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October 10, 2001

amazingly well done photo. some comments re. composition: on one hand i like the shadows cast by the railing falling on the left side wall etc, but then i dont see a point to all that darkspace in the lower half of the picture. perhaps you were trying to include the cityscape and 35 was the widest you had? if at all possible, i'd have gone to the water front w/ a 28mm lens and tried the same. the idea of a l-o-n-g exposure works well to blur out most of the ppl (not that there would be too many at this hour!), also the idea of taking this very late was neat, allowing you to get this w/o the streetlamps lit, and as a bonus, the moon/jupiter, orion (even the nebula!) rising above the city. good shot!

October 9, 2001

nice view, altho i'd like to see this a tad sharper, and also silvery tone, like platinum

added later: heck, why not do this in IR. it would look GORGEOUS.

October 5, 2001

fantastic! simple yet elegant

September 29, 2001

Gorgeous rich black, nice midtones, and even the hilites are there! Dontcha just love chromogenic film for this? Very very nice, nice strong composition. At first I didn't like the little chimney things on the bottom, since they are obstructing the view, but on second thought, I kinda like them there. Well done.

September 26, 2001

two words: starfleet headquarters (SF, earth, future)

September 26, 2001

qood question (the one you posted in the critique request with this pic). my prof used the same argument on me when i did a local historic landmark photoessay, and everyone ooohed & aaahed over my pics...

September 26, 2001

digital IR? live and learn! indeed, as others have said, wild colours (salmon sky!), nice composition. quite lovely.

September 26, 2001

i'll echo the comments already made. the photo is tilted a few degrees clockwise however... and lovely colours!

September 26, 2001

ooh lovely! i wish the shadow of the lamp was darker and stood out more, and this would be picture perfect if it wasn't tilted to one side

September 23, 2001

nice detail and good perpective. any reason you chose to shoot halfway out to the edge? i usually see a shot from the center of a side or right from the edge (a bit more exciting), this appears half and half. a more pressing issue, however, is the size (in pixels) of the image, a little too large in my opinion, even the medium size has a horizontal scroll. may i suggest a decent max size of 800 (1024 if you really want to) on the large dimension?

September 22, 2001

wow, sharply in focus, quite a feat given the subject (i know, i've tried to no avail)!

September 19, 2001

Nathan, ya, 'tis the scan. The scanning service used to be super, now it's taken a downturn. All the images were very noisy, and oversharpened during the scan, which makes the grain very apparent. the print is beautiful, but scanning a print didn't yield anything decent so had to settle of a less-than-optimal negative scan.

September 12, 2001

ya, well exposed with rich palette of colours. i'd have added some more water at the expense of losing a little sky off the top

September 12, 2001

no worries: lovely composition, catchy colours! must be the camera and lens eh?

September 11, 2001

very interesting, nicely executed

September 11, 2001

this is a good candidate for a square crop, perfect symmetry (the reeds down below have no business in the picture). just my opinion.

September 11, 2001

try it out with 400 speed film to start with, get an idea of things. once you've gotten the hang of it, then get a nice slow emulsion and shoot seriously. the only give-away here is the rippled water surface from the insects/fish.

September 10, 2001

Brett beat me to it, basically what he said: the "empty" space in the sky not occupied by tree limbs is a nice touch, like a maze of some sort. the most visually interesting from this folder.

September 10, 2001

Phil, yes you got it! Use that rule (+recip failure, look it up in the film datasheet) then bracket +/- 1. This was my first (and only!) attempt when I was brand new to photography. Also it's a scan from a print (and the print too was printed too light, what can i do? automated process). So ideally you'd either shoot this on slide, or scan the neg yourself. I should try this again....

September 6, 2001

smashing photo! and greetings to a fellow OMer :)

September 5, 2001

a little on the cyan side (certainly blue for a sunset shot, look at the rocks!), otherwise a smashing photo well captured.

September 5, 2001

grr, those trees get in the way. i'd have tried to do this a little earlier at twilight, to get some purple in the sky details elsewhere, in addition to the lit architecture.

September 5, 2001

at first glance i feel like puking, then i find it funny! nice catch. if you get another shot, try it vertical: pig's head (never seen any animal's head sliced--that looks like an awfully clean and neat cut!) upper left corner, sausages right third of frame top to bottom.

September 5, 2001

ya, nice colours, would be even better with puffy white clouds against an azure sky (vs darkish gray clouds on a grayblue sky), or with some underlighting on the clouds. looks like you've found a nice photo spot, try lots of variations (including b/w with a yellow filter to darken sky), maybe IR too!