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Critique By:
Gary Martin (K:579)
2/7/2004 4:55:00 PM
IMO this would be a more effective composition if about half of the foreground were cropped away to make this more of a pano. As it is the horizon is about dead center in the frame and the "action" IMO is in the clouds and color in the sky. Hope this suggestion helps some.
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Photo By: Jim Gamble
(K:12164)
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Critique By:
Gary Martin (K:579)
2/7/2004 4:51:16 PM
I like the color under the clouds and the highlighted top edge of the cloud bank. Very nice capture.
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| Photo By: deniz senyesil
(K:4052)
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Critique By:
Gary Martin (K:579)
1/25/2003 3:43:37 AM
Mark, St Joseph is about 25 miles south of South Haven on I-196. Basically, from South Haven, you take I-196 south until it joins I-94. Go west about 1 exit and you'll see the first Benton Harbor exit. Take it. Go in through Benton Harbor and across the river. Turn right at the first red light after you cross the river. You will have just gone past the police station in St Joseph. Just after you cross the river again, you'll see an exit ramp going down to the right. Take that and make a left at the bottom of the ramp and a right when you can't go any further straight. You'll cross some RR traces and Whirlpool will be on your right. Then you'll take a left that will take you toward a yacht anchorage. Follow the signs for Tiscornia Park and you're there.
Thanks for your comments on my photography, they're appreciated.
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| Photo By: Gary Martin
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Critique By:
Gary Martin (K:579)
12/30/2002 5:41:42 AM
Alex, from a DOF standpoint, the lighthouse and the fisherman are at the same distance. Physically the fisherman is only perhaps 10 or so feet from the lighthouse out at the end of the pier. The light in the lantern room at St. Joe blinks and isn't a rotating lens if that makes any difference.
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| Photo By: Gary Martin
(K:579)
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Critique By:
Gary Martin (K:579)
12/29/2002 8:07:36 AM
I like the composition with the bridge and suspension cables silhouetted against the fading light of the day. The perspective distortion, which was unavoidable, could be corrected by a perspective crop in Photoshop that would help the composition.
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| Photo By: nathan blaney
(K:17)
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Critique By:
Gary Martin (K:579)
12/29/2002 8:01:38 AM
This image has potential that hasn't been realized as presented here. John is right the horizon definitely needs to be leveled. Cropping some from both the top as John suggested and perhaps form the bottom as well to make this into a horizontal pano would help the composition.
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| Photo By: James O'Donnell
(K:28)
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Critique By:
Gary Martin (K:579)
12/29/2002 7:59:11 AM
Simple and elegant composition and well executed.
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| Photo By: Bulent Ahiskal
(K:1251)
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Critique By:
Gary Martin (K:579)
12/29/2002 7:57:56 AM
Excellent color saturation. It would be nice, however, to know what "wide open" corresponds to in terms of the f-stop.
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| Photo By: Shawn Kellogg
(K:454)
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Critique By:
Gary Martin (K:579)
12/29/2002 7:55:43 AM
John, the long exposure works quite well giving a very nice soft quality to the water. The top of the frame, maybe the top third or so, adds essentially nothing and appears to even be a little over exposed. I'd crop some from the top and probably a little from the left as well to make the logs the most prominent object in your composition.
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| Photo By: John Black
(K:1047)
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Critique By:
Gary Martin (K:579)
12/29/2002 7:50:14 AM
Excellent color and overall composition. My only small nit is that it would have been nice to have a bit more horizon to the left of the tree. The crop is just a bit too tight for my tastes.
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| Photo By: Mats Wendelius
(K:4)
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Critique By:
Gary Martin (K:579)
12/28/2002 10:20:32 AM
Peggy - this swallowtail's colors are less yellow than might be normal, but I think I'd leave the color pretty much alone. There's always some variety in nature after all. Good DOF on this shot. I think on the whole, you did a good job of capturing the scene.
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| Photo By: Peggy Heise
(K:937)
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Critique By:
Gary Martin (K:579)
12/27/2002 6:32:23 AM
Technically, the exposure on this image was well handled. You've maintained excellent detail all over the lighthouse but from a compositional standpoint, I have to agree with Julien, it would benefit from a little more creative photographer input.
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| Photo By: Peggy Heise
(K:937)
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Critique By:
Gary Martin (K:579)
12/27/2002 6:28:47 AM
Excellent composition with the use of the grasses in the foregorund.
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| Photo By: Who Kares
(K:224)
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Critique By:
Gary Martin (K:579)
12/27/2002 6:27:22 AM
Nice feel to this image and the lone surf fisherman gives you a point of interest in the foregrond that makes the image.
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| Photo By: Joel Goyette
(K:4)
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Critique By:
Gary Martin (K:579)
12/27/2002 6:25:58 AM
Excellent detail in the foreground coupled with good color saturation in the sky. Technically very nicely done.
