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Good, you catched a crispy eye, which is good for a portrait. I would try uploading smaller images, so they fit on the screen and allow a better overview of the composition.

Very nice... I would try to crop the bottom, maybe somewhere near to the lower edge of the first flower.

I think you need a double exposure here... The moon will always burn in if you try to get the silos. Take 2 pictures, one after the other, but using different exposure settings: one for the moon, the other for the silos. Then just blend them in (well, if you don't mind using some tools).

Nice job. It's attractive, but... I would have tried a less contrasted situation, perhaps less light on the guy's forehead, eliminate the background lighted part of behind him and bring a bit more light on the darkest parts, specially the faces.

I have an LCD monitor... hope this doesn't affect much your black&white and apparent tiling effect. Just doesn't seems a good composition to stare and look around much.

If you happen to go anywhere near Johannesburg, well this would be a good stop to enjoy... (and gamble ;)

Again the light of the moment helped here to get these colors. Thanks,

These are the smaller towers of the "Palace" at the Lost City, in Sun City, South Africa. In the background you can see its famous golf course, where international cups are usually held here.

The Palace itself resembles the "Queen of Sheba" style, according to a legend... (I think so)... The perspective is from the main (King) tower, just before sunset, that's how I got such nice golden colors. Regards,

I'm starting to believe my camera is slightly damaged. Last year, while in a gorge, at the Fingerlakes, NY, my camera bag tilted and unfortunately, the cover was not fastened... the camera (without its case) and my precious water bottle went down the cliff... (It was record high 90's and humidity near 100%). I managed to rescue the camera, but the focus mechanism was havoc. I did a hard reset on the camera and fortunately it re-calibrated... but maybe not precisely enough...

I need to see closer to the pictures or make some tests to find the problem. Regards,

Cropping the sky would help a lot, I need to review it. Although I left it as the original and also the horizon lies near the infamous rule of thirds. I like the way it is in thumb-nail (small), but looking closer, a crop will enhance the mountain. Regards,

Well, just to settle your curiosity, take a look at photo:

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1410814

This is the type of vehicles (land rover) we travel into the "Bush", also we did some walking around... (not very intelligent, though)

Nope, no glass, no doors... It depends on the Safari tour you get and the game reserve you visit. The size of the vehicle is the one that helps, although we got a pretty good scare on a night-drive, the lions didn't liked to be interrupted while eating...

Well, thanks for the comments. I'm not a "purist" at all, in the complete sense of the term, but sometimes one gets the opportunity...

In this case, the image is completely unmanipulated (just cropped square), as also most of the images I uploaded lately. Perhaps it is not as sharp because I had no tripod and no support, just my point and shoot Coolpix, breathe in and hold, and click. Regards,

Hi Maggie. I've been to Auburn lately, as you've noticed on the snow storm. When I took this picture, I was impressed that the sky and the steeple virtually had the same value with the camera's spot metering... so the color film did fine here, but I pushed saturation and adjusted slightly the hue in PS, to brighten it up. I think the shadows and details are more attractive by doing this. I reviewed it in B&W, but probably because of the lack of light intensities in the most part of the image, it wasn't attractive (to me). Regards,

I liked your skies and nature folders, they reflect very well your landscape painting orientations. Hope some of them made it to canvas...

I think we have different views on the same subject. You thought on being AT blast site, I preferred to be an spectator:

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=833770

 

Regards,

I think that the model on the right is posing that way because it is being photographed by the lady on the left.

Great colors and light-painting. Wundervoll!

Nice colors and flowers. I know you needed a big aperture for speed (wind&film speed), but I would have liked to see more depth. For me, the way you framed it, the background is asking for some detail.

Regards,

Yes, I left the top third because of the cloud, but also because of the deep, surreal blue (space like). Also, for me, I like it because almost seems as the cloud bands seen on the Jovian planets (Jupiter, Saturn, etc.), I try and imagine this as such a sunset there...

Good to see you're traveling and making good photography. I would vote for the color version.

Regards,

Really good, excellent framing and timing. The dark separates the top blue and I enjoy myself changing the upper third from water to sky back and forth... as an illusion. About the shadow on the bottom left, well it just forces my mind back to reality... which is good, because I can sweep again the top... and once again enjoy water to sky... (silly of me!) try it!

Regards,

"The importance of securing international peace was recognized by the

really great men of former generations. But the technical advances

of our times have turned this ethical postulate into a matter of life

and death for civilized mankind today, and made it a moral duty to

take an active part in the solution of the problem of peace, a duty

which no conscientious man can shirk.

One has to realize that powerful industrial groups concerned in the

manufacture of arms are doing their best in all countries to prevent

the peaceful settlement of international disputes, and that rulers

can only achieve this great end if they are sure of the vigorous

support of the majority of their people. In these days of democratic

government, the fate of nations hangs on the people themselves; each

individual must always bear that in mind."

- Herr Albert Einstein, 1934 !!!

All comments are welcome. Regards,

Next time I'll tell those guys to move to a side, while I take a shot! ;P

Actually, this aqueduct was also on repair when I was there, but I managed to leave out the structurals. (That's why I got this funny angle, I had to cross up and down, side to side) anyway, you're right, I like to cram up my photos, some are more like paintings to me and as you said, if you look carefully, it is interesting to find how some individuals spend their time here, so many stories! Thanks,

One of those abstract-type but natural (nature) pictures. Wonderful colors, nice tones, textures and a strong, diagonal composition. Just for the sake of commenting, for those interested in fractals (brown or pink noise... on engineering: science of complexity), I'm sure this image fits very well the 1/f rule (on the power spectrum) and that's why I'm sure most people will find this image "interesting" at least, except maybe to those already making images with fractals on the computer, as already posted by somebody up here. Congratulations on your method, it sounds and looks very original to me. Regards,

Assuming right crop, as correct crop, I would agree only that artistically, it may be necessary:

For instance, to bring balance (may be symmetrical or asymmetrical) or make emphasis on a focal point, etc., for example. Maybe what you see through the viewfinder is not the complete 36x24mm frame in the film. It has happened to me that the prints (which -I understand- are usually framed to fit 35mm) are already cropped from the lab by 1 mm and sometimes more if a bit off... and the prints are useless if that cropped a portion of head of a statue, for instance. A slightly larger framing would help reduce the possibility of this common problem (to me). Also the actual formats might not fit a "scene" so you get rid of the extra areas... and maybe if the subject you're after is changing fast, you rather start shooting, than thinking if the framing is exact, as long as it fits in the picture. I guess cropping is just a necessity, I think in this type of photography it is more important to get the subject or elements you want on film an then worry to crop at your desk on how to present to make it more attractive or aesthetically "correct". Regards,

I would recommend relying on CRT, since it has a better tonality range than a LCD Panel. The snow looks gray because the meter on your camera gets fooled by the white and it meters it to medium tone (18% gray card)... and it results the white in gray (underexposed), which in this case might not be too bad, you catched all the contours nicely here. If you want your snow white (not Disney's SnowWhite, of course :) you must compensate to +1 EV. Regards,

Please comment. What is attractive or interesting to YOU? What is

more here, what is less? Any suggestions or ratings are welcome.

Regards,