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Stephen Bowden
{K:64519} 4/23/2004
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Chris this again is superb, I don't know how you managed to get the front of the barn perfectly lit. Superb !!
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Linn Currie
{K:24426} 4/23/2004
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Chris, this is such a wonderful image! I'm not good with technical terms and compliments - so please accept my plain language :-) I love this shot, great feel of serenity and "a day well ended".
Linn
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ken krishnan
{K:19102} 4/23/2004
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Charming image. Lovely.
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Don Loseke
{K:32503} 4/23/2004
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Suberb lighting on the building. Looks like you have used a big flash or one big reflector........ Great work. Don.
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Enjoy
{K:16125} 4/24/2004
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I love this shot...its such a beautiful end to the day....wonderful...
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Dan Lightner
{K:12684} 4/24/2004
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Lovely scene , well composed and beautiful sunset,barn really adds to the shot
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Kristina Kohut
{K:49990} 4/24/2004
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What a mood...! Absolutely stunning light, and so lovely colours! I love this Chris, it looks soooooo beautiful!
Absolutely nothing wrong with composition either, but still I get this itching in my eyes that I would love to see it cropped just a bit on right side and bottom. What do you think of that?
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Chris Spracklen
{K:32552} 4/24/2004
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Thanks, Kris ~ you could well be right. I might give it a go!
Thanks for your kind coimment.
Chris
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Teunis Haveman
{K:52509} 4/24/2004
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Chris, Beautiful landscape and sunset
Teunis
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Barry Wakelin
{K:7838} 4/24/2004
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Another cracking shot. Beautiful light and clever composition.
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Roger Williams
{K:83282} 4/24/2004
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This image poses in the sharpest possible form the question I often feel when looking at your beautiful pictures Chris. The question is "Is this real?" I simply cannot imagine a natural source of lighting that would illuminate the shadowed side of the barn like that. On the other hand I can imagine very easily the "dodge" tool being selectively applied to give the same effect. The conflict between "beautiful" and "unreal" is almost physically paintful to me. I wonder if you can understand, or even believe, that? I'll never make another remark like this, Chris, this really is the last time. But I did want you to understand this problem of mine--which is something I can't "access" within myself. Too deep down...
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Nando Mondino
{K:13989} 4/24/2004
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Fantastic landscape!
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Chris Spracklen
{K:32552} 4/24/2004
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Hi Roger,
Don't stop being honest, or asking questions of me! It's always good to hear from you because you, more than just about anyone I know, are not content just to say, 'Beautiful picture, Chris'!
The light on the barn is 'real' ~ I took it at around 7.45 on a balm evening just two days ago. I did very little to it. It just happened to be that way. The sun was shining right on it.
The background and sunset is also 'real', it was taken around 5-10 minutes later, looking in a slightly different direction.
As you will have now worked out, (and maybe had before I wrote this comment), the picture as a whole is not exactly 'real'! 'Real' elements have been brought together as a composite in order to produce what I consider to be a pleasing image.
You and I are so different in our approaches to photography! That's why it's so good that we've 'palled up'! I appreciate the precision and 100%, (sometimes, mundane), reality of your work. I recognise your consummate skill as a photographer but, for myself, prefer something a little brighter and more vivid, even if it's not altogether 'real'.
Maybe it would help if Usefilm were to add a feature that photo.net have incorporated ~ that is, a box that you can tick if the picture is truly 'unmanipulated'. Then it would just be down to honesty ~ and I'd like to think I would score heavily in that department!!
Kind regards.
Have a wonderful Lord's Day.
Chris
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Lori Stitt
{K:74437} 4/24/2004
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GORGEOUS setting, Chris! Another spectacular one, you've been busy! I like everything about this image.
Very nice work,
Lori :)
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Roger Williams
{K:83282} 4/25/2004
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Thanks for the considered reply, Chris. I too value the fact we've "palled up." I can't help this literalist thing that rules my reactions, but believe me, under your influence I've come a long way from the position I held when I first joined Usefilm. I guess I just enjoy finding "God" in the mundane realities... and prefer not to try to improve on the way HE did things. [Not entirely joking, there...] Today we had the bishop at our church for the service of inauguration of our new parish priest. An important day for our tiny, embattled community of the Faith.
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B:)liana
{K:30945} 4/26/2004
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Beautiful sky dear Chris and scene.
Kiss, biliana
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Clifton Jones
{K:11091} 4/26/2004
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Lovely colors..spectacular view...very beautiful...
Clifton...
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