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Critique By:
Khaled Mursi Hammoud (K:54005)
10/12/2006 9:34:12 AM
The green, red and golden yellow tones are marvelous in here AlZahraa and so is the reflection of the sky on the water.
You've got a wonderful style of yours my dear.
Regards,
Khaled.
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| Photo By: AlZahraa Sulie
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Critique By:
Annemette Rosenborg Eriksen (K:55244)
10/12/2006 12:39:31 PM
But Doyle you´ve got to see the advantages in having this sealion - you can get the most fascinating images when it bounces you around in the air!! Also it can bring you far out in the sea while you sit there on its nose being almost dry and so is the camera!! And what a great time for Marlyce seing and photographing this. An endless stream of opportunities as I see it!;-)
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Photo By: Doyle D. Chastain
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Critique By:
Annemette Rosenborg Eriksen (K:55244)
10/12/2006 12:35:57 PM
Yes I like that even better. What a special feeling to be there in the middle of history and nowhere! Like a timemascine that has stopped, but we can do nothing but just hang there in a state of limbo.
Fascinating displaying history like this on a bridge. Thanks for the info.
Best wishes,
Annemette
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| Photo By: Nick Karagiaouroglou
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Critique By:
Jan Hoffman (K:39467)
10/12/2006 12:57:00 PM
Beautiful mood shot; if "disappointment" was your mood goal, you surely achieved it. Bummer!!!!
Wonderful use of lighting and the contrast is perfect.
--Best to you, Jan
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| Photo By: Aniko Heart
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Critique By:
Hugo de Wolf (K:185110)
10/11/2006 9:53:36 PM
Hi Latif,
Unusual perspective and excellent tones - a fairitale from 1001 nights. Great shot!
Cheers,
Hugo
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| Photo By: Latif alobaida
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Critique By:
Aniko Heart (K:26503)
10/9/2006 6:59:15 AM
Another brilliant shot!!!
You chose a great angle to shoot from and I love the DOF. Subject matter very much to my taste also, and the whole image is so wonderfully presented!
You rock, Bek!!!
Hugs~
Ani )
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| Photo By: rebecca claassen
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Critique By:
Paolo De Maio (K:34932)
10/9/2006 8:38:00 AM
GREEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTT facial expression!!!
His eyes made the PHOTO
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| Photo By: Martin Paul
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Critique By:
Orazio Minnella (K:49417)
10/9/2006 8:39:49 AM
Excellent capture at sunset.Great scene with the camels in silhouettes.Wonderful colours,lights and crop.Well done,dear Saeed.
Hugs....Orazio
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| Photo By: Saeed Al Shamsi
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Critique By:
Sophie King (K:3250)
10/9/2006 10:01:06 AM
This is good Nikki =) Ur use of the rule of thirds is good and the sharpness at the end of the perspective is really good. Im glad to see u on Usefilm. Maybe you could lighten the pic just a tad..I find it a little dark but overall its good =)
-Soph
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| Photo By: Nikki Whyburn
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Critique By:
chris d (K:3046)
10/9/2006 10:52:13 AM
My first re-action also was to smile. As morten says, a very happy shot.
I did want to get a really good look up close, and for that, perhaps a bigger image would be nicer...
really enjoyed viewing this tho'
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| Photo By: yudhono arie
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Critique By:
murat sinen (K:558)
10/7/2006 11:03:03 PM
i can see your personality from your pictures nice compositions nice thinking !!!!!!!
Regards
Murat
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| Photo By: d s
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Critique By:
Giuseppe Guadagno (K:34002)
10/7/2006 10:45:15 PM
Lovely Jacek! The stones are so real and the water so clean that going farther in the pool I don't understand any more what is reflection and what reality. Excellent work for me Jacek.
Have a pleasant weekend.
Giuseppe
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| Photo By: Jacek M.
