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Critique By:
John Charlton (K:5595)
4/20/2003 9:29:08 AM
Here is the original for comparison.
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| Photo By: John Charlton
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Critique By:
John Charlton (K:5595)
4/19/2003 6:36:38 AM
Great cat portrait Hayri. I see a combination of focus and blur issues but these are small nits compared to the overall effect. Love that you are in the picture.
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| Photo By: Hayri CALISKAN
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Critique By:
John Charlton (K:5595)
4/19/2003 6:24:39 AM
Thanks everyone. The hardest part of doing a panorama like this is getting the camera perfectly level. Other than that, these pictures are surprisingly easy to produce with the help of the resident Canon PhotoStitch software that shipped with the S10 camera. Unfortunately, I don't have either anymore as I borrowed this camera from work.
I could have shot this at a higher resolution, but in this case, each frame was shot at 800 x 600 pixels and the final stitched photo was 5732 x 502 pixels. A half decent print off my Epson inkjet would be approx 3.5" tall x 38" wide at 150 dpi and no, I haven't tried that yet.
Sorry I can't show it to you larger, but 640 pixels wide is all we've got at Usefilm. Maybe the site administrators could make a special panorama upload facility for Hasselblad XPAN shots and the likes of John Sheppard and John Barclay who really know how to shoot pano's that will knock your socks off.
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| Photo By: John Charlton
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Critique By:
John Charlton (K:5595)
4/18/2003 10:33:31 AM
Sometimes a panorama camera is the perfect devise. Other times, it just ends up looking like a cropped medium fomat frame. This one looks like the latter to me. Why is that I wonder?
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| Photo By: John Barclay
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Critique By:
John Charlton (K:5595)
4/18/2003 10:30:17 AM
Great use of this technique. I especially like the deep blacks and vibrant yellows but also the colours in the lampost. What sort of daylight was around when you made this picture?
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| Photo By: John Barclay
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Critique By:
John Charlton (K:5595)
4/18/2003 10:20:41 AM
How could I have missed this one? Straight to my favourites it will go. What can I say. Fantastic.
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| Photo By: John Barclay
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Critique By:
John Charlton (K:5595)
4/18/2003 10:17:48 AM
This looked better in the thumbnails. I bet it's a killer shot, but it doesn't come across in this posting. I'd try reposting it and using a lot more of the 300k alotted to us for each photograph.
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| Photo By: John Barclay
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Critique By:
John Charlton (K:5595)
4/18/2003 10:15:17 AM
Great sky! Horizon's nice and level too.
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| Photo By: John Barclay
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Critique By:
John Charlton (K:5595)
4/18/2003 10:12:20 AM
This is a beautiful image John. I like the balance of space between top and bottom, but being the pain in the ass that I am, I would have preferred that the reflection of the tree at the bottom did not extend past the edge of the frame. I'm really enjoying catching up with you portfolio.
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Critique By:
John Charlton (K:5595)
4/18/2003 9:58:26 AM
Great shot John! This reminds me of my picture http://www.usefilm.com/showphoto.php?id=100207 which I have now had blown up poster size.
I could be wrong, but it looks like the colour balance is a little on the warm side. Attached, I've attempted to cool it down to get the birch trees closer to white. Is that a natural characteristic of Velvia, to be a bit warm?
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| Photo By: John Barclay
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Critique By:
John Charlton (K:5595)
4/16/2003 10:24:58 AM
Fantastic photo Aiman. I love the intimacy of it. The toning is great and I agree about the high contrast. I also like the way the photo is seperated both by focus and the diagonal line of the bedouin's head dress. The camel seems to be bursting out of the picture at us!
Thanks for showing a part of your world so up close and personal. This is truly a great web site!
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| Photo By: Aiman Nassar
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Critique By:
John Charlton (K:5595)
4/16/2003 9:18:47 AM
If Winter always looked like this, then maybe it would be harder to say goodbye to. This will be a welcome site in the dog days of summer yet to come. Nice job on the exposure. The picture has great dynamic range and plenty of snap. The colour of the sky is gorgeous against the whites and greens of the foreground.
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| Photo By: Christian Barrette
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Critique By:
John Charlton (K:5595)
4/12/2003 3:41:47 PM
Hi Toni. Beautiful horse you have there. The photo could have been much better with a little more attention to detail. Specifically it is a problem that you cut Giget's hind feet off. The backlighting is attractive and the horse is well posed, but as a portrait of a frined it is a little distant.
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| Photo By: Toni Blake
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Critique By:
John Charlton (K:5595)
4/12/2003 3:38:15 PM
Hi Stacy. You might have called the photo "This End Up" but I don't think it is getting much response from people because this end just isn't all that interesting. Try turning it around
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| Photo By: Stacy Jarrett
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Critique By:
John Charlton (K:5595)
4/12/2003 7:18:18 AM
Here is a single frame from the above pano.
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Critique By:
John Charlton (K:5595)
4/12/2003 4:56:47 AM
Lots of response on this photo. That's great, thank you all. Several questions have been raised and one conspiricy uncovered.
