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Your ideas and impressions are welcome...

Thanks for your time,Jiri

Ah, the Sea, so beautiful, always so different... A good one here

Jiri

Thanks Mike for the kind comment... The slow shutter speed was a necessity, as the shutter on the lens is old and rather unreliable, the times have more +/- 50-75% variations, so I instead opted for a bulb setting and count the few seconds...

Jiri

It would be a very nice photo, if not for the Moon. The moon definitelly spoils the image. The lighting is wrong, the phase of the moon is wrong for the direction of shadows, the color tone is wrong for the sky... Better post the version without the moon...

Jiri

Walter, this is even better, if I understand well, it's more whan you intended... Very very well done, the "guy" is beautiful. Are you also planning to get the bird also with some flower? (meaning just one flower trumpet and the bill of the bird poking in...) Keep up and I'm looking forward for the next...

Jiri

Walter, this is awesome. I wonder how far the little beast was from the camera? It must be mind blowing to look at the slide, with the details... If this is whole frame, then it's something like or more than 1:1 magnification, isn't it? Did you use the finder to track the beast, or did frame in advance at the most probable location and just waited? So much questions... I just wish I could see the trany... All my thumbs up...

Jiri

Excellent image, well composed, well captured...

Jiri

This is a second try on Large Format shooting. The composition is a bit off, I know. I wanted to include too much...

Again your comments are appreciated... Jiri

This is a my first venture into large format photography. I took an old Ica Ideal camera. It is supposed to take 10x15cm filmpack holders, that are hard to find, and the packs are even harder. So I bought several modern 9x12cm holders and constructed the back (and even grinded the groundglass) to accept it. This was my first shot with the camera, using a standard 165mm CZJ Tessar lens. It was also one of my first tries of tray development...

If you have any comments, you're welcome... Jiri

David, what I meant is to use something like 2-3 stops of gradND on the sky, use 2-3 stops faster film to keep the same time for the trails. That should in theory provide 2-3 stops lighter ground. Or the grad used could be of more stops to lighten the ground more...

Jiri

This one is also very interesting... Btw. did you also try using a bit faster film and some ND grad to bring out more of the foreground? Was it useful, worth the added hassle?

Jiri

David, thanks a lot for the tips... I might surely try it when I find a suitable place to shoot and keep guard of the camera for such a long time... :-) I think I'll dig out my old and for more than 2years unused Canon EOS 500 just for this purpose... Just to learn...

Jiri

Very beautiful shot, very well done...

Jiri

The lines formed by the tall grass point me to the (road?) sign, the I go down to the interesting red colors clumped together in the corner, on I move to the right to check the sharp field in the midground. And vow my roaming in the picture is closed in a circle, ready to follow it once more to find out more... I like it a lot... (I might have preffered a polarizer used instead of the ND, to not darken the clouds, have a bit more contrast there. It would be a different image then, for sure... :-)

Jiri

Marvelous, well composed, almost mirroring shapes with natures inherent irregularities. Excellent use of the flash...

Jiri

David, great, great and great. I really love the colors of the image... I always wanted to try this kind of night photography too, but don't know where to start... How long after the sunset did you start exposing? As you say it was exposed for 4 hours... I might finally also try something of this kind too...

Jiri

A beautiful shot, very well composed...

Jiri

Your comments and ideas are welcome...

Thanks Jiri

Dave, a beautiful capture (as always from you), from a totally different world - that single attribute would be reason enough for interest - the idea of travels creeping to my mind... And there are much more interesting points here, the warm and cold colors, the mountain, the sea, the clever composition... I only mind that I can not see more of it :-)

Jiri

It must look wonderful as a larger print on a wall... (I can imagine it on one of my walls :-)

Jiri

Funny how beautiful a picture can result from such an (almost industrial) vista when clever eye is implored :-) ...

Jiri

Thank you all for your kind comments... Those were red tulips agains a stark white wall (it was lit directly by almost midday sun), I used a red filter to brighten them a bit. I'm glad it came out so well, it was a day I got sunstroke :-) ... spring, very warm clear day and me being totaly unprepared and pondering too long on the composition :-)

Jiri

Very well done, great tonality and very interesting and thought through composition...

Jiri

The colors look almost unreal or surreal here... Maybe it's because I expect deeper shadows in the foreground (because of the direction of the slope and the light - the flowers should be in the shade). And the (to me unknown kind of) flowers only adding to the surreality... Anyway, the composition is interesting and the picture as a whole is definitely good.

Jiri

Interesting light for such a sculpture...

Jiri