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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:127263)
12/15/2008 2:34:53 PM
Oops, I was not referring to details in the sense of "things" or "objects" that belong or don't belong there, Shyamal, but about details in the photographic sence. A tree can belong exactly as well dead in the water - why not? This is a matter of composition. If it is OK then even dirty socks on water can be great.
The problem is how to get for example the finest elements of the tree's texture (details) without necessarily relying in maximum contrast, which sometimes may raise the power of exactness but lower the power of the atmosphere. This is a main photographical headache.
But main headaches are always good for good ideas about how to get rid of them. ;-)
Cheers!
Nick
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Critique By:
Paulo Santos (K:445)
12/14/2008 12:04:40 AM
Good B&w.
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Critique By:
Paulo Santos (K:445)
12/14/2008 12:03:30 AM
Boa captura.
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Critique By:
Shyamal Addanki (K:1009)
12/13/2008 11:32:29 PM
ah, Nick ... perhaps the idea is exactly the lack of validity in the details, the lack of strong definition of everything's place; surely a tree does not belong dead in the water, but that is a detail that adds to the atmosphere.
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:127263)
12/12/2008 2:58:01 PM
Good perspective of the endlessness, Shyamal! The mirroring water surely plays the role of the plane of reference here, and it underlines the leading lines. But exactly these leading lines could gain more power by less centering of that fallen tree in water, which seems to be the mediator between here and infinity with its reflection on the water.
The details are good but they are also "supressed" by the lower contrast. I tried to adjust leveles for a higher contrast and then... the details were more poerful but the general atmosphere was lost (attachment). A hard work, really, for I still ask myself, how to give the details more validity without lowering the validity of the atmosphere due to lighting balance? Somebody any ideas?
Cheers!
Nick
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Critique By:
Supriyo R. Sarkar (K:7582)
12/11/2008 6:14:52 AM
Very good capture Shyamal.
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Critique By:
Indranil Ray (K:5050)
12/11/2008 5:44:02 AM
Valo laglo chobi ta. Chobi ta ektu bright korle ki balo hoto?
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Critique By:
Aungsita Chatterjee (K:19843)
12/11/2008 4:11:22 AM
nice one.
bubai.
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:127263)
12/9/2008 3:18:24 PM
A very nice light balance that turns the flat image to a 3D-representation of the hand and the feet, Shyamal! The degree of plasticity is great here. But it also has a very "silent" touch - some kind of suggestive peace all over the image. The details are great on the foreground too.
Does the background add something or does it rather disturb? I cropped it a bit tighter (attachment) and think that the subject is better represented this way.
Cheers!
Nick
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:127263)
12/9/2008 3:12:53 PM
The night atmosphere is captured quite intriguing in this view of a pulsating city. The coloring already tells about noght lights, and then the many things going on around add their own signatures in that chaotic place. (Chaotic with the good sense of the word.) The rapid transitions between well detailed and more fuzzy things (the people on the bikes, etc) seems to be ideal for such an image. It is alive. It has something that makes it a good candidate for a city guide.
The lighting is marvelous! Such a good definition of everything under such low light conditions! Hat off!
Nick
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Critique By:
Julie Salles (K:22654)
2/6/2008 2:01:34 AM
What a precious image. Nicely captured.
All the best!
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Critique By:
Saintz Saintz2 (K:11250)
11/8/2007 7:49:49 AM
Perfect framing And Crop ..
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Critique By:
Saintz Saintz2 (K:11250)
11/8/2007 7:49:28 AM
Good Pic ..
I't so dinamic .. good colors ..
greetings
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Critique By:
Andrzej B. (K:2244)
11/7/2007 5:50:22 AM
Wow!
Excellent!
Tap
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Critique By:
Mervo (K:8643)
11/7/2007 5:44:35 AM
Excellent. Very fine macro shot. 7/7
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:127263)
10/23/2007 1:54:09 PM
The title fits the content in a very well matching way, Shyamal! The lighting alone, under the low lying clouds makes the image look melancholic, but also very thoughtful in its own way. I see some very silent kind of nostalgy here, that gets enhanced by the surface of the water and the far horizon. The sea and the sand appear heavy and loaded, and the now dead trunk with its roots out of the earth lies lifeless and reminds of times when it was living. I see some wish to regain something of which the spectator knows that it lies for ever behind the borders that cannot be crossed. But the wish still exists - and thus melancholy?