I said this was part of a 360 degree panorama, but I was wrong. I did take several 360's on the same day, (maybe I'll upload one) but this picture was made with only two frames. I have included the uncropped version as an attachment. Sorry about that. Memory is a strange and mysterious creature.
Now that I have blown my credibility, I will tell you that I remember the snowflakes were falling very slowly and were the size of golf balls. That's why they show white against the dark areas and grey against the snow.
To Christian, who uncovered my subterfuge, thanks for keeping me honest. Indeed, I was standing on my porch and that is how I avoided the dreaded out of focus snowflakes close to the lens.
To Andy, you nailed it when you said a sense of quiet. Snow like this deadens sound from the air until all you can hear is the sound of snowflakes. That sound is pure magic.
It was one of those rare winter days that make you glad to be alive. Anyone who has not yet stood still in a quiet snow cathcing snowflakes on their tongue doesn't know what they are missing.
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Critique By:
John Charlton (K:5595)
4/12/2003 4:21:43 AM
Thank you all for your comments. Looks like it's going to be a sunny warm weekend. Bring on summer!
For those of you who may just about to take the plunge back into cold weather - I feel for you.
Na - not really.
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Critique By:
John Charlton (K:5595)
4/12/2003 4:12:16 AM
Thank you Aiman, Cary and GP.
The jagged edges on the horizon are the unfortunate result of my sharpening the whole image rather than selective parts of it. Aiman pointed this out to me in a version he emailed me. Thanks again Aiman. I promise to be more selective in the future.
Cary; I did not see and had forgotten about the double rainbow until you pointed it out to me, but clearly there is one. Good eyes on you!
GP; Do you find the contrast masking technique has advantages over any other type of contrast manipulation such as curves or levels adjustments?
To that end, Aiman has shown me great results using selective colour adjustments, however he has much more colour theory under his belt than I do and am looking for simpler paths to greatness 
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Critique By:
John Charlton (K:5595)
4/11/2003 6:20:45 AM
Thanks very much Meehan, or should I call you M & M? Also short on time at the moment, but will return to your portfolio for a good look later. Have also added you to my friends list. Looks like we share somewhat of a common eye.
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Critique By:
John Charlton (K:5595)
4/7/2003 4:35:50 PM
Way to shoot from the hip. I love the skin colours and the bright whites against the deep black background. Maybe they should have let you take pictures in exchange for prints.
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| Photo By: heather martino
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Critique By:
John Charlton (K:5595)
4/7/2003 4:32:26 PM
A beautiful compostition, but what are the shapes in the sky?
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| Photo By: Aiman Nassar
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Critique By:
John Charlton (K:5595)
4/6/2003 2:44:02 PM
Thanks Aiman; I will take you up on that. I am using Paint Shop Pro and trying to adapt from Photo Shop tutorials.
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| Photo By: John Charlton
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Critique By:
John Charlton (K:5595)
4/6/2003 2:29:54 PM
The process involves creating a duplicate layer which is desaturated and reversed before being blended with the main image. It really helped this photograph.
Here is the same image before the contrast mask was applied. disregarding the darkness of the uncorrected image, the contrast mask seems to bring a lot of information in the shadows.
I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who has experience with using this technique.
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| Photo By: John Charlton
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Critique By:
John Charlton (K:5595)
4/5/2003 2:00:29 PM
I know what you mean about the softness. You don't want to lose that. I took the liberty of applying a manual colour changing tool in Paint Shop Pro. I just selected the lightest higlight I could find in the snow and converted that pixel to pure white. That gave a subtle shift to the whole picture and hopefully makes the colour in the plant stand out more without changing the contrast any. What do your think?
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| Photo By: Cary Shaffer
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Critique By:
John Charlton (K:5595)
4/5/2003 8:46:49 AM
Nice ice. When you gonna repost this one BIG! Love to see it.
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| Photo By: Cary Shaffer
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Critique By:
John Charlton (K:5595)
4/5/2003 8:35:39 AM
A beautiful silhouette. I think I might have cropped a little of the blackness bottom off this image, but that is just a personal choice.
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| Photo By: Cary Shaffer
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Critique By:
John Charlton (K:5595)
4/5/2003 8:27:15 AM
Hi Gary;
I really like the play of shadow and light in this photo, but I feel that it needs a solid black somewhere in the image. Perhaps the berries. I'm not sure, but the softness of the plant itself keeps the impact level low in this otherwise excellent shot.
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| Photo By: Cary Shaffer
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Critique By:
John Charlton (K:5595)
3/31/2003 3:55:36 AM
My favourite of this series.
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| Photo By: Debbie Groff
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Critique By:
John Charlton (K:5595)
3/31/2003 3:55:35 AM
Another to add to my favourites list.
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| Photo By: Debbie Groff
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Critique By:
John Charlton (K:5595)
3/31/2003 3:52:06 AM
Classic
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| Photo By: Debbie Groff
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