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Critique By:
Shirley D. Cross-Taylor (K:173998)
10/13/2006 7:45:01 PM
Yes, I believe so, dear Ricardo!:)
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Critique By:
Ricardo Baez-Duarte (K:666)
10/13/2006 5:05:22 PM
Thanks to you, there are many good photographers here, one may assume that it is posible to learn something from them!
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Critique By:
Shirley D. Cross-Taylor (K:173998)
10/13/2006 3:36:26 PM
Ah, Ricardo, thank you for sending me the link...might never have found you here among so many. You know I love this one!:)
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Critique By:
James Cook (K:38068)
10/11/2006 8:32:37 PM
Sounds pretty round-about, but the results are good so I'll have to try it out. Thanks for the information.
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Critique By:
Ricardo Baez-Duarte (K:666)
10/11/2006 7:58:48 PM
Hello James
I have been trying many Photoshop conversions, actually I am trying a combination of methods.
Create two Hue/Saturation adjustment layers over the original.
The upper one is set with saturation "0", the other below is set with with blending mode "Color". Move the Hues and Saturation sliders of the corresponding hues to set the contrast and tone.
Then convert to L.a.b. mode, apply a curve adjustment layer to gain contrast and focus just the Lightness Channel.
Transform this file to Grayscale dumping the "a" and "b" channels.
Convert to RGB and adjust contrast if necessary with Levels or better with curves and add tinting with Photo filter Adjustment layer
Have fun!
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Critique By:
Ricardo Baez-Duarte (K:666)
10/11/2006 7:51:10 PM
I thank you for this comment, in particular the cropping issue. I am not quite sure about this but I will try it.
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Critique By:
Doyle D. Chastain (K:101119)
10/11/2006 6:22:40 PM
Well done Ricardo . . . the color conversion forces concentration of the viewer on to the reflections of the rippled surface. The rail reflection and diagonals make the composition abstractish . . .
The only thing I would do, though, is to crop out that triangular area in the lower right foreground as I feel it to be a bit distracting. Overall it's a great shot.
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
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Critique By:
James Cook (K:38068)
10/11/2006 6:10:27 PM
Nice job. Looks like a pool of oil or even mercury. How did you make the color conversion?
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Critique By:
ABC 123 (K:677)
10/5/2006 4:10:23 PM
Hi Ricardo,
I like your picture but IMHO the switch to black and white does not bring much here. I would love to see the fantastic green of these tropical plants. In addition one large leaf is affecting the composition on the bottom-right corner. Otherwise you might try to really force the contrast, burn some highlights and lose some shadows to get something more abstract. I feel like you that there is something beautiful to do with this shot. This is just the view point of an amateur photographer and I might not catch your goal here... Nevertheless it is an appealing picture.
Roland
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Critique By:
James Cook (K:38068)
10/1/2006 6:44:57 PM
Good shadow capture. Very much in the realm of portraiture. Well done.
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Critique By:
Ricardo Baez-Duarte (K:666)
8/14/2006 8:47:28 PM
Gratie Giuseppe
Ricardo
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Critique By:
Ricardo Baez-Duarte (K:666)
8/14/2006 8:46:51 PM
My gratitude to you
Ricardo
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Critique By:
Giuseppe Guadagno (K:34002)
8/14/2006 7:43:16 PM
Ricardo I like very much the photo specially the contrast progressively increasing.
Hermosa.
Salutos.
Giuseppe
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Critique By:
Inder Gopal (K:367)
8/14/2006 7:26:11 PM
This is beautiful..... nice study.... great baclit shot
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Critique By:
Ricardo Baez-Duarte (K:666)
8/11/2006 3:01:49 PM
Alicia:
Garcia spro tu cariñoso comentario.
Choroni es un pueblo costero de Venezuela. Esta inmerso en una tupida junga tropical espectacularmente bella, donde el verde de su vegetacion es muy intenso, unida a Caracas por una carretera tan angosta y empinada ue en algunos tramos solo cabe un automovil.
