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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:126315)
11/22/2009 2:10:23 PM
I must remember that old saying, Andre! Quite a humorous way to spot it with a few words. In Greek we would say "to burn the fresh along with the dried grass". ;-)
Anyway, I received it now and I thanks you very much for it! It is a very good one!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:126315)
11/21/2009 6:34:02 PM
From the point of view of contrast and focus difference for separating the main object from the background I find it perfect, Andre! The eagle stands out as one might expect for this "majesty". And the timing wa again so good for getting the bord in such a "characteristic pose", I would say. It is what we connect with it... Proud ruler of the skies, that is. The details on the feathers of the excellently reproduced brown tones are very good too, though I have also a tiny impression of some kind of blurring - I am not sure what it is. Still the most important part, the head and that strict look of a ruler are fantastic!
In a way... the "minimal blurring" I already mentioned, even if it is just an a trick of my eye, seems to enhance the head, the face , that look. It seems to me like some subtle reference to its flying, in motion blur, and still getting its aware eyes and look standing out so well, much like freezing its motion in the air in some way that lets us focus on the essence of it, that strict look.
By the time I get more and more apetite for such images, but still I am very very far away from being able to take them this way.
Cheers!
Nick
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Critique By:
Andre Denis (K:61492)
11/20/2009 4:37:49 AM
Thanks Ray,
For some reason I find Ducks humorous. Maybe it's because of that silly "smiling" expression their beaks seem to have. They appear to be happy all the time.
Andre
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Critique By:
Andre Denis (K:61492)
11/20/2009 4:34:12 AM
Thanks again Ray.
Glad you like it.
It's easy why a few people have mistaken this for a seaside shot. It is actually Lake Ontario. Just 1/2 hour walking distance from my house.
Andre
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Critique By:
Andre Denis (K:61492)
11/20/2009 4:30:27 AM
Hi Ray,
Good to see you back for a visit.
Thanks for taking the time to comment. Hope all is well with you and your family and hope to see some more images from you soon.
Andre
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Critique By:
Andre Denis (K:61492)
11/19/2009 11:49:32 PM
Thanks Nick,
I just re-sent the large file.
I have a similar problem with my filter system. Sometimes the auto spam detectors do like the old saying.... "be careful not to throw out the baby with the bath water"
Andre
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Critique By:
Andre Denis (K:61492)
11/19/2009 11:11:10 PM
Thanks Leo,
Also did you notice the film was Tri-x, similar to what you use a lot.
Andre
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Critique By:
Andre Denis (K:61492)
11/19/2009 11:09:52 PM
Thanks Roger,
This one goes way back for me.
Andre
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Critique By:
stingRay part 2 . (K:238240)
11/19/2009 11:36:18 AM
What a lovely array of Autumnal colours right down on the shoreline my friend. A beautiful combination of sea and landscape with great movement in the waves and good detailing throughout.
Good to see you again and I will drop by again after a while. I am still many months away from posting though. Hope you are all well, take care. Best wishes.....Ray
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Critique By:
stingRay part 2 . (K:238240)
11/19/2009 11:33:16 AM
Great details in this shot my friend and I love the commentary as the duck does appear to be preening itself for the camera. Great colours in the feathers and excellent details. What a lens Andre, great photography as always. Cheers to you...Ray
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stingRay part 2 . (K:238240)
11/19/2009 11:30:48 AM
Just swinging by to keep in touch Andre.
I do like this my friend. Lovely rich Autumnal colours in a wonderful peaceful setting. I love too the skyline, always a bonus if there are some cloud formations there. Well done to you. My very best wishes to you as always.....Ray
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:126315)
11/18/2009 10:45:53 PM
Hi Andre!
Well, much of what you say is completely true, like for example to invite the viewer to explore the presented scene as he/she likes. I always found that very... democratic, free, without any "pressure", as you say, to focus on something that "the photographer has already thought out for the viewer". Any here is one of the reasons for which I have that special liking for going hyperfocal. ;-)
I can quite see what you mean with the description about the place and what was going on, and still is going on there. I guess you are going to find many many more circumstances and conditions in which you haven't been before in such a place, be it for the light or for anything else - including that special "strike of the own strings" that makes us all stand astound in front of some given scene.
