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Critique By:
Armen Jamkotchian (K:5879)
9/13/2008 11:54:21 PM
Thank you for your comment. I appreciate it. Sorry to reply so late. Recently I'm very busy with my main job, and have no time for the hommies.
I did this long time ago. The original photo is pretty close to what you see. I shot it against the light. Then in Photoshop I applied the "Lighting Effect" filter, centered in the middle. That gave more emphasis. Converted to B&W and then to Duotone. And finally I use the burning tool to burn the edges.
I hope this helps.
Regards
Armen
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| Photo By: Armen Jamkotchian
(K:5879)
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Critique By:
Armen Jamkotchian (K:5879)
1/24/2006 6:08:39 AM
Professionally done image. I like how you managed to "freeze" the main subject's face while everything else is in motion.
Regards - Armen
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| Photo By: Sarah States
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Critique By:
Armen Jamkotchian (K:5879)
1/23/2006 12:38:53 AM
This photo has so much volume. I like how you enhance the contrast. This work is a perfect demonstration how much the typically colour image could benefit from B&W, if that is done with great taste.
Regards - Armen
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| Photo By: Barrie Cranston
(K:172)
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Critique By:
Armen Jamkotchian (K:5879)
1/23/2006 12:38:44 AM
This photo has so much volume. I like how you enhance the contrast. This work is a perfect demonstration how much the typically colour image could benefit from B&W, if that is done with great taste.
Regards - Armen
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| Photo By: Barrie Cranston
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Critique By:
Armen Jamkotchian (K:5879)
12/8/2005 5:31:39 PM
Very beautiful and "disturbing" composition. The color solution is excellent!
Regards - Armen
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Photo By: Hakan AKIRMAK
(K:15913)
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Critique By:
Armen Jamkotchian (K:5879)
12/8/2005 5:29:31 PM
Great diagonal composition!
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| Photo By: Hakan AKIRMAK
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Critique By:
Armen Jamkotchian (K:5879)
12/8/2005 5:17:38 PM
Oh, man, this is a fantastic landscape! What an amazing color range! I also like the stretched frame that perfectly matches the composition. Also I think it is a very good artistic solution to have the house close to the edge.
Congratulations my friend for this truly beautiful work of art! This is a 7+++ work to me.
By the way, I would consider a version with slightly burnt edges. Not sure that it will look good, but if you have spare time, give a shot. It may make the image slightly mysterious.
Best regards - Armen
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| Photo By: Manu
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Critique By:
Armen Jamkotchian (K:5879)
12/8/2005 5:11:34 PM
Beauty in the decay! Isn't it amazing how the photographer's eye may notice beauty in the things that otherwise may seem just a broken thing or an old paint-peeled equipment. You have a great eye.
My best regards to you.
Armen
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Critique By:
Armen Jamkotchian (K:5879)
12/8/2005 5:07:26 PM
This one is a very beautiful composition - a glimpse of life in sand dunes of the desert. It is beautiful as is. Nonetheless it may also be interesting in B&W with higher contrast. I suggest making it B&W with Photoshop using the "Channel Mixer" that will allow to play with the tones.
My best regards - Armen
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| Photo By: Ali Naghizadeh
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Critique By:
Armen Jamkotchian (K:5879)
12/8/2005 5:02:11 PM
Hello Ali. This is a truly beautiful image of apparently very beautiful place. It gives a wonderful feeling of a cool autumn day when the days become shorter and the thoughts go farther...
Best regards - Armen
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| Photo By: Ali Naghizadeh
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Critique By:
Armen Jamkotchian (K:5879)
12/7/2005 8:52:01 PM
You should have assigned this wonderful photo to the "Magic Light" project. The lighting is so majic! What I also value in this work besides the composition, is the technical implementation that allowed for harmonious coexistance of the high and low light partions. The dark part is not underexposed to lose the details and the light part is not overexposed.
