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Critique By:
Cemal Ekin (K:2309)
11/29/2002 6:58:50 AM
A happy accident indeed. The wires remind me of a couple in a spontaneou intimate pose. In the fuzzy background, I perceive (which may be totlally off the mark) a sidewalk vendor possibly selling flowers which creates an interesting juxtaposition with the sharply focused inanimate wires.
The brightness of the middle portion on the right somewhat bothers me since it takes the edge off the wires with its brilliance. I covered that side of the image by shrinking the width of my broser and the resulting very tall image pleased me more where the wires were visible with greater emphasis.
Cemal
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| Photo By: Aiman Nassar
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Critique By:
Cemal Ekin (K:2309)
11/29/2002 6:50:46 AM
I copied and pasted the image in Phtoshop and it instantly lit up with wonderful glow. I think my previous diagnosis is correct. The attached image was simply paseted in a new file in Photoshop, converted to sRGB and exported to JPG. I hope you do not mind this quick manipulation to explain my point.
Cemal
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| Photo By: Darran Higgins
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Critique By:
Cemal Ekin (K:2309)
11/29/2002 6:48:03 AM
Very inspiring vista, interesting light on the near ridge, and good depth. I wonder if with this kind of lighting the color would not be a bit more vivid, expecially on the spot-lit ridge? It almost looks like an image that was left in Adobe color profile, instead of what most screens display, sRGB. It will be much better with stronger tones and contrast
Cemal
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| Photo By: Darran Higgins
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Critique By:
Cemal Ekin (K:2309)
11/28/2002 8:37:41 PM
I think there are one too many blades of grass! What a wonderful image. The color of the lighthouse is a gold mine and you have done a great job capitalizing on that. The eye movment in the photograph is very consistent for me. I looked at it several times after I scrolled it off my browser. Every time, I see the Big Red, then my eyes follow the pier line to the end, there they make a quick turn and trace the conours of the shoreline. The blades of tall grass look like they are trying to reach the horizon and create a nice dynamic set of elements.
Excellent
Cemal
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| Photo By: Gary Martin
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Critique By:
Cemal Ekin (K:2309)
11/28/2002 5:09:37 PM
Barbara,
You can see the mirror image of yours among my new photographs. I had mentioned it in my first comment.
Cemal
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| Photo By: Barbara A. Novak
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Critique By:
Cemal Ekin (K:2309)
11/28/2002 4:45:35 PM
Interesting Barry, I thought of Man Ray when I first saw the thumbnail too. It would make an excellent book cover. It is an interesting abstraction of an urbane man. Although some may take issue with the cigarette, without it the photograph is not complete.
Cemal
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| Photo By: wayne stubbs
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Critique By:
Cemal Ekin (K:2309)
11/28/2002 4:41:01 PM
I am no botanist but this looks like a very special speciment. The color and texture are very interesting. I am puzzled by the fuzzy halo around the perimeter of the plant. Could it be because of an effort to add Gaussian blur to the sky? If so, there are ways to overcome that problem. If they are not, what gave that look to the perimeter against the sky?
Cemal
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| Photo By: Susan Hartman
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Critique By:
Cemal Ekin (K:2309)
11/28/2002 4:35:46 PM
Curves, curves everywhere. They are very interesting and a geometer would love to study this photograph. I really like the gracefully corved stairs leading the eye to the brightly lit panel on the second floor. The doorway on the left looks very mysterious. I expect someone to just come out of there.
Excellent
Cemal
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| Photo By: wayne stubbs
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Critique By:
Cemal Ekin (K:2309)
11/28/2002 4:27:42 PM
Highly formal composition fitting for a place of worship. The repeating patterns are highly effective. The gray scale is exquisite. This reminds me of a B&W image used to illustrate a printing process or printing paper.
Very well done.
Cemal
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| Photo By: wayne stubbs
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Critique By:
Cemal Ekin (K:2309)
11/28/2002 4:16:39 PM
Bjoern, I am sure it is your intention to have low-key image and to that end your image succeeds. However, i think it will be a stronger image with more open shadows. There seems to be enough light to cast a sharp shadow on the roof below the chimney stack. That could be used to your advantage by opening up the values on the bricks. If you want to keep the background in fog and lower values, that you can achieve by adjusting the blending mode.
Cemal
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| Photo By: Bjoern Oldsen
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Critique By:
Cemal Ekin (K:2309)
11/28/2002 3:55:52 PM
Powerful and impactful. What I miss from most of your work is that they are not as big as I would like to see them. I am sure this photograph has a much different impact whn printed 11x14 and up. They are "big" images in a small space on my monitor.
Cemal
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| Photo By: Greg Summers
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Critique By:
Cemal Ekin (K:2309)
11/28/2002 3:41:03 PM
Relatively low positioning of the mountains gives them a greater feeling of stability and they look invincible. The storm broiling overhead will not faze them the least bit. I like the tension created between the sharp and jagged mountain profiles against the puffy, soft, but formidable looking clouds.
I wonder how it might look with a slight increas in contrast, slightly deeper shadows and lighter highlights. Just a curiosity. (For reference, I see all zones on the gray scale at the bottom.)
Cemal
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| Photo By: Greg Summers
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Critique By:
Cemal Ekin (K:2309)
11/27/2002 11:09:03 AM
I saw them in the supermarket today, nice variety of mums. None was as good as the one you photographed thoug.
Cemal
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| Photo By: Beverly Gustafson
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Critique By:
Cemal Ekin (K:2309)
11/27/2002 9:10:32 AM
It is like a fractal image. If you played with a fractal graphic creation software you will know what I am talking about. If you have not, you don't know what you are missing.
