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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
7/8/2007 9:47:19 PM
I had not imagined how melencholy one could feel, seeing the tatered facets of an inverted and trucated icosohedron. NICE CAPTURE. Invokes a rather medieval mood to us bleached bright by the sun in Kalifornia. Cheers John B
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
7/1/2007 11:48:09 PM
How do these sorts of things look if you set them a good bit off center, does the illusion of face work more or....less. good vision fella.
John b
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| Photo By: Agust Agustsson
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
7/1/2007 11:42:30 PM
> Insert incredibly loud, obnoxious bird call here < they are best seen, rather than lived with. I love the flowering tree as the setting.
Cheers. JB
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
6/24/2007 6:23:59 PM
Okay Ian, you have been busy of late and so I can understand it when you make a mistake. And since you are such a creative artist, I will ignore most all of those mistakes. This one however, is SOOO egrigious I can not let it slide.
You got ORION upside down!
Oh yeah, Kiwi view....javascript:AddSmileyIcon(' ')
You would be amazed at how WRONG this looks to me!
On the other hand I have never seen the Southern Cross
so what do I know.
Cheers - JB
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| Photo By: Ian McIntosh
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
6/14/2007 3:16:26 AM
The flash is going off in about 1/millionth of a second or so. That freezes the rain drops and you get no motion blur that I think you want to suggest. Perhaps darken the background by say shooting at dusk under a street lamp so the light shows the drops and the subject but the background remains dark. FWIW, I would shoot the the child from the side. You still would know what he is doing but we dont have to look into his mouth which frankly is not that appealling to this critic. Cheers and keep on shooting. JB
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
6/13/2007 4:57:25 AM
Wahoo....15 minutes of fame... as Andy Warhol would have said...oh, yes, he did say that. Glad to help bring your work more attention. Jb
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| Photo By: Ian McIntosh
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
6/13/2007 4:45:10 AM
Congratulations on Photographer of the day Mary Sue! Saw your tag line and thought of Georgia O'Keefe - "I hate flowers. I only paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move."
Good for you - John B
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| Photo By: Mary Sue Hayward
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
6/11/2007 6:38:46 AM
Okay Ian, I have gone back over this entire series of yours. In my eyes, this one is the best. I'm not a fan of color noise or colour noise for that matter. I appreciate what you seem to be trying to do but despite the lack of bejeweling, this is my favorite. What I enjoyed the least was the broad swaths of color noise in the background. I did like it when limited to the bird alone. i also liked the range of forms you tried even if the results left me wanting something else. You continue to inspire me. Perhaps I should move to a home with softer light and try more of the mystic and let myself free. Cheers fella. John B
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| Photo By: Ian McIntosh
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
5/24/2007 3:05:37 AM
Much better. You do know about the butterfly house at the LA County museam out by USC, right? Johnny B
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| Photo By: Laurie J. Herndon
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
5/24/2007 3:03:52 AM
You never fail to amaze....No macro shots? No? Good, these guys and their friends creep me out big time. Johnny B
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| Photo By: Laurie J. Herndon
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
5/24/2007 2:58:54 AM
VERY nice Barry. These sorts of images are soo much fun! I like the tonal range very much. My only critique would be the small areas at the bottom of tan color (colour for our British friends). you could either crop or do paint it with color in PS. Thanks for sharing. John B
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| Photo By: Barry Walthall
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
5/22/2007 3:34:23 AM
I agree with Harry about everything but the highlights. The hard specularity tells us about the surfaces. The centering is what needs to be fixed most. keep on clicking. John B
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
5/14/2007 1:11:37 AM
Annemtte this image is so charming it needs rescueing. Attached is an attempt I made using PS. I used the highlight/shadow adjustment to darken the curtians and then boosted the the lightnesss in the shadows. Then I used curves to bring contrast to the quartertones. Finally, I used unsharp masking at 30% with a 20 pixel diameter to boost the local cotrast a bit. Loved the about!
Cheers - John B
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| Photo By: Annemette Rosenborg Eriksen
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
5/13/2007 12:37:21 AM
So THATS why they ride those insane animal races, they done
accidently spurred theyselves in their behind and then all excited like the caught up in the craziness. Thanks for clearing up
THAT mystery. Gotta love women on usefilm for givin us
a perspective we might not see!
Cheers - Johnny B
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| Photo By: Laurie J. Herndon
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
5/13/2007 12:33:37 AM
rain? gotta go see myself some of that.
curious, did you envision this or did it
just work out like this? My mind feels
like that sometimes.
