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Ange Brett
{K:1642} 6/28/2006
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Awesomw shot, nicely composed and nice rich colour
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Paul's Photos
{K:35235} 6/11/2006
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love the landscape and the clouds.. nicely captured
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Paul's Photos
{K:35235} 5/9/2006
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love the clouds in the sky.. nice capture
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Roberto Arcari Farinetti
{K:209486} 4/29/2006
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happy week end my dear..
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roby
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Ace Star
{K:21040} 4/26/2006
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stunning landscape! and especially clouds with lovely blue sky making it more classy :)
fantastic work
goes to my fav
wish you good luck
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j esford
{K:13518} 4/26/2006
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Rina my dear, no fluff? I see absolute fluff here, that polarizer makes white clouds on a blue southern sky POP! No mistake, this is a very attractive piece.
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pan g.
{K:16899} 4/25/2006
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Damn, why doesn't the sky look like this in Greece too? I love it!
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Mary Slade
{K:40338} 4/24/2006
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Stunning image Rina- just wonderful. So strong. That sky is amazing. The colours so striking.
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Dubravko Grakalic
{K:25235} 4/23/2006
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splendid landscape
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Caterina Berimballi
{K:27299} 4/23/2006
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That's a great solution David. Gave it a go and was pleasantly surprised to see the image lift instantly. Didn't even occur to me that something as simple as a crop would make the difference here. Well, to me anyway, since the general concensus seems to be - filter good. Trying to hone skills composing in viewfinder rather than PS cropping afterward. I'll get there eventually... :) Thanks for the feedback mate. Much appreciated.
Taking some time away from UF is proving to be extremely difficult for a hot-headed italian drama queen like me. But I'll have to try or I'll be booted off myself!  See ya!
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stingRay pt.4 .
{K:250401} 4/22/2006
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Hiya sweetie.....I missed it first time around and of course being a man I always miss things on a regular basis. I love your new bio pic. You have the most gloriously long and shapely legs a beautifully nipped in waist and a couple of wonderful thingymejiggers perched south of your chin and north of your solar plexis. Bear hugs and a lingering kiss.....Ray
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Ali Naghizadeh
{K:19600} 4/22/2006
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Hi dear Rina.. Very well done on this shot.. I love the great contrast between the white clouds and the blue blue sky and think that using the polarizer has been a great choice my friend.. I also like the composition.. Well done.. Hope you come back soon with tones of new great pics..
My best regards,
aLi
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david henderson
{K:16659} 4/22/2006
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WOW....I go away for one day and all hell breaks loose!....this is a most interesting shot, not least because of the many and varied critiques/comments and the depth of information contained therein....the pic is outstanding, it is a bold landscape, polariser is ok I think, it only puts back what was always there to begin with....I would bite the bullet and crop that dark bit out of the top left, make it a bit more of a panoramic thing.....lovely work. cheers, david.
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Ian McIntosh
{K:42997} 4/22/2006
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Yeah i book marked it too... Couldn't read it all the way through... so not encouraged... just an idea. Personally I've found reading Hugos critiques give me concepts.
Heaps of the greats were happy to give their secrets away.
Ansel Adams wrote some generous books on technique. Whoever is pulling your chain...
It is neccesary to step back from this place occasionally I can recall so many times I've got things SO wrong, and that's not just me. There have been some spectacular barnies here. Last I heard from one "friend" he was calling everyone facsists and got deleted.
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Caterina Berimballi
{K:27299} 4/21/2006
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Thanks for that Ian. Have bookmarked the link. Looks involved so will take some time tonight to read through. Yeah, there's no way I could stay away for very long, addicted. So many things I still need to know, but beginning to think this might not be the place to find it. Seems folk are free to use the place as a personal playground, screw with your mind, destroy confidence, say oh but I was just testing and then get a huge pat on the back from the big boys who then go on to beat their chests and blow their own pathetic horns.... insanity Ian, and from those I wouldn't have expected, so it's fair to say I'm a wee bit disillusioned. I'll have to force myself to stay away though, my fingers are trigger happy... :)
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Steve Aronoff
{K:18393} 4/21/2006
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This is really stunning, Rina. The many layers are so interesting, varying not so much in shape as in tone and texture. If the polariser was a mistake, I can't tell. Really well done!!
Steve
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Jeanette Hägglund
{K:59855} 4/21/2006
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Gorgeous sky, clouds and the light/shadow play on the rocks and the stripes that beeing made of it!
Jeanette
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Ian McIntosh
{K:42997} 4/21/2006
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Boys club Rina? You are being touted as the next Judi Liosatos here in Dunners. You seem to have instincts on composition, but I know what you mean. I haven't picked up Henri Cartier-Bressons book "the decisive moment". It may be full of burble but he's got an edge to him and could be interesting.
I just googled "paul strand" and composition and found this:
http://elmo.academyart.edu/study/ph101/Assigned%20Reading%20Schedule.htm
which is a list of readings from a composional course.
Good luck with staying away. I keep coming back despite a total collapse in compositional faculties. :)
...boys club?
