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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
4/6/2005 8:37:41 AM
Excellent work in the best surrealist tradition of interiority and looming psychological meaning while avoiding the excesses of pictorial realization. The fingers like penises pointing the viewer's attention to the wide eye of the girl's self-awareness, amazed that it is still imprisoned in the suitcase of sexual awakening, gripped firmly and gladly by the adolescent girl who is ready to begin, eagerly leaning forward into her future on the balls of her feet. Just one interpretation among many possible. Your usual refined modelling of form, your characteristic fresco texture and luminous golds and yellows. This is an extraordinarily fluent, ambitious and sensitive picture that is in the front rank of digitally manipulated photographic work being done in the world today. Bravo!
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| Photo By: Bogdan Zwir
(K:-186)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
4/4/2005 11:54:02 AM
Old rickety elevator. Young woman standing on tip-toes. Young woman replicated? Sisters? Soft, warm interior light. This communicates something special. I like it.
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| Photo By: Gretchen Wintersberry
(K:42)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
4/4/2005 6:13:05 AM
I really like your painterly approach to photography with your pinhole photographs. Graphically, this one works best for me. Its classic composition is made exceptional by the wispiness and softness of the pinhole treatment, but there is enough linear definition to see the adult and the children together in happiness.
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| Photo By: António Vieira
(K:122)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
4/4/2005 5:53:09 AM
Iconic image.
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| Photo By: Luciana Gama
(K:1518)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
4/4/2005 5:51:04 AM
I like your eye. Here it has made a very charming group portrait. I like the off-kilter composition: the window shutters on the left cut off, the jumbled lines of bricks.
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| Photo By: Luciana Gama
(K:1518)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
4/2/2005 8:59:03 AM
Filter has flattened the tonality of the church and foreground, the trade-off being the dramatic sky. Perhaps the opposite might have been better since the church is the point.
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| Photo By: Chris Blaszczyk
(K:610)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
4/1/2005 6:49:04 PM
Happiness. Great to see a new picture from you -- guess you've been working hard? Spring is coming, things are looking up. Soon the kids can run around the garden again with the grass tickling their feet. Rgds, Svend
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| Photo By: Stefan Engström
(K:24473)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
4/1/2005 2:38:19 PM
Nice. Looks like you took it in exactly the same place HCB took his version all those years ago.
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| Photo By: Marijan Galijan
(K:68)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
4/1/2005 12:08:52 PM
This picture is a breath of earthy spring air. I like the slightly skewed effect of the horizon due to the very gentle upwards roll at left. The strength of this picture is its infinite depth of field from immediately foreground to absolute background, which apparently is almost automatic with digital cameras? (Something I'm curious about.) Smart sepia toning to emphasize the earthiness of the field.
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| Photo By: Carsten Ranke
(K:14476)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
4/1/2005 12:04:11 PM
Mmmm, nice. Such a lovely ancient town, Verona. I haven't had the chance to see an open-air opera in the colliseum there, it's a dream for the future. Guiliano G is so lucky to be a Veronian. You've done the town justice in this photo.
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| Photo By: Carsten Ranke
(K:14476)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
4/1/2005 8:55:57 AM
Nice lighting, and the cut ear of corn standing on end is different, hence good to my mind. Maybe this could have used a bit more foreground with kernels to lead the eye in.
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| Photo By: Maureen Wade
(K:19)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/23/2005 6:27:48 PM
Really beautiful.
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| Photo By: gokmen aldogan
(K:2067)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/23/2005 1:08:19 PM
A still life with a difference, for sure: playfulness, undefinable meaning. Like it.
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| Photo By: Vladimir Lestrovoy
(K:14)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/23/2005 10:23:29 AM
It may interest you to know, Eduard, that Finland is following the Swedish lead in developing zero-emission broomstick technology for mass urban transporation. The government has initiated a program of action plans with the theme "Peripheral European Revolutionary Stick Experiment", or PERSE as the acronym. Highly educated Finnish women with goth tendencies are being recruited to give their expertise to the program.
