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Critique By:
AJ Miller (K:49168)
3/12/2009 7:55:15 PM
Many thanks for your comment, Marian.
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Critique By:
AJ Miller (K:49168)
3/12/2009 7:53:44 PM
Many thanks, Paolo!
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Critique By:
AJ Miller (K:49168)
3/12/2009 7:53:11 PM
Many thanks for your comment, Ania.
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Critique By:
AJ Miller (K:49168)
3/12/2009 7:51:22 PM
Many thanks for your kind comment, Luca.
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Critique By:
AJ Miller (K:49168)
3/12/2009 5:47:32 PM
What a wonderful array of steps, passageways and doors. A great range of tones in what must surely have been difficult lighting conditions.
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| Photo By: Luca Peccerillo
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Critique By:
AJ Miller (K:49168)
3/12/2009 5:42:38 PM
Must be one of THE classic views of Hadrian's Wall, immediately recognisable. Nicely toned, bringing out the detail right across the image.
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Critique By:
AJ Miller (K:49168)
3/12/2009 5:28:25 PM
What a brilliant find! I haven't spotted this, but will now always be on the lookout until I come across it...
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| Photo By: Ania Zielińska-Hoşaf
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Critique By:
AJ Miller (K:49168)
3/12/2009 5:19:45 PM
Beautifully thought out and set up.
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Critique By:
AJ Miller (K:49168)
3/12/2009 10:50:27 AM
You have a wonderful eye to pull an abstract out of this scene. Striking, original and assured.
AJ
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| Photo By: Malules Fernandez
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Critique By:
AJ Miller (K:49168)
3/12/2009 10:47:56 AM
A bold, brave interpretation. Wonderful shapes, colours and textures.
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| Photo By: Malules Fernandez
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Critique By:
AJ Miller (K:49168)
3/12/2009 10:44:52 AM
Many thanks, Malules.
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Critique By:
AJ Miller (K:49168)
3/12/2009 10:42:57 AM
Thanks Bryan. The range of opinions on this is quite entertaining (though not unexpected) - thanks for being on the thumbs-up side!
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Critique By:
AJ Miller (K:49168)
3/12/2009 10:35:06 AM
Thanks Gary. Interesting observation - the sky has not been treated any differently from the rest of the image. But in the original version it is very flat and the clouds are hardly visible.
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Critique By:
AJ Miller (K:49168)
3/12/2009 10:32:07 AM
Thanks Susie. And it's exactly that - the light and lines - that I felt were lacking in the "normally" processed version.
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Critique By:
AJ Miller (K:49168)
3/12/2009 10:26:21 AM
Thanks Tony. Funny thing is I initially preferred this to Chrysler, but decided to post Chrysler first. This one has generated much more diverse opinion.
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Critique By:
AJ Miller (K:49168)
3/12/2009 9:02:52 AM
Presumably some sort of bulk freight loading device - how strange to have positioned passenger carriages beneath it! Great contrast between the green foreground and blue sky, the two separated by the line of carriages.
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| Photo By: Sergio Cárdenas
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Critique By:
AJ Miller (K:49168)
3/12/2009 8:59:49 AM
Again, I like the wide tonal range, and the drama is really brought out in the B&W. This image has a high impact. (And that is/was a fascinating vehicle!)
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Critique By:
AJ Miller (K:49168)
3/12/2009 8:54:31 AM
Certainly caught my attention. There's lots of great stuff here, but overall I'm just not quite sure what to make of it.
I like the high tonal range, but wonder if it would be just as powerful in B&W. Not sure about the vignetting, although it does balance the dark foreground. And the nature of the photo suggests it should perhaps be exactly centrally placed in the image.
Hope you don't mind me expressing my thoughts.
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Critique By:
AJ Miller (K:49168)
3/11/2009 10:14:46 PM
This dog is very elegant, and contrasts well against the background, despite the similar tones and "busyness".
AJ
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| Photo By: Susie Peek-Swint
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Critique By:
AJ Miller (K:49168)
3/11/2009 7:26:42 PM
What a strange construction! The low point of view adds great strength to this image.
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| Photo By: Marian Man
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Critique By:
AJ Miller (K:49168)
3/11/2009 5:28:53 PM
Thanks Gary. You have identified exactly what caught my eye in this - I rather like the "painted" effect. But I am well aware that it is not to everyone's taste, and I have read in various places that those new to HDR tend to overdo the effect in their early dabblings.
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| Photo By: AJ Miller
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Critique By:
AJ Miller (K:49168)
3/11/2009 12:50:36 PM
Over saturated attention seeking? Wow, that's quite tough! I do agree that it is not "true" HDR in that it was derived from a single image, but it was created using a true HDR procedure. Thanks for your opinion, Riny - we will miss you here.
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Critique By:
AJ Miller (K:49168)
3/11/2009 12:36:00 PM
No style? Then how come I can spot your work immediately without reading the name of the artist?
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| Photo By: txules .
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Critique By:
AJ Miller (K:49168)
3/11/2009 12:32:35 PM
Thanks Ray - I appreciate your opinion, even if you are only a "novice"! I think this one is likely to generate more love/hate reactions than the previous one because of the style. And on the subject of blurriness, I have checked the original and it does indeed look fine. (But I am of course grateful when such things are pointed out, so that I can check that everything is OK and make improvements where necessary.)
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Critique By:
AJ Miller (K:49168)
3/11/2009 12:20:39 PM
A nicely caught drop, enhanced by the low angle and dark background.
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| Photo By: Robin Sanderse
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Critique By:
AJ Miller (K:49168)
3/11/2009 12:17:28 PM
Thanks JD. I had not spotted the blurring and noise - I must go and check the processing again as I should have been able to avoid this. As regards the over-saturation, yes, I am aware that newcomers to HDR tend to overdo this, but I had to get it out of my system! As you say, it's largely a matter of taste, but I promise I won't upload too many of this style...
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Critique By:
AJ Miller (K:49168)
3/11/2009 12:11:21 PM
Wonderfully curves and shadows, turning this into an abstract landscape. Our photographic paths seem to be diverging - here you're heading towards softer B&W abstracts while I am exploring the greater detail of photo-realism...
AJ
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Critique By:
AJ Miller (K:49168)
3/11/2009 11:47:55 AM
Now you are becoming seriously creative! That is a superb concept, with an echo of the shapes of the flower in the smoke.
AJ
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| Photo By: Bryan Steffy
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Critique By:
AJ Miller (K:49168)
3/11/2009 11:44:44 AM
There's a fabulous depth in this landscape, from the vegetation in the foreground to the mountains in the distance.
AJ
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| Photo By: Stan Hill
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Critique By:
AJ Miller (K:49168)
3/11/2009 11:42:47 AM
A lovely soft image. I like the way the low wall separates the two bodies of water.
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