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Critique By:
Andy Pollard (K:1359)
6/20/2004 5:36:45 PM
Awesome colors against the black background. Great Job.
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| Photo By: Mari Mar
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Critique By:
Andy Pollard (K:1359)
6/20/2004 4:57:25 PM
Very cool, I like the colors and crispness in this one.
The virgo in me sees the bottle/table leaning just a tad bit to the left. Probably just me, but I'm weird that way. If used as a stock photo/poster some people notice those things.
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| Photo By: Jay Clancey
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Critique By:
Andy Pollard (K:1359)
6/19/2004 3:38:05 AM
I see what you mean, I either should have not gone so far or went a little further so that it completely looked like art (paintingish) where it is now the rocks do look painted but the water photograhpic. Thanks for the comment.
The Pro1 is an awesome camera, I think there is something to that "L" series glass that they use in this prosumer. Colors are just unbelievable on this thing. I've had it for a month now and am in aw of what it can do. I got a 420EX flash for it and now I'm set for quite a while.
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| Photo By: Andy Pollard
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Critique By:
Andy Pollard (K:1359)
6/13/2004 4:44:49 PM
Excellent shot Bill, all your macros are crisp and clear. I like the leaf in this shot as it adds balance and dof. I don't know why but the bit of shadow on the leaf (not the stem) just below the bottom petal keeps popping out at me.
Awesome detail on the flower. Great Job.
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| Photo By: Bill Webster
(K:1669)
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Critique By:
Andy Pollard (K:1359)
6/13/2004 3:17:33 PM
Sweet! Very nice capture.
Andy
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| Photo By: Ute Enderer
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Critique By:
Andy Pollard (K:1359)
6/12/2004 12:49:05 AM
Very nice...and you know what I got a picture of you taking this picture... 
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| Photo By: Shawn Pollard
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Critique By:
Andy Pollard (K:1359)
6/11/2004 5:02:45 AM
Very cool colors going on here, and the border compliments it nicely.
Sorry bout the pewter.
Andy
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Photo By: Lori Stitt
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Critique By:
Andy Pollard (K:1359)
6/11/2004 4:50:48 AM
Thanks Kevin, if you like the interesting mundane stuff check out www.99rooms.com , I stumbled on to it the other day on the net. It is kind of a game (you have to click stuff to get to the next room 99 of them) that are photos (turned to art) taken in an abandoned warehouse. I liked the work there so much that I wanted to try something similar. Very cool, very macabre .
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| Photo By: Andy Pollard
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Critique By:
Andy Pollard (K:1359)
6/8/2004 11:43:49 PM
Very nice shot and a lovely lady. The image itself seems a little noisey to me. It looks like you had plenty of light so I can not tell just where the noise was generated. High ISO? Maybe you applied it on purpose?
When I have a shot that has a tad bit of noise I use NoiseWare Community Edition (free) it is program much like Neatimage noise reduction software. Noiseware Community Edition (free one) can be found at http://www.imagenomic.com/ and is very easy to use.
I hope you don't mind but this is the same picture with default noise reduction settings in Noiseware applied. The skin and bricks are much smoother, adding to the dream like effect that you added with the soft edges filter.
Just my thoughts.
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| Photo By: Oscar Charria
(K:7)
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Critique By:
Andy Pollard (K:1359)
6/8/2004 6:46:10 PM
Giorgio did you get to run in the Suzuki RnR Marathon in San Diego this past weekend? I took 209 shots at the event, if you ran you may be in there somewhere.
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| Photo By: Andy Pollard
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Critique By:
Andy Pollard (K:1359)
5/23/2004 4:44:32 AM
Very cool, the reflection shots are always fun to do. It's good to see another Pro 1 user on here.
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| Photo By: Michael Holm
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Critique By:
Andy Pollard (K:1359)
5/15/2004 4:20:35 AM
I think you did a really good job with this composition. Your friend sat perfectly and the placement is great. The shallow depth of field keeps us focused on your main subject. I might have cropped more from the bottom as the fountain edge towards the right seem to distract me. I would have left a little more on the top (Just a tad), the pose is great but to me she seems to be leaning forward to fit the crop.
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| Photo By: Vance Lester
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Critique By:
Andy Pollard (K:1359)
5/13/2004 4:47:40 AM
I love the color seperation of this shot and the darkness of the clouds, it gives one a warm to cold feeling. Great Shot.
BTW: Don't ever stop trying new things as you mentioned as those new things are what keep it fresh and interesting around here.
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| Photo By: Joann Winborn
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Critique By:
Andy Pollard (K:1359)
5/11/2004 3:59:08 AM
Very nice...the eyes tell the story.
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| Photo By: Adam
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Critique By:
Andy Pollard (K:1359)
5/11/2004 2:49:10 AM
Whoops I hit a key and lost my whole comment (I think), If this double posts forgive me. Anyways.
This is an excellent perspective shot. One gets drawn down the center very easily.
I understand the pier is a little rickety and tilted, but it is a good idea when shooting water to have the horizon line as level as possible. A tilted horizon tends to make the viewer tilt their head a bit initially, and distract from the center of focus.
Great shot reminds me of when I was a child in MI.