Cheers - Johnny B
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| Photo By: Ian McIntosh
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
5/3/2007 3:15:00 AM
I've seen a number of mothers making that face! Dad meanwhile is of to play with the boys!
Cheers - JB
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| Photo By: Laurie J. Herndon
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
4/28/2007 4:55:03 AM
Gator? In the Verde River? I think not.
Very nice Don. You have the technique down cold
and coupled with your good eye, you create some
stunning images. Cheers.
John B
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
4/28/2007 4:36:03 AM
I am sorry Joe, but eight eyes really creep me out! Maybe because in part due to a bad spider bite on my leg a year ago. You have done a very good job on this fella which adds to the creepy factor. If you are going to be getting this close you might want to explore using a flash so that you can pump up the depth of field.
John B
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
3/18/2007 9:55:25 PM
Dave your question got the beter of me so I went to my archives.
It appears that I was on the Ice Fields parkway north of the Sask river and just south of the Sunwapta pass and the columbia Icefields. There is a long ridge there to the west of the road and it looks as though that was pretty close. John B
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
3/18/2007 9:30:52 PM
Dave I struggled to remember exactly where this was taken. I know it was on a Canadian vacation from Banff to Jasper and I think it was closer to Jasper. With the sun to the left it would have been on the west side of the Ice fields highway but sorry I can not put it closer. John B Thanks for the nice comment.
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
2/19/2007 4:14:17 PM
Hi Roger - sorry to have been away but life is what it is. I looked at this image for a long time. Early on I noticed the the wrestler in the isle has something hanging from his belt. Much later I noticed the same sort of thing on both guys in the ring. Care to enlighten a curious American? What and why are they?
JB
Ps hope you and yours have been doing well.
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| Photo By: Roger Williams
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
2/17/2007 4:17:53 PM
GOD - Its a Rorschach test..........on Usefilm...
Friendly? Nope, no comment.
John B
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| Photo By: Laurie J. Herndon
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
2/17/2007 4:14:24 PM
Looking for cowboys are we?
Well, you I mean, not me, or at least in
a bar sense,... oh never mind.
Nice change of pace. I am going to Huntington Gardens with
family this week, maybe I will see a tree criter.
John B
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| Photo By: Laurie J. Herndon
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
2/17/2007 4:11:03 PM
Its interesting how our photography works so well with other forms of art. You have been adding poetry and I music. I like the effect of the zoom. More importantly, I enjoy your pushing the less than literal in contrast to the perfect snapshots we see so much of.
G'Day
John B
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| Photo By: Ian McIntosh
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
2/11/2007 7:05:03 PM
Hi Laurie - I just went through your entire series and I must say that I like it very much. Its as much about using the mind to make images as it is the camera. You have enspired me to get out there and try this. This particular image is one of my favorites. Now we see how the Brothers Grimm tapped into a nerve with their fairy tales!
Cheers
john B
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| Photo By: Laurie J. Herndon
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
1/27/2007 5:13:33 PM
I am sooooo jealous. I had no good oportunity. Not certain but there are damn few photos of a comet with a reflection off water, you may be unique or at least fairly unique (to mangle a definition)
Hmmm, a comet? brings new meaning to "crash point"
Cheers
John B
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| Photo By: Ian McIntosh
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
1/27/2007 5:08:00 PM
Laurie - I really enjoyed this whole series of yours. quite disturbed if i must say. perhaps you need a week at a spa to de-tense? great stuff as always.
I've been too busy to post but next week its off to death valley for a 4 days of shooting yipee!.
Cheers - John B
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| Photo By: Laurie J. Herndon
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
11/28/2006 4:13:09 AM
By choice or not, the overcast sky
lets the contrast go down a bit and the
rocks are easier to manage. A nice image but to add some actual critique, the rocks are a bit static as you shot them straight on. Its a bit like shooting a house. They look better if they are seen from an angle, with 45 degrees being the over used perspective. There is a nagging feeling that the sky was lifted from another image to punch up the image a bit.. I could be wrong and even if it is, good job.
John B
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| Photo By: Salvatore Rossignolo
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
11/28/2006 4:06:39 AM
Congratulations on being selected as
Photographer of the day!
Well deserved and...were you walking on water when you took this image? I thought you could.
John B
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| Photo By: Laurie J. Herndon
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
11/25/2006 11:08:31 PM
That's nightshade? I would not have known even if you put it on my salad! You might consider doing something about the bug eaten leaf below - or not.
Thanks for sharing and educating.
John
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