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Critique By:
Russell Fletcher (K:1717)
8/13/2005 6:44:21 AM
Mark,
This is such an amazing result.
Just wondering of if you could describe the process a bit more. I assume you underexposed each exposure by a number of stops, if so how many?
You say that 6 exposures are out of focus,but how out of focus, did you force the focus to its closest distance and just limit the depth of field?
I am looking forward to your response
Cheers,
Russell
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Critique By:
Russell Fletcher (K:1717)
5/29/2005 4:40:49 AM
Michael,
You are so close that I have to reply to you.
You are right, it is a storage tank, but you are looking in from the outside through the manhole. The tank had had the top half cut off to move the tank, and that is how you can see the sky.
This was actually from the winery a few of my other shots are from, this was one of the big tanks there, holding around 500,000 litres of wine. Just a drop or two.
Thanks for the reply and the thoughts.
Russell
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| Photo By: Russell Fletcher
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Critique By:
Russell Fletcher (K:1717)
3/7/2005 6:35:46 AM
Peta,
Awesome shot, love the mirrored reflection of the mountain ranges in the wine glass.
Great call on the Marlborough white wines, they are my pick too. General way i choose wines, White wines from NZ, Reds from OZ.
And i am not biased even though I am a kiwi that worked at a Marlborough Winery for a couple of summers.
Will have to give ppdix's shiraz a try.
Thanks for the NZ wine plug.
Russell
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Critique By:
Russell Fletcher (K:1717)
3/7/2005 6:21:28 AM
Geoff,
Thanks for your comment,
I quite like the alternative look form you.
The angle makes the lines from the lights appear a lot like theatre spotlights, angling down to the stage below.
I had a quick look with my latest upload, but didn't quite appear as dramatic.
Cheers.
Russell
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| Photo By: Russell Fletcher
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Critique By:
Russell Fletcher (K:1717)
3/5/2005 2:28:12 AM
Alex,
What a sunset, I love the gradient of colour seen in the sky. Nice placement of the horizon and good use of the buildings just breaking up the image.
Nice
Russell
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| Photo By: Alex Perkins
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Critique By:
Russell Fletcher (K:1717)
3/5/2005 2:05:47 AM
Frank,
Wow, love the colour in the ice, amazingly this looks like the bill of the swan posted 4 photos after.
Russell
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| Photo By: Frank Terlien
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Critique By:
Russell Fletcher (K:1717)
3/4/2005 6:00:36 AM
Susan,
Great shot, love the time of evening you shot at.
I almost feel that the whole picture is very angled, but that is due to the line of the clouds and the line of the headlights working together.
Keep it up
Russell
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| Photo By: susan darcey
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Critique By:
Russell Fletcher (K:1717)
3/4/2005 1:48:23 AM
AJ,
This is great, you have got the kaleidoscope thing going, was something I had hoped to see from you, not sure of I ever mentioned it.
Keep going bud.
Russell
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Photo By: AJ Miller
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Critique By:
Russell Fletcher (K:1717)
3/4/2005 1:02:50 AM
Angel,
Can now see a few more details, hadn't actually spotted the flag till you mentioned it.
One thing that astounds me the most is that between the tme in Mexico and the hoover dam, you didn't take any photos!
The splash of colour in the centre of the picture from the hoover dam area.
Did you design/plan series of images, or just thought about it when the times came up?
Russell
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| Photo By: Angel Peraza
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Critique By:
Russell Fletcher (K:1717)
3/3/2005 9:39:29 AM
Angel,
I find your photo very fasanating.
Can you give me some more details about it, can you tell me whatyou have done and what the shots are that you have used? Multipule exposure??
One looks like a fisheye off centre, maybe a shot of the a convex mirror, but of what, I don't know.
Looking forward to your reply
Russell
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| Photo By: Angel Peraza
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Critique By:
Russell Fletcher (K:1717)
3/3/2005 9:28:19 AM
Gary,
This is awesome, I can't believe you were able to get fireworks and lightning in the same shot, really wonderful,
Great composition, and the exposure from the city lights are sharp.
