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Lori Stitt
{K:75282} 9/13/2005
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Thank you again Rossano! I really liked this image a lot, it had been a FUN day and evening.
Am pleased that you liked this one.
Lori :)
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Rossano Balloco
{K:963} 9/13/2005
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I have discovered a wonderful world here in your portofolio dear Lori and this is in my opinion a great shot: great composition (I love the sun throught the lantern) and perfectly realised! Thanks for sharing with us such perls. Ciao Rossano
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Lori Stitt
{K:75282} 8/9/2004
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HI Jim, Thanks again, I think I might still have this one on the card, tomorrow, just for curiosity, I'll do it over again...Then I'll post it in the 'comments' section...
Lori :) thanks for your note
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Sudhir K. Reddy
{K:7583} 8/9/2004
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Nice shot! Love the twilight mood!
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Carmem A. Busko
{K:48785} 8/9/2004
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Congrats on FCD, Chris! I use a similar techique, withsmart blur... when I use scanning from negatives, I works very well, too! Cheers! Carmem
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Jose Julio
{K:123} 8/9/2004
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Very well taken, congratulations!
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Peter De Rycke
{K:41212} 8/8/2004
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Fantastic shot, Lori .. really like how you laid out the composition .. and indeed the light on the lantern is magically good .. regards, Peter
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Ken McDonald
{K:4343} 8/8/2004
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Beautiful colours, excellent composition and spot on exposure...
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Jim Goldstein
{K:21230} 8/8/2004
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The pixelated halo in the high contrast areas is a tell-tell sign of over sharpening. Less this I think your image would be a lot cleaner and show less signs of digital noise or pixelation.
Beautiful shot.
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Lori Stitt
{K:75282} 8/8/2004
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Don't think so in Nebraska! You'll just have to come to San Diego!!! Lori :)
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Martin Mora
{K:4666} 8/8/2004
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oo how Id love to see a ship like this, any chance of parking on of these in Nebraska for me? you captured the mood of it well here, wonderful job Lori
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Lori Stitt
{K:75282} 8/5/2004
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Thanks so much Jim, I appreciate your comment! Lori ;)
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Jim Christensen
{K:18843} 8/5/2004
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Lori This is a fantastic image. and the Lantern makes the whole shot. You can surely be proud of this one, I would if it were mine. Thanks for the comments I need to keep an I on your work !! jimc
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Lori Stitt
{K:75282} 8/4/2004
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Carmem, Thank you for your comments, so sorry to hear your home computer is not working, I do hope it's nothing to terrible!!! :)
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Carmem A. Busko
{K:48785} 8/4/2004
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Lighting, exposure and lines are stunning, my friend!
Lori, it?s my turn: My home pc is not working.. I?ve just come to had a glance at my work..i?ll comment your other photos as soon as possible! Cheers! carmem
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Orazio Minnella
{K:49417} 8/4/2004
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Beautiful scene.Great tones and details.
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Paul's Photos
{K:35235} 8/4/2004
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nicely composed.. great lighting... good work
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Maria Luisa Vial
{K:36017} 8/4/2004
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Hi Lori, You are right... In the thumbnail it seems the same as the first... but the light is quite different... Love it!!!!!!
Cheers,
Maria
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jon parsons
{K:13639} 8/4/2004
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this is certainly by far very professional grade work Lori!! a wonderful and artistically conceived presentation. very beautiful my friend....jon
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Lori Stitt
{K:75282} 8/4/2004
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Hi Neil, Yes, I used Neat Image, it seemed to work pretty well. I downloaded it yesterday to try. Unfortunately, I had forgotton my camera was set to 400, I think that is why the quality is so bad on some of my shots, guess there is only so much one can do with a bad quality photo...I was working on one last night that has a LOT of noise, finally gave up on it and deleted it! :(
Oh well, next time you can be sure that I will remember what the ISO is set to!!
Have a good day, Lori :)
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Lori Stitt
{K:75282} 8/4/2004
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Hi Gustav, You are so right!!! Later that evening at home I realized the camera was set to 400! I was NOT happy, I usually have it at 50 or 100. I forgot that I had changed it, now I don't even remember why it was at 400! I don't even like to shoot at 200 if I can help it! OH WELL.........next time I'll check!
Lori :)
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John Hatziemmanouil
{K:40580} 8/4/2004
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Well! A fabulus shot. Lori, this is a great subject, a PERFECT absolutely point of view and a shot that takes my mind to great moview like ...Mobi Dik.
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Gorilla K
{K:17526} 8/4/2004
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Hi Lori, me pleases this picture also better. It is stronger in the colors and the lantern has more yellow. It work still tendency-full! Greeting from Germany
Winfried
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Lukasz Kuczkowski
{K:14687} 8/4/2004
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the best one Lori; love it; as I said before the composition is excellent
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Gustav Miller
{K:309} 8/4/2004
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A GREAT image wonderfully presented. I think the lighter outlines around some of the objects is due to oversharpening the image. It is better not to sharpen too much....Why use ISO 400??? Kind regards, Gustav
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Neil Dolman
{K:26883} 8/4/2004
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Hi Lori, just a quick note about "Neat Image"! You can download the demo version to try it out. It seems very good and you can include it in your normal work flow ie in PS, enabling you to work on separate layers. I will probably buy it. Best wishes - Neil
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N M
{K:1816} 8/4/2004
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Great trio of photos Lori. I too prefer this one. For me it's someting about the darker blue in the sky and the feeling the subdued light from the lantern gives. It's difficult to explain as it's just a feeling, an emotion.