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| Photo By: Kessia & Morgan UVA
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Critique By:
Andy Pollard (K:1359)
5/11/2004 1:54:48 AM
She is so precious, love the pink nose and blue eyes. How is the disposition of a ragdoll? Is it similar to a Maine Coon or are they a little more vocal?
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| Photo By: Linn Currie
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Critique By:
Andy Pollard (K:1359)
5/10/2004 4:14:51 PM
Kelly,
Very nice picture with some great colors. The location of the palm is great, I think I might have made the palm smaller by catching more sky and ocean to give the palm a small and alone in a vast mixture of sand, sea and sky. Capturing where you have captured it here, but maybe zooming out a tad. The palm seems to draw me away from the Sky and Sea giving me a strong and prominent feel about the palm, which very well could be what you are trying to convey here. I like the minimalist approach of the shot that you have captured here.
Andy
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| Photo By: Kelly Ruston
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Critique By:
Andy Pollard (K:1359)
5/10/2004 5:04:13 AM
Awesome...the simplest of things sometimes make the best pictures. Excellent composition. Great DOF.
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| Photo By: Carmem A. Busko
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Critique By:
Andy Pollard (K:1359)
5/9/2004 11:12:56 PM
Actually this is a pretty cool shot, I like the older look to it. The way it is backlit through the window would be tough to do any other way. Besides you can't go wrong when there's a marshall stack in the pic.
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| Photo By: Thomas Peters
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Critique By:
Andy Pollard (K:1359)
5/9/2004 1:57:35 PM
A Gel Candle is kind of like Jello that burns. It is soft and wiggley but burns as a candle does. This one here had flowers put into it while it was in liquid form. As the flowers were put into the hot liquid, air escaped to the top but the gel set before the bubbles could make it out. There was no movement in this shot the bubbles are suspended in the transparent gel, allowing me to shoot it in lower light with a slow shutter. The macro/crop creates the illusion of movement.
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| Photo By: Andy Pollard
(K:1359)
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Critique By:
Andy Pollard (K:1359)
5/9/2004 3:22:25 AM
Thanks for your comment on my gel candle experiment, you got some amazing stuff here. I hope you are using AOL cds, there are plenty of those to go around. I love these CD test shots you have done.
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| Photo By: Emanuel Correia
(K:739)
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Critique By:
Andy Pollard (K:1359)
5/9/2004 3:12:51 AM
I top lit this Gel Candle with a soft light bulb and used a table tripod at about 3 inches.
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| Photo By: Andy Pollard
(K:1359)
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Critique By:
Andy Pollard (K:1359)
5/8/2004 1:59:24 AM
I think this is pretty cool, but would like to see more of the circles and shapes in the tail light and less of the car.
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| Photo By: BILL MAHLER
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Critique By:
Andy Pollard (K:1359)
5/6/2004 1:45:37 AM
Excellent capture, I might have cropped a tad off the top to give that "they have almost made it to the top" feel. Great shot! My mom has Z1 and loves the zoom on it. You sure are making the best of it.
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| Photo By: Robert Currie
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Critique By:
Andy Pollard (K:1359)
5/4/2004 2:54:09 AM
Very cool. Nice zoom, was this handheld?
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| Photo By: Robert Currie
(K:3241)
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Critique By:
Andy Pollard (K:1359)
5/4/2004 1:18:47 AM
When I don't like the background I will use Gaussian Blur to hide or cover those ugly or distracting backgrounds. For me the stained glass effect applied here seems to take away everything that you tried to achieve with the joyful children. Who are quite charming by the way.
Here I have taken your picture and applied gaussian blur at a value of 5.5 and it was that high to cover the stained glass effect. You would not normally have to go that high. If i had a situation like this where I wanted to disguise the background I might use a value anywhere between 2 and 4. The higher you go the more 3d your foreground will look and we don't that either.
Quite a festive shot though.
Andy
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| Photo By: Brendon Cordero
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Critique By:
Andy Pollard (K:1359)
5/3/2004 1:24:33 PM
Thanks guys, I did get a lot of pictures but as Robert says it is a battle to get any good static shots at these things.
There was a spitefire but it was so packed in it was tough to get a good shot. Will post more. I
My Wife Shawn (she has an accout here) got a lot of pics at the show as well.
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| Photo By: Andy Pollard
(K:1359)
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Critique By:
Andy Pollard (K:1359)
5/2/2004 3:27:06 PM
Very cool, is the top of the basket 3D or does it just look that way because of the lighting? Interesting subject.
BTW: Just read your bio, very neat. You have some of the same questions that I do. A couple of other questions that I ponder, Do people who are eating a bowl cereal while driving to work have Refrigerators in their cars? Why is it that 9 out of 10 SUV's have never been used for sport or taken off-road? Isn't too late to be putting make-up on, if you are driving to work?
Life is so puzzling.
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| Photo By: David Rogers
(K:1082)
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Critique By:
Andy Pollard (K:1359)
5/2/2004 6:01:04 AM
Very nice touch. Great Job.
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| Photo By: Robert Elayer
(K:6)
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Critique By:
Andy Pollard (K:1359)
5/1/2004 6:53:11 PM
I love the colors and compsition. Great work.
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| Photo By: SERDAR SAGKAN
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