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I absolutly love this image! Reminds me of some of John Sexton's work. Very fine work you do.

 

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Hey Nathan, I have not heard from you for awhile, so its nice to see your posting new images on here! This image really pops for me, and I like that. Did you just scan the neg, or are you scanning a final print you made?

 

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Hahaha! When I first saw it was upside down, I said to myself "Is this guy serious?!" To turn it around, open into PAINT program, Click the top link of "Image" then click "Flip Rotate" and rotate by angle 180 degress.

Is this Canyon Lands in Utah, or Grand Canyon? I guess its all part of the Colorado Platau anyways.

 

I think the image works and you caught nice lighting.

 

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I do not know what a IR filter is, but I DO know I love this image. As you can see by images in my gallery...I am obsessed with blurry water photographs, and you did a great job creating this one.

 

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This is truly a great image, with a strong sense of light and mood to the image. The only thing I wish is that you did not cut off the tops of the trees. For some reason that bothers me.

 

Still very fine thought.

 

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The "Sense of light" really sets a mood in this image. Very well done. and nice composing also.

 

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This image is very unique and different. There might be a few things I would do different in the printing thought, but that is just me. The image seems to have that "old time" look of Westons old platinum prints. The look where the midtones look ever uneven and blochy really. I do not like the tiny hot spots in each corner of the image, and would eaither crop those, or burn them.

 

Nice work Nathan.

 

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hahaha. For some reason, I find this image very funny! Its good thought of course!

"Mmmm! I totally forgot that I ate that!"

This is my favorite black and white image you have done. Nice work. Where was this taken?

 

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the cool tone works well with this image. I do not like the black border on top and bottom, eaither take it all the way around...or get rid of it.

 

Take care,

 

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Very fine image. I would love to see the original print, rather then a scan. Something I might say doing is take some spottone (or paint or photoshop) to the sky to remove some of those dust specks in the scan. You are lucky to live my the sea, I would absolutly love that experience.

This image just totally amazes me! It reminds me alot of Jerry Uelsmann's work. I would love to see the same image, but some placed into the black void in the center, maybe like a symetrical tree or someones face even! Give it a try!

 

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Very fine image. Reminds me of Brett Weston's abstract work he did. The one thing that caught my eye was the tiny little line in the upper left corner. I dont know why, but I catch things like that easy and they are distracting to me. I would crop out that little peice of grass or whatever it is.

 

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I always wanted to make photographs over a period of time and display them together like this. Very awesome and good job. I like the winter photography more.

 

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That is down right Ansel. Very nice quality, sense of light and tonal range. What filter did you use?

The clouds truly make the photography. I would love to this this in Black And White!

 

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Very classic, over photographed spot. Probably a few million photographs taken in this EXACT spot each year, there is probably deep wholes in the ground from peoples tripods! Anyways, This is over and above the normal "tourist picture" taken from this spot. You were able to capture a moment in time and express that in your photograph, and I feel that is why it is successful. Nicely composed, nice use of lighting, and glad you got the clouds rather then just a blah sky.

 

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Very nice. Reminds me of these 3 identical old Edward Weston soft focus nude print I own that were done in 1927. Because of the age, they have yellowed over time. They are also platium prints, which is how this apears to be. Maybe you can provide some information on your process for me.

I would like to know how you got that effect of the borders like that. I really like it!

 

Im sure it is just the scan quality (as you mentioned in a post you made on one of my photographs you had problems with), but the image seems too contrasty and the vertical log does not have enough detail. Shadow detail is also low...but you know what I think...Who ever said that you need to have perfect shadow detail all the time? I know adams was big on that, but I think that sometimes printing shadows down dark is part of the "expressive print" I think its more important to have an expressive print then to have a photograph of exact reality. With this in mind, I think this photograph is very effective and well printed.

 

Where are you from by the way? I am from Tucson AZ going to school (im 19) but travel to CA alot to photograph with my 4x5 and 8x10.

 

Please view my gallery :)

 

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BEAUTIFUL Photograph, its just too bad about that little lens glare in the water! :( PHOTOSHOP! haha. I dont do digital, but if you have it...I would say use it!