I still didn't get you email... :-( Could you perhaps use "Beach In Colour - large" as subject? The thing is, I get so much junkemail that it is hard to examine each email individually... My email address is: karagiaouroglou@bluewin.ch
It should work this way.
Cheers and thanks a lot!
Nick
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:126315)
11/18/2009 9:54:01 PM
Exactly, Andre! Please worry for me, since I seem to develop such tendencies in my later years, of which I could never think before! ;-) Sigh... am I getting to resemble some... bean counter? Perhaos even a typical... small swiss bean counter?? Aaaaaaaaarrrrgggghhh! OK, I calm down. :-S
Anyway, my keyboard is almost free of marks for letters in the meanwhile... I almost have blank keycaps, since even Apple adopted the industrial process of stamping the keycaps with letters, rather than the old good foolproof process of molding the letter shape through the whole surface layer of the key. (Shame to you, oooh Apple!!!)
And the result is? Of course you pay less *now* for buying a keyboard or any composit unit that includes a keyboard (like for example my i Book.) And yes sir, it is is cheaper at "first buy", but... hoy many keyboards am I going to need in order to see the letters on it? You know, I am not going to forget writing in the next couple of years or so... ;-)
Which of course has to remind us of such meanings like quality, about which we talked so extensively in the last few days or weeks. Quality, like for example your lenses, like for example the T90, the Hassie, all those things that were designed to work a life long or even longer.
I really wonder, Andre... You know, they all tell us about preserving the environment and recycling out garbage, and at the same time they tell us (more or less) about buying, buying, buying. Now, I dare ask: Are we going to preserve anything at all by buying things of which we already know that they are thought for being replaced in some few months or years?
Hmmm... Andre, it seems to me that sometimes I have my "special evenings" and I start making lectures about this and that. :-D Sorry, I have to stop myself now or else I could lecture until tomorrow morning. Just keep on using you good lenses and if they work so well, then who cares about their "age".
Cheers!
Nick
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Critique By:
Leo Régnier Я£ (K:66129)
11/18/2009 6:57:26 PM
Fantastic my friend, we really can make a similar read with the two picture!
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Critique By:
Robert Kilgore (K:1828)
11/18/2009 12:33:48 AM
Thank you Nick. I have learned from your comments.
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Critique By:
Roger Skinner (K:75036)
11/17/2009 8:22:06 PM
excellent
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Critique By:
Andre Denis (K:61492)
11/17/2009 12:23:13 AM
Thanks Nick,
I think this sort of image does look best with this kind of DOF too. I know you prefer this kind of landscape. There is no particular pressure to view any one part of the image this way. So, the viewer is invited to explore the whole image.
To answer your question about spontanaity, it is an area that I have taken quite a few images of in the past. But, never really in the fall. I remember taking my youngest son to this spot one day when I was helping him take some shots for his high school photography class. I always liked that outcropping of clay in the distance.
My wife and I went for a walk here the day I took this shot along with a few others in the same area.
BTW I did email you this shot in a larger format. Did you get it?
Andre
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Critique By:
Andre Denis (K:61492)
11/17/2009 12:03:39 AM
Now I'm starting to worry Nick.
I actually did understand what you were talking about, even before your corrections. ;)
Andre
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Critique By:
Andre Denis (K:61492)
11/16/2009 11:54:46 PM
Thanks for the visit and comment Riny,
I probably used to know the answer to your question about the leaves back in grade school. But that was many, many years ago.
So, I Googled it. Here is the answer.
The bright reds and purples we see in leaves are made mostly in the fall. In some trees, like maples, glucose is trapped in the leaves after photosynthesis stops.
http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/leaves.html
Andre
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:126315)
11/14/2009 5:23:14 PM
Hiw great that you posted that, Andre! A composition that allows us all to see the very own way that coast extends to the depth, and its distinct own morphology. The arriving wave and its nice details plays a little bit of that role of a rhythm coordinator in a place which seems to have all the time of the world for going though its own phases. There is no hurrying here, nit in the subject anf not in the exposure - this is what I think of it. I think of the photographer, Andre, slowing down and taking his adjustments, not overlooking anything and not efaggerating anything at all. In other words, I see the balance.