What also caught my eye is the symmetric placement of the arch with assymetric placement of the other "chaotic" objects.
Best Regards
Armen
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| Photo By: Massimo Mulas
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Critique By:
Armen Jamkotchian (K:5879)
12/5/2005 8:22:26 PM
A perfect demonstration how the artist can find beauty and meaning in the simplest thing like a shoe!
This is a great B&W composition with perfect croipping. I think the grain and the oldish, torn out look adds to the impression.
Congratulations and best regards
Armen
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| Photo By: Jos de Vos
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Critique By:
Armen Jamkotchian (K:5879)
12/5/2005 7:16:21 PM
I like the composition very much. The placement of the objects is done perfectly. I also like the sepia solution, which eliminates distractive colors.
I perceive this image as something which is crisp-clear like the invisible waves the antennae emits. Because of that I think that the image may benefit from one minor thing, which is to reduce the digital noise visible in the sky (either using special software, or maybe applying minor Gaussian blur).
Overall this is a great work!
Regards
Armen
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| Photo By: Manu
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Critique By:
Armen Jamkotchian (K:5879)
12/5/2005 7:07:39 PM
Overall you have a wonderful portfolio. Most remarkably your works are very versatile.
This one particularly caught my eye because an interesting compositional solution. With the correct angle of view and positioning the three main objects (the ship, the distant mountains and the sky) you managed to create the feeling of size for the ship which supersedes the mountains and is comparable to the sky.
Regards
Armen
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| Photo By: Alper Tecer
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Critique By:
Armen Jamkotchian (K:5879)
12/3/2005 8:31:58 PM
Very interesting graphical work! Very interesting lighting and fine harmony of lines.
I think you should buy a professional camera :-).
There is a fine line between being a professional and becoming a slave of own style. I think the best condition is when you achieve professional vision and technical level, but remain free in your vision.
Regards - Armen
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| Photo By: A. Ozge Ozdamar
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Critique By:
Armen Jamkotchian (K:5879)
12/3/2005 8:25:21 PM
Simply beautiful!
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| Photo By: Kathy Hillard
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Critique By:
Armen Jamkotchian (K:5879)
12/3/2005 8:20:50 PM
Very interesting idea and fine implementation!
What about the reverse; color center and B&W outer part?
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| Photo By: Caterina Berimballi
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Critique By:
Armen Jamkotchian (K:5879)
12/2/2005 6:53:17 PM
This is a very remarkable work! The proportional distribution of major objects - the open sky, the disturbing cloudy sky, the strip of the ocean with the large rocks, and the ground - is done very thoughtfully (probably intuitively). The image gradually concentrates the attention to its central and most important part - the clouds, the water and the rocks. With perfectly selected level of edge burning you achieved further concentration of the attention.
The level of contrast and the dark duotone moves the perception to rather subconscious realm.
The mild level of grain to me cannot be considered a minus, though this image possibly would benefit more from crispness.
Overall I greatly appreciate this work. It is very emotional.
Best regards
Armen
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| Photo By: Marianne Le Carrour
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Critique By:
Armen Jamkotchian (K:5879)
9/20/2005 11:15:46 PM
My grandmother's home was on the other side of the Kur river right in front of this beautiful church. It is associated with my warmest childhood memories.
The picture is technically very well done. The light is balanced, and the composition is well formed.
Best regards
Armen
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| Photo By: Artak Mkrtchian
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Critique By:
Armen Jamkotchian (K:5879)
9/14/2005 5:02:04 PM
I always had the same question regarding the ratings. I rated your image 7. If other two rated it at 5 and 6, the average would be 6, not 6.3. If any of those ratings was lower, the average would be lower than 6. I presume that there is some weighting applied to the grades. Maybe based on the rank of the reviewer? I had also noticed in the past the following. I rated a picture which had some rating (forgot the actual numbers). My rating was greater than that number, so you would assume that the overall grade should go up, or at least stay the same if the number of ratings is very high. But, believe it or not, it went down.
