richard van hoesel

April 11, 2003

Real nice Peter, simple design with soothing colours. Placement of the grass feels about right to me.

April 10, 2003

Vincent, there's a whole bunch of stuff here that I'd normally think to be a real bad idea; velvia in the middle of the day, added a polarizer to an over-saturated film in bright sun, included lots of people in a nice landscape etc. but it all works rather nicely here. The lower right-hand fragment reminds me of a postcard from the 50's for some reason.

April 10, 2003

Real nice Steve - great palette (you know I'm a sucker for low light coastal scenes). Funny how some parts of the water look like a much shorter exposure than 10sec - I've seen that sort of thing on some of my own shots too.

April 9, 2003

remarkably good result given you didn't use a grad! good one.

April 8, 2003

Very painterly indeed Carol. The tank doesn't detract/distract at all for me. I can't see the suggestion to hide it behind the stump improving the image either; not only would it destroy your diagonal design that works so well here, but I think connecting the stump to the house would be problematic. The placement of the folliage around the stump in the lower RHC is a nicely understated finishing touch too.

April 6, 2003

While I'm not partial to the cyan overtones and I think a grad-ND would have been helpful to prevent the sky form blowing out, this is certainly an amazing scene.

April 5, 2003

Satire or otherwise Tim, this is likely to offend - but I guess that may have been your intention.

April 4, 2003

thanks for clarifying Emil - yes on closer examination I see it's from the same neg, although the results indeed look totally different. I certainly like the rough 'organic' look of the liquid emulsion print but also find myself wishing it would have preserved some of the fine details evident in the straight scan.

April 4, 2003

Emil, I'm perpetually amazed at the images you produce - I've not seen anything quite like your work. Do you have any plans to collect these into a book? As to the comparison between the two images For my taste the destruction on this one is getting a little heavy handed - ideally I think I'd like to see something between the two. By the way, it took me a while to find the other version since I didn't know which folder you were talking about ('more killings' in case anyone else has the same problem).

April 2, 2003

Yes, I think your crop has substantially improved what was already a good image. Real nice.

March 2, 2003

Superb Bob - looks like a piece of Gaudi's architecture in a lightning storm to me.

February 28, 2003

I love this one Nana; IMO a perfect capture of a perfect scene!

February 28, 2003

Fantastic shot - beautiful composition and skillful treatment of the light. Was it any good in colour?

February 28, 2003

This looks great Pearce, couldn't have asked for a better pose! The only improvement for me would have been a touch more space on the left - but it's a minor thing.

February 19, 2003

The exposure in the lower half of the image is spot on Donald, but the blown out sky lets the picture down IMO. A perfect candidate for a graded ND filter I think.

February 19, 2003

Just when I thought architectural photography was rather dull... this is great. I feel I might have liked just a tiny bit more space at the top, but on the other hand, having that point close to the edge adds a lot of tension.

February 19, 2003

Awsome location, beautifully captured Dennis. My personal preference would be without the boat but I know I'm biased against man-made structures in nature shots.

February 19, 2003

Terrific exposure indeed, really takes me there.

February 18, 2003

Great textural shot Mark. Instead of B&W, my suggestion would actually be to push the saturation more, maybe as much as 20% - but then again I do prefer to shoot velvia.

February 15, 2003

Looks great John. All the converging lines provide lots of layers and although they perhaps make the image a little busy on this scale, for me they become the coi and make this work on a more abstract level. I too would be tempted to try some burning in towards the horizon, particularly in the top left to contain the image a little better there.

February 13, 2003

definately strong enough! looks great to me.

February 9, 2003

The moving sand makes all the difference in this - very nice.

February 6, 2003

First of all, yes you certainly captured a beautiful sky in this image. Although I agree the fill looks a little unnatural, the elements where I see most room for improvement are in adjusting the brightness of the rightmost quarter of the image and framing the shot so that the main palm didn't touch the top.

January 31, 2003

Fine work again Atle. My only suggestion is in line with the comment that the foreground could be a little brighter. Maybe a 0.9 grad, slightly rotated to follow the direction of the waterline would have been a choice worth trying here.

January 15, 2003

beautiful shot with terrific light indeed - I wonder if a vertical, taken a few steps to the right with that branch there prominantly placed in the foreground might have been even stronger?

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