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Critique By:
Steve Rosenbach (K:8338)
12/23/2004 4:04:18 PM
Many thanks to Daniel, Roberto, and Kevin for your kind commments on this old photo.
Kevin - Approaching Senior Citizenship, I thought I knew old cameras, but "Canon MF" eludes me. What is it?
Best regards,
SteveR
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| Photo By: Steve Rosenbach
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Critique By:
Steve Rosenbach (K:8338)
12/22/2004 9:21:08 PM
ah, thanks, Dan! That's what Usefilm is all about - I appreciate it.
Wishing you and your loved ones a happy Christmas,
SteveR
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| Photo By: Steve Rosenbach
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Critique By:
Steve Rosenbach (K:8338)
12/22/2004 7:59:19 PM
Thanks, Dan- frankly, this one didn't turn out quite like I had envisioned it - I kept driving by my neighbors each night, seeing this reflection in his car, and finally photographed it. But it wasn't quite what was in my head.
What would you suggest, more specifically, in terms of showing more detail in the car?
Thanks!
SteveR
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| Photo By: Steve Rosenbach
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Critique By:
Steve Rosenbach (K:8338)
12/22/2004 5:52:37 PM
Dan,
Your portraits are amazing! This is a beautiful example. You have a great gift of visualizing, then executing wonderfully composed portraits and also a great raport with your subjects, which makes your images very evocative.
Best wishes for a wonderful Christmas!
SteveR
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| Photo By: Dan Lightner
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Critique By:
Steve Rosenbach (K:8338)
12/22/2004 5:48:25 PM
I am privileged to be the first to comment on your excellent photo!
A very compelling and powerful image. Your composition is dramatic and you made wonderful use of light and shadow. The tonalities are excellent.
Best regards,
SteveR
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| Photo By: Sebastian Duda zolo2
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Critique By:
Steve Rosenbach (K:8338)
12/16/2004 6:25:11 PM
Excellent, Robert!
This image really deserves more comments. The composition is good, and the background is really compelling - I want to keep looking at it.
The out-of-focus patterns are something unique to photography, in fact, unique to "telephoto" photography - you managed it very well in this photo.
Best regards,
SteveR
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| Photo By: Robert Höhne
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Critique By:
Steve Rosenbach (K:8338)
12/13/2004 4:54:47 PM
Hello Hanggan,
This is a very compelling image! Very effective use of silhouette. I like the way you've abstracted the refinforcing bar cage and included the worker for scale.
Thank you for your kind comments on my "Hoboken" photo.
Best regards,
SteveR
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| Photo By: Hanggan Situmorang
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Critique By:
Steve Rosenbach (K:8338)
12/8/2004 1:32:58 PM
Thank you, Marcus & Jim for your kind comments!
Jim, this is the Clipper City - a fairly new ship that you can rent for cruises - about 4 hours round-trip out to the Key Bridge and back.
Pride of Baltimore - that one has a dark hull.
Best regards,
SteveR
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| Photo By: Steve Rosenbach
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Critique By:
Steve Rosenbach (K:8338)
12/7/2004 4:12:05 AM
Hello Walter,
How many times I have walked past this building - how many times have all of us seen it in photos... yours is a totally different approach, and it works beautifully. I don't think I have seen a better photo of the Secretariat Bldg.
I love the way the image progresses from "straight" at the bottom to "warped" further up. The leaves in the puddle also add a lot.
I'm honored to be the first to comment on your beautiful image - congratulations!
Best regards,
SteveR
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Photo By: Warren Simons
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Critique By:
Steve Rosenbach (K:8338)
12/7/2004 1:33:28 AM
"Signs, signs, everywhere is signs!....
....do this don't do that can't you read the signs!"
Brad - you fired off a brain cell that brought back a memory of that old song!
Good job on the PS work - very effective
Best regards,
SteveR
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| Photo By: Bradley Prue
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Critique By:
Steve Rosenbach (K:8338)
12/4/2004 6:10:57 PM
Hello Roberto,
Your photo is so stunningly beautiful, it brings tears to my eyes!
