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Critique By:
Sandor Szollos (K:7681)
6/19/2007 11:15:48 AM
Very nice macro work! Nagyon jó munka! Grat!
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:127263)
6/15/2007 11:52:08 AM
Thanks a lot for the informative answer, Andras! Now I know a bit more of the work with photos!
Cheers,
Nick
P.S.: I don't like digital changes that affect the content of the image itself as I try to do anything only with camera/lens, but the frames are another story.
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:127263)
6/15/2007 11:49:00 AM
So even boredom can lead to great images! ;-)
But seriously, Andras, I have never seen such an effect before too. Of course it is easy to explain it and understand it afterwards in terms of simple physics, but the fact remains that it is not so easy to conceive it *before* capturing. Here you followed, as far I know, a completely new and also fruitable path, that I am inclined to try out in the next low light consitions. What a creative usage of the flash light!
Nick
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Critique By:
Andras Kocsis (K:1543)
6/15/2007 9:24:08 AM
Thanks Srna for the lovely comment!
Cheers
Andras
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Critique By:
Srna Stankovic (K:172232)
6/15/2007 8:55:34 AM
It really looks like as if it wera a small planet and you made it to be so alive and so magical :)))) Beautiful work dear Andras !!!
Excellent :))))
Hug
Srna
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Critique By:
Andras Kocsis (K:1543)
6/15/2007 8:37:40 AM
Thank you Harry for your kind comment!
Cheers
Andras
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Critique By:
Andras Kocsis (K:1543)
6/15/2007 8:36:01 AM
Yes, you're right: an edge preset is like a frame, it gives the edge of the picture some effect. It is preset, so you can choose from a wide variety of edge options. I find this suitable for this picture, and anyway I like changes :)
Regards
Andras
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Critique By:
Andras Kocsis (K:1543)
6/15/2007 8:32:29 AM
Thank you Nick for your usual detailed comment. I felt bored on that day, it was about 7-8 p.m., so there wasn't so much natural light. As a background I used one of my black T-shirt :) And I was satisfied with the results too, I have never seen such an effect.
Thanks again and all the best
Andras
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Critique By:
H L (K:11377)
6/14/2007 7:59:56 PM
Bravo!!!Beautiful shot great blend of colors and details, especially the angle effectiveness’ can see your effort with E-400 and the 18-50 is very rewarding!!!
Cheers,
Harry
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:127263)
6/14/2007 7:50:28 PM
Andras, to my endless shame I must confess that I don't know what an edge preset is :-( Perhaps some filter that manipulates the edges of the picture and adds some particular frame?
Nick
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:127263)
6/14/2007 7:42:01 PM
I could take them for lamps intstead of lumps, Andras! A very original idea, to use the fact that after the flash of the light, the trails of the more reflective objects *will* still contribute to the photo for some short period of time in which the camera moves, but the dark objects will cease to contribute almost immediatelly at the end of the burst of light of the flash!
And the result is very interetsing, since it includes motion and perfect standstill not by simply capturing a scene of moving and standing things, but rather by moving the camera at the right moment!
Great! It is such ideas that can be thought of as steps towards the new!
Nick
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Critique By:
Andras Kocsis (K:1543)
6/14/2007 6:59:28 PM
Thank you my friend for the nice detailed comment! The only "manipulation" i gave the picture is an edge preset (in Photoimpact 12), which is quite similar to the flakes of the plant.
Regards
Andras
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Critique By:
Andras Kocsis (K:1543)
6/14/2007 6:56:06 PM
Thanks dear Biljana for the generous rating, and I am very happy that you favorited it.
Big hug
Andras
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Critique By:
Andras Kocsis (K:1543)
6/14/2007 6:54:23 PM
Thanks Gennaro!
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:127263)
6/14/2007 6:39:12 PM
A very original one, Andras! I would rather name it a small sun, and this not only because of the lightrays, but also (and especially) because of the sunspots! Astronomy meets photography, or perhaps astrosuggestive photography? ;-)
What makes it so special, I think, is the great amount of details on the celestrial body itself, that is surrounded by a diffuse halo and then by that regular pattern that is just visible enough to create the impression that this sun exists in space coordinates!
Great idea and also imprementation!
Nick
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Critique By:
biljana mitrovic (K:48110)
6/14/2007 6:33:08 PM
Just perfect ...my Favorite:)))
7/7
hugs dear friend
biljana
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Critique By:
Gennaro Manna (K:21301)
6/14/2007 6:31:41 PM
great composition and detail...congrats
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:127263)
6/14/2007 8:34:16 AM
I understand Andras, more than quite well, when you speak about those small unshameful things that just have to be where we don't need them! Sometimes I wish I could shoot photos *and* birds down with the camera! ;-)
Perhaps again some thoughts here, considering the choise of composition. Many times, and I think that this is a good example for that, some particular part of a scene draws our attention. And then, when looking at exactly that part through the view finder we still keep in mind the rest of the scene too! This seems to be even stronger when looking at the LCD screen of a more modern camera, since there is not that kind of isolation of the framed part of the scene. Our mind still continues to consider the already seen view as a whole, adding more or less strongly what will not appear on the shot. So, for the compositional aspect, it is really a good thing to consciously forget about anything that exists in mind but will not exist on the photo, since only the photographer can now what else was there and supplement it even *after* the photo has been taken. This turns also to be a main reason for the very different views in discussions of the photographer and the spectator, who of course hasn't seen what the photographer has seen - the rest of the scene.
