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Critique By:
Wallace Rollins (K:149)
5/4/2004 9:52:08 PM
Great work, Pat! This is something special.
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| Photo By: Pat Fruen
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Critique By:
Wallace Rollins (K:149)
8/16/2003 2:03:55 PM
As good as it gets!
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| Photo By: Chris Blaszczyk
(K:610)
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Critique By:
Wallace Rollins (K:149)
8/16/2003 9:17:23 AM
Not the best from this enormously talented photographer, but still ... better than most. I'd like to see it with a little more "snap". Like this:
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| Photo By: anabela oliveira
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Critique By:
Wallace Rollins (K:149)
8/6/2003 8:29:12 PM
Or maybe even this way: [Feel free to email me at rollinsphoto@msn.com]
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| Photo By: Pat Fruen
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Critique By:
Wallace Rollins (K:149)
8/6/2003 8:25:27 PM
HA!! Flattery will get you everywhere with me. I too am exclusively a film (primarily b/w) shooter. I think I'd do it this way:
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| Photo By: Pat Fruen
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Critique By:
Wallace Rollins (K:149)
8/6/2003 7:51:42 AM
Great potential! [PhotoShop is your friend.]
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| Photo By: Pat Fruen
(K:12076)
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Critique By:
Wallace Rollins (K:149)
7/27/2003 9:05:09 AM
Powerful!! Leaves me speechless! Congratulations on the well-deserved Editor's Choice award.
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| Photo By: zosia zija
(K:11106)
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Critique By:
Wallace Rollins (K:149)
5/13/2003 10:02:42 AM
This is genuinely funny. Cropping an inch or so from the left side might strengthen the composition. Nicely done.
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| Photo By: Kim Taylor
(K:2816)
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Critique By:
Wallace Rollins (K:149)
3/11/2003 9:49:59 PM
No, just a 400ws studio strobe in a 54" umbrella.
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| Photo By: Wallace Rollins
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Critique By:
Wallace Rollins (K:149)
3/11/2003 4:04:01 PM
Thanks, Jeff, but I would contend that, even today, somewhere there's a grandmother or two reading bedtime stories to their grandkids. Wouldn't you agree?
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| Photo By: Wallace Rollins
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Critique By:
Wallace Rollins (K:149)
3/10/2003 3:40:14 PM
Thanks, everybody. To Raymond: This picture was made at the bride's home just a few minutes before leaving for the church. The backdrop is a piece of black felt, 6'x6', held, while standing on a chair, by an innocent bystander whom I commandeered at the scene. To Sandra and Karen, the spot-spotters: You are absolutely correct. How I missed that is a complete mystery to me; I'm usually very careful about such things. The damage has been repaired and I have scheduled an appointment with my optometrist.
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| Photo By: Wallace Rollins
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Critique By:
Wallace Rollins (K:149)
3/10/2003 9:43:59 AM
A nice portrait that could be improved with about 10 minutes work in PS. Clean up the scratches and spots, burn the corners and that specular highlight on the end of her nose a little bit, and USM it about 100%. Like this:
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| Photo By: paedric o'sullivan
(K:20)
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Critique By:
Wallace Rollins (K:149)
3/10/2003 9:18:43 AM
Nice work, Steve! Well-seen, well-composed, and perfectly categorized. A Decisive Moment indeed! One could wish there were no disembodied leg in the upper-right corner but, as so often happens, reality intrudes. I'd be tempted to burn it in PS, at least a little.
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| Photo By: stephen chong
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Critique By:
Wallace Rollins (K:149)
3/3/2003 3:01:35 PM
Only minimal PS here (toning and USM), Martin. The film was developed in Rodinal, a high-acutance but NOT fine-grain developer. I'm not sure about this particular shot but I often use a Harrison & Harrison #3 diffusion filter for portraits of females. It's something of a contrast killer which necessitates printing on a higher grade of paper which, in turn, makes the grain more evident. But, as someone (I wish I could remember who it was) once said, "Grain is the brush-stroke of photography."
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| Photo By: Wallace Rollins
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Critique By:
Wallace Rollins (K:149)
3/3/2003 2:30:18 PM
Hate to say this, Mark, but he's a she.
