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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
11/25/2004 9:27:55 AM
Could you please contact me at mcreider@inter.net.il?
Thank you.
Maxim
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| Photo By: Maxim Reider
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
11/24/2004 9:21:58 PM
Alexander, I left a comment here but it has disappeared. I answered you and it disaappeared twice
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| Photo By: Alexander Chapaev
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
11/24/2004 8:45:41 PM
Good, leave it as is, don't crop, you have had some reasons to shoot it this way and not another, usually improvements only destroy the picture
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
11/22/2004 7:49:44 PM
Wow, I really enjoy reading your comments and interpretations of my photos. Once, I used to do the same to other people, and now I know how it sounds. Well, thank you for your kind words about my modest works. I want you to realize that I am not trying to say anything by my photos, I do not see any hidden massage, and of course never think of thesis and antithesis. I just enjoy it immensely and I am happy when people like my photos. I like this photo a lot, to tell you the truth. Granted, some of the things you say about my modest potos are right (I mean, I can accept it), but the rest sounds strange for me. Thank you anyway. You say you are a profssional. In which field?
Thanks again,
Maxim
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| Photo By: Maxim Reider
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
11/22/2004 6:27:03 AM
Just re-read (or better then, have read up to the end) your text. It is very interesting, especially what you write about the click generation. But the click is just the form, you can be empty headed also in the pre-Internet era.
Now, there's no any hidden message here, there's no message at all. I am not seeking popularity, because if I did I should have done it differently. This si very simple - the things which I am interested in, are not interesting to the most of humanity. The same about not small part of my writings (not captions to the photos, but my articles). Only a few are interested in interviews with classic musicians, for example, and I interviewed almost all major musicians who performed in this country for the last, say, 6-7 years. Tourism articles are different, this is for everybody. But intellectual and sophisticated things are only for a few. Luckily enough, I do not care about popularity.
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
11/21/2004 9:55:43 PM
Alexander, I am not an artist, I am documentating what I see, there's no message, I just see young beautiful and no so beautiful and not so young faces, that's it. I am not young anymore, and as you are getting older your seder adifuyot is changing. Write you later, I have to work now, just came home from an event and I have to go thru about 500 pics.
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
11/20/2004 10:18:29 PM
One more thing, Sasha. This was very wise of you to notice that there are photos which need a story and those which do not. Most of my photos do, may be because I am a journalist and almost always see a single picture (or a series of pictures) as a part of major story, which also includes a text. On the other hand, I know this is my problem as a photographer, it took time to realize that many of my photos do not receive any reaction, partly because people do not know what it is all about.
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
11/20/2004 9:53:03 PM
Thank you for your detailed critique. Well, hope! I wish I knew the answer. Have I written that the photo was taken during the Rabin memorial rally? The overall feeling was hope - hope for better life, for peace. My heart was bleeding when I saw these faces, beautiful faces - I have enough photos for an entire illustrated article. Young and old and middle aged. I looked at the young kids singing (I think I will submit a few more photos since I could not publish them - I am the editor for the Style magazine, but this is not for us - good life, positive attitude, you know, ze ka ze nora dramati, as our graphic designer said) and thought - what kind of life can we offer them. Thank you for your comment, may be I will add some explanations if and when I submit more photos from the series.
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
10/24/2004 7:14:01 PM
1250. But since the shutter speed was rather hight (1/125), the noise is not seen - this is the secret, on Nikon D100 you can shoot on high sensitivity with a high shutter speed!
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| Photo By: Maxim Reider
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
4/17/2004 5:17:16 AM
yoffi
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
4/17/2004 5:16:52 AM
Great image. מה נשמע?
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
4/17/2004 5:07:42 AM
Thank you Ron. BTW, in my personal vocabular DOF is a dirty word, and pls don't take it personal. This is the camera which makes things sharp and this is the photographer who commands it and tries to use DOF as a tool.
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
3/13/2004 12:14:59 AM
Above all I like the originality of the composition.