Just some thoughts.
Cheers,
Nick
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Critique By:
Andras Kocsis (K:1543)
6/14/2007 8:06:02 AM
Thank you dear friend Biljana!
All the best
Andras
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Critique By:
biljana mitrovic (K:48110)
6/14/2007 8:00:52 AM
Very beautiful colors,and the whole picture is very peaceful:))))
I like it
7+++
hugs dear friend
biljana
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Critique By:
biljana mitrovic (K:48110)
6/14/2007 7:59:29 AM
You are welcome my friend:)))
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Critique By:
Andras Kocsis (K:1543)
6/14/2007 7:53:47 AM
Thanks for the kind comment, I'm glad u like it! :)
And thanks for the generous rating!
Cheers
Andras
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Critique By:
biljana mitrovic (K:48110)
6/14/2007 7:49:46 AM
I like your clouds:)
I just can imagine ...laying down on the grass and stares in this beautiful clouds.....7+
hugs
biljana
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Critique By:
Andras Kocsis (K:1543)
6/14/2007 7:26:02 AM
Thanks for the detailed comment and for the encouraging words! Unfortunately I didn't included more parts from the houses, because the sky was so attractive, that on first thought I wanted to exclude the houses and shoot the pure sky, but maybe that would have ruined the composition. Also some was birds flying through the scene constantly, which look like tiny spots on the picture, one can say that it is dust on the lens :) but fortunately I was able to exclude the birds in this picture.
Cheers
Andras
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:127263)
6/14/2007 7:18:16 AM
A nice and not so usual coloring of the sky here, Andras, and the silhouettes of the roofs kept in black and with good details of their contours against the background add to the sunset atmosphere. A bit raw in its composition and perhaps more of the houses could help. From my own experience with similar photos I could imagine that a shorter focal length would be appropriate here, though is has also some elements of an abstract as it is now.
Best wishes and keep it up,
Nick
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Critique By:
Andras Kocsis (K:1543)
6/13/2007 11:20:12 AM
Thank you Gennaro for the kind comment!
Cheers
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Critique By:
Gennaro Manna (K:21301)
6/13/2007 11:15:35 AM
Beautiful colors and lighting.
very well done, best regards.
Gennaro
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:127263)
6/12/2007 11:15:49 AM
And considering that it was a pocket camera, Andras, it is even more amazing!
Cheers,
Nick
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:127263)
6/12/2007 11:13:15 AM
The result is indeed more than simply "fine for you", Andras! Really, the animal itself is excellently captured. I thought about its unwillingness to stand in front of a darker backgound. Models nowadays are really very egoistic. ;-)
And I also thought about the possible enhancements which now makes me believe that there war not any. Should you correct manually towards underexposure for getting the background darker, it would simply ruin all those details and glances of the animal's fur. So, it was the very best that one could do having to work with such uncooperative models ;-)
Alas, nature doesn't care about photogenity! :-)
Best wishes,
Nick
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Critique By:
Nick Karagiaouroglou (K:127263)
6/12/2007 11:05:43 AM
OK, Andras. Then, perhaps as a small thing to carry in mind when autofocusing, auto-light-metering, auto-whatever: Such diffuse things, like for example clouds, foggy landscapes, water (not water surface), are most of the time not appropriate for automatic decisions of the camera. This is simply because the camera lacks artificial intelligence.
You see, it is indeed a matter of intelligence - of conscience - to "know" the focus plane when there is no distinct distance between the lens and the object. When the object has no real sharp boundries but rather flows from itself into the surroundings all autofocus systems up to date do have problems. And the follow-ups are expectedly metering and thus exposure problems.
Our brain is able to command our eyes to focus at the best possible distance range, and in addition it is able of performing all the "photo enhancement" on the fly that are necessary for a *perception* of a rich "photo". But the electronics of any camera are way much weaker than our brain, unfortunately.
Or should I say fortunately? Perhaps it is one of the main reasons that awake our minds in front of such difficult subjects, like clouds. They are tremendously hard to get. Perhaps you could study this subject by turning manual settings on, trying this and that, and taking notes of what is going on. A time consuming but very very fruitful inner development in the silent thoughts of the photographer - and in an extended consideration of anybody in artistic creation.
OK, I know, I bubbled too much! ;-)
Keep it up, try all things consciously and be prepared for the unexpected! ;-)
Best wishes,
Nick
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