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| Photo By: Wallace Rollins
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Critique By:
Wallace Rollins (K:149)
3/1/2003 9:16:34 AM
Maybe, Kita, but I see no evidence of it. Kodachrome 64 is a very sharp film. What is it that arouses your suspicion?
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| Photo By: Wallace Rollins
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Critique By:
Wallace Rollins (K:149)
2/25/2003 3:24:47 PM
Pictures of D.C. always catch my eye and this shot down the Mall is one of the better ones I've seen. I especially like the subtle coloration. This is a very familiar scene to me but I'd like to see it a little larger.
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| Photo By: Clara Showalter
(K:663)
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Critique By:
Wallace Rollins (K:149)
2/22/2003 5:42:33 AM
No, there's quite a bit of dodging on that eye. How about this? [Stop me before I go too far!]
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| Photo By: Wallace Rollins
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Critique By:
Wallace Rollins (K:149)
2/22/2003 5:22:20 AM
Thanks, guys. How's this:
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| Photo By: Wallace Rollins
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Critique By:
Wallace Rollins (K:149)
2/21/2003 6:02:39 AM
No, Sam, it was a little less dramatic than that. I was on the stairs coming down from street level. This was at about 2AM.
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| Photo By: Wallace Rollins
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Critique By:
Wallace Rollins (K:149)
2/20/2003 8:13:20 PM
Be cool, Russ. This is my son, just out of Jump School at Ft. Benning and on his way to his first Ranger unit. I'm sorry about the way you feel but I hope you're as proud of your son as I am of mine.
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| Photo By: Wallace Rollins
(K:149)
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Critique By:
Wallace Rollins (K:149)
2/19/2003 10:08:14 AM
Single 400ws studio strobe in a 54" umbrella about 30 degrees camera left. Thanks for the kind words.
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| Photo By: Wallace Rollins
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Critique By:
Wallace Rollins (K:149)
2/18/2003 1:00:27 PM
Julien, the Counter-Inaugural was a one-day demonstration staged on the day Richard Nixon was inaugurated as President. You mentioned the man in the center. For some reason, the girl on his right (partially hidden) makes me think of the French Revolution and "A Tale of Two Cities".
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| Photo By: Wallace Rollins
(K:149)
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Critique By:
Wallace Rollins (K:149)
2/11/2003 12:20:10 PM
Thanks, Paul. Nothing tricky about the toning. It's just one of the stock Pantone quadtones in PhotoShop 6.0.
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| Photo By: Wallace Rollins
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Critique By:
Wallace Rollins (K:149)
2/10/2003 9:53:26 AM
Thanks, Lynn. No, this was strictly documentary; no pre-arrangement involved. The orchestra was heavily into rehearsing for an upcoming trip to a Youth Orchestra Festival in Switzerland. I spent a couple of days with them while the various sections rehearsed in various classrooms in an old high school in D.C. For another in the series, see "Strings".
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| Photo By: Wallace Rollins
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Critique By:
Wallace Rollins (K:149)
2/6/2003 8:08:32 PM
It was more than a dark mood, Jeff. This picture was shot well after dark, probably around 10PM. The only light was provided by the TV crews on the scene. Plenty bright but harsh and contrasty.
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| Photo By: Wallace Rollins
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Critique By:
Wallace Rollins (K:149)
2/6/2003 10:43:13 AM
Thanks for the kind words, Dorothy. No, the print was not toned; the scanned image was quadtoned in PhotoShop.
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| Photo By: Wallace Rollins
(K:149)
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Critique By:
Wallace Rollins (K:149)
2/5/2003 12:00:32 PM
Thanks, Dorothy. This is a fairly normal negative printed on very high contrast paper, i.e. Agfa Brovira #5.
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| Photo By: Wallace Rollins
(K:149)
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Critique By:
Wallace Rollins (K:149)
2/3/2003 3:19:18 PM
Could be I'm biased in favor of pictures taken in D.C. but I like this one a lot. Long tonal range with detail in both shadows and highlights. Nicely composed too. Doesn't matter to me whether the bench is on the left or right. Very nicely done.
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| Photo By: Petra Engle
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Critique By:
Wallace Rollins (K:149)
2/3/2003 3:17:38 PM
Could be I'm biased in favor of pictures taken in D.C. but I like this one a lot. Long tonal range with detail in both shadows and highlights. Nicely composed too. Doesn't matter to me whether the bench is on the left or right. Very nicely done.
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