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Critique By:
Bertrand Zammit (K:568)
12/4/2010 2:22:34 PM
Beautiful capture! You captured the beauty of winter with this shot!
Regards
Bertrand
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Critique By:
Randy Libner (K:4084)
5/1/2010 4:43:39 PM
Thank you Wolf. We don't get sunsets here with colors like that very often. We especially don't get colors like that very often when I'm there. ;)
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Critique By:
Wolf Zorrito (K:78768)
5/1/2010 9:31:01 AM
excellent composition and colors
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Critique By:
Randy Libner (K:4084)
4/23/2010 9:31:49 AM
Thank you Rashed.
I wish I could go back to this place again and take many more images than I did many years ago when this photo was originally taken.
Geographically speaking, It's a beautiful area and unlike any I had ever seen before in my home state. ..........it's only 150 miles away, but still a 4 t0 5 hour trip (one way) to actually get to the lake................... I say "Lake" because all of my recent images were taken at or near Vulcan Lake.
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Critique By:
Randy Libner (K:4084)
4/23/2010 9:29:37 AM
Thank you Rashed.
I wish I could go back to this place again and take many more images than I did many years ago when this photo was originally taken.
Geographically speaking, It's a beautiful area and unlike any I had ever seen before in my home state. ..........it's only 150 miles away, but still a 4 t0 5 hour trip (one way) to get to the lake................... I way "Lake" because all of my recent images were taken at or near Vulcan Lake.
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Critique By:
Randy Libner (K:4084)
4/23/2010 9:11:02 AM
I'm sometimes slow to reply, but I thank you for the nice comment Radovan. I'd love to have the time to visit this place again and wait for the magic to happen once more. It's been a long time since I've been up there.
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Critique By:
Randy Libner (K:4084)
4/23/2010 9:02:29 AM
Thank you Stan..... I totally missed your comment. I will look...... because I know that I have a few more photos taken at different times over the years, but this one I'm sure was the best one except for the exposure a tad underexposed.
Hope all is well with you.
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Critique By:
Randy Libner (K:4084)
4/19/2010 7:27:21 AM
Thanks again Shirley. Even tho digital is cheaper by far, I can't use my two best lenses on a Canon digital camera.
Two lenses and a 1.4 converter cost me around $2500 15 years ago. Take a look at my three Hale-Bopp images on page three of my portfolio and you will immediately see the difference between a top end and a standard lens. The wide angle and the 300MM "L" series lenses showed the blue ionized gas trail of the comet.............. the other was taken with a standard glass Canon zoom lens. Those photos taught me a lot about lens quality. For as little photography as I am doing now, it's not cost very cost efficient to take the plunge.
......... OK OK, I may be a young old geezer, but some day I must make the change to digital. Thanks so much for your advice.
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Critique By:
Shirley D. Cross-Taylor (K:174199)
4/19/2010 5:30:06 AM
I also loved film, but it was getting quite expensive to buy and process. MAYBE you qualify as a 'geezer'...haha.
My Mom bought me a Nikon D80 for my birthday a few years ago, and now I am totally committed to digital...SO much easier and cheaper, and just as good quality as film now, if you have a good camera. Now the higher end digital cameras are cheaper than this one was, and more megapixels.
By the way, I was looking for something else in my portfolio and came across the Splash at Arch Rock http://www.usefilm.com/Image.asp?ID=1201078
Unfortunately, I don't have any people in it to give scale, but the waves were splashing higher than those trees at times, which was very high. I sold quite a few prints of this in a gallery at Depoe Bay for awhile...The Dancing Coyote.:)
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Critique By:
Randy Libner (K:4084)
4/19/2010 5:06:41 AM
Yes, it does, but life goes on.
It's also that I have so many $$$ invested in my F-1 and few expensive Canon lenses plus a couple other Canon camera's that at this point in time, can't come close to starting a digital outfit.
.......and to be honest, I like film and the way it behaves. ........ OK, so now do I qualify as an old geezer? :)
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Critique By:
Shirley D. Cross-Taylor (K:174199)
4/18/2010 8:38:13 PM
Guess like so many other people you're out of work. That does make life difficult. I mostly used Fujichrome, and loved it.:)
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Critique By:
Randy Libner (K:4084)
4/18/2010 4:46:53 PM
Yea, not the first time I've been called that when asked my age. ;) I think my feeling old is from lack of work and not being able to afford taking my weekend trips into the hills like I used to. That was my stress relief. I kinda feel like a fish in a bucket now ..............and then of course they took my Kodachrome away. For now, I'm just happy I had taken all those images when I did.
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Critique By:
Randy Libner (K:4084)
4/18/2010 4:36:01 PM
Thanks Shirley. It's something I'd like to have, and when I'm ready I will definitely do a lot of research.
