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Critique By:
Mark Longo (K:12760)
9/11/2006 10:04:12 PM
Thanks Randy. The orange cast was caused by the bright parking lot lighting next to the cove. I was tempted to try to correct it in photoshop to make the hulls white, but I decided that the cast was more interestiong to look at.
And I agree with your sentiment that the boats look "lifelike" like they are giving me their attention. My own private lobster boat army (navy?). 
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Critique By:
Mark Longo (K:12760)
9/10/2006 12:57:07 AM
Thank much, Adrienne! I was facinated in shooting these boats. Night shooting is new to me. I shot several shots of the moon behind clouds. ALso other subjects but these boats and the moon worked best. I see from your portfolio you have also done some successfull night work (great Tampa nighttime shot).
Mark
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| Photo By: Mark Longo
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Critique By:
Mark Longo (K:12760)
9/10/2006 12:52:18 AM
Lovely work. Color pallette is beautiful and you deftly walk the line between reality and abstract. Facinating shot.
Mark
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| Photo By: James Cook
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Critique By:
Mark Longo (K:12760)
9/10/2006 12:51:11 AM
Facinatin work here! I love the colors and also the asymetirc lines created here. The color and line here is very well executed. Congrats!
Mark
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| Photo By: James Cook
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Critique By:
Mark Longo (K:12760)
9/10/2006 12:40:37 AM
A beautiful still life! Very well aranged and well lit too. This creates a great mood! The use of the mirror was very clever here Amy. It adds a lot of visual interest and also lends dimension to the photo in a subtle way. One of your best yet!!
Mark
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| Photo By: Amy Astolfi
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Critique By:
Mark Longo (K:12760)
9/1/2006 6:04:25 PM
Great passion! The rough look to the lighting and exposure, the B&W, and also the odd angle add a lot of emotion and action to the shot. Very good work!
Mark
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| Photo By: chris d
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Critique By:
Mark Longo (K:12760)
9/1/2006 6:01:46 PM
I love the color treatment here. Also, the angle, and crop is very effective. It has a lot of personality and is full of the feeling of good freinds on a summer afternoon. Excellent candid shot, you have captured a wonderful mood!
Mark
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| Photo By: chris d
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Critique By:
Mark Longo (K:12760)
9/1/2006 5:58:19 PM
Thank you for your interesting comment Athanasios. I also miss film use, and while I still have my trusty Canon AE-1 from 25 years ago, I find that I always use my DSLR instead. I feel that a major advantage of film SLR is that one takes greater care setting up each shot. I MUST try to use my old SLR sometimes!
As to the Photoshop work in this shot, mostly it was done using the Fresco filter and fading it, hard light blending on a copied layer with partial opacity, and also with the Shadow/Highlight adjustments in CS2 and some contrast adjustment. Glad you like the effect.
Regards,
Mark
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| Photo By: Mark Longo
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Critique By:
Mark Longo (K:12760)
9/1/2006 5:44:50 PM
Thank you for your insghtful observations Wouter. I also like the lines in this. And I agree that this sort of PS treatement does have a '60s sort of feel in some ways.
Mark
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| Photo By: Mark Longo
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Critique By:
Mark Longo (K:12760)
9/1/2006 5:43:02 PM
Very whimsical and fanciful image. I think it takes us all back to childhood (or perhaps parenthood for some). You have captured the sense of adventure and freedom one feels when swinging so high. Very good work.
On the crop, I believe this is very good as it is. If the original has more unobstructed sky to the right and above, you might try positioning the figure to the lower left in that shot, which would create an even bigger sky and a more pronounced feeling of freedom and wonder. Yet it is a lovely shot cropped as it is now!
Regards,
Mark
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| Photo By: Wouter van Noort
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Critique By:
Mark Longo (K:12760)
9/1/2006 12:41:11 PM
I understand the debate between color and BW in this shot. The color shot is quite beatiful. For me though, the BW captures more of the "antique" aspect of this old ship, giving it a more historical look, while the color shot makes it look just very slightly like an amusement park novelty. It's just a slight impression created in my mind and others will disagree, but it is a difference I see between the versions.
