Jürgen
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Jürgen Reinold (K:1651)
7/17/2005 2:53:12 PM
Great macro, Larry. I really like how you arranged the DOF. I am often tempted with macros to have the foreground in focus and the background out of focus. This more complex arrangement really hits the mark.
Jürgen
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Critique By:
Jürgen Reinold (K:1651)
7/17/2005 2:49:00 PM
Pretty huge backyard, though, Larry. They had the entire forest preserve and the adjacent prairie to camp, ride, and squabble. The two armies had several camps in the woods and the battle field was to scale as well.
Thanks for looking and commenting,
Jürgen
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Critique By:
Jürgen Reinold (K:1651)
7/12/2005 12:04:10 AM
Yes, Nikon Capture 4 Camera Control is pretty cool, Mark. While the camera is connected through USB, you can remote control all aspects, modify all settings that you can control from the on-camera menus and dials (and then some), and take pictures both one-by-one and in time-lapse mode. You pick the delay (hours, minutes, and seconds) between the pictures, and the computer (in my case the laptop) controls the camera from that moment on.
After each exposure, the picture is copied immediately to the computer?s hard disk so that you won?t run out of flash disk space even for long sequences of exposures.
In my case, I had the camera on manual and I used the 2x view finder magnifier to get the moon sharp. I also selected most of the exposure parameters manually (e.g., no automatic auto focus or exposure control) as I wanted the settings to be consistent over the entire period of nearly 30 minutes.
In a different case, you might want the camera to select some or all of the parameters automatically (like auto focus, white balance ?)
Another cool feature is the ?Save Camera Settings? and ?Load Camera Settings?. I find myself inadvertently chance camera settings (fat fingers on the dials I guess) and my preferred settings are slightly different than ?factory default?. This way I can simply load my default settings once a week or so.
You can also load special correction curves into the camera and fine tune white balance. A friend of mine did that and is pretty happy with the results, but I have no hands-on experience yet. I guess I need to learn more about color control before I?d want to do that.
Thanks for looking and commenting. I?ll try some more of these and post if they turn out well.
Jürgen
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Critique By:
Jürgen Reinold (K:1651)
7/11/2005 12:04:42 PM
Thank you, Larry. Was a lot of fun. Next time I?ll shoot the background twice, at the beginning of the session and at the end. It would have been a nice blue sky if I had thought about doing it at the beginning.
I just posted the ?Every Minute? version. Take a look and let me know if that is too busy with moons.
Jürgen
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Critique By:
Jürgen Reinold (K:1651)
7/10/2005 11:14:44 PM
Very nice capture of this beautiful dancer, Benjamin. I assume it was dark and you had to use a flash?
We attended many pow wows while we lived in Arizona and were happy to find a large gathering here in Illinois. Take a look the series from that this year?s memorial day pow wow: http://www.usefilm.com/portfolio.php?uid=27122&offset=16
Thanks for sharing
Jürgen
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Critique By:
Jürgen Reinold (K:1651)
7/10/2005 3:49:32 PM
It is funny how little things trigger memories, Mark. When I hear ?thumbs on scale? it triggers a memory of a mid-1970?s Mad Magazine cartoon where the customer requests ?the thumbs to be taken off of the scale?. Next thing you see is the scale with the meat and two thumbs (just the thumbs, no hands) neatly pointing up plus a pretty embarrassed looking butcher.
I guess the guy in this picture was tired of thumbs jokes and put up the mirror so that the customers could closely supervise the weighing process themselves.
Thanks for the comment.
Jürgen
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Critique By:
Jürgen Reinold (K:1651)
7/8/2005 8:59:34 PM
Thank you very much for your continued feedback, Larry.
Interesting that you say it could be construed a painting. A good friend of us is a painter and she has recently taken a look at my Usefilm portfolio. She is going to paint several of the shots using various painting techniques.
Once she is done, I hope to be able to post some side-by-side.
Have a great weekend,
Jürgen
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Critique By:
Jürgen Reinold (K:1651)
7/3/2005 8:22:14 PM
Stunning results, Mark. Absolutely beautiful, perfect exposure and great colors.
And thanks a lot for the detailed description. If you don?t mind, I?ll try this out myself during tonight?s village fireworks. What ISO setting did you use?
Jürgen
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Critique By:
Jürgen Reinold (K:1651)
6/27/2005 11:41:01 AM
This is a great shot of that unique airplane, Larry.
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Critique By:
Jürgen Reinold (K:1651)
6/27/2005 6:10:18 AM
Wonderful capture, Fabrizio.
Ciao from a fellow Gimp user.
Jürgen
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Jürgen Reinold (K:1651)
6/27/2005 5:57:27 AM
Well seen and done, Mark. Sometimes it?s the small "imperfections" that make the great images. I like it a lot.
Reminds me a little of the photo "Blue" I uploaded lately at http://www.usefilm.com/image/824649.html
Jürgen
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Critique By:
Jürgen Reinold (K:1651)
6/27/2005 5:46:52 AM
Like the one I just uploaded, Don?
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Critique By:
Jürgen Reinold (K:1651)
6/27/2005 5:45:55 AM
Did you have something like this in mind, Doug? The crop makes a pretty non-standard aspect ratio as I did not want to loose the wood ?end pieces? on the left and the right.
I like this crop as well, but it is definitely a ?different? picture.
Thank you for looking and leaving a comment.
Jürgen
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Critique By:
Jürgen Reinold (K:1651)
6/27/2005 5:23:29 AM
Magic light, indeed, Heidi. Fascinating image.
Jürgen
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Critique By:
Jürgen Reinold (K:1651)
6/27/2005 5:22:29 AM
I believe you are right in that the five different one repeat. And I believe both side were identical.
Jürgen
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Critique By:
Jürgen Reinold (K:1651)
6/22/2005 12:03:12 AM
Thank you for your comment and suggestion, Margaret. In deed, at least in the small picture, it looks like eliminating the tent poles would help to picture in removing a distraction.
I guess I am still a little apprehensive making these kinds of changes. They can be done (in many cases even I can do them), but then it is not a picture of what happened any longer. But I have to admit occasionally I have eliminated that ugly trash can or lamp pole from an image before.
Thanks again for your suggestion. I?ll try to find a nice sky and, if it turns out satisfactory, may even repost.
Jürgen
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Critique By:
Jürgen Reinold (K:1651)
6/21/2005 12:47:51 AM
Thank you for visiting and commenting again, Mark. And I agree with the face. After ?gimping? around for a little while, I was able to isolate the face and the hair that is also in the shadow, without selecting too much of the hair in full sunshine.
I increased brightness and contrast a little. What do you think of this now?
Thanks again,
Jürgen
PS. I saw that ?Cheeky the Squirrel? is back? I still believe you feed them something so they ?hold still? for you :-)
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Critique By:
Jürgen Reinold (K:1651)
6/20/2005 11:46:11 PM
Thank you, Bruno. I agree that the white tent makes the picture much calmer.
I had several shots with the green grass and the forest in the background, and I dismissed them in favor of this shot. You gave me the explanation - this one was much calmer for the old ship from 1893.
Thanks again for commenting,
Jürgen
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