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M jalili
{K:69009} 9/18/2008
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All my regards dear ..........
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 9/18/2008
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I am glad that you do, Yazeed! My doubts about it don't mean that I take your liking as less important.
Cheers!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 9/18/2008
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Thanks a lot Yen!
Is that already a macro? I don't think so, but still glad to know that you like it.
Cheers!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 9/18/2008
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Thanks a lot Aziz!
Cheers!
Nick
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M jalili
{K:69009} 9/5/2008
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But really I like it my friend . Regards ....
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Yen I Lien
{K:1530} 9/5/2008
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Excelente macro como siempre!!! Felicitaciones
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 9/5/2008
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Sigh! Of course I am glad if you like it, Yazeed, but I am still so ambivalent!
Well, doubt is one of the powers for real bettering, ey? ;-)
Cheers!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 9/5/2008
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Hmm.. to me it is still ambivalent, Ali, but thanks a lot for your enthusiasm.
Cheers!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 9/5/2008
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And as I was about to overcome my ambivalence because of Fabio's and Paul's comments, there came Dave and restored that! ;-)
Well, let's see. I cropped the image and cloned a bit, and yes: It goes "totally" abstract this way. (Attachment).
Do we see a dichotomy of possibilities here? I guess so. Perhaps my "either or" should be better "this as well also that".
Thanks a lot Dave!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 9/5/2008
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Thanks a lot, Paul!
This helps me decide myself, really, since I was not sure about that. But I start understandingwhat you and Fabio say.
Cheers!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 9/5/2008
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Thanks a lot Erland!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 9/5/2008
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Thanks a lot Fabio!
I am really ambivalent about the bark and so it's good to have some push in the one or the other direction. Let's see if the others will also say something about that.
I don't know if more sharpness here is something that can be achieved with the camera/lens and not by completely misusing the sliders of PS. I don't even know if a depiction of a natural shape needs at all to be converted to something completely unatural in the sense of a barbaric "more is better". Look at the attached image - this was just a bit unsharp mask and we already have visible pixelation. Is there any tree on this world with pixelated fibres?
Much like singing hymnes to the "natural sound" of acoustic instruments and not having the ear to distinguish their own character, which then has to result into using 843 "digital sound shaping circuits" and recording some sound that has never been this way in reality. So much for "natural" and the naive kind of nature admirers. It is not nature what they want. It is what they *think* about nature.
Cheers!
Nick
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aZiZ aBc
{K:28345} 9/5/2008
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It's a good abstract.
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M jalili
{K:69009} 9/4/2008
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So beautiful my friend .............
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Ali dewchi
{K:15992} 9/4/2008
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This is so amazing!
So beautiful photo.
All the best
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Dave Stacey
{K:150877} 9/4/2008
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I like the details and textures, Nick, but it probably would be good to crop out the outer bark, to just concentrate on the grain as a sort of abstract.
Dave.
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Paul Lara
{K:88111} 9/4/2008
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I like the inclusion of the plank's edge in the frame, Nick; it helps define what I'm seeing without taking away from the saw cut textures.
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Erland Pillegaard
{K:34147} 9/4/2008
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Wonderful use of color
erland
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Fabio Keiner
{K:81109} 9/4/2008
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the bark works well as a kind of natural frame, but it should be a bit sharper
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