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Critique By:
MaryBell (K:32791)
2/29/2004 2:52:07 PM
Hugo, the comp and DOF and everything about this one is perfect - I like it very, very, well!! An odd note that has little to do with the photo but more about interpretation - for some reason it looks like an old phone cord to me! Do you remember how the earpiece/mouthpiece of the phone was attached to the phone by a stretchy spiral cord? This reminds me of that!! 
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| Photo By: Hugo de Wolf
(K:185110)
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Critique By:
MaryBell (K:32791)
2/29/2004 2:48:37 PM
The grain is wonderful to me but then ask me about grain - when I shoot grainy film I go all the way with it!!
The comp here is wonderful and if it were mine, I might press it slightly further and crop in a bit more from the left and bottom and drop her even more into the corner so it is about her face and the light and dark shadows beyond - right now I find her clothes a tad distracting but that would be my style!!
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| Photo By: Stefan Engström
(K:24473)
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Critique By:
MaryBell (K:32791)
2/29/2004 2:43:52 PM
I like this one very well - the grain and the lightness seem to lend a degree of transience to the moment that is fitting - you may not have expected it but it worked well and will probably be worth continuing with in the future...
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| Photo By: Stefan Engström
(K:24473)
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Critique By:
MaryBell (K:32791)
2/29/2004 2:32:25 PM
awesome DOF and perspective, I like the detail of shadows and the lighting on the face is great - wonderful smile!!
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| Photo By: Ursula I Abresch
(K:6515)
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Critique By:
MaryBell (K:32791)
2/29/2004 5:37:13 AM
and lingers, and lingers, and lingers, and lingers, and lingers, and lingers!!!
nice classic winter scene...it seems a tad soft but I always give leeway when someone is posting from a scan...nice depth and movement...
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| Photo By: John Chiu
(K:6250)
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Critique By:
MaryBell (K:32791)
2/29/2004 5:24:34 AM
wonderful repetition and movement - it feels like the steps to a dance...
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Photo By: Verena Rentrop
(K:15233)
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Critique By:
MaryBell (K:32791)
2/29/2004 5:09:15 AM
John,
I like this shot - I could critique it but I will just leave with this - her smile is contageous and I am glad you caught it...
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| Photo By: John Strazza
(K:11535)
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Critique By:
MaryBell (K:32791)
2/29/2004 5:04:45 AM
Hugo,
Good light and depth - I am a bit distracted by the hot spot in the foreground/left - it would change the depth of the image tremendously to remove it but it is definitely a drawback... hmmm...it is echoed by one on the right-hand side preceding the last arch that we see which is a tribute to the design of the structure...
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| Photo By: Hugo de Wolf
(K:185110)
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Critique By:
MaryBell (K:32791)
2/29/2004 5:00:19 AM
I like the treatment the yellow background contrasts nicely with the pink and the spots and the yellowish tones also remind me of a poem by Blake - "thou art sick..."
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| Photo By: Johnny K
(K:12635)
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Critique By:
MaryBell (K:32791)
2/29/2004 4:56:32 AM
Hugo, This is the least emotive of the three - I would suggest that if they were ever hung together to place it in the middle - it serves from a different angle and purpose but the tones aren't as strong and neither is the comp...
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| Photo By: Hugo de Wolf
(K:185110)
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Critique By:
MaryBell (K:32791)
2/29/2004 4:38:38 AM
so typically Dutch!!
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| Photo By: Teunis Haveman
(K:37426)
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Critique By:
MaryBell (K:32791)
2/29/2004 4:30:05 AM
Good pose and crop - like how the scarf moves out...I do wish you hadn't nipped the toe (as she runs ducking and dodging! I know I am anal)
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| Photo By: sandy c. hopkins
(K:17107)
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Critique By:
MaryBell (K:32791)
2/28/2004 5:20:58 AM
Verena,
I would disagree with Hugo here..I like the high key mood of this - perhaps a bit blown in the backgroudn - but otherwise good - comp and tangle works well for me here...
Very excited to see what else you took in Greece - should be a unique perspective when seen through your eyes... !!
M
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| Photo By: Verena Rentrop
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Critique By:
MaryBell (K:32791)
2/28/2004 5:01:51 AM
Good sky detail in this one - not sure if it makes up for the lack of detail in the snow but still it is provocative...Like the mood of this one...
