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bill smith
{K:5416} 3/9/2008
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Hi Brigitte,
First off thanks for your kind words about my Squirrel shot.
Now I'd like to tell you how much I like this image. The noise your talking about adds somethig to this shot. The color,detail, and compostion more than makes up for any noise, which isn't that bad.
Again thanks for commenting on my work. Nice talking to you,
Bill.
PS. I love your dog shots too!!!
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don blasingame
{K:3492} 8/25/2007
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I like this photo, I like the colors a lot. I think the image works very well. Good eye, and good presence of mind to present this seven years later.
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Debjit Ghosh
{K:3494} 8/19/2007
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Ahh...very very nice. i just love the mood of this shot. now seeing this I think I will have to rush there pretty soon :-)
take care,
~deb
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John Melskens
{K:-5433} 8/18/2007
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I have looked at this picture several times and I didn't know what attracted me most: the color of the sky or the old house and shet. I think it is a lonely place - now - and that kept me from saying anything. I am a town-person. More then I thought.
I woulf love to visit and photograph places like Bodie, but I couldn't live in or near a place like that.
Noise? What noise? We used to call that grain and it is part of the atmosphere in a photo.
Hugs, John
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Michele Carlsen
{K:146013} 8/12/2007
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I do miss Ca. or at least the Ca. I used to know - Change is sooooooo much I am aware and I am anxious for a visit in Sept. to Fairoaks to a family wedding !
I am curious where you would like to move to in Oregon....and I want to thank you for offering to take images of Auburn & surrounding area's ..You seem so very nice my dear...
Hugs...Michele~
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Billy Bloggs
{K:51043} 8/12/2007
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The saturated colours have really brought this scene to life.
Regards, Gary
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Brigitte R.
{K:25989} 8/11/2007
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Thank you so much, Michele! Wow... that is great you were born in Auburn, that is such a wonderful town in a very nice historic area. I bet you have some great, great memories from the area. I see you are in Oregon now, I hope to move there permanently one eventually...there's alot of beauty there. Hope you come back to visit occassionally. I will try to take some pics for you of the area when I get back up to the hills. Hugs...Brigitte
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Michele Carlsen
{K:146013} 8/10/2007
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Excellent image dear Brigitte...I used to live in Auburn, went to Grass Valley a lot and know where Bridgeport is too !!!!!!
I miss it as well... Great image, I love old buildings ...
You did a super job on the 'about' and I am so glad I found someone from my old town... I was born in Auburn , Ca. !!!!!!!!
All The Best my freind,
Michele~
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Brigitte R.
{K:25989} 8/10/2007
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Doyle, thank you for sharing your experiences as a child in the Sierra Nevada mountains... it's great to have such wonderful childhood memories. Funny, I grew up in the LA area and have seen some of your images that brought back memories as a child for me, such as your beautiful Santa Monica Pier image. I also read that you lived in Germany as a child... what a fabulous life, although I'm not sure as a child it's such fun to be uprooted from school and friends, but looking back it must've been a great experience. I was actually born in Germany but my parents uprooted us when I was just a little over a year old...so I can't say I remember much of it.
I did actually clean the noise a bit with PSP VI, so it is an improvement from what it once was. I'm just going to have to convince my hubby that I MUST have a good digital SLR so I can get some quality images (and I've been working on this for a few years now... lol). Oh and you beat me to it with the sepia conversion... I really like your version. Thank you for taking the time to do that for me and thanks for the very kind comments. I really appreciate you viewing and commenting on my photos.
Have a great day,
Brigitte
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Shane Finnigan
{K:1990} 8/10/2007
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Hey you're welcome  )
We sure do have ghost towns but the extreme weather (cold and snow) make them disappear a bit quicker. I have some in my portfolio from an old military outpost called Foymount. It was part of the Distant Early Warning (Dew Line) radar setup jointly by the US and Canada to detect USSR missiles and bombers. This one was the second line called the Pinetree line and it's a very cool location!!! There's others obviously, like mining towns but I haven't photographed them. I'm also a rock collector and astronomer so I get around lots but don't always bring the camera because of the amount of equipment I’d be carrying!!! That’s how I found Foymount … we use it for astronomy now.
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Doyle D. Chastain
{K:101119} 8/10/2007
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Thanks Brigitte . . . great info. I remember exploring old ghost towns and mining camps throughout the Sierra Nevadas as a kid . . . Even explored more than a few mines (probably an bad idea in retrospect). Wonderful scenic opportunities and you certainly took advantage of this one. A real 'feel' for the history of the place is given by this shot and certainly must have been experienced by the photographer.
You might be able to clean the noise issue with a few different programs but to be honest it doesn't bother me that much. I also would very seriously consider converting this image to sepia to give it that real old time feel. Nice work though . . . and thanks for sharing.
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
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Brigitte R.
{K:25989} 8/10/2007
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Thank you, Howie, very much! :-)
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Brigitte R.
{K:25989} 8/10/2007
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Shane, thanks for jogging my memory... you're absolutely right, I did use a polarizer here since it was mid July and in the desert it is always quite sunny and by looking at the image, there are hardly any shadows, so I know it was noonish and certainly did need that polarizer. It makes sense now. I love ghost towns too... don't you have any good old gold mining camps out in your neck of the woods?
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Howie Mudge
{K:27933} 8/10/2007
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Strong contrast and colours and I also like your choice of composition, nice work.
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Shane Finnigan
{K:1990} 8/10/2007
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Hi Brigitte,
Oh .. but you are finding gold! Just not the yellow rock type.
The sky looks fine to me! Using a polarizer and/or graduated neutral density filter can produce similar results. Sometimes when the air is really clean (like in the mountains) the sky can do it all by itself )
I've always loved ghost towns for the history and abandoned nature about them. Thanks for digging back into your film and posting this one.
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Brigitte R.
{K:25989} 8/10/2007
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Thank you, Shane. You're so kind. I agree with the "about" info... I enjoy learning more about how an image was created and where also. Shouldn't be a secret... it's not like we're finding gold here... lol. I've often seen a photo and just because I loved it so much, I would go to the place just so I can take pictures myself. Thanks for the nice comments. I'm not really sure how that sky got so dark blue towards the top. It might just be a bad processing job... when I worked with real film, I recall every so often a print coming out with this unreal deep blue sky. I kind of like it, but have had others tell me it didn't seem natural, so I guess it's an undesirable attribute.
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Shane Finnigan
{K:1990} 8/10/2007
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Hi Brigitte,
Beautiful composition and I love the depth of colour. Thanks too for the "about" information. One can appreciate the location and history much more when this information is included.
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