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Alan Orr
{K:9671} 7/31/2005
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Very nice composition of colors, shapes and texture.
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Carolyn Wiesbrock
{K:14051} 7/31/2005
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This is difinitely an improved version with better contrast and color..what kind of scanner are you using?
Nicely done!
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sammy -
{K:4108} 7/31/2005
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Hi Carolyn!
HP Scanjet 6300C
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Adriana Rabbit
{K:3233} 7/31/2005
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hi Beautiful mix of colors, sizes & textures... ~:-) The original picture of this cover is yours?
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sammy -
{K:4108} 8/1/2005
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Adriana-
Yes. I worked at the museum,
not the magazine,
many years ago.
Love your "my shadow II"
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Judy Bodden
{K:1694} 8/17/2005
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Wow, Sammy, the clarity is phenominal.
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sammy -
{K:4108} 8/17/2005
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Judy-
I had to shoot this and a "half dozen" inside
pictures in one day. Detail was important for
the subject so I shot 6x7. I chose speedlight
illumination to minimize effects of camera
shake, and for color temperature. With
daylight film, no cc filters would be needed.
I put an umbrella maybe ten or twelve feet
away, high (from viewer's POV) and to the
left, so the illumination was coming from a
visually comfortable direction, and somewhere
in between point source and broad source.
The distance minimized light falloff across
the scene, and provided modeling, but was
still broad enough to make soft shadows. The main light was low enough with respect to
the subject, to reveal some texture in the
rough surfaces, but still high enough to
create specular highlights which shows the amount of shine on some of the eggs. I may
have reflector-filled the shadow side
slightly, I don't remember. I chose a
black background even though tonal mergers
would be inevitable, I felt it would be
safest for me and for the graphic designer.
I put the lightest eggs farthest from the
light, just in case, to keep them from
blowing out. I knew it was for the cover
so I left some room for the masthead. I
tried to make the composition swirl around
in a circle, taking the viewer's eye up
into the masthead and back down to the
eggs, not off to the next magazine in the
rack. The subject depth was shallow so
I used a medium aperture for sharpness.
I made the exposures by turning out the
studio lights, opening the shutter, waiting
10 seconds or so, firing the strobe, and
finally closing the shutter. I bracketed
two rolls of film the same way, and sent
one in for processing, keeping the other
in a safe for backup. Time was running
out so I ripped through the inside shots
with a Nikon F, Kodachrome, the speedlight
and a couple pieces of foam core.
They ended up using eight pictures inside,
three of them full page. The 35mm
Kodachrome held sharpness well.
There's a lot of "I"s in there, sorry,
it's the easiest way for me to try and
keep this as brief as possible.
Maybe a table top shooter will find a
useful idea in it...........
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Michael Kanemoto
{K:22103} 8/19/2005
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Yeah. 7. No critical opionions on improvement.
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{K:6081} 8/19/2005
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Top image ,realy BRAVO
Hassan
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Chris Partida
{K:418} 8/23/2005
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I remember seeing this before. Great photo.
-Chris
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Ayman AlJammaz
{K:485} 8/23/2005
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Simply astonishing!
I love how you organized the different sizes of the eggs in a way that make me wonder as if this photo was taken from atop of an egg mountain and the line of sight made the far away once look small in size!
just amazing!
regards,
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Roberto Arcari Farinetti
{K:179484} 8/24/2005
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well fantastic idea-composition!
I like it so much!
cheers
roby
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Simona Vitalini
{K:69} 8/24/2005
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beautiful. I like the effect of the special paper. It seems to touch the materiality of eggs. thanks, special composition!
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Tracey MacLeod
{K:3394} 8/24/2005
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very nice comp!Nice distribution of color and size. Overall very pleasing! too bad you can't chuck the white lettering! Scan turned out well...as far as I can tell But I am still partial to my microtek's! they take more screen out!