Wow,
Russell
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| Photo By: Gary Sissons
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Critique By:
Russell Fletcher (K:1717)
3/3/2005 9:11:45 AM
Hi AJ,
I see it must have been raining agian. : )
Very nice, I like the centre bubble again, it has this perfect circle of black background around it, I finf the bubbles off to the side of the image interesting, as they pop out of nowhere with there reflection of the pens.
Next time, I am unsure, but I feel you should use the fact that the bubbles image is a mirrored reflection, the only thing that comes to mind is a word that is written mirrored and through the bubble it is properly shown.
Russell
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Critique By:
Russell Fletcher (K:1717)
3/2/2005 9:47:10 AM
Mario,
Awesome use of the zooming technique.
The leaves and branches of the trees create amazing lines due to the zoom that frame the image.
I have seen alot of photos just today of people attempts at the zooming techniques.
This is one of the best I have seen today.
Welcome to UF, hope to see more from you, especially in the use of manual techniques like this.
Russell
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Critique By:
Russell Fletcher (K:1717)
3/2/2005 1:51:04 AM
Salvatore,
Well done, love the colours and the face detail and the detial on the wing coming forward.
This is very similar to one I have in my folio.
Great use of the limited dof.
One thing that I have often struggled with is the tight crop I did on the dragonfly, cutting the wings off short. But I see you have done the same and so I feel better about my choice.
Russell
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Critique By:
Russell Fletcher (K:1717)
3/2/2005 1:47:36 AM
Ali,
Well done,
I have tried the zooming technique a coupl of times, but with limited success.
Did you do this handheld, or was a tripod involved??
Will have to try the zoom again sometime.
Thanks for the inspiration.
Russell
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| Photo By: Ali Naghizadeh
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Critique By:
Russell Fletcher (K:1717)
3/2/2005 1:15:42 AM
AJ,
Now that is awesome.
Goes to show that practise makes perfect.
Love the placement of the drop in the centre of the cirlce of pens.
I think you could go two ways with your placement of the droplets, absolutely random in size and location, or in a symetrical pattern.
I personally like the random scatter.
Keep up the great work
Russell
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Critique By:
Russell Fletcher (K:1717)
3/1/2005 1:07:13 AM
Waleed,
I really like this image, I love the mood you have captured.
A thought for a shot similar to this would be to chuck on a fill flash onto the beach chairs to bring out some of the materials colour, I can just see them having a nice bold vertical stripes.
Awesome Classic landscape.
Russell
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Critique By:
Russell Fletcher (K:1717)
2/26/2005 5:59:09 AM
Hey Hanggan,
A trip down to see Borobudur is on the cards, but time is pretty tight with the project nearing completion.
Maybe though, will see.
Russell
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| Photo By: Hanggan Situmorang
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Critique By:
Russell Fletcher (K:1717)
2/26/2005 1:54:24 AM
Hi Nathan,
Yeah, the arcsoft program works pretty I have been extremely happy with the results I have seen from it. Every once and a while I will get one set of images that will not hook up, one photo normally get totally skiped out.
All the best for your future adventures around the country.
Russell
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Critique By:
Russell Fletcher (K:1717)
2/25/2005 10:15:36 AM
Nathan,
Awesome panoramic,
One part my country I haven't made it down to yet.
Love the brown ue above the island, what program did you use to stitch them together?
Have you got anymore of this wonderful land.
Russell
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| Photo By: Nathan Gillies
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Critique By:
Russell Fletcher (K:1717)
2/25/2005 8:32:21 AM
Brad,
Yeah I agree the rock detail has disappeared slighly, I am sure we can bring it back if we really tried.
If you do get the slide reprinted, then maybe get a neutral print done too, ie with no corrections done to it by the lab, and we could compare them all.
Brad, super shot for a 2 second shot braced on the post. I personally wouldn'thave attempted the shot, but in that case I would have missed out on this great shot.