Mark
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| Photo By: John-Eric Lemieux
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Critique By:
Mark Longo (K:12760)
9/1/2006 1:14:34 AM
tremendous composition. The vertical orientation works well and B&W was a great choice here. I think the chromic simplicity of the sky and sea set off the detail of the ship very well. Excellent work!
Mark
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| Photo By: John-Eric Lemieux
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Critique By:
Mark Longo (K:12760)
8/30/2006 9:15:29 PM
Very nice. A wise decision to shoot from a low angle and show only the top of this low cloud bank. It very much makes the viewer want to see what is on the other side of the dune, which brings an interactive aspect to the shot. B&W is a very nice choice.
I liked the posting someone else did that showed the image darkened to add more drama. I liked the effect but thought that the commentor went a bit too far with the darkening. Something between what you posted and what that commentor posted would be my own preference.
Very nice work here!
Best regards,
Mark
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| Photo By: John-Eric Lemieux
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Critique By:
Mark Longo (K:12760)
8/29/2006 9:49:37 PM
A superb still life!!!! I love still life photography of the painterly manner. It is not often seen and not often well-done. Yours here is very well done, with excellent lighting and also marvelous color interest. You have created a nice "pose" for these apples in creating an inter-dependent set of three. The wrinkled newspaper adds a very interesting dimension and texture, yet does not distract from the fruit. A VERY clever idea (wish I thought of it!) The most important aspect here is the lighting, I think. Great work!
Best regards,
Mark
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| Photo By: WAEL HAMDAN
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Critique By:
Mark Longo (K:12760)
8/29/2006 9:40:40 PM
A wonderful shot of such a rugged countryside. And the set of vertical posts create a very interesting regular pattern within the rought randomness of nature seen here. Excellent!
Mark
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| Photo By: Mireille Heirendt
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Critique By:
Mark Longo (K:12760)
8/29/2006 9:38:38 PM
A very beautiful line and geometric shape in this shot of lovely simplicity. A wonderful composition. I might like to have a bit more exposure in this shot to bring a whiter white and a more vibrant blue, but perhaps you prefer it this way. It is an artist's choice. Wonderful work, Mireille.
Regards,
Mark
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| Photo By: Mireille Heirendt
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Critique By:
Mark Longo (K:12760)
8/29/2006 9:36:10 PM
A wonderful composition with excellent depth-of-field. Excellent placement of the floral seed in the foreground. Beautiful silhouette. A very, very well-balanced composition my friend. Bravo!
Mark
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Photo By: Roberto Arcari Farinetti
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Critique By:
Mark Longo (K:12760)
8/29/2006 8:50:27 PM
Fabulous use of line and dimension as a means of framing the subject! Also, the light here is a central "framing" element in that is serves to make the nun stand out from the background. Also, the textural contrast between the nun, the smoke, and the beautifully weathered stone walls is very very appealing. Great result!
Regards,
Mark
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| Photo By: cessy karina
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Critique By:
Mark Longo (K:12760)
8/29/2006 8:46:44 PM
A tremendous candid portrat of these children, and on a larger scale, of daily life. The depth of field gives excellent isolation of the children and boat from the background. There is a smoothness to the shot that is quite appealing and B&W was a key choice. Great work!
Regards,
Mark
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| Photo By: cessy karina
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Critique By:
Mark Longo (K:12760)
8/29/2006 4:07:44 PM
Another great shot, Brian. I like the lines and perspective very much. The dark band of trees is a nice border between the ground and sky and sthe contrast level seen creates and interesting and slightly surreal mood. Nice. Also the tracks in the grass to the left is a nice detail.
I think perhaps it's a bit darker than I'd like and the absence of shadow detail in the central figure made it difficult for me to tell at a glance just what I was looking at. Perhaps a bit more of the road seen at the bottom edge would help as well, though all of that is entirely subjective, obviously.