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Antonia BauerleinSehnert
{K:30036} 8/24/2005
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This is phenomenal. Just finished reading the description of what you did to get the results. It is one of the more thorough explanations, which I enjoyed immensely. It is great to be able to walk through the process like that. Why not put it in your about, as many who look at the image will miss that wonderful explanation unless they happen to pan down in the comments. Congratulations on a beautiful piece of art, having so many images placed in the magazine, and now on your featured critique. BTW, I used to work in editorial at The Los Angeles Times Magazine, and would see all the artist and photographer portfolios that would march through the door. The competition is fierce, and it is quite a feather in your cap to have your work placed in the museum's publication in particular. Their standards for artistic excellence are very high. Also, we love that museum -- we've slept overnight there on the floors of the exhibit rooms twice!
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sammy -
{K:4108} 8/24/2005
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Ayman-
The subject is just a little smaller than life size. The eggs are arranged on a table so the large eggs are a little higher than the small eggs but not much. Some of the eggs are simply much larger than the others. I took it from the slightly low (bottom of picture)side to make subject depth even shallower. I am standing on a chair. The Pentax, which is pointed almost straight down, is mounted on an ancient 300+lb studio camera stand.
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sammy -
{K:4108} 8/24/2005
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Simona-
Maybe you mean the black, narrow-wale corduroy background material? I used "cord" so the eggs would stay where I put them. (I kept a steamer chest full of different colors and types of material to use for backgrounds.)
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Linda Bique
{K:74033} 8/24/2005
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Sammy this is awesome, nice thread...I wanted to say congratulations for making the front page...well deserved...:):)Linda
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Engy Farahat
{K:11591} 8/24/2005
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Very beautiful & creative idea Sammy. love the composition. it's fantastic.
and wonderful colors & textures. well done
ng..
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Endre Novak
{K:12549} 8/29/2005
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Like this composition,
Cheers,
Endre
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H@shim A
{K:2195} 8/29/2005
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I dig this Sammy... thanks much for the context related to the photograph.
One of the best I've come across in some time.
All the best.
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Martin Tuomey
{K:689} 9/3/2005
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Hello Sammy, this is obviously Eggsellent. I am glad to be the first to say that.
It really should inspire us mere mortals to try and work towards this level of photography.
Great work.
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murat ayral
{K:2571} 9/7/2005
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Hello Sammy ,
wat an interesting image..Thanks for sharing and take your works easy:))
Best wishes..
Murat AYRAL
PS..Also thanks 4 your comment to my photos...
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gokmen aldogan
{K:2117} 9/11/2005
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wonderfull graphic
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Puripaso One
{K:13956} 9/28/2005
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Awesome work Sammy! Well done it's perfect!
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sammy -
{K:4108} 9/28/2005
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Well, ... that's interesting,
I thought I removed this pic
along with fifty or so others.
Jakke-
May I have a wodka, please???
(straight up)
wonder what's gonna happen next 8-)
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Marian Man
{K:69445} 9/28/2005
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congratulations dear Sammy for making front page!!!! well deserved award!!!!!!
Marian
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Ian Crean
{K:14863} 9/28/2005
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Terrific Sammy, inspirational work and such modesty in your words. A great explanation worded so that anyone can understand, you make it seem so simple! If only ....
About time you hit home page, be no keeping you off it now I reckon.
Cheers, Ian
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SORRENTE Patrick
{K:3095} 9/28/2005
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Great exercice !!!!!!!!
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Bruce Crawford
{K:634} 9/28/2005
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I love this. Congratulations on a beautiful image.
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Mort Gage
{K:2733} 9/28/2005
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This is Stellar! Impressive work at first glance that is impossible to merely glance at...but much more so impressive after your description below. I really enjoyed reading the technicals.. Very interesting to this amateur that makes a living doing other technical things...i eat this stuff up. Anyway, great work and congrats for Home Page!
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Kes
{K:18704} 9/28/2005
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It's up/down.. BACK... on the front page!!!
Bravo Sammy!
