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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/21/2005 9:22:51 PM
Magnifique. I love the fact that this is a close-up of the hull of a fishing boat and that's why it's full of the ocean, brimming with aquatic life while on dry land (I guess?). Rgds, Svend
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| Photo By: Jorg Reif
(K:16020)
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svend videbak (K:7376)
3/21/2005 7:52:43 AM
Nice. The University of Toronto in winter, how well I remember it.
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| Photo By: Darie Petrov
(K:397)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/21/2005 7:51:12 AM
Here the oil-paint work is good, particularly the steely highlights. It adds to what is already a good picture.
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| Photo By: Ed Krebs
(K:958)
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svend videbak (K:7376)
3/21/2005 7:48:24 AM
Nice photograph, not sure about the oil colouring -- perhaps shouldn't even try to look at it "across the monitor". When one hand-colours, the objective is surely not to simulate what the picture would have looked like if it were made with colour film, I guess it's probably more to recreate the look of turn-of-the-century, hand-coloured daguerrotypes. If so, you've done well but it just looks off to me. Flesh tone not quite right, denim blues not quite right, overall effect not warm and inviting.
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| Photo By: Ed Krebs
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svend videbak (K:7376)
3/21/2005 7:32:15 AM
Mon pays, ce n'est pas un pays, c'est l'hiver.
Le vieux Québec au clair de la lune, ca me manque parfois avec tant d'amertume.
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| Photo By: Christian Barrette
(K:21125)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/20/2005 7:02:48 PM
You have so many great photographs. This one I've come to look at many times, I just love it. A classic for all the ages.
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Photo By: Mirek Netusil
(K:572)
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svend videbak (K:7376)
3/20/2005 4:16:15 PM
Looking at the thumbnail, I thought it'd be a Diana picture, which brought me in. Don't know what a lensbaby is but it must be some kind of halo-effect lens addition which simulates the effects of an Imagon-type soft-lens for large-format cameras? I find this a bit headache-inducing, too strong. But it sure is a different effect and that's always interesting.
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| Photo By: Tomasz Jakubowski
(K:354)
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svend videbak (K:7376)
3/20/2005 4:10:50 PM
He's a caricature, really, isn't he? And he's not too desperate since he hasn't even dropped his bottle of pop.
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| Photo By: mark Brunner
(K:-99)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/20/2005 4:00:50 PM
Touching... almost literally. Like the prizefighter-size ring on the man's hand.
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| Photo By: Oliver Dienst
(K:452)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/20/2005 3:48:43 PM
Ho ho! Good one!
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| Photo By: Kamran Bakhtiari
(K:24036)
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svend videbak (K:7376)
3/20/2005 3:40:48 PM
... and then stuck it in the waiter's eye? I guess it must be impossible to get shallower depth of field than this. Strange and excellent effect.
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| Photo By: Mark Hamilton
(K:8387)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/20/2005 7:53:51 AM
So much of nude photography goes like this: take a nice-looking young woman, take her clothes off, take her out to a wild-looking landscape, pose her around the landscape trying to make the point with various physical juxtapositions that the natural beauty of her body is at one with the landscape, take photographs. End result: a series of photographs of a nude woman looking distinctly awkward in a wild landscape with almost-visible puppet strings connecting her to the unseen photographer. None of this applies to you and this picture taken with a toy camera, it's amazing. It's all-natural, all-wonderful. I agree with Fabio that it hearkens back to certain nude photographs taken in the 30s. Great stuff!
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| Photo By: Andreas Wolkerstorfer
(K:5090)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/17/2005 3:48:49 PM
I like it, like the fact that the subject is a bit of a battle-axe (or at least looks like it) and that's the point. White highlights seem quite harsh but I know that's probably the result of negative scanning. Same for lack of detail in black shirt. Such a straight-forward, good portrait with the Avedon approach, the success of which depends on how visually/graphically interesting the subject is.
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| Photo By: Bryan Miller
(K:3395)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/17/2005 3:41:52 PM
Oh yes, this works all over. Offbeat, energetic, lovely tones.
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| Photo By: Bryan Miller
(K:3395)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/17/2005 3:36:33 PM
How have I missed your pictures up to now? Love this one -- heh, as he gets older he'll dig deeper!
