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Critique By:
Daniel Iggers (K:530)
5/3/2004 11:13:09 PM
Cute, indeed. Jake is far too mature and handsome to be subjected to the indignity of "cute".
But I gotta admit, he is a real doll, eh.
Great light, expression, etc.
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| Photo By: Kim Culbert
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Critique By:
Daniel Iggers (K:530)
5/3/2004 11:10:50 PM
Thanks. But here's the one that I almost posted, as an hommage to you. :>
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| Photo By: Daniel Iggers
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Critique By:
Daniel Iggers (K:530)
5/2/2004 10:24:54 PM
Thanks.
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| Photo By: Daniel Iggers
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Critique By:
Daniel Iggers (K:530)
4/30/2004 3:34:19 PM
Lovely. But the title seems off. The only "old fishermen" who own lake or sea-side villas like that tend to be old millionaires as well.
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Photo By: Roberto Arcari Farinetti
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Critique By:
Daniel Iggers (K:530)
4/29/2004 1:45:11 AM
There is a rich buttery cookie, shaped like a sea shell, called a Madeleine. The novelist Marcel Proust wrote in his major opus Remembrance of Things Past (aka Swann's Way) about the memory of the smell of fresh Madeleines. In any event, the metal baking pan appeared to me to be a pan for baking Madeleines.
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| Photo By: Daniel Iggers
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Critique By:
Daniel Iggers (K:530)
4/23/2004 9:43:51 AM
Thanks. Oscar is a friend, an economist who has immigrated with his family to Canada from a small poor country in South America that is constantly in turmoil. He came along on a visit to Buffalo last year. The Frida Kahlo self-portrait was at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, which is, by the way, a great place. (AND they allow photography, without flash.)
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| Photo By: Daniel Iggers
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Critique By:
Daniel Iggers (K:530)
4/21/2004 12:57:28 PM
Thanks, Peter. I actually took the picture over a year ago. I'm pretty sure that I scanned from a print, but its possible that it was a scan done by Blacks, from 100 ASA store label Fuji clide film.
In any event, I don't think I sharpened it at all.
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| Photo By: Daniel Iggers
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Critique By:
Daniel Iggers (K:530)
4/21/2004 12:02:59 PM
Thanks, Peter. I actually took the picture over a year ago. I'm pretty sure that I scanned from a print, but its possible that it was a scan done by Blacks, from 100 ASA store label Fuji clide film.
In any event, I don't think I sharpened it at all.
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| Photo By: Daniel Iggers
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Critique By:
Daniel Iggers (K:530)
4/20/2004 12:13:06 AM
Sorry to find fault, but...
I don't like the way the flower is so centered. I just can't break out of the "rule of thirds", I guess.
There is something about the shape and color of the flower that seems unnatural - we're not looking at it head on, but there is not the expected shading or variation of color or, or - I'm not sure what - and so it looks out of kilter ... to me.
Finally, I think it would look better if there were less depth of field. Make the flower sharp and let the stems and leaves begin to blur.
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| Photo By: John Hetherington
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Critique By:
Daniel Iggers (K:530)
4/19/2004 10:00:29 AM
I agree, nice tones. The light is great. But... Not to be critical, but... its too bad that we don't get to see more of his face, esp. his eyes. Hands being partly out of frame? Not a problem. That big concrete wall at the left? Not so bad either.
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| Photo By: Jon O'Brien
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Critique By:
Daniel Iggers (K:530)
4/19/2004 9:55:59 AM
Thanks, Peter. I love the Super Takumar lenses on those Spotmatics.
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| Photo By: Daniel Iggers
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Critique By:
Daniel Iggers (K:530)
4/19/2004 12:42:36 AM
No comments? The old "if you can't say something nice" thing? :<
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| Photo By: Daniel Iggers
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Critique By:
Daniel Iggers (K:530)
4/18/2004 11:43:26 PM
Fine portrait!
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| Photo By: ADAM NOFEL
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Critique By:
Daniel Iggers (K:530)
4/16/2004 11:01:45 PM
No. Just a shot. There's not enough there to catch my interest.
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| Photo By: Terry V. Haslett
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Critique By:
Daniel Iggers (K:530)
4/16/2004 10:55:56 PM
Thanks. The film is a store brand film, that I know to be made by Agfa. (The store lab also uses excellent Agfa machines.) I willask the manager whether he knows which film it is.