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| Photo By: Adi Adar
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
3/10/2004 9:52:11 PM
Forget the quality (kids are jumpy!) - great capture!
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
3/10/2004 3:25:57 PM
Excellent. Do not know what it's all about but love the mood
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
3/6/2004 10:28:24 PM
Excellent. As a wandering plummer you see a lot of wonders (I was sort of a plumber for many years while waiting for my exit visa from Russia, I think I know what it's all about. Lot's of snow also in the Old Country. Lot's of sand in our "historical homeland". Lot's of work for plumbers too). Regards, Maxim
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
2/23/2004 10:16:19 PM
Great mood of a big city
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| Photo By: Liz Chaffin
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
2/23/2004 10:14:12 PM
Liz, this is beautiful again
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| Photo By: Liz Chaffin
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
2/23/2004 10:13:21 PM
Liz, you are both beautiful and talented, this not always happens!
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| Photo By: Liz Chaffin
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
2/23/2004 10:11:06 PM
Liz, you liked him - I am happy, I believe the girls are just melting down from his glance
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
2/16/2004 11:45:58 AM
Thank you Brian for your suggestions. And believe me I take it easy '8-{=
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
2/15/2004 10:26:59 PM
PS. See my comment on your comment on my photo.
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
2/15/2004 10:24:07 PM
And now to Brian. Brian, dear, composition is nothing but a tool. The centered composition means stability. This guy is backstage, he just holds the stage door, nothing happens here, opposite to the constant fuss on stage.
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
2/15/2004 10:19:20 PM
Hi Brian! There is good news and bad news. The good news is that you like nature and above all you perceive its emotional appeal - flowers talk to you and you want to tell about it to the rest of the world. The composition is OK - not a revelation but good. The major problem is the lighting. The leaves on the both sides of the flower are distracting. Just imagine how beautiful your becture could have been with the dark green background. I believe that your camea (of which you should not be ashamed) has a b/w option - or you can choose it in your PC. Colors (or colours, if you are British) could be betraying. So to check up a dubious composition one should turn the image into b/w, and if it still works, it's ok. Just look what happened to your beautiful image when greyscaled. So what should we do? Honestly - serious photographers just wait for the right moment of the day and only then shoot.
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
2/15/2004 5:16:04 AM
Car' Mirko, Lei puo scriver'mi anche in Italiano, io capisco questa lingua (la piu bella del mondo!) abbastanza bene e perfino scrivevo storielle in Italiano - molti anni fa.
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
2/15/2004 4:05:25 AM
Sorry, it was too small. See now
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
2/15/2004 4:03:21 AM
Dear Gabor!
Most probably this is not my best, after all I upload my pictures not
because I need this ephemerous "Internet fame" and all these stupid points.
I need ppl's reaction on my pictures, just to see what an average internet
user likes or not. As for the composition - you are absolutely correct, but in
this particular case I did not want any dynamics. For me Mariinsky is
Petersburg (where I was born and lived till my immigration to Israel 15
years ago) and Petersburg is Empire. Empire is static and heavy. No
dynamics.
Keep in touch, I'd love to see more of your works.
PS. Just to show you one of numerous variations see the attached file
Maxim
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
2/15/2004 2:21:20 AM
Gabor, there's no e-mail sevice on this server so I reply you here. "Why in the center?" you ask. Why not? I saw only one of your pix and you are not look like a guy who read 1 (one) Internet article on composition with a couple of "Golden" rules. So why the hell youi are asking things like this? Composition is a way of thinking and speaking in visual terms. I spent a lot of time backstage and I have a lot of shots, I decided that this is what I like most. May be because of the words Mariinsky theatre are the message they are in the center. I do not know, and do not ask, as I can judge from your only picture you yourself are quite original a person, and commonplace rules are not for you.
Regards, Maxim
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
12/7/2003 2:45:42 AM
It's never too late to love photography - and cats!
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Critique By:
Maxim Reider (K:383)
11/1/2003 2:04:57 AM
Simply infallible
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