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Critique By:
justin ames (K:1860)
6/30/2010 12:45:34 PM
Nick: it seems these multiple exposures frees your creative spirit...
Where have you gone, friend Nick?
Justin
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Critique By:
Baher Jamil (K:1155)
5/26/2010 11:37:18 PM
nice capture!
wish you all the best.
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Critique By:
justin ames (K:1860)
5/18/2010 6:05:24 PM
looks like diffraction issues to me: the light is scattering, and the result is an impaired presentation. i like this, actually, but it IS technically flawed.
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Critique By:
Stan Hill (K:35352)
1/20/2010 2:23:59 AM
Like the strong contrast and the wispy movement of the clouds. A striking film image with some thought and POV. Nice recognition for you Nick!! My best always. 7 for being there!!
be well, Stan
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Critique By:
Roberto Arcari Farinetti (K:209486)
1/20/2010 12:27:44 AM
miss this one..
ops soorry ..the intense mood efect created with the smog is impressive nick!
nice tree's silhouette and panorama size.. the white clouds have a dramatic and big contrast in the frame!
be well
roby
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Critique By:
david henderson (K:16659)
12/30/2009 1:37:41 AM
ah Nick, I love this composition, normally a camera and lens man only (this get's me into enough trouble without attempting to digitally alter an image with photoshop or whatever!!) it is fun to deviate from time to time.
Your about opens up a can of worms and in response I offer a passage from my artisit's statement, itself infused with ideas collected randomly from other contributors to this site....here 'tis:
Making some sense of images, in terms of a theme or a personal style and explaining, to myself, why I went there, has become a preoccupation in recent years. I am sometimes not sure that I know why I am doing any of this.
Stumbling on, I have tried to minimise the amount of ‘information’ included in my shots, attempting to keep the precept simple and ask the image to tell a story.
This has become very important and almost simultaneously, abstract has started to take over from it’s antonym and become the ‘studio’ for delivering a message centred on the now and being, rather than having.
I have borrowed heavily from the comprehensive Japanese aesthetic, that if an object or expression, or an image, can bring about, within me, a sense of serene melancholy and a spiritual longing, then that image could be said to be ‘wabi-sabi’.
Wabi-sabi, which does not translate easily, it is said by some, nurtures all that is authentic by acknowledging three simple realities: nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect.
Wabi originally referred to the loneliness of living in nature, remote from society; sabi meant "chill", "lean" or "withered"
Within the preceding paragraphs lies hidden, my objective. What is my objective as a photographer? I don’t know, it is just a feeling to be explored some more.
.....bit long but there you go. My advice, keep deviating!! your work is very good. cheers, david.
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:127263)
12/25/2009 6:13:27 PM
And beautiful thanks, Marta!
Cheers!
Nick
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Critique By:
Irena - Marta (K:4875)
12/10/2009 10:13:20 PM
Beautiful b&w abstract composition, Nick.
kind regards
Marta
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:127263)
12/9/2009 9:05:34 PM
Many many thanks again, Fabrice!
Nick
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Critique By:
G G (K:61359)
12/7/2009 2:48:46 AM
I like the frame and the perfect play with DOF.
This is nicely done Nick
Compliments
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Critique By:
Shiv Kumar Surya (K:17362)
12/4/2009 1:04:26 PM
Nick, you are Welcome.
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:127263)
12/3/2009 9:05:10 PM
And wweeeeeeet-wweeeeeeet thanks, Shiv!
Nick
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:127263)
12/3/2009 9:04:07 PM
And excellent thanks too, Shiv!
Nick
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Critique By:
Shiv Kumar Surya (K:17362)
12/2/2009 4:37:45 PM
Sweeeeeeet-Sweeeeeeet presentation.
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Critique By:
Shiv Kumar Surya (K:17362)
12/2/2009 3:27:02 PM
Excellent mixture of light and shadow.
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:127263)
12/1/2009 10:17:33 PM
Well... but beautiful thanks too, Shiv.
Nick
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Critique By:
Shiv Kumar Surya (K:17362)
11/29/2009 12:46:35 PM
...but beautiful.
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:127263)
11/27/2009 10:21:28 PM
So I think that some more variations are the thing I should also try, Andre, changing DoF and point of focus gradually and also systematically. In such cases it is rather hard to state any "rules" before simply trying, I guess.
Thank you very much for the hints.
Nick
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:127263)
11/26/2009 11:16:31 PM
Hey, thanks a lot, Visar!