I'm not too good at the software side of photography, sorry - so can't help much with your question. I will however try out Chris' suggestion (Thx Chris).
Nish
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Linn Currie
{K:24426} 8/4/2004
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As fabulous as the other - stunning work Lori. I bet you are proud of this? :-)) You should be :-) Great work girlfriend. Linn
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jcs nosuchreality
{K:974} 8/4/2004
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It looks like it could be from saving it as a jpeg at a low factor ie 5 out of 1-10, if Neat has that option, or trying to save it at a small target size. JPEG tends to "artifact" lines like that at higher compression ratios, you can see it in images that have text in them. Unless of course the picture had that to begin with, then I dont know. I like the composition.
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Saeed Al Shamsi
{K:47735} 8/4/2004
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Shot with great enthusiasm, beautiful aligned and use of vertical elements the foreground light adds excellent touch, super shot. Saeed
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Hugo de Wolf
{K:185110} 8/4/2004
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Hi Lori, the composition is also different, and I'm not sure if it's an improvement. The poroximity of the objects is too close (as they are larger than in the previous one) which fills the photo a bit too much. The increased intensity of the blue does add something, though. The lighting is more subtle...
Can't help you with Neat Image. I'm only trying it out myself now.
Cheers,
Hugo
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Raamses Ortiz
{K:4408} 8/4/2004
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Hi Lori,
So this is the sequel to Golden Lantern? I like too specialy that you capture it with almost the same background, but goot the lLantern bigger and with more details.
Congrats,
Be seeing you...
Raamses.
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Lori Stitt
{K:75282} 8/4/2004
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Thanks John,
Yes, it was shot in raw format, now that I think about it, maybe I sharpened it twice by accident. Also, it was saved as a tiff, has not been opened in jpeg at all, just went to jpeg to upload here.
I've just never had that line before, and since this was the first time I used Neat Image, I assumed that's what did it! I'll try another one that I haven't even opened yet!! Lori :)
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Don Loseke
{K:32503} 8/4/2004
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This is the best image. More detail in the lantern and nicer sky. Wonderful presentation. Don. Haven't used neat image. Since I have the D70 I haven't used and noise reduction. Don.
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John Lamb
{K:9687} 8/4/2004
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Hi Lori, I like your composition and the mood of this image. The light halo around the rigging looks like too much unsharp mask. Neatimage does not do this unless you have sharpening turned on. Did you take the original as a jpeg or RAW. If you use jpeg turn the in-camera sharpening off or to the lowest setting. Do any sharpening on a seperate layer in Photoshop.
Regards John
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Enjoy
{K:16125} 8/4/2004
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Lori..I like both of them..all of the postings are wonderful different...and well done...
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Chris Hunter
{K:25634} 8/3/2004
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Glad to help Lori :) This might not work wonders on the sky where there are larger areas of noise, but like I said, it works almost perfectly on shots of older stone buildings, roadways, and areas that should be neutral gray.
Chris
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Lori Stitt
{K:75282} 8/3/2004
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Thanks Tom, And yes, I'm going to try that tip right away! Lori :)
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Lori Stitt
{K:75282} 8/3/2004
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Hi Chris, Thank you so much for your comment, and for the instructions for removing noise right within PS...I am going to give this a try immediately! Again, thanks for taking the time to tell me! One of the things I love about this site, one can always learn something new!
Lori :)
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Edu Guedes
{K:3541} 8/3/2004
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Great composition ! Nice colors. Congrats.
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Tom Ross
{K:6453} 8/3/2004
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I've been teaching an aspiring photographer (and usefilm member) to create depth in a 2 dimensional image. I think I will send her this as a postcard. Absolutely beautiful work. Good tip from Chris.
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Chris Spracklen
{K:32552} 8/3/2004
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I think I like this one best, too, Lori! But the whole series has been great! My compliments!! Kind regards, Chris
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Chris Hunter
{K:25634} 8/3/2004
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Hi Lori, this was a great location and I really like the results.
Lori, here's a very little know technique for almsot perfectly removing minor to moderate noise from digital pics, right in any version of PS:
1. Duplicate background layer. 2. Apply a guassian blur of 1.5-3pixels for 4-7MP size files. 3. Set the blend mode of the dupe layer to 'color' 4. Say good bye to excessive noise and artifacts!
It's easy and it works!! The blur is enough to remove any odd color spots less than 1-3 pixels wide/tall, the blend mode lets the detail and sharpness of the original show through 100%
Works awesome on gray areas in color photos such as stone walls, buildings, etc.
Chris
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Tony Diana
{K:13396} 8/3/2004
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Muy bonita. Saludos
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