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Critique By:
Shirley D. Cross-Taylor (K:174199)
4/18/2010 10:04:55 AM
So...you're just a 'baby'...haha. Most of the time I don't feel old at all. In some ways, I feel younger than I did years ago. I guess it's all in the mind.:)
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Critique By:
Shirley D. Cross-Taylor (K:174199)
4/18/2010 10:03:04 AM
Since my scanner is at least 5 yrs old, I would recommend reading reviews of scanners in photo magazines, or online. The average image size from my scanned slides is around 2400 X 3600.
Is there a Costco in your area? They do excellent prints from slides very reasonably. Also there is Mpix.com, which is wonderful. Good luck.:)
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Critique By:
Randy Libner (K:4084)
4/18/2010 7:42:17 AM
52.......... and a half. :) I guess I just feel old.
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Critique By:
Randy Libner (K:4084)
4/18/2010 7:39:06 AM
Mind me asking what you have, or a recommendations. I know that at $20 to $40 per slide, a scanner would pay for itself quickly. It's not in my budget in the near future, but I would have a lot more control over what I could do.
Not just the color, but the image size.
These images from Freddies are 1818 X 1228.
I usually had my "good" slides converted to 16 X 20 or occasionally 20 X 24 prints and they come out very nice.
I'm not a digital person, but I know that I would need a fairly large image size from a scanner to do that same thing.
I appreciate your input.
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Critique By:
Shirley D. Cross-Taylor (K:174199)
4/18/2010 4:20:03 AM
You're welcome for the comments. The scans you are getting done are definitely giving your photos a strong cyan cast...not so good. It would be worth your while, if financially possible, to invest in a slide/film scanner. They have come way down in price. But I know how it is, living on Social Security.;)
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Critique By:
Shirley D. Cross-Taylor (K:174199)
4/18/2010 4:11:30 AM
I agree. Some of my best nature photos, especially at the beach, have been pure luck...being in the right place at the right time.:)
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Critique By:
Shirley D. Cross-Taylor (K:174199)
4/18/2010 4:10:30 AM
So, Randy, how old a 'geezer' are you? Haha. I'm 63.:)
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Critique By:
Shirley D. Cross-Taylor (K:174199)
4/18/2010 4:09:20 AM
The framing of the lighthouse is what 'makes' this photo.:)
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Critique By:
Shirley D. Cross-Taylor (K:174199)
4/18/2010 4:08:38 AM
I do like the B&W better. I am blessed with a great film/slide scanner, purchased before my husband died. I probably couldn't afford one now. It is a Minolta Dimage Scan Elite 5400, and does an excellent job of high quality scanning.
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Critique By:
Randy Libner (K:4084)
4/18/2010 3:45:03 AM
Thank you Shirley. I never did like the original because the color is so strange. It took a lot of work to get the right contrast levels in this black and white version. I was very happy with the result.
Thank you for all the nice comments.
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Critique By:
Randy Libner (K:4084)
4/18/2010 3:38:02 AM
Thank you Shirley. It's one of my favorites. I wonder how much different it would be starting with a high quality scan.
Most wave images are taken here with a nice blue sky late in the afternoon............ I have those too, but so does everyone else on the planet. Like all good images, I find being there at the right moment (luck) is quite often the most important element.
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Critique By:
Randy Libner (K:4084)
4/18/2010 3:32:27 AM
I've lived here my entire life and can't imagine living anywhere else. Coos Bay is a good "launching pad" to go to other places.
I'll be looking. If you find it first could you show me the link? I'm an old geezer still using dialup.
I had my camera set up and waiting in case a good wave appeared here................ I wonder if someone was behind ME, .........and he was taking a photo of a me taking a photo of a couple taking a photo. ;)
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Critique By:
Randy Libner (K:4084)
4/18/2010 3:24:01 AM
Thank you Shirley. I wasn't sure if I was getting to "artsy" by positioning the lighthouse where I did. I have always liked this one and partly because of the way the rich foreground colors came out.
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Critique By:
Randy Libner (K:4084)
4/18/2010 3:17:17 AM
You are right Shirley. Here it is converted to black and white.
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Critique By:
Randy Libner (K:4084)
4/18/2010 3:15:28 AM
Here's the original I had to work with. These are pretty decent slide to CD conversions for the money. I have them done at Freddies on their FUJI machine. I think .39 cents per slide. They all come back with a blue tint to them, so I need to do color corrections.
I know that high end slide to CD conversions are 18 to 45 PER SLIDE. If I was selling photos, it would be worth the price to have a high end conversion done.
Anyway, here's what I had to work with. I was trying to pull the details out of the smooth portions of the rock.
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Critique By:
Shirley D. Cross-Taylor (K:174199)
4/17/2010 9:52:59 PM
Ooooh...LOVE this, too, Randy!:)
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Critique By:
Shirley D. Cross-Taylor (K:174199)
4/17/2010 9:51:58 PM
Strong light, but actually gives the true feeling of 'being there'.:)
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