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Critique By:
José Zito Junior (K:466)
6/2/2009 1:01:01 AM
Simpliciadade e beleza caminham juntas
Mas registrar esse encontro usando a fotografia requer poesia e técnica
Poesia e técnica estão presentes em seua trabalho
congratulações
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Critique By:
saad alqasem (K:1202)
2/16/2007 9:52:01 PM
wow b&w :) :) :) good
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Critique By:
Jozsef Dotzi (K:582)
12/27/2006 7:49:45 PM
this is really cool
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Critique By:
Jason Hopson (K:3283)
9/25/2006 8:04:16 PM
Looking at this picture I keep expecting to see Dr. Who step out.
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Critique By:
fokstrot . (K:6560)
7/17/2006 6:36:19 AM
Really fantastic picture and lovely model
regards
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Critique By:
Giulio Rotelli (K:28441)
12/30/2005 1:19:56 AM
uno scatto eccellente come molti altri nel tuo fantastico portfolio..
qui i dettagli ed i colori sono incredibili: sembra di essere un'altro insetto che aspetta il suo turno mentre osserva l'ape...
7/7
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Critique By:
Chris Hudson (K:1157)
12/29/2005 1:56:48 AM
good angle on this
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Critique By:
Enrico Mazzoni (K:888)
12/18/2005 1:28:49 PM
Nice shadow game on the brick pattern.
Molto bella.
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Critique By:
Aleix Oriol (K:868)
12/16/2005 2:23:31 AM
Fantastic shot, I like the focus on the menacing sky, very dramatic composition! Well done!
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Critique By:
Steve Aronoff (K:18393)
12/6/2005 3:40:46 AM
Cats are very photogenic, but this is an especially terrific shot. Super!
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Critique By:
Rudy H (K:136)
12/6/2005 2:38:10 AM
First I apologize for butchering your photo. As many others have said, great shot. I love it.
Now about what I did to your photo. This is an exaggeration to show that there was more detail in the jpg image, at least in the blacks. Using curves only (I?m sure there are better ways to bring out detail) I increased the contrast in the blacks. This also pushed up the mid tones but I was more interested in showing the detail lost in the blacks. JPG images throws away a lot more information in the blacks. If you want to get the most out of the image then shoot RAW. There is more information and it allow you to do more manipulation before it starts to look bad.
I believe to get what you are looking for is increased local contrast. Not the whole image but tonal areas in the image. The problem we have is that the reproducing media we have can not capture real life. So in order to not loose details in the highlights or the shadows we reduce contrast. Then our picture looks flat.
This is a even bigger problem for reproductions in magazines (compared to lab results on photographic paper). I have not looked into how the graphics arts industry currently work their magic with photoshop. The last time I looked at the issue was over 20 years ago and that was working with film, lithographic, screen solutions to the same problem. Now we should have a lot more control with the tools we have as long as we have the information to play with.
Your question reminds me of some pictures I took with some B&W agfa 25ASA film. The results looked great. I was playing with a halftone screen and some lithographic film to produce a positive. Looked good holding the positive image against a white sheet. I then held it up to the light and saw all the extra detail in the blacks that I didn?t know was there. I didn?t know halftone screens could produce so much detail. The trick though is to not loose it.
I doubt if this has helped much. I?m sure there are those that could give you more practical suggestions.
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Critique By:
Hanggan Situmorang (K:24833)
12/6/2005 1:38:52 AM
Tamara, I think you've successfully managed the contrast very well. The black furr still shows some details, and so is the white one, and that makes this photo looks so fine. Beside that, the angle and his pose is soo cute and cool. Looks like he owns the house.. Congratulations for the achievement. Very well deserved award!
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Critique By:
Malak Rashad (K:643)
12/5/2005 9:01:40 PM
lol
i thought the title was what you imagined the cat would be saying.. u know, sitting by the window giving advice like an old man.
love it!
an i think your b/w is good although i would've increased the contrast a little but i still like yours
congrats on both awards
best regards
malak
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Critique By:
Patrick Ziegler (K:21797)
12/5/2005 8:53:14 PM
I found this technique a few month ago. It is just over half way down the pagee and called photo toner technique. It is really great!!
Replace the 0's wit dots and the slash with a slash. There a little paranoid about sending adresses around here ??
www0russellbrown0com slash tips_tech0html
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Critique By:
Nichol Rose (K:1020)
12/5/2005 7:22:30 PM
Nice shot! I like the cat's expression; It's like a guy I know waiting impatiently for his beer at the bar.
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Critique By:
Roberto Arcari Farinetti (K:209486)
12/5/2005 6:21:14 PM
..to you my dear friend.. a nice moment and pose-gesture..
really tendr and intimate.. is a friend!
roby
7+
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Critique By:
Roberto Arcari Farinetti (K:209486)
12/5/2005 6:20:15 PM
so grey.. so deep... i like it!
best regards
roby
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Critique By:
Roberto Arcari Farinetti (K:209486)
12/5/2005 6:17:05 PM
marvelous tamara.. wonderful frame and moment
cheers
roby
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Critique By:
Ordilei Caldeira (K:2545)
12/5/2005 5:26:15 PM
Great pic! i love cat?s. I have one, his name is legolas.
