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Critique By:
Glen Converse (K:2000)
9/16/2005 12:58:15 PM
Nice portrait even though I hate the term "nice" when commenting on an artistic venue.
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Critique By:
Glen Converse (K:2000)
9/16/2005 12:56:58 PM
Helen:
Do you shoot with othe Leica cameras/lenses? Just curious as I have the M6, R4, and Leica IIIc.
I've truly enjoyed being a part of your images.
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Critique By:
Glen Converse (K:2000)
9/16/2005 12:54:33 PM
This one irritated me because I could not figure out what that thing in the upper left of the image is. Arphhth!
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Critique By:
Glen Converse (K:2000)
9/16/2005 12:52:31 PM
This one leaves me as blank as a dial tone. I think I'd have to live with this one a little longer.
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Critique By:
Glen Converse (K:2000)
9/16/2005 12:50:28 PM
Another great one, Helen. I love the wire on the left and the contrast between the organic and non organic elements. That wire on the left makes completes the image. Just beautiful!
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Critique By:
Glen Converse (K:2000)
9/16/2005 12:48:13 PM
Just love the image, Helen. Pleasantly serene and moody, if that makes any sense. But I guess it's like love: Easier to experience than explain.
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Critique By:
Glen Converse (K:2000)
9/16/2005 12:45:36 PM
I'm missing something here. That's OK, it's my fault. The message is there, I'm sure! I must be visually slow this morning.
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Critique By:
Gabriella Carta (K:22879)
9/16/2005 12:45:20 PM
wonderful shot, good
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Critique By:
Glen Converse (K:2000)
9/16/2005 12:44:16 PM
A very restless imaage, Helen. Really great image.
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Critique By:
Glen Converse (K:2000)
9/16/2005 12:43:24 PM
I love the tension here. Great image, Helen!
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Critique By:
Mark Longo (K:12760)
9/16/2005 12:07:53 PM
Tremendous composition and sweep of mountainside. You've captured the sense of steep uphill in a view taken while on the hillside. That is a challenge for anyone, Helen. You have chosen exactly the right angle here. Fantastic sky and sun corona here capturing the dazzling light and without overexposure, another difficult challenge you have met. You've also managed to show the cold and wind. Bravo! This is truely a masterful shot.
Mark
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Critique By:
Mark Longo (K:12760)
9/16/2005 12:02:19 PM
Fabulous clarity lighting and composition, Helen. The colors of the hikers against the desolate landscape are quite striking, yet do not overshadow the desolate beauty of this remote place. The cloudscape is beautiful and I find that I would like to see more of it, yet you have masterfully captured the sweep of mountaintop, and that actually seems more valuable here. Again, excellent compositional choices. Great capture.
Mark
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Critique By:
eman banna (K:81)
9/16/2005 11:48:00 AM
i really like the orange line in the composition
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Critique By:
Keith Ruddell (K:3570)
9/16/2005 10:01:52 AM
Tissues inside the little boxes.. dork inside the big box  nice find
Keith
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Critique By:
Sidney Chan (K:404)
9/16/2005 4:04:22 AM
A funny shot! The composition and lighting are great!
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Critique By:
Mohamed Banna (K:34237)
9/15/2005 7:49:47 PM
great street shot
very artistic
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Critique By:
Caterina Berimballi (K:27299)
9/15/2005 7:00:02 AM
Nice work and great street shot Helen! The tones look superb...
Cheers
Rina
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Critique By:
Stefan Engström (K:24473)
9/15/2005 3:46:41 AM
Maybe it is just your decoy so you can catch them unaware :-) Great looking shot. A little detail I like: the shining rail along the right hand side.
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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
9/15/2005 12:18:06 AM
Hi Pat,
Thanks for the kind comment. I don't paint any more - but my paintings were more like my 'roadworks' or 'garden notebooks' series that my hill pictures.
I've just had a look at the superb pictures in your gallery and I must go back and look at them again.
Best wishes,
Helen
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Critique By:
Ron Wilson (K:18362)
9/14/2005 1:29:38 PM
Magnificent. Probably an amazing place to journey to.
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Critique By:
Pat Snelling Weiner (K:1920)
9/14/2005 1:01:42 PM
Nice composition and landscape Do you still paint? Pat
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Critique By:
Bosnia Photo (K:3088)
9/14/2005 10:48:55 AM
Excellent. 6/7
Regards,
Mevludin
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Critique By:
Caterina Berimballi (K:27299)
9/14/2005 2:08:27 AM
The perspective is great here. Really gives a sense of space. The ice-cool blue tones of the sky and shadows are marvellous.
Nice work Helen.
Cheers
Rina
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Critique By:
AAT SA (K:4565)
9/12/2005 6:13:01 PM
wonderful shot
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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
9/12/2005 5:06:10 PM
Frank,
I don't think that there is anything important - there certainly isn't a major focus of attention, apart from the knot in the orange tape, maybe. I thought that the knot and the cat's eye needed to be in the frame. This image is mostly abstract to me, as well as being an inadvertent juxtaposition of natural and man-made lines that I thought was quietly odd.
Whatever the conscious human decisions were that lead to the existence of these roadworks arrangements, they weren't aesthetic. And yet something whispers...
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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
9/12/2005 4:53:30 PM
After replying to your comments on the memorial feeling about this shot, I've now discovered the usefulness of the 'Reply to' feature.
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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
9/12/2005 6:34:07 AM
Yeah, well, that didn't work.
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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
9/12/2005 6:31:39 AM
As an experiment to give a slightly better idea of how it might look printed, I took 4 MP from the full 78 MP image. It still had to be heavily compressed to fit in the max thumbnail size.
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Critique By:
Pnar Yazicioglu (K:7607)
9/12/2005 6:13:27 AM
wow I like this. is this a bus stop? creative...both the bus stop and the way you shoot it
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Critique By:
Helen Bach (K:2331)
9/12/2005 5:02:49 AM
Anthony,
Thanks for saying what you meant instead of passing it over. I'm grateful for that, and I don't find the comments hostile.
I don't comment on my own work much because I don't know what to write that I'd be happy with - very much along the lines of wanting the images to speak for themselves.
The garden series are 'about', and are supposed to share qualities with, real gardens in cities, not idealised 'Home and Garden' pretty pictures (nothing wrong with those, just not appropriate for this series).
They (the pictures) are not supposed to be strongly attractive at first viewing (ie they are not supposed to have strong graphic impact) but I would like them to work as abstracts (most of my pictures are made that way, not as a conscious intellectual exercise, but because that is what I am aware of). There is, however, supposed to be enough in the pictures that the first glance makes the viewer curious enough to continue looking.
I look on the city gardens as places for quiet contemplation or meditation, and the photos are supposed to have that quality. I accept that the loss of all the fine detail when compressed for the web makes images like this lose a lot of their depth - you couldn't spend ages getting lost in the leaves, even if you wanted to.
They are supposed to be a series, so the order in which they will eventually be shown in is important to their 'understanding', whatever that means. I've only just started this series, and so there is a lot to be developed. Showing my work at this early stage is a bit of an experiment for me.
I will put a condensed version of some of these comments with the pictures. I'm not trying to be an obscure artist or to create mystique.
You say that they are 'technically suspect' and 'artistically moribund'. If you would be kind enough to spend a little time elaborating on those comments I would be interested, and grateful.
Thanks,
Helen
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