The composition, colors, drama and emotion are all tied together pefectly.
Best regards,
SteveR
p.s. - thank you for your kind comments on my Annapolis photo
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| Photo By: Roberto Carli
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Critique By:
Steve Rosenbach (K:8338)
12/1/2004 2:35:23 PM
Excellent, Brad!
I really like the way you abstracted the scene down to so few elements - face, microphone, and the shapes that make them up. Also, the focus on the microphone, with the face being slightly out of focus, works well for me.
Best regards,
SteveR
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| Photo By: Bradley Prue
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Critique By:
Steve Rosenbach (K:8338)
12/1/2004 2:32:09 PM
Hi Rob,
I can't believe I'm the first to comment on this one. Simple and very effective composition, abstracting the guitar elements to concentrate on their shapes. Also, I'm old enough to appreciate the psychodelic colors :-)
I would like to see some variations of colors with this one, maybe even a vertical tripych. Have fun with those Hue and Saturation sliders!
Best regards,
SteveR
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| Photo By: rob bishop
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Critique By:
Steve Rosenbach (K:8338)
12/1/2004 2:21:02 PM
Thank you for your kind comment, Marinos, and your suggestion to remove the street light. I tried that in Photoshop, and the result is indeed better! I've attached the new version to this reply and hope it shows up (I have often not been successful attaching images.)
Best regards,
SteveR
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| Photo By: Steve Rosenbach
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Critique By:
Steve Rosenbach (K:8338)
12/1/2004 2:12:14 PM
Hello Agust,
Thank you for your kind comment on my photo - it prompted me to look at your amazing portfolio.
This is a striking image, and I noticed that I had an immediate and strong reaction to it. I think that's for a number of reasons. To begin with, it has a surreal quality to it: the high viewpoint makes it seem as if the water is held back, above the Sleeping Man, by some protective force field. Also, the rocks and frothy surf portray a sort of fury and uncertainty of which the sleeping man seems blissfully unaware. I subconciously asked myself, what will happen to him? And being homeless, that is a real and important question, not just one of a trick of perspective that my eyes are playing on me. If I cover up the sky portion of the image at top, so that it looks like this feeling becomes even stronger.
At another level, your image is an allegory for the precariousness of the human conditon, balanced by faith.
The composition is beautiful - three successively taller horizontal "bands" formed by the sky, water, and beach, each one relatively uniform across its width - and contrasted by the figure of the Sleeping Man in his vertically curved posture.
The neutral colors of the three horizontal bands provide a "focusing effect" that makes my eye zero in on the Sleeping Man because of the little bit of color in all this "non-color."
Best regards,
SteveR
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| Photo By: Agust Agustsson
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Critique By:
Steve Rosenbach (K:8338)
11/30/2004 2:59:34 PM
Hello Carlos,
This is a beautiful composition, enhanced by the wonderful interplay of light and shadow. Combined with the wisps of steam, it lends a mysterious feeling to the image.
Carlos, I feel that this is a truly superior photo - it jumped right out at me from the other 29 thumbnails on the page!
Best regards,
SteveR
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| Photo By: Carlos A
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Critique By:
Steve Rosenbach (K:8338)
11/25/2004 7:01:59 PM
Hi Dan,
Beautiful child with great lighting, wonderful outfit. I love the way you caught her with a great smile and that lean to her right.
Best regards,
SteveR
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| Photo By: Dan Lightner
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Critique By:
Steve Rosenbach (K:8338)
11/25/2004 6:59:13 PM
Hi Brad,
This is a wonderful tableau that really gives an authentic feel for this part of town. The lighting you captured is so expressive. Photoshopping like this can be very iffy, but this is really superb.
