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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
8/27/2005 4:04:39 AM
Outstanding the color contrast, very strong effect, great motif. It would be perfect with just the same amount of space around the flowers on all sides, perhaps a square format (if it is a crop, I would certainly try that out). Anyway, superb picture !
Regards
Carsten
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| Photo By: Bosnia Photo
(K:3088)
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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
8/5/2005 11:04:11 AM
Love this sparkling blue light myself, great shot. Simple but extremely beautiful motif. It is a light you should wear sunglasses, and such pictures need contrast ! I played a bit with PS to show what I mean (a hard light blended layer mask and an "S" shaped curves adjustment layer). Hope you dont mind.
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| Photo By: Caterina Berimballi
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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
6/19/2005 10:42:30 AM
This would be my favourite, without the little bush in the right corner, perhaps. There is so much drama in the sky that I would love some more contrast there. It is more advisable to shoot color and convert to B&W afterwards, IMO. The G2 makes a simple desaturation, you have much less control shooting straight B&W, and you get a jpeg, not a RAW (right ?). Anyway, a majestic landscape, I like it very much !
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| Photo By: Naomi Weidner
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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
1/20/2005 3:32:54 PM
Mark, it is really a great image and worth the effort ! Maybe you have a RAW "negative", then I would work on the RAW with the converter (dont know the sw, cause I`m a Canonian...). Anyway, on RAW or TIF (if possible, 16bit per channel) I would look at the histogram in PS: Image > Adjustments > Levels. Sorry if you know all this stuff, dont know your PS learning curve...) You see a blck slider, try a shift to the right to set the shadows to black. Play around with the grey slider to adjust gamma / contrast). Or, if you have PS 8 / CS try the Image > Adjust > Shadow/ Highlight tool, quite impressive new feature (try low to 0% amount for shadows, higgher for highlights, then finetune with tonal width and midtone contrast). My uploaded try was a "quick and dirty" one with Picture Window Pro 3.5, a very fast, affordable sw I make 60-80% of levels, contrast, resize etc. Not as powerful as PS CS, but works with 16 bit/chan?nel (!) Regards, Carsten
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| Photo By: Mark Wlaz
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