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Critique By:
Tjaart van Staden (K:979)
10/10/2005 8:22:20 PM
Mary - i like the colors here and have to agree to the many comments re that. However, imo, from what I can see from the clouds is that it is more interesting than the bland spot up to the first white splash in the foreground - have you perhapst taken another shot with the camera pointing upwards so that you get close to only one third of the sea, the rest clouds?
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Critique By:
Hakan AKIRMAK (K:15913)
10/10/2005 1:58:14 PM
Very nice!
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Critique By:
Sergio M. Cameno (K:7856)
10/10/2005 7:55:16 AM
Very beautiful shot, lovely blue tones.
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Critique By:
Tabitha Woods (K:8650)
10/10/2005 7:09:52 AM
Very Beautiful!! Congrats
regards :O)
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Critique By:
Carlos A. Sabillon (K:2660)
10/9/2005 10:49:26 PM
Beautiful shot...Nature is Beautiful
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Critique By:
Carlos A. Sabillon (K:2660)
10/9/2005 10:47:54 PM
I dont know what is that it is tried to be accomplished here.. But I like the Original better...The cluds on this image look little fake too.. and shadows in the middle.. tooo visible... That is just mY opinion.
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Critique By:
Burak Tanriover (K:16610)
10/9/2005 8:03:08 PM
excellent colors and very well executed.
congratulations also for the award.
best wishes
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Critique By:
José Vasconcelos Dias (K:9341)
10/9/2005 5:54:22 PM
Very simple and very beautifull too! Congrats
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Critique By:
Mohamed Banna (K:34237)
10/9/2005 5:12:14 PM
CONGRATULATIONS FOR the PoD
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Critique By:
Tushit Jain (K:1697)
10/9/2005 4:56:34 PM
Absolutely stunning. It's beautiful.
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Critique By:
Roberto Arcari Farinetti (K:209486)
10/9/2005 4:46:20 PM
so deepblue.. simply lovely!
congrats..
roby
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Critique By:
Hakan AKIRMAK (K:15913)
9/16/2005 9:17:55 AM
Excellent!!
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Critique By:
Carsten Ranke (K:14476)
9/10/2005 5:01:11 PM
Outstanding the composition and color contrast, a very original macro. Needs a wee bit more DOF to show the body and eyes sharp. Anyway, excellent shot !
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Critique By:
Bill Morgenstern (K:7157)
9/8/2005 10:20:11 PM
Superb colours and fine pose. Shot faster, it might be even sharper. Do you know the species of this dragon? One I've not seen before.
Cheers - Bill
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Critique By:
Sue O'S (K:12878)
9/7/2005 1:46:07 PM
MS! This is splendid! I agree with Kim about the eyes being just a little soft, but since you only notice if you're looking for it, it's not a problem.
If I was trying to describe to a city kid, what a dragonfly looks like, this is what I'd use as an illustration. It defines it perfectly, with the vivid "alien-ness" of it and the primordial backdrop of the horsetail reeds.
And aesthetically, it's gorgeous too!
Nice job.
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Critique By:
Martin . (K:24957)
9/4/2005 4:57:34 PM
Mary Sue,
What a Masterpiece my friend... My hat is off to you... At first I couldn't figure out how you stopped the wings @ 1/15th of a second, but after reading the Actual info: I do understand now...
Using the on board flash @ -1.5 ev. is nothing less than Genius my friend,
Martin
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Critique By:
Kim Culbert (K:37070)
9/4/2005 11:12:34 AM
Wow, even at f8 the DOF is so shallow... crazy at how hard it can be to capture these guys!
There seems to be a strip up the middle of the dragonfly, plus the legs which are super sharp... the eyes have missed just a teeny bit... this is still an amazing shot.. so close, and such great colour!
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Critique By:
Petros Stamatakos (K:12101)
8/26/2005 3:36:49 PM
Very cool Mary Sue! I could never do these sort of shots...
