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Critique By:
Antonia BauerleinSehnert (K:30599)
1/14/2005 5:31:34 PM
this one, does it also work in BW?
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Critique By:
Antonia BauerleinSehnert (K:30599)
1/14/2005 5:30:55 PM
this one...beef up the darks just a little.
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Critique By:
Antonia BauerleinSehnert (K:30599)
1/14/2005 5:28:35 PM
this one
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Critique By:
Antonia BauerleinSehnert (K:30599)
1/14/2005 5:24:14 PM
Very sweet expression and pose. I'm guessing that the angle of the light is intentional and that you deliberately shot with her face in shadow. The light looks like it may have been a little strong to have angled her into it and that she is sitting on a bench that can't be moved. I think this is excellent under those circumstances, but if I were there specifically for a portrait, I would try to find softer or indirect light (shade of a tree), and capture the catchlights in her eyes. Soft light casting a shadow over a portion of the face adds dimension. You likely know all this, but I thought I'd throw it in as this seemed like a good subject for the discussion...lol. T.
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Critique By:
Antonia BauerleinSehnert (K:30599)
1/14/2005 5:17:45 PM
The pose is adorable and framing excellent. You handled the light nicely under the circumstances. T.
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Critique By:
Kay McIntire (K:11787)
1/12/2005 3:34:00 PM
Awww. I can see how SWEET Jimmy is! HA! He sure is cute, though! I think all 3 year olds have a bit of teenager in them....! Another great portrait that shows a lot of personality. Well done!
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Critique By:
Kay McIntire (K:11787)
1/12/2005 3:29:23 PM
This is also PERFECT, karen! I love his pose and the lighting and his overall expression. He is just as handsome as can be! You must be very proud!
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Critique By:
Kay McIntire (K:11787)
1/12/2005 3:15:35 PM
Into my Favorites! This has to be the best Christmas shot I have seen this year. Just PERFECT! The light in his eyes draws attention and makes it really special. Great eye, Karen!
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Critique By:
James Hager (K:6285)
1/12/2005 7:48:17 AM
This image brought a smile to my face. Love the costume!
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Critique By:
Olga Vareli (K:22477)
1/11/2005 8:35:16 PM
FANTASTIC portrait, congratulations for the shoes, the best I have ever seen in a costume like that!Very cute!
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Critique By:
Karen Ferranti (K:2959)
1/10/2005 9:44:56 PM
Kay,
Thanks. I got your email. I was goig to get back to you today but there is 3000 porn spam on my Church website and unlucky for me I am the webmaster  I have to get fix it and the admin tool is not working which means I have to delete and recode by hand. I am thinking it is going to take all night. YUCK! Then I think I am resigning from the position unless maybe the Archdiocese wants to start paying me. 
Karen
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Critique By:
Chris Nichols (K:7068)
1/10/2005 8:12:01 PM
Oh! Fun shot! Great capture
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Critique By:
Kay McIntire (K:11787)
1/10/2005 7:44:57 PM
Adorable cosutme, too! I forgot to ask- did you get my email? I sent it to the email address on your homepage.
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Critique By:
Kay McIntire (K:11787)
1/10/2005 7:43:29 PM
Your little Jester is just adorable, Karen! I like this shot without any distracting background and the natural light. The only think I would do differently is straighten up the trees in the background so that they are straight up and down. Great colors, lighting!
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Critique By:
Mark Evans (K:17428)
1/10/2005 2:32:20 PM
well done karen !! some great colour in this photo and well done to spencer !! best wishes .. mark .
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Critique By:
Kay McIntire (K:11787)
1/9/2005 7:26:08 PM
Absolutely precious! A great shot with good natural lighting. It could easily be sharpened in photoshop, but the slight blurriness here isn't bad, IMO. He is a cutie!
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Critique By:
Hanggan Situmorang (K:24833)
1/9/2005 3:13:02 AM
Very nice capture, Karen. Bright color and rich texture. Thanks for sharing your comment on my work. Best regards, Hanggan.
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Critique By:
Stephen Bowden (K:64141)
1/8/2005 7:44:06 PM
I had to look at this a dozen times to make sure I wasn't in the picture somewhere lol
Great capture Karen, I love it :-)
Best wishes,
Steve
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Critique By:
Karen Ferranti (K:2959)
1/7/2005 11:03:25 PM
Thank You Carlos for taking the time to give me a personal lesson I am going to print this out.