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Critique By:
Linda Imagefree (K:72276)
10/7/2006 11:27:39 PM
Rocky your work is so awesome, this is incredible...ohhhhh I love it!! The depth is wonderful, I love the warm tones especially the background colors, once again the details, the sharpness, and the clarity are excellent!!!!! Truly wonderful animal portrait. And more Rocky tips too...wooohooo!! Very nice work, Yabo gets a hug from me too...big big hugs to you mister...:)Lin
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| Photo By: Rocky Berlier
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Critique By:
rebecca claassen (K:12904)
10/8/2006 2:54:36 AM
Ani, let me tell you straight away, I love all of your work...but this...is my most fave (so far). To me, there is a very 'french' feel to this, the colour is superb and your post-processing work fantastic!!! Stunning.
hugs, Bek
P.S. perhaps you could retrofit this models jacket to bring with you to 'the farm'...lol:)
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| Photo By: Aniko Heart
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Critique By:
Todd Weeks (K:7636)
10/8/2006 1:32:47 AM
Rob,
BTW, the purple band you have captured is often refered to as the Belt of Venus. It appears opposite the sun at sunrise and sunset. It is so named because Venus can be found there at those times when it is visible in the sky.
Todd
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| Photo By: Rob Burgoyne
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Critique By:
Phillip Minnis (K:13131)
10/8/2006 5:08:16 AM
Absolutely wonderful, Melanie! A very dramatic portrait, indeed! I love the eyes!
Cheers
Phil
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| Photo By: Melanie Reynolds
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Critique By:
Dave Holland (K:13074)
10/8/2006 5:59:37 AM
Interesting morning view of Mt Victoria. I like the lighted foreground pathway across the lake, leading the eye to the distant rockwall. The rocky foreground on the right is strong. A little weaker on the left. I might have cropped the left side to the point where the left mountain reaches the top edge of the photo.
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| Photo By: Gaetan Dery
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Critique By:
Cathy Carroll (K:28144)
10/8/2006 5:43:03 AM
Hi Phillip, your eye for composition is superb! I love that the grass has a little length and the tree is bare, and the little bird is trying to find shelter. It all looks very dramatic. Lots of texture. CC
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| Photo By: Phillip Minnis
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Critique By:
stingRay pt.4 . (K:250401)
10/5/2006 12:08:55 PM
I'm out to play again my gorgeous girl.
This is a wonderful simplistic nature study sweetie and the pof and dof are superb. I love the toning to this and enjoyed reading the about which set the scene nicely. I have this vision of you crawling around the grasses in an attempt to avoid the attention of the cows. Saved a small boy....hmmmn....you ran, didn't you? My very best wishes to you as always sweetie a great big hug and an even bigger kiss......Catch....X Ray;)
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| Photo By: Caterina Berimballi
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Critique By:
ABC 123 (K:677)
10/2/2006 8:59:50 PM
Great mood! We have similar winter landscape in Switzerland but still not easy to capture in such a perfect way. Symmetry is very important on the foreground and the asymmetry on the background delivers in the end a great shot!
Congrats, Roland
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| Photo By: Mats Wallin
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Critique By:
Francisco N-G (K:28728)
10/2/2006 9:40:30 PM
Well done my favourite glass engineer!!! The B/W abstract is just perfect. The composition and play of refractions is well done and the result is optimum, as usual in your work.
The straight lines and curves create very interesting illusionary effects. The tonal range is broad and well distributed. I wonder how a little bit (more) of noise reduction would have affected the final product (maybe you like it this way).
With admiration...
F...
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| Photo By: Radmila Gorjanovic
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Critique By:
ABC 123 (K:677)
10/2/2006 9:39:49 PM
Hi Guili,
Very original shot. It reminds me a picture I have seen in an exhibition with the same very limited depth of field. The only difference is that the photographer had real human beings instead of toys but in the end, with such effect, the human beings looked like toys...
Excellent shot! Congratulations,
Roland
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| Photo By: Oui Lee
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Critique By:
Larry Donnelly (K:644)
9/13/2006 4:28:32 AM
I rarely get conflicted by photography, I either feel pretty warm or cold about it; this shot has some great elements, the detail of the butterfly wings,the vivid color of the wings and the pink "sponge" (what is that by the way?)they are sitting on, but the fronds in the background and all the variety of bright, contrasting colors make it busy and almost hard to look at for any length...maybe sensory overload is the way to describe it, but overall a intriguing photo.
