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Ferran Rial
{K:6670} 11/1/2005
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Very interesting artwork,Collin! I have one very similiar but in NYC instead of Paris. Best regards!
ferran
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Colin Cartwright
{K:15699} 10/25/2005
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What an excellent comment,, Mohamed!! Yes I agree about the scale and space. Also, the architects have chosen a form of spatial and artistic architecture, for this area. You cannot appreciate it unless you've been there. This area was built on an ancient ley line. From the the Louvre, to the Arc d' Triomphe, and straight to the La defense area. A dead straight line.
Colin
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Mohamed Banna
{K:34237} 10/25/2005
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was sure that i will found somthing about PARIS here
La Defense
this area is a dream for me,, when i went there i felt the scale and the space what i was studied in the university
and you complete this dream with your abstaction to this outstanding piazza
i love ur work as much i love this city of nights and lights
all my best regads with 7* rating
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Ian McIntosh
{K:42997} 10/24/2005
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I went there and wondered why. Very moderniist working in a seventies way, to my eyes.
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Colin Cartwright
{K:15699} 9/6/2005
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I appreciate that, Claude, mon ami. This was the first photo I uploaded here, and it's still my favourite. If you get the chance, when youre in Paris, visit this place,it's a photogrpaher's paradise!
Merci beaucoup.
Colin
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Claude Lussier
{K:4626} 9/6/2005
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Incredible to see as much modern style, in a city like Paris. I went there at the time of the bicentenial anniversary of the French revolution in 1989, I knew the existance of this place but we hadn't had time to stop there. Very beautiful composition Colin, love it perspective.
Regards
Claude
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Colin Cartwright
{K:15699} 7/2/2005
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Thanks a lot, Markus.
You've put some thought into your words, and given me some original comments. That means a lot.
Vielen Dank!
Colin
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Markus Scholz
{K:23722} 7/1/2005
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Very nice picture of La Defense, Colin. The effect really adds an additional impression to the photograph. It now looks like the architectural sketches they make before the real thing.
Cheers, Markus
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Colin Cartwright
{K:15699} 6/26/2005
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Thanks a lot for taking the time, Sally. I appreciate it.
To answer your questions - I gave the colours a bit more saturation, and experimented with the curves, using About six points on the linear graph, until the coulours of the reflections and people's clothes were as I required.
The central point, where the eye is drawn to, is the famous arc de triomph. This you can see clearly on my original, but it's hard to see at 200kb!
My unmodified original is in the comments below the image if you want to see it.
Colin
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Sally Morgan
{K:9219} 6/26/2005
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This is fantastic Colin - I love what you've done to it - was it really all just in curves?
I like the perspective you've taken the shot from, I like the vanishing point, I like the way the colours in the sky are mirrored in the buildings and I really like the colours too - marvellous!
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Colin Cartwright
{K:15699} 6/22/2005
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Thanks Gayle,
I see what you mean by Tokyo, but "la Defense", is very much french parisien! It was controversial when it was built in the '80s.
Hence my title!
It could have kept me busy for a week instead of the hour I had there. Multi-coloured reflections from stylishly curved skyscrapers, with the 'cube' at its centre, a weird inside-out bulding, (have a look on the web). It lies in a perfect ley line through the magnifient arc de triomphe to the famous louvre museum. The reason I enhanced the reflected window colours, and people's clothing, was to try and emphasise, phtographically, the futuristic ambience of this amazing place.
I used curves in photoshop for this effect.
But it doesn't come close to being there.
Here's the original.
Colin
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Gayle's Eclectic Photos
{K:91109} 6/22/2005
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very futuristic cityscape and not at all how i imagine any part of Paris!...looks more like something i would expect to see in high tech Tokyo...good job with the stylish effect,Colin...maybe you could upload a smaller original to insert with a comment here...looks like a chrome effect and high contrast color..regards,gayle
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Dr. Rafael Springmann
{K:89517} 6/22/2005
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I found no previous comments from me to you, Mr. Cartwright, although your name sounds familiar.
