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Critique By:
Gabriel Fuentes (K:6565)
3/21/2006 2:09:45 AM
Powerful way of bringing attention to your subject!
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| Photo By: Mohamed Banna
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Critique By:
Gabriel Fuentes (K:6565)
3/21/2006 2:01:08 AM
Outstanding capture Robert: your subject and his perch in dof focus, just the right blurred background, and a delightfully simple palette of colors. What 'grabs me' is the composition with the curves, especially those antennae. How did you get him to 'professionally' pose for you? Excellent image ... good show!!!
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| Photo By: Robert Lewis
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Critique By:
Gabriel Fuentes (K:6565)
3/18/2006 11:49:16 PM
Your use of chromatic light, both in the filter-like panes and as spilled light rendered on the floor, dramatically marks the slightly off-center VP (vanishing point) which locates the light source, making a complex presentation of forms appear geometrically simple. Masterful Señor Paul! I’d place this image at the end of a long hall I need people to walk through, sure that they will be alluringly attracted to it.
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| Photo By: Paul's Photos
(K:35235)
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Critique By:
Gabriel Fuentes (K:6565)
3/18/2006 11:30:58 PM
There's a photo-story here: the steps marked in sand tells us the woman changed course to wade into the cool water, she stands still amidst the breaking waves, while the warm bright light above left breaks the symmetry. The frame makes it work for me, it's as if I'm peeking out from a stained-glass window. Nicely put together Doyle!
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Photo By: Doyle D. Chastain
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Critique By:
Gabriel Fuentes (K:6565)
3/18/2006 11:10:44 PM
Roby: Il vostro straordinario complimento, venente da un padrone padrone della arte che tengo nell'alta stima (le tue foto son tutte belle), mi significo molto per me ... un alto onore ... un abbraccio più caldo!
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| Photo By: Gabriel Fuentes
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Critique By:
Gabriel Fuentes (K:6565)
2/25/2006 2:52:47 PM
This is absolutely beautiful: colors and the slow movement of water you've captured estimulate meditation and tranquility. I am much impressed!
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| Photo By: Susie OConnor
(K:34798)
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Critique By:
Gabriel Fuentes (K:6565)
2/25/2006 2:44:56 PM
I notice a recurring theme in your images: expressive eyes. In remembering that dogs emulate their masters, I hypothesize you must have very expressive eyes. Only when one's mind and spirit is open to a feeling can one feel thus. You are, therefore, certainly capable of empathic communication with children and animals. On an artistic level, this image attracts me with its color palette, its composition, and the choice of the deep brown eyes and round nose triangle that projects a simple and attractive form. Great work Susie!
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| Photo By: Susie OConnor
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Critique By:
Gabriel Fuentes (K:6565)
2/25/2006 3:41:34 AM
Una armoniosa fiesta de colores ... parece una acuarela de paleta completa ... alegra cualquier dia ... lindo trabajo Alicia.
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| Photo By: Alicia Popp
(K:87532)
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Critique By:
Gabriel Fuentes (K:6565)
2/25/2006 3:35:35 AM
¡Que hermosa rosa encendida! ... la has capturado con la justa profundidad de campo (dof). El compendio de mudos colores que la rodean acentuan su elegante belleza, los capullos dos presagios al por brotar. Me impresionas con tu poesia fotográfica Alicia, tremendísimo trabajo.
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| Photo By: Alicia Popp
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Critique By:
Gabriel Fuentes (K:6565)
2/22/2006 7:23:21 PM
A pleasant combination of color and movement, with contrasting reflections in the water and ripples that accentuate the movement that your image has frozen in time. You caught the light at the right time (angle), thus avoiding detracting shadows. Very well done Mohamed.
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| Photo By: Mohamed Banna
(K:34237)
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Critique By:
Gabriel Fuentes (K:6565)
2/22/2006 7:15:48 PM
Beautiful simplicity, fluorescent colors, a perfect expression of photography as "rendered light." Wonderful work my friend.
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| Photo By: Mohamed Banna
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Critique By:
Gabriel Fuentes (K:6565)
2/22/2006 12:07:51 AM
The following comment by Ann Nida (dated 2/21/2006 12:17:36 PM GMT) was forwarded to me. I wish to add my congrats to you for FC and a prominent display of your excellent image on UF's front page.