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Critique By:
Karen Ferranti (K:2959)
1/7/2005 10:58:05 PM
Thank You Stephen for your comments. I am sure that yours were just as cute. Babies have to start off cute otherwise parents would kill them as teenagers that is what my mother say anyway and she is just talking about the stuff she caught me doing If she only knew it all I might not be here today 
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Critique By:
Karen Ferranti (K:2959)
1/7/2005 10:35:00 PM
Thank You Cheryl, She is not mine but my friends grandaughter. She has the prettiest hair color. I can't help but steal her occasionally for mini photo sessions.
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Critique By:
Stephen Bowden (K:64141)
1/7/2005 5:22:07 PM
Aww this is just lovely :-)
I'm trying to remember back 13 and 11 years wondering if my two monsters were ever this cute lol
Best wishes,
Steve
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Critique By:
Mark Evans (K:17428)
1/6/2005 11:42:49 PM
This is a great photo !! i love the title , my nephew was like this when i tried to take his photo !! great colour and detail karen .. best wishes... mark .
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Critique By:
Lukasz Kuczkowski (K:14687)
1/6/2005 8:02:39 PM
Hi Karen,
I found this picture by accident browsing the recent comments :-)
like the shot and the position of this brave boy facing the waves :-)
I agree with the other UF members that, by the conversion of this shot to b&w we could obtain interesting effect and in some cases quite different picture;
there is also one think I would suggest to rethink - the composition. IMHO the most important "object" on that shot is your boy and the wave - as I said earlier I like the position of the boy compared to the wave but I think that, compared to the rest of the shot, there is too much distracting space at the bottom and at the top of the shot. This space adds nothing to the shot and what's worse - it destroys the whole effect of the boy's position.
I suggest to alter it slightly.
My vision you can find below.
Anyway, like this picture
regards and take care
Lukasz
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Critique By:
Carlos (K:12969)
1/6/2005 7:11:19 PM
Karen?
Toni BauerleinSehnert is right. This is another example of a beautiful shot which could benefit from a B&W conversion. A subjective choice like all choices we make... but I love beach scenes (probably never quite the same after recent events) and I think they deliver much better in B&W.
I think ?Pouty? and ?Hanna? do very well in black and white as well.
I understand a simple conversion works poorly Karen so I?ve included a simple but effective technique to extract the richness of a color picture, using the ?Lightness? method.
With the picture on the screen, go to ?Image?, ?Mode? and convert the picture to ?Lab Color?.
Next click your ?Channels palette? ? you now have a ?Lightness? channel separated from the color information.
Since it is the grey scale we want you click on the ?Lightness? channel to make it active, go to ?Image? menu, and click ?Greyscale?. Click OK to discard the other channels.
The channels pallet only shows the Gray channel.
On the Layers pallet click the background layer and press the ?Control-J? keys to duplicate the layer.
And switch the Blend mode of the duplicated layer from ?Normal? to ?Multiply?.
Image is probably quite dark, but it now that you lower the opacity to arrive at your desired (and much richer? tonal balanced destination.
Stay cool.
C
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Critique By:
Chris Nichols (K:7068)
1/6/2005 3:25:26 PM
very sweet!
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Critique By:
Cheryl Ogle (K:24494)
1/6/2005 2:40:55 PM
It's adorable! I love the sand in the shot leading you to the boy then the magnificent ocean. Wonderfully laid out.
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Critique By:
Cheryl Ogle (K:24494)
1/6/2005 2:37:56 PM
I think you cropped it right - the leg needs to be in the shot because the foot on the other leg has to be in there - it was essential to the photo (IMHO). I love it. My only suggestion is that the photo seems to have been taken around high-noon, I would wait until later in the day or in the morning so you don't have a glarish light of the sun (on her jacket). Also, cloudy days are great almost any time of day. She is adorable - is she yours?
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Critique By:
Karen Ferranti (K:2959)
1/6/2005 5:21:20 AM
Thank You Carlos I like your version very much. I thought about B/W for this one but I can't seem to get the contrast right when I convert. I love the close crop it works well. She was leaning over to kiss his cheek and before she could he pushed her away and yelled "yuck" and then the sweet moment was gone but I was lucky enough to catch it.
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Critique By:
Carlos (K:12969)
1/6/2005 4:14:21 AM
This is fine picture. Karen. ? a beautiful photograph which invokes a familiar tenderness felt and witnessed by this viewer, with my own children and their friends.
I copied your ?Young Love? and messed with a little bit because it is such a very special image which I would have processed differently - I hope you don?t mind!
I think there is a classic picture in this picture. Something ephemeral, or specific about the way of the body movement and position, the gaze of the little girl and the shy sweetest smile coming from the fellow, the hand resting lightly on the shoulder? it?s real vintage - and a timeless photograph.
I hope you don?t get upset with this B&W version of your shot.
It is meant to be seen at 800pixels.
C.
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