Best regards,
SteveR
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| Photo By: Bradley Prue
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Critique By:
Steve Rosenbach (K:8338)
11/21/2004 9:27:24 PM
Hi Ed,
This is truly a masterful image! I love the way you used the arc of the culvert and its image in the channel to create a circular frame within the image. The wonderful texture in the water and the sand nicely sets off the figures in near-silhouette.
Best regards,
SteveR
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| Photo By: Ed Krebs
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Critique By:
Steve Rosenbach (K:8338)
11/21/2004 8:48:26 PM
Hello Kamran,
A very nice subject, and you executed it beautifully. The contrast of the natural - the falling leaves -- and the manmade - the stone wall and steps, is magnificent. Also, I like that the manmade is traditional and not ultra-modern.
Best regards,
SteveR
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| Photo By: Kamran Bakhtiari
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Critique By:
Steve Rosenbach (K:8338)
11/21/2004 3:18:13 PM
Hello Omar,
You've created a beautiful image with the diagonal flow of the main subject and the very dramatic, end-of-day lighting. Wonderful composition and colors, and the lighting adds to the emotion.
Best regards,
SteveR
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| Photo By: Omar Rifaat
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Critique By:
Steve Rosenbach (K:8338)
11/16/2004 1:39:41 AM
Hello A.A.,
Your image here is beautiful and evocative. Excellent creative use of flare and dramatic backlighting. The diagonal flow of the scalloped shoreline in the foreground is a very strong design element.
Best regards,
SteveR
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| Photo By: A. A
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Critique By:
Steve Rosenbach (K:8338)
11/16/2004 1:37:19 AM
Hello A.A.,
The s-curve of the stone embankment is such a strong diagonal that I agree with Steven H's suggestion on cropping.
Your original is very nice indeed, and with the cropping it's breathtaking.
Best regards,
SteveR
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| Photo By: A. A
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Critique By:
Steve Rosenbach (K:8338)
11/14/2004 2:01:51 AM
I very much like the way you combined the strong compositional elements of the receding towers and power lines with the beautiful sky.
As someone who spent 27 years in the electric power industry, I love this photo.
Best regards,
SteveR
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| Photo By: Michael Busselle
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Critique By:
Steve Rosenbach (K:8338)
11/12/2004 2:02:21 PM
Hi Kamran,
This is a great self-portrait - I especially like the way you captured the movement and excitement of the pigeons around you. It is a great contrast between you serenely standing totally still and all the pigeons blurred by their motion.
I think this image works better as a Black & White photo.
Best regards!
SteveR
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| Photo By: Kamran
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Critique By:
Steve Rosenbach (K:8338)
11/12/2004 3:47:29 AM
Very, very nice, John. I would like to see a bit of both the top and bottom cropped, making it a more "wide" image. The color and composition are very good. Good eye!
Best regards,
SteveR
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| Photo By: John Papaleo
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Critique By:
Steve Rosenbach (K:8338)
11/12/2004 2:50:49 AM
Renee,
Thank you for this wonderful, evocative photo, representing the Greatest Generation.
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| Photo By: Renee Robinson
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Critique By:
Steve Rosenbach (K:8338)
11/8/2004 6:52:57 PM
Hi Walter,
Beautiful composition of sun-washed white stucco against the deep blue of the sea! I feel more relaxed already :-)
best regards,
Stever
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| Photo By: Walter Scarella
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Critique By:
Steve Rosenbach (K:8338)
11/3/2004 4:45:44 PM
Hi Dave,
Thanks for your kind comment! No, my wife Sandy and I were visiting her parents and her younger brother & family in Ottawa. We all took a drive up to Wakefield (my first time in Gatineaus) late Sunday for brunch and to look around.
I did get some photos of the train, though (see http://www.usefilm.com/image/596902.html )
Best regards,
SteveR
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| Photo By: Steve Rosenbach
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Critique By:
Steve Rosenbach (K:8338)
10/26/2004 3:38:52 AM
I love the tilt of the head and the almost-serious expression betrayed by the toungue :-)
best regards,
SteveR
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