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Critique By:
Howard M. Parsons (K:3496)
4/10/2003 9:52:19 AM
Attractive photo.However the focus (or the scan)is a little soft
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| Photo By: stephen chong
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Critique By:
Lachlan Rex (K:159)
4/9/2003 5:29:17 AM
Ahh Yes Jennifer, photography is what one makes of it!, Although to add a photo to a project for "Long Exposure" that drops incredibly short of a shutter time of 2 minutes is then questionable if then this work is in fact "long Exposure". To me long exposure is past the point where the camera's internal shutter relase can operate (so say over 30seconds).
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| Photo By: stephen chong
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Critique By:
Jennifer Hampton (K:83)
4/5/2003 12:43:03 PM
I disagree, Lachlan Rex. Photography is what you make it. If Stephen is happy with his work, that's all that matters. I know this peice makes me feel great--it brought a smile to my face. Good work!
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| Photo By: stephen chong
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Critique By:
Lachlan Rex (K:159)
4/2/2003 2:37:09 PM
Stephen, I have come across many of your photos in this "Project - Long Exposures", I can see how this and other shots of yours may have seemed to have been "Long" although I feel that your not yet pushing your limits, and thus I feel that is what photography is all about. So heres the challange (You may need to purchase a "Shutter Release Cable" a purchase that you will be glad of, once you feel the power of it! Now set up a shot like that of cars travelling at night, lock the shutter open for say 20 to 40 minutes! The you shall truely be able to say you have shot "Long Exposure"  )
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| Photo By: stephen chong
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Critique By:
Howard M. Parsons (K:3496)
3/28/2003 9:35:44 AM
The image is a little soft, but still very effective.
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| Photo By: stephen chong
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Critique By:
stephen chong (K:519)
3/11/2003 6:02:16 PM
hey thanks! i agree the recropped picture improves the impact of the picture. i am still trying to get used to PS. I more of a "MS-picture it" user, the complicated PS interface puts me off sometimes. I'm trying to get the hang of it!
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Critique By:
Kerri Turgeon (K:208)
3/10/2003 5:33:32 PM
I forgot to check the box!
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Critique By:
Kerri Turgeon (K:208)
3/10/2003 5:11:21 PM
I agree with not being afraid of shooting too many pictures! I just have to remember not to run out at key moments! This is a lovely shot. If you had crop it a little tighter to eliminate some of the leg on the right and the arm on the left I think the traditionalist would not have much to criticize with your composition. Excellent choice to use black and white. It eliminates distracting background colors and helps to focus on the moment.
I hope you don't mind - I cropped the image and blurred some of the background for a comparison. Let me know what you think.
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Critique By:
Wallace Rollins (K:149)
3/10/2003 9:18:43 AM
Nice work, Steve! Well-seen, well-composed, and perfectly categorized. A Decisive Moment indeed! One could wish there were no disembodied leg in the upper-right corner but, as so often happens, reality intrudes. I'd be tempted to burn it in PS, at least a little.
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| Photo By: stephen chong
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Critique By:
Alessandro Berselli (K:2920)
3/8/2003 10:18:04 AM
Good pic stephen, T400cn is a wonderful film but I prefere print it on B&W barite paper the result is ecellent try you too.
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Critique By:
Lynn Moore (K:1059)
3/3/2003 11:07:26 AM
I'm surprised you haven't had loads of comments about this shot. This would be a great shot for an architectural study like the one I'm doing for City & Guilds. I would be very proud to have captured this one on film. Well done for noticing this potentialimage and keep on looking for more!
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Critique By:
Marc Robin (K:3385)
3/1/2003 6:04:17 PM
Hi, neat idea. I think that the contrast could be boosted a bit in photoshop, and it seems that the sharpness has suffered in the scan (I am also a victim of this problem). Finally, the weeds at the top, and something red in the top left corner are slightly distracting. It might be interesting to crop them off. Having said all this, the colours are nice!
