crosstone

Beautiful caterpillar!

Inspiring. I will go there some day and I would love it if I could capture a shot close to this one. This is perfect!

 

Peter Christoph

Beautiful, David. There is nothing more I can say.

Cedar Bough, I agree with that, thank you. The little girl resembles a Swiss Alps girl in my imagination. The man needs a new outfit.

Thanks for your comments. Bill, this shack was taken in western Massachusetts, in or near a town called Colrain, which is far far away from any major populated area. Worth the drive though. This was a rare day for me: I actually decided that morning that I was going to try to find an old sugarhouse and take its picture. I found four or five sugarhouses that day, this one was no longer operational.

 

Dennis, this is not a duotone, although, yes, it could have been. I achieve my sepiatones using the HSB adjustment after converting a B/W into an RGB and selecting colorize and fine tuning the hue slider to my desired color.

All comments and critiques welcomed.

Please offer critiques and comments on this photo. Thanks.

Please critique this photo of the sun setting over LakeUmbagog. All

comments welcome.

I like it! I like it!

When I first saw this, I said, "Another KPT BRYCE manufactured image..."

 

That's how good it was and how wrong I was.

 

Beautiful magenta sky, it must have been really something to see in real life; I enjoy looking at it on my monitor. It reminds me of sunsets I have seen but have been unable to capture.

 

Congratulations on Picture of the Week. I have always enjoyed your work.

 

Peter Christoph

Congratulations on Photo of the Week.

Looking for a critique of this image.

Thanks

Dad, remember if people like your photos, I discovered you, OK? This is my favorite one of yours. I LIKE IT!

 

Let's go diggin' in your Africa slides collection and see what else you've got!

 

Dust off that camera if you can find it after 43 years, go out and take some more!

 

The only thing wrong I can find with it, is I didn't take it.

 

Peter

I have been following the attacks that Arthur has been making on you. Totally uncalled for. I've seen your pictures. They speak for themselves. That picture of yours with the leaf and tendril is still my favorite on photo.net by the way. I don't know if I should say what I am going to say here, I may regret it; but I will. Arthur Hurd, take your ball and go home.

Oops!

What I meant to say in my last post, was what I did say.

 

But I typed in Michael's name instead of Arthur. My apologies to Michael, and to whoever read that post. That message was to Arthur Hurd. Arthur, can you please LEAVE PEOPLE ALONE! Arthur, you are not helping anyone. Bashing Geraldine, Tony, and Michael is foolish.

 

I have sent him emails and no response. I am going to report him next for abuse. Don't know what to do..

Michael,

 

You've shown your true colors again. Your diatribes are now very tiresome. I can't say I am impressed at all.

I agree with the above commenter. All your photos are well done. You have taken some of the best, no, rather, you have taken THE BEST nudes on photo.net.

 

Peter Christoph

May I be the first to say Congratulations on Photo of the Week!

Well deserved. Very nice work

 

Peter Christoph

And I was hoping they were all asleep by now in the land down under!

 

Cheers, mate.

Actual Results from my FIRST lighting exercise:

 

WARNING: A PARODY

 

Vuk, Do you agree that Paul's hat looks better on Tony?

 

(Peter the Digital Manipulator is not dead yet... don't I have another day left?)

Sorry there were no blood sweat and tears in capturing the image of Paul, and (hoping not to offend anyone.)..I enjoyed the whole entire thing.

 

To Photonet:

Thank you for picking this photo as photo of the week, I think.

 

Thank you all who let me know here that you enjoyed my photo. For if even one of you did, I feel I have achieved success.

 

For those who offered constructive criticism, I have learned far more than I could have dreamed from all of you.

 

Were I to do it all again, I would lean towards Marshall Goffs rendition of my photo as the crop and matte treatment which I prefer the most, and I would photograph the subject using a bounce, off right.

 

It was a lighting experiment (my second try) which I felt worked for the most part as I had intended. There will be many more.

 

The lighting was natural light through an open window, no glass, into a dark building. The window was to the immediate left, and was cropped out of the photo. I felt it was my liberty as photographer to choose to show what i wanted to show.

 

After the shot was taken, I decided rather than to prohibit the photo from being improved in a manner typically achieved in a traditional darkroom, to go ahead and use the digital darkroom I had at my disposal (Photoshop). A contrast adjustment was made digitally, and what faint detail that remained in the wall after that, behind Paul, was burned to solid black. (For those interested in technical details.)

 

I consulted with three professional photographers first regarding the darkroom question, as it was my concern that I would be at a disadvantage if I could not employ darkroom techniques where film-based photographers could. I was told that this has been an accepted practice for decades. I am wondering now if it is perhaps I who in fact has the advantage, as it is often less time-consuming to accomplish the same task in a digital darkroom rather than a traditional darkroom.

I have some sepia toned photographs posted on photo.net for example, which I understand typically involve considerable amount of time in a wet darkroom. Not having a wet darkroom as an option, I must instead rely on the digital darkroom, and whether this is fair, is something that the jury is still out on, judging from the discussion I have seen related to my photograph and other digital photographs.

 

I have found that the majority of people who view a photograph either like it, or they dont, not withstanding how it came to be. But I digress... I choose not to be enjoined in that battle. I personally enjoy photographs taken both digitally and traditionally, and always will.

 

Tony Dummett...

No, this is not my best shot. My folders on photo.net have others which I myself prefer to this one. But it is the best one I could find sporting such a lovely pimp hat. Im sorry now that it was chosen. No, Im not. I have learned a lot. Tony, I have admired your work, and I will continue to stop by and look at your photos for inspiration; I consider you one of the better photographers on photo.net. My only question is why you chose to compare my photo against Michael Spinaks photo of the tendril from POW two weeks ago. There is no comparison. Michael Spinaks photograph is in another league beyond mine and is superbly done. Mine was an exercise in lighting.

 

Thank you to all the many talented photographers who have contributed to make this such a great learning experience, and so much fun too!

 

Good night all and keep smiling. Paul, lets get together and do some more portrait stuff soon... more than being a good pimp, you are a talented teacher.

Beautiful flower shot. I would rate it but the system is presenting problems this afternoon.

Nice composition and contrast, between light and dark, soft and stiff.

I agree with the above comment. I like the picture of the girl. A pretty picture, and maybe the white stick in the background is a bit distracting...

A photo that creates inspiration and brings admiration. Very nice.

 

Peter Christoph