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| Photo By: Daniel Iggers
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Critique By:
Daniel Iggers (K:530)
4/15/2004 6:05:48 PM
Lovely!
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| Photo By: Alberto Calheiros
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Critique By:
Daniel Iggers (K:530)
4/15/2004 12:40:35 AM
You really did a great job. This is a portrait to treasure.
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| Photo By: Pat Fruen
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Critique By:
Daniel Iggers (K:530)
4/13/2004 7:37:09 PM
I don't remember which "old M42 body" (i.e., an older SLR that takes screw-mount lenses) I used, but really what is key is shooting with an older fast "prime" such as, in this case, a Mamiya Sekor f/1.4 55mm, with the aperture wide open at f/1.4. Focus on a close-up subject, but be mindful of the background that will be a blur.
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| Photo By: Daniel Iggers
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Critique By:
Daniel Iggers (K:530)
4/13/2004 5:57:14 PM
Thanks. I don't own Photoshop. I have very simple software that has a "fix now" sort of feature, that adjusts the brightness and exposure slightly. If I like the change, I go with it, and if not I hit "undo". but what you see is 98.9% what's on the negative. No added colors or artificial ingredients.
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| Photo By: Daniel Iggers
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Critique By:
Daniel Iggers (K:530)
4/12/2004 5:32:19 PM
Excellent.
Its scary what these digital SLRs and Nikon prime lenses are capable of - in the hands of someone with a good eye.
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| Photo By: James Liebner
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Critique By:
Daniel Iggers (K:530)
4/12/2004 5:30:12 PM
Thanks. But, y'know, there's nothing wrong with a "6". When I rate photos, sometimes I like to hold the "7"s in reserve for photos that really blow me away.
I know you're not into florals, but you should try a few flower photos wide open witha 50mm f/1.8.
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| Photo By: Daniel Iggers
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Critique By:
Daniel Iggers (K:530)
4/12/2004 5:02:52 PM
Lovely. So you say you were "deprived of photogenic subjects"? Hmm.
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| Photo By: John Lamb
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Critique By:
Daniel Iggers (K:530)
4/11/2004 4:59:40 PM
Thanks, Paula. I didn't make any changes with photo editing software. If I had, I'd have removed that hair that seems to have been on the scanner glass. (:>)
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| Photo By: Daniel Iggers
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Critique By:
Daniel Iggers (K:530)
4/6/2004 3:40:58 PM
Thanks.
A story? Not much of one. A colleague who has since gone on maternity leave, ate in qualtity all manner of exotic fruit at her desk. One day she had a papaya, cut just as in the photo, with the lovely color and the black seeds.
Sometimes I like to compose "still lifes" at the kitchen table, and shoot them in (mostly) available light. In this case the parenthetical "mostly" refers to the table lamp that I put on the table.
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| Photo By: Daniel Iggers
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Critique By:
Daniel Iggers (K:530)
4/4/2004 6:25:52 PM
Spooky.
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| Photo By: Mitchell Miller
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Critique By:
Daniel Iggers (K:530)
4/2/2004 2:58:37 PM
Super.
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| Photo By: ali fish
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Critique By:
Daniel Iggers (K:530)
4/2/2004 8:20:33 AM
Here is the color version.
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| Photo By: Daniel Iggers
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Critique By:
Daniel Iggers (K:530)
4/1/2004 11:46:35 AM
Your handling of the various sources of light - windowlight on the walls, incandescent light at the altar and then in the foreground - is great.
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| Photo By: Laszlo Illes
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Critique By:
Daniel Iggers (K:530)
3/31/2004 5:49:10 AM
OK, I was being a curmudgeon. Speak in haste, repent at leisure, they say.
I do think there is a tendency to over-praise here. Heck, I like it myself, when I get a 7, so I shouldn't complain. But I think even cranky criticism can be helpful.
I think in my comment I was reflecting on how easy it can be to achieve all sorts of effects, with basic photo editing programs. There's nothing wrong with "easy", but sometimes I get cranky about such manipulation, and I wonder whether it would be better to concentrate on making better un-manipulated images first. Whatever. I guess I'm starting to blather.
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| Photo By: Raymond Hardy
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Critique By:
Daniel Iggers (K:530)
3/31/2004 5:42:12 AM
Nice, but... the stuff in the background (towel, laundry on the floor peeking out behind her head) is unfortunate.
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