jacklang

November 1, 2003

Hey Peter. You could have tried making the geyser much larger in the frame. Either by zooming in or moving physically closer and using a wider angle lens. As it is, the geyser gets dwarfed by the lake and clouds and it's hard to tell what it is.

October 20, 2003

Thanks for the comment Vlad. My monitor might be darker than yours. The upper right is almost pure black on my screen. I even thought it might have too much contrast. I'll check it on another monitor for reference. Thanks again.

July 14, 2003

Hi Julius. I appreciate any suggestions on how to improve a shot; I'm not a hands off type of photographer. Your upload doesn't appear to be working though. I did increase the contrast some and play around with the hue-saturation to make the background hills darker compared to the original.

July 12, 2003

Good eye to catch the crooked horizon Jerry. That's usually something that I notice, but it slipped by this time. Thanks for the comment.

July 1, 2003

Thanks for the suggestions, Vlad. The slide is sharper than the uploaded image, but in between scanning, converting to JPEG, and uploading to photo.net, some of the sharpness gets lost. After reading your comment I went back and looked at the TIFF scan, and it looks like I could have used a higher setting on Unsharp Mask than I did. Sometimes I'm a little lazy and neglect the sharpness issue for web images if I'm satisfied with the composition and color correction. Thanks for pointing it out to me.

June 30, 2003

Thanks for commenting Jim.

June 27, 2003

Thanks for commenting Adam. Compared to the original slide, the colors are accurate. I could have boosted the saturation in PS to Velvia-level or beyond, but for the most part I prefer the uploaded image to look as much like the original as possible. It's my way of preventing myself from tinkering with the image too much.

March 24, 2003

The gold is a field of wheat that was illuminated by sunlight at the end of the day.

March 15, 2003

Very nice shot. You might consider uploading a smaller file size. With my 15" monitor on full-screen I can't see the whole picture at the medium setting and the small setting doesn't do the shot justice. Just a suggestion.

February 16, 2003

Hey Bert, thanks for taking the time to comment. The framing was dictated by what I didn't want to include in the shot. There were some distracting elements to the left, I don't remember what, that I cropped out.

February 14, 2003

I think I had the polarizer turned only about half-way Christian. In the past, a lot of my shots with full polarization have suffered from what you mentioned, skies that were too dark.

December 12, 2002

I like this one even better Regina. Beautiful shot.

December 4, 2002

I can't tell if you deliberately included trees at the bottom or not. The sky is great, you just needed a stronger foreground to go with it.

December 1, 2002

You've got a good location here Tom. I would forget about retaining foreground detail and just concentrate on the silhoutte of the tree and the sky. Maybe frame the shot so that the background trees aren't in the picture.

November 30, 2002

I like how the angle of the perch that the bird is standing on matches the angle of it's tail feather.

November 28, 2002

I think this is the best tulip picture I've ever seen.

November 26, 2002

The clouds are nice Jeff, but the picture is a little too dark. The foreground could be interesting if we could see more of it.

November 25, 2002

About time. I was blown away by this shot last year when I saw it for the first time. There was another shot of a homeless man that had been chosen as POW and someone provided a link to Speaker's Corner as an example of a far superior image. I've been back to Tony's portfolio several times since then, and this shot continues to amaze each time I see it.

November 23, 2002

This is the kind of shot that I'm always looking for. Just straighten the horizon and it will be perfect.

November 23, 2002

Those two pop-ups were kind enough to walk into the picture a couple of seconds before I took the shot. I just started shaking my head and laughing. I thought about removing them in PS, but I decided they gave the scene some scale.

November 21, 2002

I was thinking the same thing about the lighting when I was setting up the shot. I waited about 20 minutes to see if the sun might come out from behind the clouds, but no such luck.

November 17, 2002

This is nice Josh. It looks like she is wearing a man's shirt, perhaps that is where her thoughts lie. I would prefer to see all of her hand, but that is a minor nitpick. I don't like the highlight in the upper right, but that could be fixed in PS easily enough.

November 16, 2002

This is a great shot Leping. At first glance it may seem a little haphazard, but a second look proves otherwise. The spacing between the tree trunks, the shading from dark black to light gray, the layer of clouds in the background. Well done.

November 15, 2002

I think this might be better if the cliff was against a background of blue sky instead of bright, white clouds.

November 13, 2002

Thanks for the comment Nick. A polarizer would have have helped in this situation, but back when this shot was taken I was strictly a point-and-shooter.

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