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| Photo By: Sarah States
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Critique By:
Doyle D. Chastain (K:101119)
9/12/2006 8:25:31 PM
Brenda this has beautiful color and tone and a wonderful minimalist composition - very sleek!
Your range of lighting from the left to the right side of the composition looks to be problematic but you seem to have handled it well as far as exposure . . .
One thing, in my opinion, that would help this shot along would be if the horizon line wasn't a centerline through the composition. Since the sky seems relatively free of drama . . . I would consider dropping the lower crop which comes very near to that wondrous tree reflection. If not possible due to outside influences . . . then I expand the sky upward. Just some thoughts of mine for your consideration . . .
This is a wonderful shot . . . I very much like it!
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
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| Photo By: Brenda Guiles
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Critique By:
Joggie van Staden (K:41700)
9/4/2006 8:52:27 AM
Hi Hugo - Let me first congratulate you with a great photograph, very well composed and great contrast between the texture & monochrome mood in the painting against the strong side-lighted face of the cardinal in full colour. Very well executed and a BIP well deserved.
I've read some of the comments above (not all though) and after a lot of thought and a hard re-look at the photo I would like to give my impression. The subject(s) of the image will bring different emotions to the fore, depending on your background (protestant/catholic etc.). I'm from a protestant viewpoint and looking at the picture I cannot help to be moved in a way by what I know of church history (inquisition etc.)as both of the subjects of the photo are in a way symbols of Roman Catholicism. Looking at the image from that viepoint will make me see no peace or tranquility in it.
The one aspect of the image that struck me though was the expression on the cardinals face, everything else is static, yet his expression seems to be alive. It is as if he asks a question and a profound one I think: Within and through the turmoil of history and the present circumstances around us - do you have peace and tranquility in yourself?!! That is something everyone needs to find for him/herself. We can try to find it in things, places, religion or through experiences, but if we don't have it within, it will fade as soon as those things changes! And its only through faith that we can get it because faith alone brings us before God who is bigger than anything in creation or what man can offer!
Thanks again for a thought provoking and chalenging image. Regards.
Joggie
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| Photo By: Hugo de Wolf
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Critique By:
Cathy Carroll (K:28144)
9/4/2006 10:51:46 AM
The lighting once again drew me to your thumbnail. I really wish you would write a little about how you create your works. How do you get such amazing lighting. Do you do much "photoshopping" on your images? I really admire your work. CC
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| Photo By: Rarindra Prakarsa
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Critique By:
Toshi (K:11924)
9/4/2006 10:49:38 AM
Such a raw and dark feel and atmosphere to this - heightened further by the angle at which this clock tower was captured ... all of which make this a great image. Excellent work!
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| Photo By: Benedetto Riba
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Critique By:
Joe Johnson (K:8529)
9/2/2006 1:16:26 PM
It's a little soft, say her face, the front of the scale, and closest orange, other than her hand. That can be sharpened in software if one wished. But it's interesting because you are playing a repeated theme, and emphasizing it by the use of light; almost as if using spotlights. It's the A-frame composition, which is natural for the body. But it also natural for the scale. In addition, the placement of the oranges shows it, yet again, or at least extends the 'A' from both the child and the scale.
In addition, there is the report of what she is doing, suggesting innocence and curiosity. How many of these weights equal a banana and apple?
And of course, though reduced and unstated by your use of light, even the strip background (of a curved bureau?) shows an interesting texture. Everything seems to be there, in this photo, for a reason, in other words - which is a principle of a good photograph.
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| Photo By: Radmila Gorjanovic
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Critique By:
Bradley Prue (K:30678)
8/31/2006 4:08:11 AM
Holy c.... no! I won't say it!
I'm not sure what I enjoy more.. the incredibly fun perspective, or the thought of you lying in the grass among the herd! That says everything about your passion, Hugo. You consistently seek out the unusual, and then NAIL the composition. I smile when admire your work...
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| Photo By: Hugo de Wolf
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Critique By:
Robert Chin (K:22282)
8/31/2006 4:53:43 AM
Very moody image made even more so by the grain
and the b&w tones.
Very powerful image my friend.
Robbie
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