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Hooshang Nahrvar
{K:1900} 9/28/2005
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PATIENCE, CARE IN YOUR IMAGE ARE THE SING OF YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF PHOTOGRAPHY S TECHNIC & ART. H-N
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levent buyuk
{K:2032} 9/28/2005
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Superb shot...My congs...
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Mrinmoy Nag
{K:1050} 9/28/2005
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Great range of colors and nice distribution of increasing size. I wonder how would it look if you have taken the picture from the side where the larger eggs are, and then change the depth of fields to seee the effects. Digital SLR would be helpful to seee the immediate effect. Nonetheless, this one is a beautiful picture.
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Ehdae (Abullha AL Hazza)
{K:4722} 9/28/2005
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A stunning
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Raphael Günther
{K:586} 9/28/2005
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Wow! Wish it was mine.
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Roberto Arcari Farinetti
{K:179484} 9/28/2005
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congrats for the today POD
ciao
roby
and thanks for all..
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Fabiola Barrientos
{K:8166} 9/28/2005
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Very interesting !!!
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PK- Photos
{K:13257} 9/28/2005
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6x7 medium-format is excellent!!!! Like the sharpness and quality of this shot, very nice to look at:)
best regards, Pia :)
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Janet B
{K:16139} 9/28/2005
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Congrats, Sammy!
This is a spectacular shot that I have seen before, just never commented on it, but DID admire it! I think this was about the time I joined usefilm.
I want to thank you for commenting on my 'grainy' shot! I honestly appreciate it. And I often wonder why you pick on Keseph...I think you are the one that said he was 'creative because of the size of his feet', in reply to something I said??!!
Thanks, again, Sammy!
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sammy -
{K:4108} 9/28/2005
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Janet-
Thanks!
Yep, the admins reposted this
picture, I didn't!
Kes is an old friend of mine from
before UF, so I occasionally
tease him a bit.
TR, also a good buddy, is the one
that got Kes to come here. So I
thought, "What the heck,
I'll join too."
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N3ma Allah Hisham
{K:4826} 9/28/2005
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E X C E L L E N T
G R E A T W O R K
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Antonia BauerleinSehnert
{K:30036} 9/29/2005
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Yeah Sammy! You know how much I love this. Congrats on POD!!!! Antonia
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Ameed El-Ghoul
{K:42174} 9/30/2005
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This is just wonderful composition Sammy, I like it allot, for sure it deserve to be on a magazine cover, very well composed and captured,
Regards,
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Gust@vo Sch3v3rin
{K:125472} 9/30/2005
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Excelente trabajo Sammy, una obra de arte.
Felicitaciones!
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Pat Fruen
{K:12073} 10/1/2005
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Beautifully composed; rich with detail and color.
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David Chauvin
{K:200} 10/2/2005
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Excellent composition and lighting. Very cool!
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mundh
{K:3974} 10/3/2005
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hey sammy this is beautiful, is this shot taken by u?
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Frank Crommelin
{K:606} 10/8/2005
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WOW X 7 Great shot and Explanation.
Every once and a while a Great Picture comes alonge and this is it. Thanks for sharing.
Re: your comment on the tree in Cemetery Pond, I Missed something, maybe I can't see tree for the forest?
Regards, Frank
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Herman Blockx
{K:-407} 10/11/2005
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great peace of artwork! liked your set up and shooting info very much!
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Judi Liosatos
{K:34029} 10/19/2005
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Very nice capture of all the egg shapes. Beautiful details and range of colours.
Judi
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Mari Mar
{K:11396} 11/28/2005
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Maravillosa, great work, congrats!
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Kambiz K
{K:37420} 1/27/2006
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I am sorry. I guess I lost here.
Did you write that book?
If so why didn't you take a photo of it.
Perhaps you could put that image in www.usescan.com !
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Jose Ignacio (Nacho) Garcia Barcia
{K:92421} 10/27/2007
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great shapes and texture. simply gorgeous. 7+++++++++++++++++++++
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Hussam AL_ Khoder
{K:64692} 6/23/2008
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Realy very Interesting picture.
Have a great day.
7/7
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