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Critique By:
Hermen Pen (K:9168)
8/23/2005 9:48:35 AM
@Maarten: yes, the upper part of the sky was slightly darkened by using a mask layer in PS.
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Critique By:
Maarten Geers (K:1070)
8/23/2005 6:10:18 AM
Very nice symmetrical composition. Did you darken the air yourself?
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Critique By:
Maarten Geers (K:1070)
8/23/2005 6:07:54 AM
Great shot Hermen and good composition.
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Critique By:
Ed Rhodes (K:1113)
8/22/2005 2:56:11 PM
another great shot.
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Critique By:
Ed Rhodes (K:1113)
8/22/2005 2:54:43 PM
amazing. The golden light, and the clouds in the background really add to the mood of this photo.
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Critique By:
Hugo de Wolf (K:185110)
8/16/2005 12:20:40 AM
Hi Hermen, very nice detailing in this sandcastle / fortress. Amazing what people can do with sand, spending hours and hours building the most fantastic creations, only to surrender them to the sea and the elements after a few weeks.... The complementing tones of the sand as wel las the sky fits the image nicely. Composition wise, I think it's a bit static, though...
Cheers,
Hugo
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Critique By:
mike donovan (K:3698)
8/15/2005 8:27:08 AM
WOW!!!
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Critique By:
Fabio Keiner (K:81109)
8/15/2005 7:42:11 AM
you could use it for an entire animated movie background
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Critique By:
Ismet Smajis (K:6911)
8/14/2005 10:14:32 PM
Very nice photo
Well done
cheers
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Critique By:
Sameh Odeh (K:4717)
8/14/2005 10:04:47 PM
Is reaLy sands...!
this is what i can uderstand from your description,Any way it's very interesting,and you did not miss it..
Realy great and attractive,well done Hermen nice shot...
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Critique By:
Fayez Arthy (K:401)
8/13/2005 10:39:49 PM
nice view
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Critique By:
joanna ewa (K:8061)
8/13/2005 7:43:18 PM
sand?... this is like wood
interesting view
regards
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Critique By:
Raphael Günther (K:586)
8/9/2005 2:14:26 PM
This is sooo creative. I loved it.
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Critique By:
Hau Nguyen (K:78)
8/5/2005 10:16:09 PM
Very simple but manful in cropping. Excellent
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Critique By:
Jeanette Hägglund (K:59855)
8/5/2005 9:55:25 PM
Since i?m very fond of simplicity i have to say this is great one!! I like the lines creatwed of the light.
Jeanette
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Critique By:
Michael Kanemoto (K:22115)
8/3/2005 9:24:23 PM
Hermen:
I see... tone it by hand? Dunno. Still love the shot regardless.
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Critique By:
Hermen Pen (K:9168)
8/3/2005 9:15:15 PM
Michael, thanks four your suggestion, however the image was shot on black and white film so I can not try it out :-)
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Critique By:
Michael Kanemoto (K:22115)
8/3/2005 8:52:58 PM
Very good concept - well executed.
My only suggestion would be to keep the mouth pink and red as a color highlight (don't desaturate completely)
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Critique By:
B:)liana (K:30945)
8/3/2005 5:58:13 PM
wow. what focus, colors. superb definition of the seed. wonderful natural green. well done!
Biliana
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Critique By:
B:)liana (K:30945)
8/3/2005 5:57:37 PM
wow. wow. bravoooooooooooo
this is incredible.
Thank you daer Hermen!!
Biliana
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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
8/2/2005 1:10:29 PM
Very nice scenery, well taken. Thanks for the interesting discussion here, my first thought when I saw this was "flat after scanning ? or stressed shadows ?". The photo is definitively worth the effort, and I tried a layer mask for the foreground with only 20% opacity and overlay blending mode for a wee bit enhanced color contrast
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Critique By:
Hugo de Wolf (K:185110)
7/31/2005 5:05:43 PM
Very interesting, should've remembered Kelby. I never really noticed, nor examined the difference between original and resized and reworked version. Very enlightening comparison, definitely makes more sense now... Thanks!
Cheers,
Hugo
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Critique By:
Hermen Pen (K:9168)
7/31/2005 4:17:04 PM
And now the attachment...
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Critique By:
Hermen Pen (K:9168)
7/31/2005 4:14:24 PM
Hi Hugo,
thanks for your thorough analysis :-)
About the post-processing: yes, It was a good (rainy) afternoon to do some PS work on this -originally rather dull- image. But I left the sky untouched, I only did some dodging of the foreground (using the technique "Dodging and burning done right" from Scott Kelby's book). I think the cluttering of the treeline has indeed to do with the size reduction, in combination with the sharpening and the JPEG compression. See the attached file: left the original (crop enlarged twice from the original size), right the one published here (crop scaled to the same size as the left image). Here, it is clearly visible that the fine detail of the trees can not be captured in an image of 500 x 600 pixels.
regards,
Hermen
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Critique By:
Roberto Bertone (K:13239)
7/31/2005 1:14:02 PM
Ottima immagine e atmosfera!!!
Saluti.
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Critique By:
Hugo de Wolf (K:185110)
7/31/2005 1:08:11 PM
Hi Hermen, the broom in flower, casting yellow smears (not meant negatively, just can't find the right words here) across the landscape arevery nice, but the deep tones of the sky pregnant with rain is ven more impressive. The treeline in the background looks a bit cluttered, as if masking the sky with the select colour tool, copying it onto a new layer and multiplying that layer. Then again, I don't quite think that's it. Maybe it's another sort of postprocessing that causes the contrasts and details in the treeline to be diminuished. Could very well be the size reduction, too. Either way, I like this scene, very well captured.
Cheers,
Hugo
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Critique By:
Kenneth Roine (K:3538)
7/29/2005 5:34:59 PM
Superb, excellent, wonderful...etc.
Ken
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Critique By:
Shane O'Neill (K:3054)
7/29/2005 5:30:23 PM
excellent .. same idea as mine .. http://www.usefilm.com/image/809898.html
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Critique By:
r u t h d r io (K:4339)
7/29/2005 5:15:38 PM
Excellent, seems simple but i think it is not. Congratulations for award and for this magnific shot!
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Critique By:
Branimir Fagarazzi (K:38367)
7/19/2005 7:33:46 PM
Excellent compose.Maybe crop on the right side
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