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Critique By:
Joggie van Staden (K:41700)
3/25/2007 4:04:14 PM
Hilton, the saturated colours due to the wetness and low cloud conditions is great. Your composition works very well, creating a mosaic of blocks of contrasting colour. The slight halo around the tree trunk is most probably due to a bit aggressive use of the shadow/highlight feature in PS (playing a bit with the radius setting helps to limit the effect). My main critique is the softness of the tree trunk, where imo it should be pinsharp. ( I use Neat Image for sharpening - free on the internet and more subtle and better than PS imo). Great work!
Joggie
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Critique By:
Joggie van Staden (K:41700)
11/2/2006 5:27:36 PM
A lovely sky and nice repetitive patterns of the masts. I feel that you could tilt the camera slightly to get more of the lovely sky and a bit less of the rather featureless water in the front. It would also add a bit of drama if you could darken the top section of the clouds a bit Otherwise a great image Hilton. Regards.
Joggie
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Critique By:
Joggie van Staden (K:41700)
10/23/2006 9:12:12 PM
Hi Eb - Its a fact - if you have a camera you will ake family portraits! With 3 such delightfull kids it must have been quite fun 9with some sweat I suppose). I think you did well on the composition, using the slope to give the shot a relaxed, less formal feel creating a natural diagonal (although it might be easier to keep the baby upright on a flat surface). If I could do something to improve it would be to darken the bark and the bright leaves in the background. Not totally but only enough to prevent it from drawing your focus. The rest, including the colour,the doll and the pumpkins are great ! Regrds.
Joggie
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Photo By: Eb Mueller
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Critique By:
Joggie van Staden (K:41700)
9/4/2006 8:52:27 AM
Hi Hugo - Let me first congratulate you with a great photograph, very well composed and great contrast between the texture & monochrome mood in the painting against the strong side-lighted face of the cardinal in full colour. Very well executed and a BIP well deserved.
I've read some of the comments above (not all though) and after a lot of thought and a hard re-look at the photo I would like to give my impression. The subject(s) of the image will bring different emotions to the fore, depending on your background (protestant/catholic etc.). I'm from a protestant viewpoint and looking at the picture I cannot help to be moved in a way by what I know of church history (inquisition etc.)as both of the subjects of the photo are in a way symbols of Roman Catholicism. Looking at the image from that viepoint will make me see no peace or tranquility in it.
The one aspect of the image that struck me though was the expression on the cardinals face, everything else is static, yet his expression seems to be alive. It is as if he asks a question and a profound one I think: Within and through the turmoil of history and the present circumstances around us - do you have peace and tranquility in yourself?!! That is something everyone needs to find for him/herself. We can try to find it in things, places, religion or through experiences, but if we don't have it within, it will fade as soon as those things changes! And its only through faith that we can get it because faith alone brings us before God who is bigger than anything in creation or what man can offer!
Thanks again for a thought provoking and chalenging image. Regards.
Joggie
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Critique By:
Joggie van Staden (K:41700)
3/30/2006 8:54:42 PM
The vastnessof desrt landscapes make it often very difficult to find a point of interest to anchor the shot in the foreground. You were fortunate here. A week or two earlier/later would have left you with a very monotonous foreground. I like the low angle and the bright yellow that ofsett beautifully with the dul grey and brown of the foreground. It also softens up some of the harshness of the area - inviting you to explore more. The one thing I wonder about is the time of day. This must have been taken closer to midday rather than morning/evening. A shot erly in the morning/late afternoon might have add a lot of mood and impact (e.g. yellow flowers turning gold against the lower light). But thats just nit picking - I know we dont always have time to stay or come back for that light conditions. Kind regards.
Joggie
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