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| Photo By: Eduard Maydanik
(K:116)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/21/2005 9:22:51 PM
Magnifique. I love the fact that this is a close-up of the hull of a fishing boat and that's why it's full of the ocean, brimming with aquatic life while on dry land (I guess?). Rgds, Svend
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| Photo By: Jorg Reif
(K:16020)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/21/2005 7:52:43 AM
Nice. The University of Toronto in winter, how well I remember it.
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| Photo By: Darie Petrov
(K:397)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/21/2005 7:51:12 AM
Here the oil-paint work is good, particularly the steely highlights. It adds to what is already a good picture.
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| Photo By: Ed Krebs
(K:958)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/21/2005 7:48:24 AM
Nice photograph, not sure about the oil colouring -- perhaps shouldn't even try to look at it "across the monitor". When one hand-colours, the objective is surely not to simulate what the picture would have looked like if it were made with colour film, I guess it's probably more to recreate the look of turn-of-the-century, hand-coloured daguerrotypes. If so, you've done well but it just looks off to me. Flesh tone not quite right, denim blues not quite right, overall effect not warm and inviting.
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| Photo By: Ed Krebs
(K:958)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/21/2005 7:32:15 AM
Mon pays, ce n'est pas un pays, c'est l'hiver.
Le vieux Québec au clair de la lune, ca me manque parfois avec tant d'amertume.
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| Photo By: Christian Barrette
(K:21125)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/20/2005 7:02:48 PM
You have so many great photographs. This one I've come to look at many times, I just love it. A classic for all the ages.
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Photo By: Mirek Netusil
(K:572)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/20/2005 4:16:15 PM
Looking at the thumbnail, I thought it'd be a Diana picture, which brought me in. Don't know what a lensbaby is but it must be some kind of halo-effect lens addition which simulates the effects of an Imagon-type soft-lens for large-format cameras? I find this a bit headache-inducing, too strong. But it sure is a different effect and that's always interesting.
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| Photo By: Tomasz Jakubowski
(K:354)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/20/2005 4:10:50 PM
He's a caricature, really, isn't he? And he's not too desperate since he hasn't even dropped his bottle of pop.
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| Photo By: mark Brunner
(K:-99)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/20/2005 4:00:50 PM
Touching... almost literally. Like the prizefighter-size ring on the man's hand.
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| Photo By: Oliver Dienst
(K:452)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/20/2005 3:48:43 PM
Ho ho! Good one!
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| Photo By: Kamran Bakhtiari
(K:24036)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/20/2005 3:40:48 PM
... and then stuck it in the waiter's eye? I guess it must be impossible to get shallower depth of field than this. Strange and excellent effect.
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| Photo By: Mark Hamilton
(K:8387)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/20/2005 7:53:51 AM
So much of nude photography goes like this: take a nice-looking young woman, take her clothes off, take her out to a wild-looking landscape, pose her around the landscape trying to make the point with various physical juxtapositions that the natural beauty of her body is at one with the landscape, take photographs. End result: a series of photographs of a nude woman looking distinctly awkward in a wild landscape with almost-visible puppet strings connecting her to the unseen photographer. None of this applies to you and this picture taken with a toy camera, it's amazing. It's all-natural, all-wonderful. I agree with Fabio that it hearkens back to certain nude photographs taken in the 30s. Great stuff!
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| Photo By: Andreas Wolkerstorfer
(K:5090)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/17/2005 3:48:49 PM
I like it, like the fact that the subject is a bit of a battle-axe (or at least looks like it) and that's the point. White highlights seem quite harsh but I know that's probably the result of negative scanning. Same for lack of detail in black shirt. Such a straight-forward, good portrait with the Avedon approach, the success of which depends on how visually/graphically interesting the subject is.
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| Photo By: Bryan Miller
(K:3395)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/17/2005 3:41:52 PM
Oh yes, this works all over. Offbeat, energetic, lovely tones.
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| Photo By: Bryan Miller
(K:3395)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/17/2005 3:36:33 PM
How have I missed your pictures up to now? Love this one -- heh, as he gets older he'll dig deeper!
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| Photo By: Bryan Miller
(K:3395)
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Critique By:
svend videbak (K:7376)
3/17/2005 1:49:41 PM
Very nice. I like the fluid movement and gentle energy.
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| Photo By: Joggie van Staden
(K:41700)
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