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| Photo By: Tim Long
(K:9228)
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Critique By:
MaryBell (K:32791)
2/28/2004 4:55:33 AM
Absolutely astounding love the rim of ice crystals around the head of this little seed pod - this is winter in a way much deeper and personal than a big scenic snowscape ever gets it...cruel and harsh - bitter...
the yellowish tones and the cloudy atmosphere are good too - is the cloudiness from DOF, breath, etc or is it post-processing...?
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| Photo By: Tim Long
(K:9228)
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Critique By:
MaryBell (K:32791)
2/28/2004 4:51:40 AM
Aha, I might have guessed - a midwesterner...(upper midwest based on the deepness of the snow)...
this is an excellent rural landscape...I like the blue tones as there is something of a mood there...I would guess this is either at dawn or twighlight which would account for the bluish tones and the hard angle of light...
as far as the snow goes - it might be not as crisply white as some may like but I do like that you have good detail through the image (especially in the white field area between the tractor and the windmill...
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| Photo By: Tim Long
(K:9228)
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Critique By:
MaryBell (K:32791)
2/27/2004 1:56:43 PM
sinking into layers of decay - very medieval...
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| Photo By: Fabio Keiner
(K:81109)
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Critique By:
MaryBell (K:32791)
2/27/2004 1:53:49 PM
you have to stare at this to catch the echoes and yet you make it compelling enough that we find ourselves staring at it...
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| Photo By: ana ribeiro
(K:21290)
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Critique By:
MaryBell (K:32791)
2/27/2004 1:41:10 PM
Emgy,
This is something a little more concrete for you!! I like the detail and the title - an unusual perspectvie that works well here - I would have never taken it and that is a tribute to your eye - I get stuck in a rut...
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| Photo By: Emgy Massidda
(K:60358)
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Critique By:
MaryBell (K:32791)
2/27/2004 1:32:55 PM
I think you succeeded - love the look of this shot - especially the texture in the foreground reflection...is the only tecnhnique the filter or did you have to do ps work too?
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| Photo By: Ursula I Abresch
(K:6515)
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Critique By:
MaryBell (K:32791)
2/27/2004 1:29:57 PM
I like that the one camera-man appears to have it focused directly on you!! There is a classic feel to this image that I think suits the subject very well...good work!!
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| Photo By: Hugo de Wolf
(K:185110)
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Critique By:
MaryBell (K:32791)
2/27/2004 1:21:22 PM
okay, that is funny - it almost looks like...nah, I won't go there...
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| Photo By: John Strazza
(K:11535)
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Critique By:
MaryBell (K:32791)
2/27/2004 5:13:14 AM
Excellent lighting and DOF here - I like how you move past the camera to focus on their faces - I also like how they are looking past eachother rather than at each other... there is a strong sense of discomfort here...
the darkness of them against the light background makes them the sure subject and focal point...
this really was an excellent capture...if the other two are this strong, this will be an excellent tryp...perhaps your best...
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| Photo By: Hugo de Wolf
(K:185110)
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Critique By:
MaryBell (K:32791)
2/27/2004 4:59:43 AM
I am guessing that this was once a display arrangement for an advertisement or such - great feeling of decay and abandonment...
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| Photo By: Teunis Haveman
(K:37426)
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Critique By:
MaryBell (K:32791)
2/27/2004 4:57:51 AM
great eye - I am not sure I would have seen it - now all you need is Thor's hammer...
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| Photo By: Teunis Haveman
(K:37426)
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Critique By:
MaryBell (K:32791)
2/27/2004 4:54:11 AM
sweet layering of profiles and wonderful tangle of limbs...
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| Photo By: Pat Fruen
(K:12076)
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Critique By:
MaryBell (K:32791)
2/27/2004 4:40:58 AM
help me, help me, help me!!!
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| Photo By: Fabio Keiner
(K:81109)
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Critique By:
MaryBell (K:32791)
2/27/2004 4:36:27 AM
life versus static - wish the line across the top were parallel with the ground...hmmm although it does appear that the bottom of the stairs are parallel - now how does that work?
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| Photo By: Hugo de Wolf
(K:185110)
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Critique By:
MaryBell (K:32791)
2/27/2004 4:24:37 AM
I am not sure here - I think the highlights are too bright and too blown...I do however, like the detaile reflection on the lower-right-hand side of the hoop...
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| Photo By: Verena Rentrop
(K:15233)
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Critique By:
MaryBell (K:32791)
2/27/2004 4:10:16 AM
looks like a poltergeist to me!!
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| Photo By: sandy c. hopkins
(K:17107)
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