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Critique By:
Simon Edmondson (K:40)
2/26/2005 9:31:33 PM
Hi Margaret. Thanks for your comments and thanks for posting your tweaked image. It's definitely an improvement on the original and it's good to get an idea of what result I'd get with a longer exposure or different lighting. I have a whole roll of this study in different light. As I was taking the pictures, the light was moving behind the edge of my window pane and this shot was taken just as the shadow was beginning to creep across the composition.
It's an interesting dilemma I have because as a multimedia designer, I work with Photoshop daily. It's very easy for me to scan an image and p'shop it, but as I'm trying to get back into photography, I feel a need to go back to 35mm film and back to a manual camera... back to roots, so to speak, and try to get well exposed and composed shots straight through the lens. It's going to take some practice!  D
But your experiment made me think about how I can use Photoshop to see how I might improve my photography by playing with cropping, brightness/contrast, hue/saturation, and removing bad parts with the stamp and smudge tools, etc. For example, you have removed the stick which sticks out from above the white flower, which improves the composition immensely!
Thanks very much for your comments, help and inspiration! I will certainly do what you have done with my images in the future!! Great idea!
Simon.
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Critique By:
Simon Edmondson (K:40)
2/23/2005 2:00:40 AM
Brilliant colours! The lower part looks like an abstract painting.
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Photo By: Warren Simons
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Critique By:
Simon Edmondson (K:40)
2/23/2005 1:55:38 AM
Wow!! When you first look at it, the Angel doesn't look so big and then your eye moves down to the gap between the fences and the scale suddenly dawns on you!! The sky behind is great!! Did you take any more piccies... maybe of more unusual angles and perspectives?
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| Photo By: Barry Fox
(K:464)
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Critique By:
Simon Edmondson (K:40)
2/23/2005 1:50:50 AM
Lovely textures!! The grain works perfectly with the colours and the feel of the scene. A part of seasonal life captured well!!
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| Photo By: Titia Geertman
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Critique By:
Simon Edmondson (K:40)
1/25/2005 1:45:45 AM
That's wonderful. I especially like the focus & delicacy of the veins in the petals. Also, I'm drawn to the high contrast edge around the right of the flower. Glad you kept the darker area on the right of the image to accentuate that line. Yum.
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