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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
2/26/2006 12:13:13 AM
Don, 37 K? You need to get out more! If its a Buick it must have holes in its sides! Good capture with no reflection (optically) of the photographer.
JB
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| Photo By: Don Loseke
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
2/23/2006 4:59:46 AM
Casting one's net unto the ether eh?
Some day you must explain the meaning of this
to me.
JB
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
2/21/2006 4:11:34 AM
Simply spendid - you deserve some sort of recognition for this one. The only thing that could make it better would be to have shot it not quite so straight on but that is a very minor point. I love this one! Wish I took it.
John B
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
2/21/2006 3:26:31 AM
Great photo-journalistic catch. These illegal birthday parties at National Monuments are sooo hard to document. Excellent use of colored ballons and narrow DOF. Cheers.
John Bohner
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
2/21/2006 3:11:23 AM
Hi Don - some where over those Pinon Pines and below the mountain is where my son is going to school. There are a lot of great opportunities up in that neck of the woods. Good job as usual. What do you use to create your frames?
JB
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
2/19/2006 5:56:23 AM
Obviously down at the beach near Ballona Creek.
Very nice and well matched on the lighting.
JB
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
2/19/2006 5:53:54 AM
I thought it was a for a cat clinic!
JB
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
2/19/2006 5:51:44 AM
Since this was shot on your camera phone, the Photoshop 'Bessaflex' filter did not help.
Still strange but a good catch.
JB
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
2/19/2006 5:48:23 AM
I see no constables but lots of scooters. Is there a donut shop nearby or is it noodles in Japan?
Cheers - JB
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
2/18/2006 9:12:52 PM
Congrats Phil - now go out and do some more!
John B
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
2/17/2006 4:23:01 AM
Man.. you are just way tooo in love with this pic.
I will talk to your minister about this for you.
John B
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
2/13/2006 12:13:44 AM
I wish him luck Roger. I have had very limited sucess getting my wife to participate actively.
You are very good a candids like this. I feel all clumsey and dot do well trying to include locals in an image (except in Las Vegas). Good for you.
John B
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
2/13/2006 12:09:34 AM
Now THAT is a JPEGed sky! Once again we learn how difficult it is to capture fog/mist in a way that it captures us when we see it. Is this a slice out of a much larger fish eye like shot? I notice how the buildings at the edges lean in opposite directions. Cheers fella
John B
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
2/12/2006 5:02:55 PM
Now I get it Don....
I don't know if the shrub and the bottom shadow add anything. The shrub might just be a competitor for texture attention. Looks like you got your money's worth on that Sedona trip.!
JOhn B
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
2/11/2006 5:01:17 AM
Gayle - if cliches were banned at Usefilm, the postings would drop to near zero so relax. The point is YOU saw this and YOU chose to capture it the way you did. It is simple, in a zen sort of way. Once you get to this point of quality all thats left to comment on is just how much space to leave on each edge. And That is more about us than you. Well done. John B
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
2/9/2006 3:36:23 AM
Tim - don't know why but I like this the best of three overlooking the river. Maybe its the lavering in the foreground rock or ? By the vay the Vermillion lakes shot is wonderful. Good think we can't smell the bog!
Cheers - John B
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
1/29/2006 4:11:58 PM
Actually, Hugo, I rather liked the noise and new it was in the image when I was making it. I even experimented with some art filters to exagerate the effect, but they all fell apart when it gets squished to 800 pixels. Cheers - JB
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
1/29/2006 4:09:53 PM
Southwest Airlines and I think it was a Boeing
737. I am off to do a week of photo shooting, so I will be quiet now!.
JB
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
1/29/2006 8:54:05 AM
Eric - please PS outthe white whatever it is on the birds's forehead. This will make it 1000% better. I love the eye! JB
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
1/28/2006 6:22:51 AM
Larry - having punned enough in my life, I am certain to roast in hades, but this title of yours screams for a change. Given the "Tetons" which is French, perhaps changing 'tips' by losing the t and adding an 'n' might be entertaining. All that aside, a very nice image. Good work. John B
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
1/28/2006 6:09:52 AM
Roger - I looked at this one for a long time. Then I realized it was not a Japanese thing but a German thing. I checked the image for Bessaflex distortion, found some and then ran the Photoshop filter 'Invert Bessaflex distortion'. The image makes much more sense now. Thanks for bringing this one to our attention. - JB
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
1/27/2006 4:57:59 AM
Ann - and the others who have commented on this staff choice image...Thanks you all for your kind words. I was out of town and unable to respond to your comments in real time. So now that I am back...yes the forground does not add a lot to the image at this time of day. later in the day the sun falls into this 'garden' and things look better. Unfortunately, I was not there later. As to the metal shed, its an artifact that Bodie was a working gold mine town during the turn of the century and there are a few items in town that we don't think of as 'ghost town' material. I have done some images where I have PS'ed out the shed and it does look more consistent. I was simply lazy on this image. Thank you all again who stopped by to look and offer your kind comments. Thank you staff as well. John B.
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
1/19/2006 12:01:43 AM
Hugo - I have seen a lot of images of S but this is the first time that I have seen this perspective and execution. Simply great! Its terrific. I thought there was an ongoing rain spell that doomed photography or was this shot in the past?
John B
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| Photo By: Hugo de Wolf
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
1/18/2006 11:56:48 PM
Good job Kelly. Glad to see that Phil has left enough time so you can be creative on your own. Congrats on the exposure!
john B
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| Photo By: Kelli MacDonald
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
1/18/2006 3:04:14 PM
Excellent - I love being played with and its clear that you were haveing fun as well. What I noticed first was the identicle hair cuts! Good for By the way I love the book cases.
Cheers
John Bohner
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
1/15/2006 6:53:37 PM
Lisa - I am not certain if Phil replied to your comment or mine but you might want to check back and see what he had to say. I can be found at the South Bay Camera Club at most meetings.
Cheers
John B
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
1/3/2006 6:12:24 AM
Thanks for pointing it out Hugo. Its not on the image that I have as my desktop background. Apparently I did some a second session of unshaprp masking. FYI USM can be done to improve local micro contrast which really helps most images for the web. You do regular USM except
1) use a spot size of 40-80 pixels.
2) use a low amount of sharpening, 20-35
3) keep the threashold near 0 or 1
Try it, its like lifting a vale of haze. The overdone leads to a halo which isnt always that bad,
Happy New Year
JB
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
1/2/2006 3:27:53 PM
Do I see graffiti acrost the street? I thought that never happened in Japan? The only distortion that bothers me is in the foremost column, the join near the top almost looks like a spiral. Happy new year sir!
John B
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| Photo By: Roger Williams
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
1/2/2006 3:22:47 PM
This is really good Don. While normally the sky should be clearer to bring out the clouds, in this case it softens up the rocks so the details dont get lost in the contrast. You are on your way to Arizona Highways!
Happy new year.
John B
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| Photo By: Don Loseke
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Critique By:
John Bohner (K:8368)
1/1/2006 10:24:57 PM
FYI Roger, I lived next door to such a delight for 9 years. We could hear the arcing in the evening fogs! Thanks for reminding me why we moved. Curiously, physics tells us that the more wires, the more rapidly the electromagnetic fields decrease as we move away from them. Kinda counter intuitive. I still wanted to move away.
Happy new year fella. Lets shoot lots!
JB
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