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Critique By:
Tyler Pester (K:24)
1/31/2004 9:50:15 AM
An hour of time onto one photo... now, what other visual medium can do that? Very nice photo; I like it a lot.
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Critique By:
Michele Beccia (K:5299)
1/7/2004 2:40:11 AM
Excellent shot. 
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Critique By:
Michele Beccia (K:5299)
1/7/2004 2:38:21 AM
Good the choice of blue, good prospective.
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Critique By:
Michele Beccia (K:5299)
1/7/2004 2:37:03 AM
Excellent shadowplay and definition!
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Critique By:
Rodrigo D (K:1577)
12/25/2003 10:59:54 AM
David, I admire your purism nowadays... i'm almost like you, even dealing with photography just a few months. Great images do you offer to us: specially those from Reformatory. Concerning this image, let me try some suggestion: don't move the chair and, in my opinion, try to open the aperture. COncentrate the focus on chair and tree.
And Merry Christimas!
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Critique By:
Jose Luis Elisei (K:10213)
10/1/2003 2:17:31 PM
very good moment and work with the light.
and excellent portfolio too!
cheers
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Critique By:
Gary Auerbach (K:3760)
2/1/2003 7:38:39 AM
David,
Nice cyanotype. Good exposure and good print. I am an alt process buff....Good job! I would like to see more of your work.
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Critique By:
Ron Browne (K:1282)
8/16/2002 6:36:10 AM
Nice light. Just a few dust spots? and I would like to see some detail in the dark areas. I would imagine the print is beautiful! Very dramatic.
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Critique By:
John Myers (K:4308)
8/15/2002 11:47:07 PM
i like everything about this...even the burnt out sky.
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Critique By:
Terrence Kent (K:7023)
8/15/2002 11:28:30 PM
i cant come up with a clever comment, suffice to say its impressive and has the look of being frozen in time~
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Critique By:
David N. VanMeter (K:552)
8/14/2002 11:29:56 AM
The window may be a little crooked but I attribute most of the distortion to wide-angle keystoning.
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Critique By:
Karen L. Chambers (K:277)
8/14/2002 11:03:52 AM
I really like this shot alot!!! There is one thing I find distracting is window ...something just doesnt seem right...is the window crooked?....Maybe we can go knock out some bricks and fix it...lol...Wonderful Shot David!!
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Critique By:
David N. VanMeter (K:552)
8/14/2002 3:37:02 AM
That was my feeling about this too. However there was not much I could do about the background except use less DOF which was another after thought I had. If I were digitally inclined I am sure there is someting I could do about that background. I think this is going to be one of those images I learned a hard lesson about bad technique from no matter what my intentions were toward it.
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Critique By:
Ryan Schmidt (K:39)
8/13/2002 9:26:07 PM
David,
I am with you on the "record how it is school" however the brighter background from the tree is distracting.If the total background had the same distinct blacks as the top of the image - you would then be drawn to the chair.
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Critique By:
David N. VanMeter (K:552)
8/13/2002 4:32:27 AM
Thanks for the comments. I would have loved to have gotten rid of that bush as well but I was standing on a rocky outcropping and was limited to where I could go and still maintain some compositional integrity. I would have loved to have a cherry picker and gotten some elevation on the scene. If any one is wondering this was shot from Java Point in Craignure on the Isle of Mull
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Critique By:
David N. VanMeter (K:552)
8/13/2002 4:27:22 AM
Thanks everyone for your comments. I am wholly aware of the horizon tilt as this was a "shoot from the hip" situation. This is the proof and I figured some day when I got a better print made by a good lab I would get that problem fixed. This is the only picture that really worked because after this the swans moved off and had their heads under water feeding. I do agree that cropping from the right would be an interesting idea.
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Critique By:
Larry Edwards (K:843)
8/12/2002 8:15:15 PM
I agree with Kenneth that this is a really neat composition. The only thing I would change is getting rid of the horizon tilt -- something I see a lot in otherwise fine photos, and I that I find quite distracting (but I'll also note that this topic has come up before, and a lot of people aren't bothered by it at all).
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Critique By:
Kenneth Kwan (K:3084)
8/12/2002 7:14:19 PM
Beautiful lighting situation here. The composition is excellent. The two swans forming a dynamic balance, taking the eyes around the frame and deep into the back of the shot. A couple of nitpicky things. I would prefer the farther swan to me a little more to the right. Or, crop a little of that side. The clouds are wonderful and can make a great shot themselves. But here, their seem a little too dominant.
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Critique By:
Kenneth Kwan (K:3084)
8/12/2002 7:09:14 PM
Wonderful rays of light! I really like the full range of tones and the blue sky. The composition works; well-grounded and well-framed. I am not crazy about the bush in the middle though. It is not visually intresting enough to make a good silhouette and it merged with the distant shoreline. A silhouette of a person, placed at the lower right, could add a sense of scale and gradeur, and better balance the composition.
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Critique By:
000 000 (K:1471)
8/12/2002 5:01:34 PM
This one is also very beautiful.
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Critique By:
David N. VanMeter (K:552)
8/12/2002 4:57:52 PM
No filters were used in this shot. Done around 8:30 in the evening near the end of May.
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Critique By:
000 000 (K:1471)
8/12/2002 4:55:15 PM
A very nice shot David. Did you use a Filter? Around what time of the day did you make it?
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Critique By:
Katia Cutrone (K:12940)
8/2/2002 9:18:00 AM
Really an "ice-image", I love it very much.
I'm so curious about the "cyanotype print on a hand coated paper" you mentioned, and I'll look to understand and learn this great technic...I hope good like you! :-)
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Critique By:
Honey Ashton (K:225)
8/2/2002 8:42:18 AM
This is so excellent. I read the comments from the cell block and I looked at the link. After reading that and your health warnings I am not sure that I want to mess around with that stuff, especially since there are young kids where I live and considering my dad's law, "Murphy was an optimist" I don't think its safe. I wonder if I can get this same effect in an editing program. If you have any suggestions I would appreciate it. I realize that it is not the same thing but I would like to get close
Honey
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Critique By:
Christopher Thompson (K:145)
5/4/2002 7:01:49 PM
I have a hard time with this image... mostly, I think, because its not readily apparent what I'm looking at. Call me simple! Perhaps its simply the size of the image, but I just have a hard time 'orienting' myself to the subject (which is what?) and its context. I like the range of tones in this, but without being able to make sense of them I don't think it matters.
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Critique By:
Victor Ginzburg (K:53)
5/3/2002 7:24:13 AM
I love it, where is it?
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Critique By:
Koen B (K:3279)
5/3/2002 2:56:50 AM
Scary, really Totally in line with your other post from the same subject.
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Critique By:
Phillip Cohen (K:9538)
5/2/2002 8:19:01 PM
Good photo, perfect lighting. Would be a good cover image for a Veterinary magazine. I did have to scrunch my legs together while looking at the photo and reading what this was. ;=]
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Critique By:
Sherry (K:110)
5/2/2002 1:31:14 PM
your poor dog!
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Critique By:
Koen B (K:3279)
5/2/2002 3:12:45 AM
This one has a very interesting rythm. The emphasis for me lies on the black spot somewhat above the middle, slightly to the left. Then to the bright part almost straight beneath it. However, from there I tend to look again straight down, almost off the picture... Maybe it's because the lower part is a lot lighter than the rest. Maybe it's just me 
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