Either there is a bug in the software, or the calculation mechanism is not linear.
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Critique By:
Armen Jamkotchian (K:5879)
9/14/2005 4:19:48 PM
This is a wonderful moment caught! I can see three major elements in this composition - the tired and bored boy, the father enjoying the coffee and the newspaper and the window - the object of the boy's aspirations. The image talks for itself. The lighting is very balanced and perfectly highlights the main elements of this wonderful composition.
Also, I'd like to stress out that the title itself is the core component of the composition; it does dictate the tone and perception.
I have a minor technical comment, though. I think if the boy should had been sharper to be in complete synch with the main idea of the composition. It is good that the other objects are out of focus, but the composition "demands" the boy to be much sharper. I understand that probably you had no choice taking this with wide open lens at high exposure, which caused some unwanted softness.
Despite the technical note, I truly love this image.
Congratulations with big success!
Regards - Armen
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| Photo By: Mark Orchard
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Critique By:
Armen Jamkotchian (K:5879)
9/13/2005 5:19:18 AM
Very delicate image. It emits very natural calmness. The tonality works great with the composition.
Regards - Armen
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| Photo By: Caterina Berimballi
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Critique By:
Armen Jamkotchian (K:5879)
9/12/2005 8:46:24 PM
This is a very professionally made composition. The two wire holding stands fill the empty space in the image balancing off the two main objects of this composition - the cow (or the cows) and the fog. Without these stands the composition would be incomplete. The wire creates an imaginary space restriction, "compacting" the overall image. The color balance and the lower lighting create a very emotional atmosphere of our link to the nature.
Even though the composition is excellent as is, nonetheless I would like to make two suggestions. Fist, I suggest creating some frame, and, second, I suggest considering applying a very tiny amount of blur to reduce the digital noise and enhance the "foggy" look.
Best Regards - Armen
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| Photo By: Hermen Pen
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Critique By:
Armen Jamkotchian (K:5879)
9/9/2005 9:57:38 PM
The softness works perfectly well with this nostalgic image.
The level of contrast is perfect.
Congratulations!
Armen
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| Photo By: Merete Westerdahl
(K:11079)
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Critique By:
Armen Jamkotchian (K:5879)
9/9/2005 9:56:17 PM
Very simple, very nice.
Excellent crop. The mild contrast is a perfect match with this girl's "Northern" face.
Best regards - Armen
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| Photo By: Angela Freed
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Critique By:
Armen Jamkotchian (K:5879)
9/9/2005 9:48:41 PM
What I like about this image is that there are three distinctive objects that make up the composition on the orchestra - the conductor, the musical instrument and the stick. This photo magically combines them through the "silence" of the void dark space into a singe live entity - music.
It is done very professionally.
Best regards - Armen
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| Photo By: giovanni guido marchi
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Critique By:
Armen Jamkotchian (K:5879)
9/9/2005 9:42:56 PM
I like the idea and very accurate implementation.
Very interesting work.
Regards - Armen
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| Photo By: giovanni guido marchi
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Critique By:
Armen Jamkotchian (K:5879)
9/9/2005 9:41:53 PM
Very unique view.
Regards - Armen
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| Photo By: giovanni guido marchi
(K:27040)
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Critique By:
Armen Jamkotchian (K:5879)
9/9/2005 3:54:56 AM
Very feminine. The crop that interestingly balances the shoulders and the face is done perfectly.
Congratulations!
Armen
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| Photo By: Nebojsa Tomic
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Critique By:
Armen Jamkotchian (K:5879)
9/8/2005 5:48:58 AM
I like the tandem of the photo with the verses. The verses add some interesting spirit.
Technically the photo is very well done. It seems to me that the overall impression could benefit if there was a little bit more space, because the surrounding in this work is as important as the main objects.
Overall this is a very well composed image with a very natural feel.
Best regards.
Armen
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