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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
8/29/2006 5:41:54 AM
I really like this. Lovely multiple exposure.
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| Photo By: ßacchante
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
8/24/2006 10:11:38 AM
Very Harry Potter feel to this... Lovely illustration.
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| Photo By: Andrew Polushkin
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
8/24/2006 10:09:44 AM
Very nice peeking-through portrait. Like the waxy oak leaves, her freckles.
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| Photo By: Eligiusz Langner (ennio)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
8/21/2006 8:46:07 AM
Yes, the rainy window theme is everywhere but this is one with a difference -- the lovely dissolved trees behind are very elegant. Delicious! Rgds, Svend
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| Photo By: Marcus Carlsson
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
8/21/2006 8:35:35 AM
Hello Aira, hope you're well. Nice pair of "swinger" photos. I think I prefer this, with the sharpness of the swing at right against the puddle underneath. But I guess they would work wonderfully together, seen side-by-side. Your poetic captions are always a great addition. Rgds, Svend
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| Photo By: Aira Manna
(K:11187)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
7/26/2006 7:19:59 PM
Applause, applause, applause.
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| Photo By: Maleonn
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
7/26/2006 7:18:07 PM
Can't find words anymore. The visual pun of blowed-out brains -- a stroke of genius. Rgds, Svend
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| Photo By: Maleonn
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
7/26/2006 6:57:39 PM
Wow. A curious picture, I don't know what to make of it. There's a sense of danger, but also of play, made stronger by the "bad graphical quality". Didn't know one could get this quick a shutter speed with a Diana. Rgds, Svend
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| Photo By: Andreas Hering
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
7/26/2006 6:54:16 PM
Hello Andreas, very effective picture, made by the light leaks and how they have landed in places that give meaning, however unintentional, to the picture. The father's torso being dissolved away, as if by acid, well -- it means a lot! I thought I had acquired a Holga a few weeks ago, but the picture quality isn't bad enough to be good, if you know what I mean, so I don't think it'll be useful for me. Rgds, Svend
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| Photo By: Andreas Hering
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
7/26/2006 6:41:10 PM
Very nicely "stage-managed" if you'll pardon the expression -- yet a natural feeling is maintained. I like the play of stony textures with the skin of the people portrayed.
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| Photo By: zosia zija
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
7/26/2006 6:32:57 PM
Really fine. Your recent Holga pictures are top-notch. Rgds, Svend
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| Photo By: Luciana Gama
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
7/26/2006 6:30:44 PM
One of the best Holga pictures I've ever seen, I think. Depth of tone is great, energy greater. And just lovely print-making with the dissolved edges, compliments! Rgds, Svend
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| Photo By: Luciana Gama
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
6/25/2006 6:41:37 AM
Hold on hold on, Vladimir... "worth nothing"? Hardly -- don't get too caught up with this digital vs. "real" picture dilemma (although it's true I'm always for real pictures!). One can only make the pictures that time, talent and finances allow and talent is something you have endless amounts of. I do think your talents would explode in the darkroom with fantastic results, but your digital manipulations are ferociously energetic and creative. And, hey, some of the greatest pictures in the world have been made with simple drawing paper, pen and ink, and imagination -- right? It's about expression! Doesn't matter how you do it, as long as you do it! Rgds, Svend
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| Photo By: vladimir antic
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
6/5/2006 7:30:19 PM
Splendid! Your energy is incredible.
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| Photo By: vladimir antic
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
6/5/2006 7:27:51 PM
Strong feeling of sadness, loneliness, here. At least that's what comes to me. Great composition. Nice to see new pictures from you! Rgds, Svend
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| Photo By: Aira Manna
(K:11187)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
6/1/2006 7:00:15 AM
Beautiful, classic portrait.
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| Photo By: Syrie Kovitz
(K:1349)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
5/23/2006 8:35:47 AM
Lovely... nice rich tonality. Like the movement and her expression.