I'm thinking, maybe a faster shutter speed? The 10d can do iso400 beautifully... So there's one extra stop right there... :-)
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Critique By:
Bulent Ozturk (K:6886)
8/25/2005 11:13:20 PM
Fantastic detail and colors. Wonderful shot!
s goes into my favorites. 
congrats Mary.
Regards,
The Kuru
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Critique By:
Allen Chen (K:689)
8/25/2005 9:53:25 PM
What a fantastic macro photography! Nice DOF control. The contrast in colors is also illustrious.
Well done, Mary.
Best
Allen
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Critique By:
Dave Stacey (K:150877)
8/25/2005 9:33:47 PM
Nice shot of the dragon fly, Mary Sue! I like the contrast in colours you've got here.
Dave.
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Critique By:
Michael Glenn (K:85)
8/25/2005 8:20:27 PM
I like this image of the two. The depth of field, color and detail of the dragon fly are all well done. Though a slightly different angle would have brought the wings out more. Kudos to you.
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Critique By:
Ron Harrington (K:766)
8/25/2005 4:49:19 PM
This IS very nice awesome color!
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Critique By:
matthew morgan (K:1539)
8/24/2005 7:56:28 AM
wow what a great shot i cant beleave there is no comment yet the detail on the insect is great and the color of it is just amazing and the dof used is supurbe
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Critique By:
Ronnie Gaubert (K:3700)
8/22/2005 4:52:43 PM
Hello Mary,
First, thanks for your long time support of my work. I have no problem critiquing your dragonfly images but not sure if this is the proper forum for this. I would prefer to contact you by email if you will agree to that. I didn't notice your email here on usefilm. Please contact me at rgaubert@eatel.net
Regards,
Ronnie Gaubert
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Critique By:
gianpaolo reggi (K:2841)
8/22/2005 12:06:13 PM
Ohh great macro shot and nice colors,but you can sharpen more.
regards,
GianPaolo Reggi
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Critique By:
Petros Stamatakos (K:12101)
8/12/2005 10:19:18 PM
Hmmm...
It seems that I've missed a few of your uploads... I'll have to backtrack on your work and catch up...
Excellent composition, nice detail, beautifully exposed. A job well done, MS!
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Critique By:
Hugo de Wolf (K:185110)
8/12/2005 10:09:27 PM
There ya go, MS. Per attached.
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Critique By:
Mary Sue Hayward (K:17558)
8/7/2005 4:05:45 PM
Hugo,
Thanks VERY much for your thoughtful remarks and for taking so much time to work on this image. I have a load of images I'd be very happy to send you for similar help!!
I appreciate that you shared a 'how to' so that I can apply these methods to similar images.
But no TSA?? Can't a girl dream???
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Critique By:
Hugo de Wolf (K:185110)
8/7/2005 3:55:01 PM
Hi MS, I find this an awesome shot. What a superb roughness in the landscape.
I think you could try a less subtle approach with the masking. As the contrast is rather wide in this shot, with a fairly dark foreground ad a distance cue reducing the contrast in the mountains in the back, I think applying a selective mask is essential to get the most out of this shot.
Per attached a very quick and dirty rework. What I did is copy the entire image onto a new layer, and set the layer mode to "soft light". This blocks out the foreground, so I selected the darkest tones using the colour selection tool, and erased those parts in the top layer. Then, using the same selected area, I copied the lowest layer onto a new one (only the dark tones) and set the layer mode to "screen". This does reduce the details in the foreground, but it also makes the tones brighter. Needed to play a bit with the opacity of the various layers to get the final version, and I should work on the sky a bit more, as that area is a bit too saturated now. Not arguing my lousy rework, i do find this method very useful to quickly achieve a bit more impact in a photo. Wouldn't dream of applying this technique for other purposes than screen display, though, as it's a very coarse method.
Cheers,
Hugo
PS: Definitely not a TSA-candidate...
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