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| Photo By: Bryan Miller
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/17/2005 1:49:41 PM
Very nice. I like the fluid movement and gentle energy.
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| Photo By: Joggie van Staden
(K:41700)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/15/2005 1:27:28 PM
Very cool.
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| Photo By: Sean D.
(K:2361)
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svend videbak (K:7376)
3/14/2005 7:15:11 PM
Wunderbar. I was of two minds about the second ballerina flitting by behind, thinking she isn't necessary but now I think she is. A stately and glowing portrait of the (misplaced?) confidence of youth.
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| Photo By: Ed Krebs
(K:958)
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svend videbak (K:7376)
3/14/2005 10:33:58 AM
How have I missed this one? Fantastic dance abstraction picture. Wonderful movement, like a flower unfolding. So elegant.
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| Photo By: Carsten Ranke
(K:14476)
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svend videbak (K:7376)
3/11/2005 7:40:09 PM
Excellent idea, better realization. Crop of his waist is a little blunt but so what. A really cheerful and different picture, I like it.
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| Photo By: Szymon Seweryn
(K:190)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/11/2005 7:15:14 PM
He walked, hands thrust deep in the pockets of his overcoat, head down, oblivious to the charms of the old town. But old towns have a way of intruding themselves upon the introspective. As he walked by the crumbling old cinema, he felt a light pat on his head. He stopped. It wasn't raining. Puzzled, he felt the hair on the top of his head with his right hand, felt something wet and sticky. He brought his hand down and looked at his fingers which had come away with the unmistakable white and green goo of ... birdshit! He flung his eyes up, past the tattered rococco facade of the Cine Aguia to the bright blue sky above, where a pair of seagulls wheeled and swooped in the wind. "You shat on me!" he yelled at them, shaking his fist cinematically. He laughed a real laugh, something he hadn't done in many months. He continued walking, but now he looked around him with an alert and friendly face and was greeted by almost everybody he met.
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| Photo By: Aira Manna
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/10/2005 11:02:35 AM
Good exposure control for accurate colours and light/dark. I like the moment you have caught here as well. It looks like the moment after an awkward teen-age breakup, where neither can think of anything to say except maybe mumble something about "we can still be friends". I like the ditched shopping cart behind the shelter as well. Good photograph.
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| Photo By: Terrence Kent
(K:7023)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/7/2005 12:45:03 PM
Oh, nice. I like her clothing and pose -- gives a sort of Casablanca feeling. "Of all the gin joints in the world, why did she have to walk into mine?" Rgds, Svend
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| Photo By: Basso Gianluca
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/7/2005 12:38:59 PM
A delicate and emotional portrait, really. The young lad's face is memorable. He doesn't look sad but rather expectant.
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| Photo By: Ali Naghizadeh
(K:19600)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/7/2005 12:36:25 PM
Pinhole pictures aren't meant to be sharp. Nice distorted perspective of a famous place.
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| Photo By: Ali Naghizadeh
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/7/2005 12:27:48 PM
Deliciously romantic.
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| Photo By: Marta Glinska
(K:89)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/7/2005 11:13:32 AM
I agree with Roger S -- this picture withholds more than it gives and I like that a lot.
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| Photo By: RC. Dany
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/7/2005 11:06:45 AM
Wow -- your description of digital techniques must be a great help to less-experienced digital photographers because the resulting picture looks technically flawless to me. Tonality might be a bit heavy, but I'm kind of prejudiced against filters as a rule. Rgds, Svend
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| Photo By: Carsten Ranke
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/7/2005 11:03:45 AM
An impressive picture, I think I prefer this monotone version. Great clarity and detail. The harsh light and digital process makes for a very electric picture. It has an attractive alpine sterility (can't think of another word to describe it) and the slight perspectival elongation is dramatic. Also, the sun-starring is fashionable these days. Rgds, Svend
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| Photo By: Carsten Ranke
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svend videbak (K:7376)
3/4/2005 9:51:19 AM
You do rock'n roll -- I can see this picture as the album cover for an up and coming garage band with a name like "The Sluttons".
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| Photo By: vladimir antic
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