Very good photograph, graphically and technically.
Cemal
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| Photo By: Kenneth Kwan
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Critique By:
Cemal Ekin (K:2309)
11/27/2002 8:40:00 AM
The blue wall, instead of a white one, creates a positive-negative effect between the two halves of the photograph. Even the windows carry the same effect with light and dark center panes. Strong graphic.
Cemal
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| Photo By: Aiman Nassar
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Critique By:
Cemal Ekin (K:2309)
11/26/2002 7:54:48 PM
This could trip a fire alarm if enlarged! What kind of flower is this Beverly? Nice framing and super color. Could the inside of the petals to the right of the green center use a tad more light, a little white card, or PS adjustment, especially the one at 2 o'clock position?
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Critique By:
Cemal Ekin (K:2309)
11/25/2002 8:11:17 PM
He looks like and feels like he is carrying the wall on his shoulders. A "Pocket Atlas!" I wonder what the text says. With the peace symbol there, the writing may add much to the photograph. Of course, our perception may be playing a trick on us by making the brand-mark of Mercedes be perceived as the peace symbol. I hope not. Commands reflecting on it.
Cemal
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| Photo By: Marek Garbacz
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Critique By:
Cemal Ekin (K:2309)
11/25/2002 7:59:21 PM
It would be nice if they also told you why they disliked this image. I really would like to hear that. It has a very interesting angle; a very curious subject; the lone tree growing at the peak of a rock; two observers, the photographer and the moon; and wonderful lighting. What more could I ask? As I said on another occasion Greg, I can sense your reverence towards nature. Well done.
Cemal
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| Photo By: Greg Summers
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Critique By:
Cemal Ekin (K:2309)
11/24/2002 6:17:38 PM
A whirlwind of red, exciting.
Cemal
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Photo By: Ingrid Mathews
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Critique By:
Cemal Ekin (K:2309)
11/24/2002 6:09:31 PM
I must go to Shannock, it msut be around the corner from me. (Anywaher in RI is around the corner!) I like this one too for different reasons. The contrast between the orange and the blue is very good. The shape of the waterfall and the angle from which you approached it makes this a very good image. Highly memorable.
As an aside, I thought the other waterfall looked like the one at Kenyon Mill. Is it?
Cemal
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| Photo By: Ingrid Mathews
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Critique By:
Cemal Ekin (K:2309)
11/24/2002 5:58:16 PM
The B&W works better for me although the color image is very good in its own right. In the B&W version, I see more forms and greater depth which add to the image a lot. In a way, the vendor's reluctance was quite serendipitous. As a result, you have a very nice arching frame that contains the main subjects, the bicycle and the cart. Very nice.
Cemal
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| Photo By: Ken Alexander
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Critique By:
Cemal Ekin (K:2309)
11/24/2002 5:52:07 PM
The first thing that came to my mind when I saw this photograph was a Kurosawa movie calld "The Hidden Fortress." What a lovely ray of light, as if coming down just to illuminate the smoke. I like the curvaceous terraces and the house in front of them.
I really like this photograph.
Cemal
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| Photo By: Ken Alexander
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Critique By:
Cemal Ekin (K:2309)
11/24/2002 5:47:05 PM
It is a study in yellow which forms a nice triangle. I don't think the photograph would have been as strong without the yellow turban of the man. It has a wonderful feeling.
Cemal
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| Photo By: Ken Alexander
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Critique By:
Cemal Ekin (K:2309)
11/24/2002 5:41:25 PM
Reflection of the great furnace in the sky, fiersome, fiery, and beautiful.
Cemal
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| Photo By: Steve Kaufman
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Critique By:
Cemal Ekin (K:2309)
11/24/2002 5:39:14 PM
I like the dancing tree, flamenco of course. He has raised his arms, pushed his waist into a graceful curve, on his toes looking down on his partner below.
It has much motion in this colorful stage.
Cemal
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| Photo By: Suha Derbent
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Critique By:
Cemal Ekin (K:2309)
11/24/2002 5:36:19 PM
Merhaba Suha,
Very nice portrait of the majestic beast, as if a studio shot. You seem to have travelled to interesting places.
Cemal
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| Photo By: Suha Derbent
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Critique By:
Cemal Ekin (K:2309)
11/24/2002 5:32:01 PM
I'd say Fred and Ginger, they are dancing are they not? Very animated image of a typically static onject. Lovely.
Cemal
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| Photo By: Steve Kaufman
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Critique By:
Cemal Ekin (K:2309)
11/24/2002 10:17:46 AM
Thanks for setting this straight!
Cemal
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| Photo By: Gary Martin
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Critique By:
Cemal Ekin (K:2309)
11/24/2002 5:42:16 AM
I like the huge sky which emphasizes the loneliness of the walker. The horizontal split between the land and the sky is quite effective. My only problem is with the over-saturated middle part of the sky.
Cemal
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| Photo By: Sarah Needham
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Critique By:
Cemal Ekin (K:2309)
11/23/2002 1:51:17 PM
Ken,
I duplicated the layer and adjusted the curves to make the background layer darker. Then I applied more sharpening to it. Then I switched to the newly made BG copy layer and changed its opacity to 50%. Finally, I applied goussian blur to the BG copy until I liked the effect.
I thought it would hide the artefacts that stem from more than normal sharpening and would make it soft on purpose.
Cemal
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| Photo By: Ken Alexander
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