Comment: Just found this little gem on the front page. Congratulations Kathy for making the front page critique. Also congrats to Gabriel for getting you there with her critique. This is a lovely peek-a-boo image. Beautiful depth of field used here to get the berries nice and sharp and the barn just a tad soft. Lovely balamce of colour throughout. A beautiful image. Always great to see a friend on the front page. Congrats again. Cheers - Ann 
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| Photo By: Kathy Hillard
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Critique By:
Gabriel Fuentes (K:6565)
2/21/2006 11:20:53 PM
I am so honored by your words, coming from such a master of photography. Tante grazie, un cordiale abbraccio a te caro Roberto.
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| Photo By: Gabriel Fuentes
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Critique By:
Gabriel Fuentes (K:6565)
2/20/2006 5:07:56 PM
Charming face ... I'm in love! I find the focus and detail in the eyes particularly effective - such depth! The result is I am enticed to keep staring into them, mesmerized, wanting to know what is it (...in that little girl's mind) that makes her expression wonderstruck. Wonderful capture Susie.
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| Photo By: Susie OConnor
(K:34798)
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Critique By:
Gabriel Fuentes (K:6565)
2/20/2006 4:57:08 PM
I just love the way you've restricted your dof to the foreground, making the barns more blurry, presented like a faded backdrop, which fits the fact they are relatively farther away, therefore accentuating that the viewer is looking up close -- into those blueberry branches that have the detail that needs focus. Moreover, the barns increase the depth perception. Such a pleasant combination of form, color and composition. I like it!
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| Photo By: Kathy Hillard
(K:25721)
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Critique By:
Gabriel Fuentes (K:6565)
2/19/2006 4:28:10 PM
I am attracted to this image in several ways: the contrast between the snowed hills in the background (a relatively short distance away) against the grounds that surround the barn, the green pasture versus the greenish mossy face of the barn, and the tall leafy evergreen and the right versus the scraggly set on the left. A work of art Kathy.
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| Photo By: Kathy Hillard
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Critique By:
Gabriel Fuentes (K:6565)
2/19/2006 4:11:20 PM
Ya he visto tu ave desde el "submundo V," y me acerqué a esta imagen con agradable prejuicio, tranquilo de entender que está pasando; las suelas de los zapatos que caminan sobre un techo compuesto de paneles traslucientes. Me complaces con el momento de la captura, pues la posición de los pies forman una línea, un triángulo, y esto enmarcado en cuadros. Que ojo mi amigo. Se te aprecia en grande.
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| Photo By: kike Calvo
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Critique By:
Gabriel Fuentes (K:6565)
2/19/2006 3:57:18 PM
De maravilla mi talentoso amigo. Los pies palmeados (en naranja) que asocio con una ave acuática (¿un pato?), que camina dejando rizos sobre agua vertida sobre hielo (¿o un cristal?), y esto todo captado desde abajo. ¡Que fenómeno! Me agradan sobremanera la sencillez de los colores: naranja sobre tonos de gris (como Ingmar Bergman). La clave está en las patas caminando hacia abajo, en correlación con la imagen capturada desde abajo, que a su vez delatan el rabo en forma de orejas (que despistan a primera vista). Y la dirección de la luz la determina la sombra. Excepcional mi amigo. Merece un premio.
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| Photo By: kike Calvo
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Critique By:
Gabriel Fuentes (K:6565)
2/19/2006 3:31:38 PM
How simply well you have captured this 'negative' curve (meaning the curve is defined more by light than by dark). A pleasant combination of forms and textures: blue sky backdrop, a variety of puffy clouds, the striated façade, and the thin light poles. Very nice indeed.
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| Photo By: Mohamed Banna
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Critique By:
Gabriel Fuentes (K:6565)
2/19/2006 3:19:48 PM
You have inspired me with your choice of words, thoughts that go so well with this image Mohamed. The endless variety, the diversity of living organisms relate -- as you have so eloquently expressed. You have a good eye for color, form and composition. Well done my friend.
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| Photo By: Mohamed Banna
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Critique By:
Gabriel Fuentes (K:6565)
2/3/2006 7:32:46 PM
Charming. It brings to mind my tendency to single out features in a face that call my attention to the point of forgetting everything else. You've effectively used color to accentuate luxuriant facial elements that remain indelible first impressions. And the blue eyes together with the pinkish-red variations go well together. Extraordinary talent Susie .... and a pleasure to look at with satisfying delight.