Technically spoken there are also very strong leading lines here. They are not expicitely present but they are created in the mind of the spectator by perceiving the convergence of the two planes of reference for perspective, between which the spectator stands when looking at the image, and which seem to bracket the spectator very firmly, in an almost asphyxial way that makes breathing heavy. It creates the impression of a prison, a place that one can't get away of, amplifying thus the concept of that border that cannot be crossed.
I add an attachment for demonstrating better what I mean with those implicit leading lines.
Best wishes,
Nick
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Critique By:
Mehul Chimthankar (K:18655)
10/23/2007 1:41:42 PM
Hi Shyamal,
Nice you of the key board, great DOF, fantastic presentation 7+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Mehul
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:127263)
10/23/2007 1:26:03 PM
Thank you very much for the detailed answer, Shyamal, and especially for the very interesting information about the lighting! Indeed, even the name of what we do, photography, means directly translated to record the light, and so the importance of the light is apparent. But often it is exactly that importance that is almost neglected.
About the how and the what we capture at some certain level that many masters of photography have reached, one is able to just shoot anything and make the "usual" look intriguing. I think that this is something we should at least try to achieve though of course it is a long long way up there. Like for example here, where you did take something very usual and still made it look special.
The flame on the dark side of the image introduces (in addition to everything else) quite a tension since the eye reacts automatically by questioning the fact that the reflected light is on the opposite side of the candle flame. I realized that some minutes after looking at the image for the first time, and that was why I asked about the light sources. I wonder now if this could be taken to the endth degree by illuninating the opposite side of some object/scene where there is some (less strong?) source of light visible at the other side. I can imagine for example that if there are many reflecting surfaces, or even particles like dust etc, the interaction of light with light could turn many things to very very intriguing images.
Now, where are my torches, lamps, reflectors and dustbean? ;-)
Best wishes,
Nick
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:127263)
10/23/2007 1:08:31 PM
Hi Shyamal!
Thank you very much both for the technical explanation and for the intention behind the image. I can see very well the concept you followed and the brilliant technique fro turning such an abstract idea to something visible.
To me it does say now all about the "stepping outside of the own self" but still also something more, which is that the protagonist "allows" us to take a view of just one of these steps, and that he is the only one that reigns over this process of allowing us to see that. Perhaps he makes many more such steps, but if he doesn't want us to see that, we will not know.
Perhaps this is an "amplified" version of the same thing, since it is his steps, and he is the only one to say when he steps outside and where too - and thus also who's allowed to see what. A strong content about the own self and the exclusive right to rule over it.
Which also includes some kind of closing the circle, a self-reference - ruling over the own self, deciding to break rules by ruling himself.
Cheers,
Nick
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Critique By:
Shyamal Addanki (K:1009)
10/22/2007 4:09:54 PM
Thank you for your comment, Martina. Yes, in a way, I am trying to indicate our failure to see "beyond" the curtain, but also that we are seeing *something* beyond the curtain, just that it is not clear because of the curtain. As if we are looking for the light while wearing sunglasses ... it won't prevent us from seeing it, but it will change *how* we see it.
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Critique By:
Shyamal Addanki (K:1009)
10/22/2007 4:01:42 PM
Thank you very much for you comment Nick. I certainly wanted to get across the idea that *how* we shoot is at least as important than what we shoot. At the same time, I didn't want to pick any common still life, like an apple, because there can be so many levels of complexity in an image with a simple subject, but when different sources of light get thrown into the equation, the complexity goes exponential. Thus I wanted the flame.
Yes, most pictures of candles are either underexposed, to show the detail in the flame, or overexposed, to show detail in the candle. I was certain I could do both, and would force myself to if I had an interesting piece. The flame was not the only source of light, I did have a lamp (no flash) on the left side, using the shade to diffuse the light falling on the subject.
