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Critique By:
Evgueni Tchetchetkine (K:80)
1/14/2002 9:45:59 PM
Thank you, Anne.
NPH is speed 400, bt mostly people recommend shooting it at 320 saying that at 400 the pictures come out somewhat flat. I personally didn't try to do the tests myself, but I just shoot at 320, which at least gives me some error margin against underexposure, and, this being a negative film and a low-contrast one, it handles possible overexposure quite well. I like this film for preserving details in wide range - from rather deep shadows to the bright spots. This particular shot is kind of extreme, of course, in this regard, but I have some other image - with the sun in it, and both the sky around the sun and the shadows on the people have enough detail in them for the picture to be more or less natural looking. I plan on posting it tomorrow - both for illustration for my words and because I like it :-)
As for the the lighting, there is actually a campfire to the left - it slightly colors some shadows brown-red (e.g. the left (for us) side of the girl facing us).
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| Photo By: Evgueni Tchetchetkine
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Critique By:
Evgueni Tchetchetkine (K:80)
1/14/2002 7:28:58 PM
It's about fourth time I come here to look at this picture. Great one.
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Critique By:
Evgueni Tchetchetkine (K:80)
1/14/2002 6:22:43 PM
Somehow I can't get the matting on this site to work. Here I specified: 1st border - size=4, color=#333333, 2nd border - size=25, color=#999999, but the result is totally different. Same goes for the previous image (the colors and widths were different, but the result differed from those, too).
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Critique By:
Evgueni Tchetchetkine (K:80)
1/14/2002 10:41:12 AM
The good one. Self-framing, and the woman's hands and shoulders form the lines that draw the eye to the girls' face.
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Critique By:
Evgueni Tchetchetkine (K:80)
1/13/2002 4:58:42 PM
This is visually strong image, although, in my opinion, it would benefit from somewhat more tight cropping on the right-hand side and on the top.
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Critique By:
Evgueni Tchetchetkine (K:80)
1/13/2002 4:53:09 PM
For me, it's the sun reflection that makes this picture work. And its small size (defined by the the short focal length) somehow seems appropriate. BTW, this "18mm" is D1's 18mm or 35mm-camera equivalent? In the latter case it would probably correspond to something like 30-40mm.
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Critique By:
Evgueni Tchetchetkine (K:80)
1/13/2002 12:44:41 AM
There's one more thing that enhances the mood of this image. The body proprotions (here created by the position of the camera close to the head) and the position of the horisontal lines (the coast and the water top line) just above the shoulders suggest to our subconscious the well-known images of crusifix. It is not too obvious so as to be "in bad taste", or the direct quotation, no, it works subtly. Most probably the photographer didn't conciously aim at that effect, but his subconcious worked here, too.
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Critique By:
Evgueni Tchetchetkine (K:80)
1/13/2002 12:20:14 AM
(upon reading the previous comment) I'm in the "car must be there" camp :-)
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Critique By:
Evgueni Tchetchetkine (K:80)
1/13/2002 12:15:27 AM
Perfect visuals. The hands work both as rithm (sp?) making feature and as a framing one.
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Critique By:
Evgueni Tchetchetkine (K:80)
1/13/2002 12:10:05 AM
Nice one. I like the subtle use of the building detail as a reference both in space and in velocity, and its contrast to the birds, and how this detail shows but a little so as not to be an object by itself, but to be a visual catalizator only.
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