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| Photo By: Susie OConnor
(K:34798)
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Critique By:
Gabriel Fuentes (K:6565)
2/3/2006 7:19:10 PM
An attractive combination of shapes with earth colors; and of course the blue sky and the green are one of my favorite combinations. Well chosen VP (Vanishing Point) marked in the third by a small green patch, and perfect focus on the bench-mark post that stands out in faded neutrals. I have so often admired your empathic eye for children's faces, but this landscape shows you are multi-talented. I am so delighted to have some time to enjoy the images you publish at UF. Hugs Susie!
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| Photo By: Susie OConnor
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Critique By:
Gabriel Fuentes (K:6565)
2/3/2006 6:59:54 PM
Il percorso curvo raddrizza per contrassegnare un'intersezione di dove la gente attende, alcuni da un lato, alcuni d'altro canto... ché stupenda forma e struttura de presentazione ... sono veramente speciali ... sempre belle ed anche simpatiche le tue composizione amica, un originale angolo di bloccaggio ...
Ciao Claudia
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| Photo By: Claudia Perilli
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Critique By:
Gabriel Fuentes (K:6565)
2/3/2006 6:49:07 PM
Il nero e bianco contribuisce per accentuare la figura di un uomo che sembra depresso, premuroso, dirigendo tramite un percorso curvante stretto verso la luce che probabilmente ancora non ha notato. I inparts interi il dramma di un viaggio resistere. Avendo forte effetto Claudia ...bravísimo ... Ciao!
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| Photo By: Claudia Perilli
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Critique By:
Gabriel Fuentes (K:6565)
2/2/2006 1:13:20 AM
It's good to read your 'welcome back' words. I hope to have more time to capture images, upload them, and most of all tour portfolios like yours to catch up comments to my friends ... thank you kindly Susie.
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| Photo By: Gabriel Fuentes
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Critique By:
Gabriel Fuentes (K:6565)
9/25/2005 4:37:36 AM
You show more quality in your images than your experience would indicate: This one has a deep theme, beautiful combination of colors that sustain it (Thesis, anti-thesis, synthesis!), very good dof (depth of field), angle of capture and composition. You should be feeling like "one of us" only too soon ... great photo Paulette .. show us more! ...Gab
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| Photo By: Paulette Southerly
(K:96)
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Critique By:
Gabriel Fuentes (K:6565)
9/25/2005 12:34:19 AM
I am absolutely fascinated with this image, how well you've captured the detail that shows the wear and tear of many, MANY years: weathering, use, maintenance (i.e. re-painting or re-varnishing or re-oiling?) Love the combination of wood with the metal hardware, how age has affected the detail in such diverse ways ... just fascinating!!! Great photographic work. ...Gab
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| Photo By: Galal El Missary
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Critique By:
Gabriel Fuentes (K:6565)
9/25/2005 12:24:46 AM
This works just fine for me: visually by inviting me to the open pages that begin with the text "I Love You," followed with a graphically rendered heart, then with the rythm of the pages, then the leaf and the branch that tickles my imagination urging me to want to know more ... the composition with the VP (vanishing point) hidden on the far left adds to the suspense, and the warm color reinforces it all ... such nice work my friend ...Gab
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| Photo By: Mohamed Banna
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Critique By:
Gabriel Fuentes (K:6565)
9/25/2005 12:15:50 AM
Astoundingly beautiful! Love that collection of boats with their lateen sails as silhouettes, the reflections on the water, that orange outer circle around the sun ... what a perfect exposure to get the detail and the illumination just right .. you're a master !!! ..Gab
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| Photo By: Mohamed Banna
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Critique By:
Gabriel Fuentes (K:6565)
9/25/2005 12:11:37 AM
Rusty delight! What an avalanche of memories you've precipitated. I loved my first bike, treasured it. Your image reminds me that the last time I saw it it was also rusty and worn, yet my eyes saw it as so beautiful, like your image, which makes this bike (because of the color) look so much more attractive (when it shouldn't) against the B&W surroundings ... Great PS work of masking and de-saturation Kathy ... You're an artist ...Gab
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| Photo By: Kathy Hillard
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