Be that as it may you're right about Paris being marvelous, although we had some hard times there about ten years ago when our son in law, who was doing his post-doc there suffered from leukemia and we had to do the way Tel Aviv - Paris every few weeks. Fortunately a bone-marrow donor was found just in time and we celebrated our son in law's being re-born ten years after the bone-marrow transplant a few months ago.
Your elaboration of La Defence is simply marvelous. It gives this place, which is marvelous in its own right, a further dimension.
My "Memories from Paris 12" was captured not far from there. Tank you for your very generous comment on it. The distortion is in the original photo, as it was a reflection I took a photo of.
Best regards,
Rafi
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Adriana Rabbit
{K:3233} 6/19/2005
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HI Colin! WoW ... Nice effect! I?ve never been in France, I hope I could do a virtual trip watching your pictures, lol! ~:-) Dri
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Colin Cartwright
{K:15699} 6/18/2005
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If you get the chance, go to "la Defense", Roger.
It could have kept me busy for a week instead of the hour I had there. Multi-coloured reflections from stylishly curved skyscrapers, with the central piece of the 'inside-out-building' of the 'cube'. It lies in a perfect ley line from the louvre though the magnifient arc de triomphe to la defense. The reason I enhanced the reflected window colours, and people's clothing, was to emphasise the futuristic ambience of this amazing place.
Colin
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 6/18/2005
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You had some fun playing with this one, didn't you! Not my style at all but very well done. I'd like to take a panorama camera to La Defense or even stitch together an immersive 360-degree panorama in virtual reality... a fascinating area.
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Sava Savic
{K:326} 6/15/2005
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Really good effect, out of time... 2078y
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Lori Stitt
{K:75282} 6/15/2005
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A very neat abstract image!
Colorful indeed!
I see you are new here, WELCOME ABOARD! You'll
love it here!
Nice job,
Lori ;)
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Jeff Cartwright
{K:52046} 6/14/2005
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Hi!...Colin!....Excellent....Painted Like...Presentation!
Good Composition!...and Colour ful Scenic View!!!
Best Regards:
Jeff.
Well I never ....One of the Cartwright Clan!
Do you Actually Live in France...Colin!...By way of Interest...a Couple of years ago...a Guy...in Toronto!...Listed a Book..of Cartwright's...and Stated that their were...Approximately...250,000 Familie's...in the World....Which makes us a Minority... Assume a World Population...of 1.5 Million....Yes!!!
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Denise Harman
{K:662} 6/14/2005
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Wow! That shot is fantastic, Colin. I ran out of time to get to La Defense, thinking that I would return to Paris this summer and go then. However, now it is not looking hopeful that I will return anytime soon. I guess that goes to show that we have to grab opportunity when we can and not ever put it off to tomorrow.
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Colin Cartwright
{K:15699} 6/14/2005
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I've just viewed your portfolio Mitchell. I could happily live with any of these evocative images framed in my house. These often take hours of work to get the effect just right.
I think, like me, you utilise modern, digital technology, to make up for the fact that we can't paint! I can't see a poor effort amongst your work.
Exellent.
Colin
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Mitchell Miller
{K:3009} 6/14/2005
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very nice effect. well done!
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Colin Cartwright
{K:15699} 6/13/2005
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Thanks Carolyn, I'm new, so appreciate critique.
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Colin Cartwright
{K:15699} 6/13/2005
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Thanks Enrico But I made an incorrect entry - it's a digital photo from a simple snap and shoot digicamera!
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Enrico Gori
{K:1645} 6/13/2005
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very interesting effects: from a BN film!!!
I like it very much
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Carolyn Wiesbrock
{K:14051} 6/13/2005
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Magnificent work here!
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Jose Ignacio (Nacho) Garcia Barcia
{K:96391} 6/13/2005
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fantastic. in my favoerites. 7
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