For such images, I think they wouldn't really "fail" if somebody would go for a more limited DoF, but the clarity of details from the very near down to the far is a very special dedication to the place. So I perceive ot, that is. Especially when the light seems to demand such a study of foliage, textures and depth under such colors. Even that tiny clipping that I (think to see) here enhances the very character of the place.
Andre, was that more a spontaneous composition, or did you search a lot for the right frame?
Nick
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:126315)
11/14/2009 3:22:22 PM
BTw, it could as well be:
Photographers *for* global warming, ey? ;-)
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:126315)
11/14/2009 3:21:41 PM
Great! So, I have to wait for good things to come, I guess!
Cheers!
Nick
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:126315)
11/14/2009 3:13:48 PM
On no! So many mistakes this time... Sorry, Andre! I try to correct two of them here.
I wrote: "As about the many too many "wonderful tricks" in *OS*...".
! meant: "As about the many too many "wonderful tricks" in *PS*..."
I wrote: "They can *see* such myths to the usual photoshopographer with a coarse vision,"
I meant: "They can *sell* such myths to the usual photoshopographer with a coarse vision,"
Cheers!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:126315)
11/14/2009 3:09:06 PM
I know exactly what you are talking about, Andre, when you tell me about small birds. Those guys are just... rapid. Anything they do is rapid and sudden, even turning their head to some direction... it just happens in a split of a split of a second... What do they eat? Kerosene? ;-)
As about the many too many "wonderful tricks" in OS... well, they do some work indeed but they always buy some quality in particular things at the costs of other things. All that promises for easily boosting quality are myths to a great part of it. I did work for such software branches, and believe me - their main consideration is how to camouflage the disadvantages of such "quality boosts". ;-) They can see such myths to the usual photoshopographer with a coarse vision, but when somebody is in photography for such a ling time he/she immediately sees the problems.
And it has to do with simple plain physics. You can't shift ranges of luminosity without introducing, for example, distortions of gradients. If the image has a given quality level then you can tweak it a bit and enhance some special features, but there is no such thing like "a general recipe for salvaging any image". ;-) I am only glad that you considered the proposed recipe as neutral and as down to earth, as you always do in our talks, Andre. This is the best way - there should be interest for methods ands means but also an open eye for all their consequenes and not only the consequences that Adobe would like to see in golden big lights. ;-)
So the problem remains, I guess. Yellow is a difficult hue under strong lights. But this is also what makes it all so alive and so interesting, isn't it? I think that I will try a systematic underexposure series on such yellos, and see what happens. I guess that it will be either hard glares or poor turning to grey, but I am just curious.
Cheers!
Nick
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:126315)
11/14/2009 2:48:05 PM
I am only glad if don't just look at good efforts "on the fly", Andre!. You know, to take a quick look, say "wow" and soon forget the image is too... incomplete, I would say. It reminds me of the pointeless expression "yes, I understand you, *but*..." - well, there is no understanding without turning to things with interest and care. So, let's examine things and gove some meaning to the word "exploring" which is used so easily today.
You know what I mean. Nowadays they all "explore" and find out that PS has 3 different sharpness filters and that the color wheel is... round. ;-)
Cheers!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:126315)
11/14/2009 2:29:30 PM
I think too, Andre! He seems to post just a few but very good ones.
Nick
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Critique By:
Riny Koopman (K:77664)
11/14/2009 10:44:59 AM
If you ever wondered why leaves change color in autumn, you're not alone..best,riny
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Critique By:
Andre Denis (K:61492)
11/13/2009 9:45:09 PM
Thanks for the visit and comment Radovan.
I'm glad you like it.
Andre
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Andre Denis (K:61492)
11/13/2009 9:43:12 PM
Hi Francois,
Thanks for the visit and comment. I should have explained. It is a fresh water lake. (Lake Ontario) Big enough to be a sea, but one of the fresh water lakes in the "Great Lakes" system. We live within walking distance, so I am very lucky.
Andre
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Andre Denis (K:61492)
11/13/2009 9:39:20 PM
Thanks Kallol!
Andre
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