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Critique By:
Roger Williams (K:84100)
11/20/2009 5:01:59 PM
Thanks, Janina. Glad you liked it.
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Critique By:
Roger Williams (K:84100)
11/20/2009 4:57:42 PM
Hi, Ray. As there are 14 Ray Whytes and only one Roger David Williams, why don't you search for me and suggest I become a Facebook "Friend" rather than the other way around? There ARE photos of most of the Ray Whytes, but I couldn't decide which of the old fogeys was you [grin].
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Critique By:
Roger Williams (K:84100)
11/20/2009 7:39:52 AM
Ray, I'm on Facebook, and can't make head or tail of it. Send me your alias there and I'll start following you. My address was roger atmark adex hyphen japan dotcom.
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Critique By:
Roger Williams (K:84100)
11/20/2009 7:34:02 AM
Hmmmm. When you DO get around to taking colour photos, you pull out all the stops! For my taste you've got the saturation spot on. Vivid, but unforced and not in the least unnatural. Of course the very full palette of colours in the scene itself helps. No need to exaggerate those! I would probably have straightened up those leaning trees, but I guess that would have affected the framing, which is perfect as it is.
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Critique By:
Roger Williams (K:84100)
11/20/2009 7:27:33 AM
You certainly picked a really good spot from which to take this one. Beautiful! Another example of mastery of the wide-angle lens. There's an almost stereoscopic sense of perspective.
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Critique By:
Roger Williams (K:84100)
11/20/2009 7:24:19 AM
Another great example of how to use a really wide-angle lens. If you got the lighting and exposure right without having to do a lot of PS work, hats off to you! Great atmosphere.
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Roger Williams (K:84100)
11/20/2009 7:20:39 AM
Still getting good use out of that 10-20mm Sigma! This is a very imaginative use, and comes off pretty well. It'll be great if someone gives you the finger...
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Roger Williams (K:84100)
11/20/2009 7:12:12 AM
I am delighted to return to Usefilm after some time and see among my "friends" photographs this wonderful portrait. It says so much by leaving it to our imaginations to fill in the details! The exposure is absolutely perfect!
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Critique By:
Roger Williams (K:84100)
11/20/2009 7:08:37 AM
A splendid action photo!
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| Photo By: Galal El Missary
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Critique By:
Roger Williams (K:84100)
11/20/2009 7:06:32 AM
Great sequence, lovely presentation, delightful subjects. Well done!
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Roger Williams (K:84100)
9/16/2009 12:47:43 AM
A gorgeous pink and blue palette of colours here, Janina. I imagined the Baltic as more grim and grey... I think you are showing it at its best.
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| Photo By: Janina Fikus
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Critique By:
Roger Williams (K:84100)
9/16/2009 12:45:01 AM
Thank you, Janina. This is a very unusual "sculpture" for Japan, where public art often reflects the tastes of anonymous committees and tends to be safe and a little boring!
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Critique By:
Roger Williams (K:84100)
7/30/2009 4:48:35 PM
Hi, Matt. When you selected me as a "friend" I searched for your portfolio by name but it came up blank. Later, I found out this must have been a search glitch. You haven't posted
anything since 2003... are you still around? This photo has a very nice atmosphere although I wonder who the legs on the left belong to... [grin]
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Critique By:
Roger Williams (K:84100)
7/23/2009 12:15:07 AM
Nice against-the-light shot. Did you take one in vertical (portrait) orientation? That might have captured more of the trees, and reduced the "weight" of the empty foreground while keeping enough of it to retain the sense of perspective it gives...
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Roger Williams (K:84100)
7/23/2009 12:11:13 AM
Thank you, Janina. For various reasons this panorama was a lot of trouble to create, so I'm glad someone else likes it!
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Critique By:
Roger Williams (K:84100)
7/21/2009 6:50:07 AM
A gorgeous sunrise!
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| Photo By: Janina Fikus
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Critique By:
Roger Williams (K:84100)
7/9/2009 2:39:19 PM
Try 22, Ray. Pretty easy to remember things that happen to you at that age... [grin]
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Critique By:
Roger Williams (K:84100)
7/9/2009 2:36:12 PM
Very nicely judged... the distant wave frozen but the froth smoothed out to make the perfect foil to those dark, shiny rocks. I wonder how many exposures you had to make before this exceptional one resulted? Love it! And hats off to your skill in taking it. Wow...
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| Photo By: Keith Saint
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Critique By:
Roger Williams (K:84100)
7/9/2009 2:31:19 PM
Isn't this very daring, Galal? It's certainly a very strong (and emotional) photo. Perhaps Egypt is a little more liberal than certain other mid-Eastern states?
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| Photo By: Galal El Missary
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Critique By:
Roger Williams (K:84100)
7/9/2009 2:27:42 PM
Beautiful, Keith. Takes me back 50 years to when I lived in Jarrow... and strolled the Northumberland beaches every chance I could get. I wasn't often there at dawn, but the sunsets were pretty good, too...
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Critique By:
Roger Williams (K:84100)
7/9/2009 2:23:49 PM
Very fine panorama, Keith. If I'm ever in Blyth again I'm going to try and take one like it! If you stitch multiple shots to make your panoramas you can appear once in every shot. That's pretty surreal...
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Critique By:
Roger Williams (K:84100)
7/9/2009 2:20:18 PM
Ah, I feel much easier with the walls looking vertical! Weird skies you get up in Northumberland...
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Critique By:
Roger Williams (K:84100)
7/9/2009 2:18:24 PM
I guess the fuzziness of the grasses in the middle distance is due to wind? I think the splayed verticals undermine the effect a bit... But maybe I spend too much time getting rid of them (hard to avoid down at the 10mm end of the zoom). I do like the light fall-off around the edges.
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Critique By:
Roger Williams (K:84100)
7/9/2009 2:14:23 PM
Fascinating subject there. An Ozzy Osbourne look alike. Well taken...
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Critique By:
Roger Williams (K:84100)
7/9/2009 2:11:38 PM
Ha ha! Reminds me of the Che Guevara T-shirt of Che wearing a Che T-shirt. (On "The Onion" spoof news site.)
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Critique By:
Roger Williams (K:84100)
7/9/2009 1:53:13 PM
Thanks, Ray. You haven't seen this one before, anywhere. I saw two wonderful panoramas of Giant's Causeway recently which reminded me of happy holidays in Ireland half a century ago.
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Critique By:
Roger Williams (K:84100)
7/9/2009 11:12:45 AM
It IS? But, but, but... there are definite reds in her shorts. If you produced the sepia by turning down the saturation on a colour shot, you didn't turn it all the way down, maybe? Anyway, this is splitting hairs. It's a lovely, haunting image, with great structure and lighting and a lovely atmosphere. So there! [grin]
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Critique By:
Roger Williams (K:84100)
7/9/2009 9:26:56 AM
I thought at first it was sepia toned, but I see this is actually a colour image. It really does capture that "hate to leave" mood at the end of the day...
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Critique By:
Roger Williams (K:84100)
7/9/2009 12:55:01 AM
Unfortunately "shapely" is not a word that comes to mind often in Japan, Ray... "sturdy" would be the kindest. But I keep looking [grin]
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Critique By:
Roger Williams (K:84100)
7/9/2009 12:35:19 AM
Yes, Saad, it means that there are fewer straight lines and thus less obvious distortion than in city streets, for example... Thank you as always for your comments.
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