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Critique By:
Michael Busselle (K:221)
7/25/2003 5:06:01 AM
It was taken at Elgol Marion.
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| Photo By: Michael Busselle
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Critique By:
Michael Busselle (K:221)
7/25/2003 1:44:41 AM
I move the camera Marion and vary both the speed and direction of the movement and the shutter speed until I get the effect I want. This is a combination of two images.
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| Photo By: Michael Busselle
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Critique By:
Michael Busselle (K:221)
7/25/2003 1:41:13 AM
Yes Nandi, it's a small bay between Ilfracombe and Morthoe at the mouth of what's known as Fuschia Valley
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| Photo By: Michael Busselle
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Critique By:
Michael Busselle (K:221)
7/16/2003 5:57:18 AM
I shot two imagesof foliage using a slow shutter speed while moving the camera in a preplanned way. I then combined them in Photoshop using Blending Layers, making adjustments to the levels and colour saturation until I got the desired effect .
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Critique By:
Michael Busselle (K:221)
7/1/2003 1:37:13 AM
It was taken about eight years ago Mita, in Nakuru.
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Critique By:
Michael Busselle (K:221)
6/30/2003 6:41:59 AM
It was taken in the Marais Poitvin in south west France near the village of Coulon.
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Critique By:
Michael Busselle (K:221)
5/13/2003 10:29:34 PM
A good shot but I find it too red. I believe it would have been even more striking had the sky been rather less red and the foreground more blue so the grass had a more natural colour.
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| Photo By: Subha Pindiproli
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Critique By:
Michael Busselle (K:221)
5/13/2003 6:50:53 AM
Very nice image and refreshingly different. You might consider cropping out the small detail in the bottom left corner.
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Critique By:
Michael Busselle (K:221)
11/18/2002 12:31:59 PM
The lady is my 92 year old mother in law who has very restricted eyesight so I don't know how she manages to look after her nails so well. I used the pine table as a background because that's how she was sitting and I wanted to avoid the image looking too contrived and stark, but you might be right. I cropped the thumb because not doing so would have included a much larger area of both hand and table which would have lessened the impact of the textured skin on her wrist and curled fingers. She really enjoys being a model.
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Critique By:
Michael Busselle (K:221)
11/18/2002 12:06:41 PM
No Sarah, this was a pretty straight image with just a little dodging in Photoshop to lift the foreground.
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Critique By:
Michael Busselle (K:221)
11/13/2002 9:11:12 PM
In answer to your question Altaf I framed this way in order to include the most striking tones in the sky and the track petered out closer to the camera.
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Critique By:
Michael Busselle (K:221)
6/12/2002 7:34:12 AM
I take no offence at all, in fact I find all comments both helpful and interesting. The matter of horizons is not entirely straightforward. I do like to make sure that a flat horizon is level but when it's undulating it's not always satisfactory to do this scientifically. I have a spirit level but often with a non-flat horizon, when it says the camera is level it simply doesn't look right so I ignore it and tilt the camera unitl it looks right to me.
Although I could not live with a badly tilted horizon in a seascape, for instance, I sometimes think that being too concerned over things like this borders on pedantry and becoming too obsessive about it can make you a bit predictable and unadventurous. I recall reading that the great jazz pianist, Thelonious Monk, would go around his house deliberately tilting the pictures on the wall, it certainly worked for him.
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| Photo By: Michael Busselle
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Critique By:
Michael Busselle (K:221)
5/8/2002 12:47:37 AM
Thanks for your input Halid but I still think I prefer the landscape format. It seems better balanced to me and I particularly wanted the tree to seem as small and isolated as possible.
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Critique By:
Michael Busselle (K:221)
2/6/2002 10:11:59 AM
As far as I recall, I used an average meter reading to bracket around and the best exposures were on and a little under.
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Critique By:
Michael Busselle (K:221)
2/6/2002 1:55:40 AM
I did not manipulate the colour of the sun Nanette, it recorded like this on film as a result of being filtered by a layer of dense brown smoke.
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| Photo By: Michael Busselle
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Critique By:
Michael Busselle (K:221)
1/25/2002 11:41:28 PM
In answer to your query Nanette, my choice of viewpoint and framing was, as it often is, partly dictated by circumstance.
I shot from the roadside and this was raised significantly above the field. I needed this high viewpoint in order to see over the reeds and could change my viewpoint only by moving along a straightish line, either further from or closer to the trees. This seemed to be the best all-round compromise.
It had not occured to me until you raised the point, but on reflection, it does seem to me that the raised line of the reeds on the left of the image tends to balance the higher tree on the right. But, to be honest, I didn't think about that consciousy at the time.
I used a polariser and an 81C warm filter up to increase the colour saturation of the reds and blues.
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| Photo By: Michael Busselle
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Critique By:
Michael Busselle (K:221)
1/16/2002 2:49:06 AM
I usually experiment a little with different ways of framing my pictures but, most of the time, my final decision is governed as much by the restrictions imposed by the circumstances and the need to compromise as it is by pure aesthetics.
In this case my main concern was to eliminate the white sky and to make the concentrated area of yellow buttercups (?) and the overhanging foliage as dominant as possible in the frame without cropping it too tightly .
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| Photo By: Michael Busselle
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Critique By:
Michael Busselle (K:221)
1/15/2002 2:09:35 AM
My viewpoint for this shot was the middle of the road, just below the brow of a hill. Although I had plenty of time to get out of the way of vehicles approaching in front of me those coming from behind me gave little warning.
The road was not very busy but there was a constant flow of traffic and, apart from self preservation, my main concern was to ensure that any vehicles in the shot were as distant as possible and that there were not too many of them.
I also wanted to get to the valley in time for the evening light, but it was closed when I arrived. I guess, with a little patience, I could removed one or more of the vehicles, but it does not seem very important to me.
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| Photo By: Michael Busselle
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Critique By:
Michael Busselle (K:221)
1/12/2002 3:12:49 AM
In view of the interest shown in this image and the various comments I?ve received concerning the composition etc. I thought it might be helpful to give some more details.
The shot was taken at a time when this colourful foliage covered much of the countryside in this area but, during my visit, the light was very soft and the landscape looked quite bland with little to ?hang? a picture on. This small tree was in the middle of the field and from my initial sighting was quite insignificant. But it was my best bet.
I found that by crouching in the ditch beside the road the tree moved almost onto the horizon and became much more important. It was pretty windy and the movement was inevitable so I decided to allow it to occur in a more positive way by using a small aperture and slow shutter speed. I had nothing to lose anyway as the distance between the immediate foreground and the tree was such that the depth of field would never be enough to render both sharply, even using the smallest aperture and assuming air had been still, but I don?t think I would have wanted this anyway.
By the way, I?m a newcomer to this site and would like to know how I can get in touch directly with a couple of people who?ve asked me to, there doesn?t appear to be any individual email addresses.
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