El pueblo es bastante pintoresco, tiene una historia muy particular desde la epoca colonial.
Hay haciendas muy viejas y bellas, con arquitectura tipica de la Colonia,donde se siembra profusamente el cacao.
Su gente es apacible, muy distinta de la que encontramos en Caracas, para comenzar se dejan fotografiar, un lujo que es imposible en la capital en estos tiempos donde apuntar con tu camara te puede ocasionar lo menos un golpe o que te quiten tu camara .
Es un placer compartir contigo estas fotos y nuestra correspondencia que podemos continuar a traves de la direccion de correo electronico
Saludos
Ricardo
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Critique By:
Alicia Popp (K:87532)
8/11/2006 3:18:15 AM
Gracias a tí Ricardo por tu generosa invitación...ya entré y estuve viendo algunos de tus trabajos, supongo que todos son tuyos verdad? es tu página???.. pues felicitaciones!!!
Piqué un poco en cada sección y la iré mirando con mayor detenimiento, para dsifrutarla como estas cosas lo merecen, ya la coloqué en marcadores.
Abusando de tu paciencia puedo hacerte algunas preguntas?. No pasa nada si no las contestas... sé que a veces no se puede, por tiempo, trabajo... y larga lista.
Qué es choroni?
San Juan de Puerto Rico? o es en Venezuela?
Gracias nuevamente Ricardo, es un honor que me hayas invitado. Saludos!
Alicia
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Critique By:
Ricardo Baez-Duarte (K:666)
8/10/2006 1:58:43 PM
Thanks for your comment Arvin.
Please visit my recent work in this subject, B&W, on http://www.artrbd.com/choroni
Ricardo Baez-Duarte
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Critique By:
Ricardo Baez-Duarte (K:666)
8/10/2006 1:57:18 PM
Gracias por este comentario.
Te invito a ver mis trabajos recientes en este area en http://www.artrbd.com/choroni
Ricardo Baez
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Critique By:
Alicia Popp (K:87532)
8/10/2006 4:25:29 AM
Estupenda composición.. acertada opción B&N, muy buenas texturas, la luz excelente!
Felicitaciones!
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Critique By:
Arvin Alston (K:1495)
8/9/2006 7:55:56 PM
nice texture
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Critique By:
Ricardo Baez-Duarte (K:666)
8/5/2006 7:24:02 PM
Thanks to you all for your encourage
Ricardo Baez-Duarte
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Critique By:
Jeanette Hägglund (K:59855)
8/5/2006 9:23:06 AM
So effctful!
Jeanette
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Critique By:
James Cook (K:38068)
8/4/2006 8:52:21 PM
Terrific. What must be described as an illigitimate landscape. Very well shot. Your contast and the improbable geometries combine very well in this image.
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Critique By:
Stefan Fischli (K:927)
8/4/2006 8:49:37 PM
hi ricardo. well done! nices tones and shapes. regards stefan
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Critique By:
Ricardo Baez-Duarte (K:666)
7/22/2006 7:23:58 PM
Muchas gracias por tu comentario amiga
Saludos
Ricardo
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Critique By:
ana ribeiro (K:21290)
7/22/2006 8:14:27 AM
holá Ricardo ! en esta foto creeaste un ambiente muy interessante
abrazo
ana
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Critique By:
Ricardo Baez-Duarte (K:666)
6/8/2006 8:10:26 PM
Thanks Nicola
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Critique By:
Nicola Barbieri (K:18000)
6/8/2006 8:08:44 PM
Nice shot, Ricardo!
well done..ciao!
Nicola
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Critique By:
Ricardo Baez-Duarte (K:666)
6/5/2006 12:48:26 AM
Thanks a lot for your cooments
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Critique By:
Jeanette Hägglund (K:59855)
6/4/2006 11:03:33 PM
Moody and very very nice
Jeanette
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