Cheers, Marc
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| Photo By: stephen chong
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Critique By:
stephen chong (K:519)
2/27/2003 6:57:15 AM
hello! the attached is the original. maybe i did go a little too far, but i still prefer the former. which one do u prefer?
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Critique By:
Brad Morris (K:3307)
2/27/2003 3:23:57 AM
Not sure if the resizing done by the web site has increased the grain/niose in the image or not. Having said that,I think that you may have gone a too far with the grain effect
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Critique By:
AJ Haselwood (K:2148)
2/26/2003 9:55:19 AM
Good line and color, a bit on the soft side. Maybe the scan?
aj
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Critique By:
Valeh B (K:890)
2/23/2003 2:13:59 PM
What a great capture!
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| Photo By: stephen chong
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Critique By:
R Pires (K:445)
2/23/2003 9:15:54 AM
Good contrast of colors!
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Critique By:
stephen chong (K:519)
2/23/2003 8:04:57 AM
i felt i should have kept the beams vertical. looks abit weird, don't u think? anyway, i face this problem of distortion esp in landscape shots on the 35mm lens. how can i overcome it?
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Critique By:
karl magnuson (K:373)
2/23/2003 7:24:52 AM
Lovely!The almost pastel nature grabs me.More!
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Critique By:
stephen chong (K:519)
2/23/2003 5:48:06 AM
yup, these are plastic buckets! a tight crop did the trick....i remembered the curious stares and funny shopkeeper as i squatted and shifted at the walkway while working the lens. I love the set-up of spontaneous colours.
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Critique By:
tess campbell (K:515)
2/22/2003 7:01:34 PM
I have no idea......
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Critique By:
Kathryn Roberts (K:187)
2/22/2003 6:49:45 PM
Hmm... looks like a stack of buckets to me... Am I right? DO I win a prize?
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Critique By:
Don Loseke (K:32503)
2/21/2003 5:40:06 PM
Great color. Looks like a pretty short depth of field.
More abstract than pictorial. I like it.
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Critique By:
Clara Showalter (K:663)
2/20/2003 6:11:10 AM
I love those types of "accidents". The biker adds to the image and changes the whole focus. Especially where you captured the word "Police". I agree that this became a stronger image than a typical nightscape would have been.
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Critique By:
stephen chong (K:519)
2/18/2003 6:19:20 AM
i find it extremely difficult to compose properly since the mirror (and therefore viewfinder) locks when the shutter opens. Does new-generation digital SLRs like D100 and finepix S2 suffers from that too? And yes, i wished i had used a slower film that day. Could someone elaborate more on the "black card" method?
3 rolls of exposures gave me 20+ decent prints!
and yes, it was quite a show! it would be a long time before we have such a scale a show in town here!
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Critique By:
Scott McFadden (K:5663)
2/18/2003 3:49:49 AM
Beautiful capture and great use of a tripod.
Needs a slower film to really define greater color.
Also its starting blow out a little in the middle but a slower film would probably have helped with that too.
There is another idea out there about a black card in front of the lense that reduces the leader trail if you want to.
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Critique By:
Megan Forbes (K:4617)
2/18/2003 12:57:53 AM
Lovely sharp capture - looks like you saw quite a show!
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| Photo By: stephen chong
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Critique By:
stephen chong (K:519)
2/15/2003 7:08:16 AM
thanks! the flash of light is actually a spotlight planted in the shallow waters to light up the merlion statue in the night. incidentally, i stumbled onto this position behind the statue and composed this. By shifting myself, i managed to get the shaft of light shining directly into the ejected water hitting the surface. if i didnt remember wrongly, it was a 4 sec exposure.
i fiddled a little of the contrast in MS picture-it, to give the colour saturation. Cheating, i know!
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Critique By:
Nikki-ann (K:535)
2/15/2003 6:36:18 AM
This photo is almost out of this world! I can only begin to imagine what it could actually be. Great effect with the water, but where did that flash of light come from?
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| Photo By: stephen chong
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Critique By:
Aaron Charlton Smith (K:625)
2/14/2003 5:05:27 PM
I agree, the colors do have sort of a faded, washed out look to them.
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