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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
12/2/2005 2:31:04 PM
Very nice the expressive, intense colors, and composition is good with fosus on the water/ reflections. My only concern is the luminance of the sun area being less bright than the corresponding reflection. Only possible in-camera with a grad ND filter or postprocessed with burning there. Not a major issue, however.
Cheers
Carsten
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| Photo By: ricardo longhi-frantz
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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
12/2/2005 2:26:50 PM
Very nice colors and good choice of camera point and prspective. Agree on Petal?s suggestions, would make another spectacular sight.
Cheers
Carsten
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| Photo By: Don Loseke
(K:32503)
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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
12/1/2005 9:25:01 PM
Wow, I like it very much ! Fabulous cloudscape, great tonal quality !
Cheers
Carsten
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Photo By: Jason v.d.Meer
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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
12/1/2005 9:16:03 PM
Well seen, very imaginative !
Cheers
Carsten
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| Photo By: Endre Novak
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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
12/1/2005 9:05:14 PM
Roger, thank you very much for your thoughtful comment. "Softlight accent" means PS composite technique, with a background layer copy in "soft light" blending mode over the original. This accentuates color contrast, is often more appealing than simply pulling the contrast slider. Your statement is a great compliment, since I tried not to overdo my PS work here (as much as needed, but not too much).
After my first feeling of success with PS, I was in an enthusiastic state and had a fatal tendency to overdo PS tweaking (and, not to forget: you are rewarded for intense PS work, get more and better comments ! Most popular are strong colors, contrasts, and people become accustomed to the perfect digitally mastered photo, right ?). At the moment I am sort of undecided, sometimes I strive for the natural look, sometimes I go over the top, just for more intense expression of my feelings. The good thing with PS is, you have the freedom to decide how much.
Here the straight out of the camera original, resized.
Cheers
Carsten
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| Photo By: Carsten Ranke
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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
12/1/2005 9:02:26 PM
Barry, what a nice analogy ! It seems as if we share the same fondness for red wines ;-)
Cheers
Carsten
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| Photo By: Carsten Ranke
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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
12/1/2005 7:05:42 PM
Very artistic choice of camera point and perspective, as always ;-) I like the off-center vanishing point, and the converging curves. The yellow is indeed an important stylistic element here.
Cheers
Carsten
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| Photo By: Jeanette Hägglund
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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
12/1/2005 6:59:08 PM
Surprise ! I am speechless, your "other side" is at least as good as your previous work ! Golden section horizon, wonderful atmospere, superb lighting and colors. Excellent - come on, post more stuff from this side ;-)
Cheers
Carsten
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| Photo By: Jeanette Hägglund
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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
12/1/2005 6:52:44 PM
Shane, agree completely on the center part.
But... Imagine a nude: sometimes, speaking for myself, a complete view is sometimes more attractive than a close-up ;-)
Joking aside, I like the contrast of the foreground lead-in and the brighter center part, makes this part shine a bit more, IMO
Cheers
Carsten
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| Photo By: Carsten Ranke
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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
12/1/2005 6:34:56 PM
An example how good photography shows us the world in a way we didn?t see before, very imaginative and creative shot. Very good composition and tones.
Cheers
Carsten
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| Photo By: Zeev Scharf
(K:25603)
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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
11/28/2005 6:25:35 PM
This is extremely charming because of your clever choice of aperture, focal length, DOF, and camera point. Kind of pointilistic appearance of the background. A philosophical question is to break that horizontal branch (left side) or not. I would not hesitate to break that twig away, and shoot then ;-)
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| Photo By: andree lerat
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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
11/28/2005 5:58:12 PM
Artistic composition, beautiful natural colors. Would be also nice as B&W, IMO
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| Photo By: Jeroen Krol
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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
11/28/2005 5:54:04 PM
Stunning the almost glowing green. The branches come out nicely with the wide lens. Foreground is kind of boring, maybe I would have burned there, or a vignette. Just an idea
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| Photo By: Gerhard Reider
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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
11/28/2005 5:44:29 PM
Kind of natural highkey conditions, well executed landscape. First I thought about a square, but this tree is nice for this format, his branches make a diagonal. Nothing to improve IMO
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| Photo By: Bojan Bonifacic
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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
11/28/2005 5:40:00 PM
Nice title ;-) Well framed the scenery, and beautiful color palette.