Now that you gave me the description it sounds perfecty "natural" to me, but as always... to develop the idea is that hard part of it. To find it so understandable after the originator's explanation... well, that's the trivial part of it. Much like having Rory Hallagher telling you what he plays. It looks so easy then but it is way not "easy" to come to the idea to play that. ;-)
But still... if you have the developed film frame, can't you simply scan it? :-/
Cheers!
Nick
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:127263)
11/26/2009 11:10:38 PM
Well, Visar, if that didn't give the whole matter of "abstracts" the kick into the right direction... I don't know what else could do. It seems to me that the "liking" has became the one onad only criterium for such a domain like abstract photography, which then turns any kind of "liked" image to "artistic work" ... automatically.
And we at last have to grasp that "abstraction" is not, I repeat *not*, *not* for the damn of it, the result of lucky coinsidences like these here. If we don't get that, we are going to suffer a long long time of mental misery. Simply because then we are going to lose one of the very fundamental principles of thinking, namely the ability to sublime from real existing physical world into something more "theoretical" perhaps, but also much more powerful for framing the basics.
As we all (should) know, a theory is an abstraction of reality, but definitely it is not the result of "lucky coinsidences" and even less it is measured by "liking". It is measured by thinking, if I may remark this.
Thanks a lot, Visar!
Nick
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:127263)
11/26/2009 10:33:31 PM
I would rather clone the upper left corner, Aziz, but I think that the main direction for a correcton would be the same woth your suggestion for whoch I thank you very much. It would be to completely conentrate on the stone, the difference being that your way would deliver the image that looks flatter.
Cheers!
Nick
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Critique By:
Andre Denis (K:66407)
11/26/2009 4:08:03 AM
Hi Nick,
To answer your question, I've seen lots of nice floral images where the main "star" flower is sharp and the secondary flowers gradually fade in focus. It is all so subjective anyway. It's always good to try all kinds of shot to help you make up your mind.
Andre
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:127263)
11/25/2009 11:17:50 PM
Thanks a lot, Kallol!
Much better than "choosing words cautiously" it would be to write real critiques, or at least what and why you like, and much mire also what and why you don´t like it.
It may sound hard but I don¥'t really deal with two words "comments" no matter how cautiously or un cautiously they arfe chosen.
Cheers!
Nick
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:127263)
11/25/2009 11:11:32 PM
And nice thanks congrats, Ekrem.
Cheers!
Nick
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:127263)
11/25/2009 11:01:59 PM
Actually it was snow, but still thanks a lot Robert!
Cheers!
Nick
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Critique By:
absynthius . (K:20748)
11/25/2009 11:06:58 AM
hi Nick,
oh, ok, i knew that this method i am using sounds a bit strange. it is strange for the effort i had given in creating those images, where the quality of them is expected to be superiorly high/ and so should it be; with the method i use, i diminish it, and reduce it almost to obseleteness.
ok, here is what i do.
1. i take the developed 6x6 mm negative.
2. expose it to light (against a white background)
3. shoot the exposed negative with my digital camera, mostly with a macro lense so that i can get as close as possible to the negative.
4. i take the digital copy, and with Photoshop, i invert it.
5. a very poor result in positive is produced.
now, the reason i do this, is that i do not have just yet a laboratory where i can develop my rolls by hand, and which lab i've been expecting for some time now, but still did not get it. on the other hand, in the photo shops around town, they develop 6x6 mm rolls, but do not scan them. therefore, i had to invent something, and the above way helps.
that's that.
v.
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Critique By:
absynthius . (K:20748)
11/25/2009 10:52:59 AM
hi Nick,
just wanted to drop a line with regard to your reply Dave; and to tell you that i do support exactly the same idea on abstract work. that's due to the doubt i get from so called abstract works that i see all over, which, exactly as you put it, are result of a unexistant shape/ form/ content- but which happen to have something rather a shape! and not that there is anything wrong, but only not attractive at all, especially not for a thinking mind- which is to say that, then, even dolls in top aesthetics would be humans. and we know way to well that there is a 'slight' difference there!
cheers,
v.
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Critique By:
aZiZ aBc (K:28345)
11/25/2009 4:48:05 AM
So nice . Like it as it is. I suggest a crop from left like the attachment !
Cheers
Aziz
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:127263)
11/24/2009 11:00:21 PM
Many thanks, Dave!
It was exactly that bundle of similarly sweeping lines that attracted my attention here.
Nick
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:127263)
11/24/2009 10:59:03 PM
Thanks a lot, Dave!
I think I will retry such an image with the Hasselblad for such a look, closer to your siggestion. I find it much better too!
Nick
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