Russell
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Critique By:
Russell Fletcher (K:1717)
2/25/2005 7:38:27 AM
Hanggan,
Very awesome, I didn't know about this in Jakarta.
When are you heading to the actual Borobudur, any time soon???
Russell
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Critique By:
Russell Fletcher (K:1717)
2/25/2005 7:33:22 AM
Hanggan,
Thanks for your comment, I wish I could have zoomed out some more to really fit the beast in, but I was at the limits of my 35mm, and hard in the corner of the platform a story above the ground. If I were to go back now I would be able to fit it all in no worries with the 24mm facility I have now. I guess I could of headed to the workshop and whipped up a wee clamp system to fasten my camera another metre back in the middle of the air. But I didn't.
All good.
Russell
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Critique By:
Russell Fletcher (K:1717)
2/25/2005 7:28:37 AM
Bon,
I find your image slighly overexposed, there is a white haze to the image, the background, i feel would look better as black, i think, you could do one of two things to your images to correct this. Post processing you could increase the contrast, thus darkening the background, this also increases the highlights, so bring the brightness down a few steps to compensate, OR, you could try forcing your camera to underexpose by say 1/2 a stop, this will increase the contrasts in the image, and reduce the white haze I have mentioned.
I have had a quick try with your image with what I suggested above, and got the result shown, the face appears alot darker but I feel the rest of the image and the model is alot cleaner.
I am interested to hearing your response
Russell
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Critique By:
Russell Fletcher (K:1717)
2/25/2005 1:15:50 AM
Pawel,
Awesome capture.
Industrial photos are my favourite and this just sums up my reasons.
Love the colour from the lighting you have achieved, the green is great.
Alastair has made some great comments, for me I find the tree in the top right distracting, I think you have done well to use it in the image, but I feel that the overall photo would be better with ut removed.
Keep up the great work
Russell
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Critique By:
Russell Fletcher (K:1717)
2/24/2005 10:35:48 AM
Hi Brad,
I agree with you about the fight between what colours we really saw and what colours look better.
I am no expert with respects to the numbering, but my limited knowledge leads me to these conclusions.
The code is broken into Red Green Blue & Density, (RGB D) in that order.
So from what I can determine, is that that Red has been increased by one step, and Green has been decreased by one step (this actually then increases the magenta in the image), the Blue has not been changed and the denisty has been decreased by 2 steps too.
For me if the image had to much blue I would have increased both Red & Green as this decreases the blue in the image. But by decreasing the Green, ie increasing the Magenta you get more red in the image.
Only a scan of the negative/slide and a comparison with the print will really tell us.
I have had another play with the colours, slightly different, but yeah, you know.
Hear from you in a while
Russell
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Critique By:
Russell Fletcher (K:1717)
2/24/2005 9:43:04 AM
Mark,
Awesome,
What I love about this image is the lighting provided from the moon, the photo looks almost exactly as it would during the day. Great Composition.
Like the gradient in the sky to the top left.
Russell
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| Photo By: Mark Wozniak
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Critique By:
Russell Fletcher (K:1717)
2/24/2005 4:46:14 AM
Tony,
Nicely captured.
I have seen alot of fire spinning photos, there is something about them. I always check out the fire shots as they are a unique subject.
When I took mine, I was still learning and so the image is quite uncontrolled.
It would be good to try again sometime.
Keep up the great work.
Russell
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Critique By:
Russell Fletcher (K:1717)
2/24/2005 4:41:29 AM
Carla,
This is awesome,
The water is so still, or was your shutter speed long enough to reduce any ripples?
I love the composition and the colours, really really amazing.
Russell
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Critique By:
Russell Fletcher (K:1717)
2/24/2005 4:26:54 AM
Giuseppe,
This is awesome, I had just read about recommendations for taking photos of the moon, and using an f/11 rule, and 1/film speed. So I just had to check to see what shutter speed and aperautre you had used. And what do you know f/11. What an amazing capture, how did you create the camera and telescope combination, did you just situate the camera looking through the eye piece of the telescope??
What an amazing rock that is.
Great capture.
Russell
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