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| Photo By: Stefan Engström
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
5/19/2006 1:01:53 PM
Like how you've placed things within the square, with the open door forming an out-of-focus angle into the picture. Adds to the sense of her being inside the car. Good sharpness, tones. Sly eyes.
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| Photo By: Joern Stubbe
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
5/19/2006 6:18:16 AM
Well, Fabio likes it which is important. I don't. You've achieved an effective ersatz appearance of tempera painting here. But it doesn't quite come together, that is, it doesn't look like a photograph of a real painting, too many anomalies circling around the angel figure crouching under the tree.
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| Photo By: Lars Raun
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
5/19/2006 6:10:02 AM
Very nice, good illustrated look. I've seen too much of this type of "simulating painting" photographic work on this site and others, though, to appreciate it much. It's seen an awful lot in magazines that use illustration these days. I don't know what it is, I guess it's the fact that everyone's using Photoshop filters, layering and textural effects, but most of these digitally treated pictures look like they're made by the same hand regardless of the subject. And the big question: Why try to simulate the appearance of a painting in a photograph? Doesn't this show a distinct lack of imagination in this digital age, where computers are supposed to make anything and everything possible? Whatever... this isn't directed at you so much as at the whole boring phenomenon. This is indeed an effective picture, nice earthen colours and mood.
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| Photo By: Lars Raun
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
5/18/2006 2:01:57 PM
A very lovely portrait.
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| Photo By: Saad Jasim
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
5/12/2006 8:49:09 AM
New Yorkishness oozes out of this. An eloquent candid!
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| Photo By: Timothy Schirmer
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
5/12/2006 8:46:45 AM
Miguel's right, you should scoop up a decent 6 x 6 camera second-hand and see where it takes you. Of course there's more expense... developing, scanning and so on, but the results are at another level. I don't know, I wrote that because I'm biased. An old 35 mm camera can also work wonders. There's a gentle and searching feel to this self-portrait. Many of your pictures have real feeling, and that's rare you know.
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| Photo By: Timothy Schirmer
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
5/12/2006 8:43:06 AM
Drunk and on your bed... with your reputation? Sharpness isn't everything, and here the softness adds to the velvet underground feel of it all.
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| Photo By: Timothy Schirmer
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
5/12/2006 8:41:36 AM
Like the punkiness of this. Ah, youth... I remember it well. No I don't. Rgds, Svend
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| Photo By: Timothy Schirmer
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
5/12/2006 8:27:39 AM
Ha! This photo proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Brosnan was never a suitable Bond! Bond would never aim at a child like that! Rgds, Svend
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| Photo By: Jiri :-)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
4/10/2006 7:54:12 AM
Greetings Andreas. Wonderful picture! I'm very curious about the salt treatment. Let me see if I understand what you've done... You've used ordinary table salt? You made the print and selenium-toned it, and then before it was dry you sprinkled salt lightly on certain parts of the picture? I have used this technique with watercolour painting where it's commonly known. The salt grains suck up the water and colour into themselves, doing a kind of localized bleaching. And then you did a second, sepia toning after washing off the salt? Is this description accurate? Rgds, Svend
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| Photo By: Andreas Hering
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
4/6/2006 8:42:47 AM
Certainly has the "period feel". The piercings give an ironic feeling. Hats off to you for exploring all those time-consuming old techniques in defiance of efficiency and productivity! Rgds, Svend
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| Photo By: Jeannette Palsa
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
4/6/2006 8:08:34 AM
No, no, stop him, because solving the Rubik's cube would destroy the universe! So cinematographic, so fun! Rgds, Svend
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| Photo By: Maleonn
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
1/31/2006 9:34:19 AM
Yes, the low winter sunlight caressing the stones on the road. Nice. The middle section of the road which is most bathed in sun looks a little jagged, pixelly to my eye. That's surely a result of JPEG compression. The feeling of cold touched by warmth is what's important here, it works.
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