Incidentally, I purposely lit the subject on the opposite side of the flame, so that the flame is on the darker side of the image; which I thought would give away my lighting concept.
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Critique By:
Shyamal Addanki (K:1009)
10/22/2007 3:33:30 PM
Nick,
I have been waiting for your comments, as they are always interesting to read, and you certainly have not let me down.
In this image, I wanted to capture the breaking of "rules" that we all want to do, the social rules that keep us where we are, expressing whatever is acceptable to express and nothing more. Sometimes, I just want to be let out, but that can also lead to dark areas and danger.
So I knew I wanted the lighting to approach the image from one side, and for the motion to go towards the opposite side, i.e. into the darker area of the image. Also, I did have a softer light source on the left as well, so that the image does not go into shadow entirely. Then, it was simple enough to have a 2 second exposure with a front curtain fill flash bounced off a while wall on the right. Once the flash fired, I moved slow enough to fill the remaining 2 seconds with the motion, this way the movement was a lot more defined, instead of just being a slight haze in the shadows.
What I was trying to lead to, and the reason the movement does not extend all the way through the image, or out of it, is that the protagonist is not going anywhere, nor intends to go anywhere, but merely intends to step outside of himself.
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:127263)
10/22/2007 12:13:42 PM
Hi Shyamal!
A simple concept taken to a not so simple look! The combination of crispy clear sharp details (just look at that wall!!!) and exactly the right amout of motion blur for creating the feeling of a rapid, very rapid motion, is intriguing. The protagonist didn't obey the rules - he was there and just a tiny split of a second he is somewhere else! What is that somewhere else? It seems as if only the protagonist knew. The posing in front of the camera is only a tiny part of a continuous development, that remains just at the borders of visibility! And this is what hits the eye so strongly here together with the overall shadowy atmosphere that makes the protagonist "glow" even stronger on the moment he *allowed* to be captured! The image gets stronger than its maker!
If I may ask you, how did you achieve that?
Cheers,
Nick
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:127263)
10/22/2007 11:57:26 AM
The concept is very interesting, Shymal, since it reveals the many possibilities to make something interesting out of something that we are used to. And your capture here proves very very strongly that it *is* indeed more important *how* we shoot than whhat we shoot!
The light/shadow/reflections supply a plasticity that makes the object almost touchable. It escapes my fingers but I see it as something that is not only a depiction. I am also amazed about the clarity of the light! (BTW, Was that your only light source?) Often such candle lights in darkness tend to get overexposed and really lose much of their warm character. But not here. Here it is a real candle light - small, warm, with sharp borders to the darker background but still carrying its halo!
A very very well though out and extremely careful exposure. Only perhaps a tiny bit of a tighter crop of the top part of the image?
Cheers,
Nick
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Critique By:
Andre Denis (K:66407)
10/21/2007 3:51:32 PM
Hi Shyamal,
And this would be one with the soft look you were talking about :):) We all have to try it a few times or we wouldn't call ourselves photographers :)
Andre
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Critique By:
Andre Denis (K:66407)
10/21/2007 3:49:20 PM
Hi Shyamal,
This is a coincidence... I'm looking at the new Impreza. They look like a great buy!!
I know that feeling of fun in the snow. I have an Audi 90 Quattro 20V sport sedan since 1992.
Andre
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Critique By:
Martina Riolo (K:7048)
10/21/2007 8:32:22 AM
I can imagine this picture relates to our failure or inability to see "beyond" the curtain, the thousands influences of our daily life. Anyway ... the picture is beautiful and invites to think! Good B / W, good composition.
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Critique By:
Martina Riolo (K:7048)
10/21/2007 8:15:15 AM
Interesting subject ... the center of the pic is the reflection on his left, imho. :-)
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Critique By:
Artur Brzeczkowski (K:117)
10/20/2007 10:33:32 AM
Perfect, simple and poetic
regards
Artur
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Critique By:
Srna Stankovic (K:172232)
10/20/2007 8:21:56 AM
Very fine ... excellent ... keep on Shyamal !!!
Hug
Srna
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