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| Photo By: andree lerat
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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
11/27/2005 7:36:13 PM
I break this "rule" so often, that I must say, its no rule for me ;-)
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| Photo By: ricardo longhi-frantz
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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
11/27/2005 5:59:16 PM
Ricardo, dead center is slang for the horizon in the middle, dividing in an upper and lower half, what is said to be boring. As a rule, and you know - rules are there to be broken ;-)
Cheers
Carsten
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| Photo By: ricardo longhi-frantz
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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
11/27/2005 12:46:20 PM
It is the flow of lines in ground and sky that makes this image successful. Artistic composition, so it works well in B&W, good tonal range.
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| Photo By: Haris Calkic
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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
11/27/2005 12:33:47 PM
Love the drama in this cloudscape, and the rays of light. The dilemma with such a sky is the dynamic range, and digital has about the same range as hard slide film :-( So, for such cloudscapes I shoot RAW and work around this issue with composites, different layers (converted for the shadows and the highlights). Or, better, as "in-camera" solution, I sometimes bother to shoot multiple exposures for bracketing.
Cheers
Carsten
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| Photo By: osvaldo rima
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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
11/27/2005 11:49:39 AM
Now this is outstanding ! What an elegant lead-in with the shore and luminance gradient, what an artistic in-camera work ! The hoarfrost, the cold color palette, the raising mist... Love it. Into my favs. Even the contrails are cooperative adding nicely to a vanishing point behind the horizon ;-)
Cheers
Carsten
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| Photo By: Barry Wakelin
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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
11/27/2005 11:44:23 AM
Your idea with the splash is really clever ! Although the other splash shot got more comments, this is my favourite with this concept, since I love seacsapes or landscapes with harmony in sky-/ or land patterns and the skyscape lines. And this is fine with the circular patterns in the water and the ripples in the high clouds. A composition where I dont nitpick the "dead center" horizon, because it works.
Cheers
Carsten
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| Photo By: ricardo longhi-frantz
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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
11/27/2005 11:37:34 AM
Very nice scenery, almost pastoral. The foggy atmosphere makes the shot. Great landscape
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| Photo By: Laurie McIntosh
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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
11/27/2005 11:33:16 AM
Wonderful colors, and nice lead-in composition. Congrats to BIP !
Ciao
Carsten
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| Photo By: patrizio napolitano
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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
11/25/2005 10:00:06 PM
Wonderful colors and composition, artistic tones. Lead-in is perfect. Congrats !
Ciao
Carsten
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| Photo By: martino balestreri
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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
11/25/2005 9:50:43 PM
A photo like a light in the darkness, attracting moths like me ;-) I?m a sucker for strong colors... A very attractive shot with its nearly supernatural colors, extremely effective and appealing. I?m quite sure that your intention was to play with colors and emotions, and you succeeded - excellent and quite original sunset !
Cheers
Carsten
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| Photo By: ricardo longhi-frantz
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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
11/25/2005 9:34:56 PM
Clever composition with the bold silhouette in the foreground, very powerful image !
Cheers
Carsten
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| Photo By: osvaldo rima
(K:6862)
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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
11/25/2005 9:30:10 PM
Superb landscape, great, rare lighting situation. My only nit is lack of sharpness, would profit from resharpen after resize for upload IMO
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| Photo By: Phil M
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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
11/25/2005 9:26:33 PM
Antonia, great commendation from you ! Thank you so much.
Cheers
Carsten
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| Photo By: Carsten Ranke
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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
11/25/2005 9:24:10 PM
Wonderful colors, nice composition.
Ciao
Carsten
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| Photo By: patrizio napolitano
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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
11/24/2005 6:45:40 PM
Very good composition, nice lead-in. I would have toned all a tad darker, but thats surely a matter of personal taste. Very good the hoarfrost. That single little branch @the top should be cloned out, IMO
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