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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 4/24/2008
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I don't think that it is necessary for a new good idea to remain in the domains of the original intention, Visar. Quite the contrary, I would say. Such ideas reveal additional views that would remain unknown otherwise. And so I think I'll retry this under different light conditions. It is more or less how that building looks on cloudy/rainy days.
Which also reveals to me at least a part of the "secret" of different look under such cloudy/rains conditions. The amount of sepia/green of the available/reflected light is then higher. Nice to know that! It makes many things possible also for immitating that light right out of the camera, for example by using some film with a greater sensitivity for green, and a greater composite sensitivity for sepia tones.
Now, that's good news! Thanks a lot for the work and even more for its details!
Nick
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absynthius .
{K:20748} 4/23/2008
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Hey Nick,
i did resizing it with the crop, then increased a little contrast- mixed two filter layers, sepia and light green.
Yes, it is more depressing, I think of reducing/ removing the light blue from the windows has given this gloomy mood to it.
I am thinking now that it has lost a bit of your higher ambitions, knowing the fact it lost the sky?!
cheers,
v.
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 4/21/2008
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A good idea to do so, Ian. I guess that this tartan of windows will be returning time after time. About the tree I don't know.
Cheers!
Nick
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Ian McIntosh
{K:42997} 4/20/2008
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Probably worth isolating the comp to the mottled bark and the tartan of the windows in another shot.
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 4/20/2008
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Thanks a lot Vandi! Some problems with unwished elements on the edges of the image, as also Visar and Ian mentioned.
Cheers!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 4/20/2008
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Yes, the lamp should stay out of it, definitely. I was at about 60mm which means that I could really zoom a bit closer and turn a bit upwards for not leaving so much of the upper part out.
Interesting interpretation! I thought of things aiming "high" in both the artifical as also the natural way, but I like that idea od a "quaint 50's sci fi tentacled monster attack". Thanks a lot for that - now I know one more way which those trees can be captured like!
Cheers!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 4/20/2008
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Oh yes, it worked now!
And it is completely different from the original, not only regarding composition. The coloring is also much different. In combination to the tighter crop it turned the image quite "depressing" in the sense that the air is so much "heavier" now.
A good idea for a different look! How did you achieve it?
Cheers!
Nick
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Vandy Neculae
{K:7990} 4/19/2008
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Very good composition, Nick!
The texture of foreground branches are great and the building looks very good too.
Nice idea.
Vandi
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Ian McIntosh
{K:42997} 4/19/2008
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Are you zoomed to the max? Maybe the big forground blob could go. Beyond that I am seeing a quaint 50's sci fi tentacled monster attack.
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 4/19/2008
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Thanks a lot again, Dave!
Thinking about Visar's suggestion, still.
Cheers!
Nick
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absynthius .
{K:20748} 4/19/2008
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ok, i just resized it- hope it works!
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 4/19/2008
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Well, perhaps a tighter crop would be much better, Gustavo, as Visar suggested?
Thanks a lot,
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 4/19/2008
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Thanks again for the detailed comment, Visar!
About your attachment, I assume it was more than 750x750 pixels or more than 360K in size? Sometimes I had the same problems of not being able to upload an attachment, but it has always been because of those constraints, and so it was always easily possible to reduce the size of the image for uploading it.
But it doesn't matter, I just (try to) follow your suggestions and so I attached a different crop of the image. Does it come close to what you meant?
I find it more strict, it seems to have more integrity now. Actually my intention was to capture both "high ambitions". The natural and the artificial, as a comparison for simirarities but also differences. The artificial goes "straight up the skies" while the natural gets a more zig-zag-like way. And both go up. I must say that your crop, provided I understood you well, translates also my intention more consequently onto its visual representation. That's my impression.
Thanks a lot for your sleepless eye!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 4/19/2008
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Hi Tiffany and thanks a lot for your message with the historical record of the "missing year" ;-)
That was absolutely no coincidence, Tiffany. I am almost every day "here in UF". So, chances are high to find me somewhere under the recent uploads. Probability density, you see. ;-)
If photography is something we love to do, we must shoot, shoot, shoot. It's not done with some few shots, you know. So go for it, go for it, shoot! Your available memory modules should always be bursting full!
Cheers from Lucerne too!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 4/19/2008
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Oops, should be "Michele". :-D
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 4/19/2008
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And nice thanks for the nice comment, Lichele!
Cheers!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 4/19/2008
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Hi Hussam and thanks a lot again for the nice comment!
Have a nice weekend!
Nick
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Dave Stacey
{K:150877} 4/18/2008
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I think the tree branches in front of the building add some drama and interest, Nick!
Dave.
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Gustavo Scheverin
{K:164501} 4/18/2008
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Muy buena la composición y muy adecuada e interesante la inclusión de las ramas desnudas.
Bravo!
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absynthius .
{K:20748} 4/18/2008
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strange, i could not add the attachement. definitively there's something wrong with the web page. though, i cannot name it what.
v.
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absynthius .
{K:20748} 4/18/2008
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Hey Nick,
I have to tell you that I like this shot very much. I cannot really say why- cause i feel some sort of conceptualism in here, that high impressively charismatic tree symbolising ambition, that you name, as if creeping by the windows of the building, which are 'the windows' to the outside, where things take place.
with regards to the composition, what i would do is something like in the attachment, removing the outside small details that i think of not much importance. like the sky space all along the right side and the top of the canvas. only because i think by eliminating that you would put a stronger impression and character on the tree and the windows being two basic elements.
Or, the second option would be, taking another strickt/ rigid perspective- a balanced one where the windows would stand in a 90 degree angle. but maybe this one would turn to be very institutional and boring?!
well, i have to say again, that i like it the way it is taken- and by no mean i am saying that the proposed crop and the other perspective will look or turn to be better than this one. but trying it, as you say, would prove me right or wrong!
cheers,
v.
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Tiffany .
{K:343} 4/18/2008
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Hi Nick
You probaly won't remember me. For quite a long time I wasn't on usefilm until today were I looked at my pictures and the comments. I read your comment on 'eyecatching' and 'heavy sea' with your advices (which you wrote about one year ago) and I thought that I have to take more pictures again because it's something I love to do. 2 minutes later I go to the recent pictures and who uploaded two very nice pictures? -you :) what a coincidence.
absolutely great work, the angle, the near-far distance..
greetings from Lucerne
Tiffany
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Michele Beccia
{K:16549} 4/18/2008
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Well composed! Nice!:)
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Hussam AL_ Khoder
{K:79545} 4/18/2008
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`ˆ~¤§( Very nice one )§¤~ˆ`
HAve a nice day dear.
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