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| Photo By: Marja Konimaki
(K:178)
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Critique By:
Gary Martin (K:579)
12/27/2002 6:23:30 AM
Ditto on the sharpening, but I have to disagree with Harvey... I think the narrow black silhouetted tree line anchors the bottom of the photo nicely for the tall, lone tree silhouetted in the foreground.
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| Photo By: John Black
(K:1047)
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Critique By:
Gary Martin (K:579)
12/27/2002 6:21:56 AM
Nice one, John, and welcome to usefilm. I've liked this shot since the first time I saw it. Excellent capture, planned or not!
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| Photo By: John Black
(K:1047)
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Critique By:
Gary Martin (K:579)
12/27/2002 6:17:49 AM
Good image for a portrait orientation. I rather wish the top of the large pine to the left had been included in the frame.. maybe a shorter focal length?
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| Photo By: Molly Walters
(K:1284)
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Critique By:
Gary Martin (K:579)
12/27/2002 6:16:40 AM
Good composition but too murky and grainy. Has me wondering if you scanned a print or the negative?
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| Photo By: Molly Walters
(K:1284)
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Critique By:
Gary Martin (K:579)
12/27/2002 6:15:12 AM
Nice image and mist effects... it does have many of the qualities of a painting!
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| Photo By: Miguel Lasa
(K:62)
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Critique By:
Gary Martin (K:579)
12/27/2002 6:14:09 AM
Considerable potential but seems too far too dark although there is detail in the shadows.
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| Photo By: Tom Vadnais
(K:973)
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Critique By:
Gary Martin (K:579)
12/26/2002 10:40:31 AM
For what it's worth Thibault, if you look at the "legs" of the catwalk going out, they're all starting to show some icing. It isn't quite cold enough yet for it to build up as the pounding waves keep washing it away as it forms this time of year. In contrast, the lighthouse and outer reaches of the catwalk always ice up first from the billowing clouds of spray thrown up by waves slamming into the end of the pier and freezing up high enough where the waves never reach to break off the ice. Later in the year when it's consistently cold, there will be ice all the way out the catwalk and completely encrusting the outer light at a minimum. As for going out on the pier on a day like last Saturday to get a closer shot of the ice... only if you have a death wish. You'd have about 3 minutes in that water at its present temperature to get out before it killed you. As it was, my effective focal length was 420 mm and I probably couldn't have shot in those winds with my 500 mm and a teleconverter.. not enough light to get a shutter speed high enough to keep the wind from buffeting the lens and blurring the image.
As for the sky, yep, pretty much featureless but I didn't want to crop away any of the spray billow from that wave.
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| Photo By: Gary Martin
(K:579)
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Critique By:
Gary Martin (K:579)
12/1/2002 10:36:19 AM
Excellent composition, Steve. I like the placement of the photographer... there but unobtrusive in your composition. Going down from the 17-35 you used for this shot to 14 mm would have been interesting. I have both lenses and find that there are times when 17 mm just doesn't do a vista justice!
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| Photo By: Steve Mekata
(K:610)
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Critique By:
Gary Martin (K:579)
12/1/2002 10:32:57 AM
Excellent composition and execution. I love the wind furrows in the sand leading the eye toward the horizon high in the image.
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| Photo By: Ken Alexander
(K:3905)
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Critique By:
Gary Martin (K:579)
12/1/2002 10:30:15 AM
This image would have been very much more effective if the only foreground shadow were that form the piece of wood. The heavy shadow on the right detracts substantially from this composition IMO.
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| Photo By: Ken Alexander
(K:3905)
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Critique By:
Gary Martin (K:579)
12/1/2002 10:28:06 AM
Greg, this is a strong composition, but technically, not one of your best photos. The gradation of color in the sky, while reminiscent of overpolarization (which you certainly can't use with a 14 mm ultrawide!), doesn't help this image. The crossarm on the pole is almost lost against that dark blue.
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| Photo By: Greg Summers
(K:1115)
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Critique By:
Gary Martin (K:579)
11/29/2002 12:12:12 PM
Another excellent shot, Greg. The edge of that cloud bank looks almost scuplted. Excellent color as well!
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| Photo By: Greg Summers
(K:1115)
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Critique By:
Gary Martin (K:579)
11/29/2002 12:11:03 PM
Greg you do get the sunsets to shoot! Nice capture.
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| Photo By: Greg Summers
(K:1115)
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Critique By:
Gary Martin (K:579)
11/29/2002 12:09:21 PM
I like the subtle background, the warm color on the lake, and the silhouetted figures in the rowboat with the reflection on the water. Well seen and captured.
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| Photo By: Michael G. Mill
(K:58)
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Critique By:
Gary Martin (K:579)
11/29/2002 12:07:01 PM
Great study in light, shadow, and color.
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| Photo By: Don Martel
(K:551)
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