I've seen your variations on this sort of shot in your portfolio for some time and I think this is among the best. Great work.
Regards,
Mark
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| Photo By: brian underdown
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Critique By:
Mark Longo (K:12760)
8/28/2006 2:51:41 PM
Oh yes, I like the result very much. It's kind of amazing the difference this small change makes. I think it focuses attention on your main subjects a LOT more. It also seems to bring the reflected sky closer somehow. Great improvement, you must be pleased.
Regards,
Mark
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| Photo By: James Fraser
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Critique By:
Mark Longo (K:12760)
8/26/2006 11:24:24 AM
A fine high key portrait, Manu! Excellent detail and great lighting. The high key creates an alomost angelic air, giving the sense of a person of patience and wisdom. Great portraiture!
Regards,
Mark
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Critique By:
Mark Longo (K:12760)
8/26/2006 11:20:43 AM
This is a good comment Manu, thank you. I had tried a few tighter crops but I was sad to lose some of the detailed content and balance by cropping. But I think you are right. There is good opportunity here for a tight crop and the original shot has enough resolution for closser cropping. I will try your suggestion.
Best regards,
Mark
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| Photo By: Mark Longo
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Critique By:
Mark Longo (K:12760)
8/26/2006 1:57:34 AM
Great angles and lines, Erik. The hair is a great counter to the diagonal lines. Very nice skin tones and overall the textures are quite pleasing.
There is something about the lighting that I don't quite like, but I'm not sure what it is... It seems almost too even... I realize that this is a fashion/studio shot and so even lighting is part of that, yet it seems to make the shot slightly two dimensional in nature. Perhaps the lighting would seem more natural with a studio backdrop, but here with the couch it seems a little out of place? Like softer, less formal interior lighting might be better? Maybe not, I'm really not sure, just thought I'd mention it..
The model is very well posed and there is a good sense of movement here, probably because of the hair, that seems to fit her youthful look quite well. Nice work.
Best regards,
Mark
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| Photo By: Erik Neldner
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Critique By:
Mark Longo (K:12760)
8/26/2006 1:33:21 AM
Hey thanks Erik. Nice to hear from you. I myself have been absent for quite a while roo, stoopidly busy. I hope to find some time to get some new work up soon...
Mark
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| Photo By: Mark Longo
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Critique By:
Mark Longo (K:12760)
8/16/2006 11:42:52 PM
I admire the composition in this shot very much. I like the way the kayaks are seen to radiate from image right in a sunburst pattern. I also like the primary colors seen here and they compliment each other pretty well. I do think that the color is a little bit over-saturated here, which takes a bit of the realism from the image. making it look slighty unnatural. Also, it would be worth trying to clone our the reflection at image top left, if you do that sort of thing.
Great image though, tremendous eye!
Regards,
Mark
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| Photo By: James Fraser
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Critique By:
Mark Longo (K:12760)
8/14/2006 8:05:53 PM
This is a wonderful landscape. It draws the viewer into the scene with it's lines, and communicates a powerful mood with brooding cloud obsuring the distant mountain. The shot also shows a great sense of depth and grand dimension. Excellent!!
Mark
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| Photo By: Gábor Koscsó
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Critique By:
Mark Longo (K:12760)
8/14/2006 8:03:01 PM
Facinating use fo Depth of Field! You have created a composition of interesting texture in the forground, but also added a nostalgic mood with the out-of-focus old aircraft. It is much like the memories we have: clear recall of near events, blurred recall of the distant past, such as the time when this aircraft ruled. Excellent!!
Regards,
Mark
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| Photo By: Xunilek
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Critique By:
Mark Longo (K:12760)
8/14/2006 7:53:10 PM
A spectacular action shot telling a facinating story and filled with the dreamy mood of summer! Barvo!!
Mark
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| Photo By: Weston Dru
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Critique By:
Mark Longo (K:12760)
8/10/2006 7:27:38 PM
Beautiful use of shape, line, and light. Lovely simplicity. Very good work, congratulations!
Mark
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