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m ,
{K:15872} 4/21/2006
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An amazing and classic landscape shot! I love the angle and details! Very beautiful colours indeed with this soft lightness and nice shadow! The earth and the sky are going to meet each other in some point regarding to this beautiful view! I wish it will happen to our dream in the real world too! Well done:
My best complement to you dear: Maxime
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Yoshiyuki Tanaka
{K:13580} 4/21/2006
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Great!!! Impressive!!! I would like to have those fluffy clouds here, for a change. A magnetic and beautiful composition in shapes and colour contrast!
YT
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stingRay pt.4 .
{K:250401} 4/21/2006
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Excuse me....which boy's club is this and why am I not a member....AND who said you could leave the room anyway????? OK....where are you off to and can I tag along?
Seriously....come back soon sweet Rina. Too many people disappear and some never come back at all.
This is a lovely composition my gorgeous girl and that wonderful rich blue sky and it's cottonwool balls and candy floss wisps looks stunning. I think you'll find that a polariser effect will only look wrong in an exceptionally wide angled shot and this certainly isn't the case here.
Have a great break sweet Rina but keep it short and hurry back to us. Big hugs and a kiss....and of course my very best wishes to the best Aussie export to NZ......Rayxxx
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Roberto Arcari Farinetti
{K:209486} 4/21/2006
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but.. also.. in new zealand have a lso a great landcsape!
this one is created in a stunning light my dear, really impressive and good.. i like it the play on the clouds fomation and the land.. so "dark"..
for me is also very well balanced, from the part in the composition.. many sky for a nice good increase perspective..
kisses
and all the best..
roby
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Alicia Popp
{K:87532} 4/21/2006
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Hola Rina... qué bella imagen nos muestras!!!. Ese cielo es precioso, parece sacado de libros de cuento, y el suelo... con esas formaciones tapizadas... estupendo... qué buena luz!. Felicitaciones!
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Gary Dyck
{K:12834} 4/21/2006
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Very nice photo, Rina! Earth and sky, doesn't get much simpler than that, yet it is so well done. I do like the polarized sky... but I guess it's a personal choice as to how saturated is too saturated... The clouds really stand out in this one. Cheers, Gary
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Roger Skinner
{K:81846} 4/21/2006
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I could send a PS on CD for a laff
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Caterina Berimballi
{K:27299} 4/21/2006
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Thanks :)
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Roger Skinner
{K:81846} 4/21/2006
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msn imajin8r@hotmail.com if chat is advised
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Roger Skinner
{K:81846} 4/21/2006
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yeah sure ..Roger's Rules Rule OK is a good start.. here is Rule No1
There are no rules
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Caterina Berimballi
{K:27299} 4/21/2006
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Man you do a great kiwi. I still get bagged for sounding too aussie and I've been here four years :)) Thanks for that Roger. You're probably just the right guy I need at the mo. I think I've got the whole aperture/shutter thing under control (most times anyway) but what I desperately need to learn more about, are those blasted comp rules. Suggestions for recommended reading??
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Roger Skinner
{K:81846} 4/21/2006
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yeah well everyone is gonna know the roid was on.. so dont stress bloody loverly composition.. bold blocks.. in my composition lecture I call this colour mass.. it works ..heading to abstraction.. gotta be happy with that hev a grut wekund and yeah drama quenns can wear whatever they like
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DELETE ACCOUNT
{K:5655} 4/21/2006
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Great color and cloud formation here. Reminds me of one of the earliest pictures I posted on this site, though you have a more dramatic landscape. Nice work.
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Caterina Berimballi
{K:27299} 4/21/2006
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Thanks Gayle :) I thought it looked too dark and I'm not sure the filter vignette helps matters. Had been taking shots more toward the sun all day long, ended up forgetting it was still on. My head's telling me not to play around with levels even though my eyes are saying it needs to be lightened. Thought I'd throw it out there as is and see what more experienced folk like yourself would say... It's good to know that you feel the darkening has influenced this in a positive way. Thanks for that. Maybe I'm too close ;)
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 4/21/2006
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Looks good to me Rina!
I like the balance in this image. The colours all compliment each other nicely and you have just the right amount of brightness in the middle to draw the eye into the image. The proportion of the sky to cloud to ground is also very eye pleasing.
Andre
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Gayle's Eclectic Photos
{K:91109} 4/21/2006
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hi ya, i would be interested in knowing why you think using the polarizer filter may have been a mistake regarding this shot?...it seems to me it effectively added contrast to the sky to define the cloud formations,deepened the blue sky which is gorgeous,and influenced the land colors by darkening which i feel defined the separation of the hill formations and added depth...
i like the proportion of sky to land,and the simplicity of the comp...excellent clarity on my monitor!...very good work,my friend!
cheers,gayle
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Galal El Missary
{K:84569} 4/21/2006
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Great view , i like the composition & contrast , well taken Rina .
Galal
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Tony Quinlan
{K:2094} 4/21/2006
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Absolutely superb!
Wish I'd taken it!
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