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Critique By:
Sheila Carson (K:5924)
12/5/2005 5:00:43 PM
I love this. The contrast in colors is great and the DOF is right on! Well done.
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Critique By:
Sheila Carson (K:5924)
12/5/2005 4:58:11 PM
Congratulations on being on the front page. I remember seeing this photo and I love it. The angle that you used here is beautiful! Great job!
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Critique By:
Roberto Arcari Farinetti (K:209486)
12/5/2005 4:56:57 PM
my prefer....
roby
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Critique By:
Savinelli Lorenzo (K:2844)
12/5/2005 4:39:58 PM
incredible work.-
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Critique By:
Graham . (K:2487)
12/5/2005 4:22:26 PM
First off, the lens or any equipment has precious little to do with the image?s contrast of brightness of anything else ? it merely resolves photons to a CCD which are then translated to bits of tone. All they may do is offer better acutance, but light is light. Always work in 16-bit wherever you can. Your default is 8-bit. Dodging and burning are techniques that make the technical aspects of the image worse, not better, and are purely aesthetical, not technical. Conversely, if the area is void of tone in the first place, it is gone forever. Correct exposure is the ONLY way to overcome this. The most effective way of working with this image is first of all to set it to 16-bit, and then desaturate the image, i.e. remove the color component so you are left with a ?true? black and white negative. In PS (there is a small arrow about 1? in from the bottom status bar ? click that to see all the info on the file you are working with). Then, the most effective manner of working with this file is the LEVELS utility. Do some research on this (I have several CS2 manuals for this) to learn how to use levels to maximum effect. Channel mixer is OK, but unless you really know what you?re doing, will probably make the image worse. Remember; always work in TIFF format as it is a lossless process with much higher resolution. You will lose image quality EVERY time you open and close an image in JPG format (which is why it is not used professionally ? it is for display purposes only, and technically very poor quality). I cover all of these (and more) techniques in my photo tuition course if you?re interested. I cover a great deal of digital technicalities for those who really are interested in becoming better photographers. Ideally, work with RAW images and you have all the control you need, but this again is subject to a plethora ?standards? and will probably fall by the wayside in years to come as a universal standard is not likely to be agreed upon by hardware manufacturers. Also, UF limits file size to 360K and 800 pixels ? mostly useless for displaying any kind of quality image. Looking at the image, the EV differences between the sky outside and the cat?s midtones (never mind shadows) are beyond the realm of ANY current photographic technique, even Kodachrome. So, simply put, what you ask can NOT be done, period. Not yet, anyway. Remember, our eyes are infinitely more sensitive than any camera, so we compensate for this discrepancy with our eyes and brain. Cameras can not do this and their latitude is extremely limited in comparison. Hope this helps. All the best, Graham.
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Critique By:
Guido Tweepenninckx (K:20076)
12/5/2005 10:34:11 AM
he is good
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Critique By:
Hubert Mackiewicz (K:661)
12/5/2005 10:29:24 AM
one of the best cat's portraits 
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Critique By:
Renato Renato (K:4759)
12/5/2005 10:23:49 AM
congrate with you,a very nice B&W,great!
ciao Renato
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Critique By:
marco "dheim" orciuoli (K:4467)
12/5/2005 10:21:18 AM
wonderful portrait! i think BW works greatly, you might have just increased the contrast a bit
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Critique By:
Roger Williams (K:86139)
12/5/2005 9:21:08 AM
Well, you are setting yourself a very high standard, because most people would be happy to achieve a B&W photo of this quality. But I personally find playing around with PS channels an exercise in frustration and very, very time consuming. I use the Power Retouche plug-in called Black & White Studio, which allows me to use Ansel Adams zone-based approach to creating B&W images or to emulate various popular film emulsion and printing paper characteristics. This pulls every tool you need into one screen, with very subtle and flexible control over each detail. It is therefore a good time-saver as well as producing good results, and I recommend it. (No commercial interest, just a satisfied user.) Of course this assumes you have a fairly strong background of wet-process darkroom work. Difficult to advise you if you are coming into the hobby knowing only digital photography. (I mean difficult for me to advise you because that's all I know, not that you would have any difficulty following--you obviously wouldn't!)
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Critique By:
Gayle's Eclectic Photos (K:91109)
12/5/2005 8:21:57 AM
hi, congrats for both awards!...well deserved for this simple but oh so cool shot of your kitty...love the perspective,B/W tone and that FG paw!.....i shoot film and convert color shots to B/W in paintshop pro8 via desat and then hit greyscale...you can also just hit the greyscale,but using the desat first seems to look better...a great setting in paintshop is the "Black n' white pts." which give you true blks. whites and midtones depending on what settings you choose....regards,gayle
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