david robinson

Pnina, Happy Holidays to you and yours and good light for us all...

 

My warmest regards,

David

Syrupy is not an adjective I would want applied to my work...

Hello Peter. I like the color contrasted here with this rich dark soil It might be interesting to see another shot with a more dramatic perspective. Getting just inside a row and down low (allowing the row to disappear into infinity) and having that cloud above would have added much impact here. Also I find that the perspective of rows really is heightened when viewed from above. So a shot from on top of the car or latter would also be effective. Just floating some ideas...

Thank you both, Colin and Pnina. I am so pleased to receive your responses...

Hello Pnina. No, I haven't forgotten you my friend. Neither is this image forgettable. The rich, dark tones convey the sensuality here very well. I am curious how you got this shot. You didn't use a flash did you? Did you just bump up the ISO and use a fast lens? Interesting...

Colin, very elegant solutions to the problems posed here. Thanks for sharing the 2nd image showing the separation of the objects. Your bumping up of the iso also worked effectively. You came away with an image few would get...Cool.

Beautifully rich, resonate tones...

Beautiful tones resonate within this well considered composition...

The composition seems a bit too ordinary...

Thanks for your comments folks. This image was processed in HDR using Photomatix. I am very pleased with the results and it printing up nicely as well. Mike you are right about the softness here. I ended up having to redo the image there was a slight blur using three different images which I was able to eliminate. Peter, the dynamic range possible with digital is getting more and more interesting jump in friend...

Your comments and suggestions are most welcomed...

Your postwork here is rather visable and heavy handed to say the least. Another example of how the Top rated is Overrated.

 

In nature the motto is Leave No Trace...

What a beautiful capture. This is a moment that will resonate in the lives of these boys as they look back on their lives as men. Compared to this image those in front of this one in the TRP seem insipid. Outstanding work...

 

I just lost my brother. I can't tell you how powerfully this image effected me. Thanks for sharing...

Colin your architectural shots are more and more impressive. This one is simply stunning. The lighting is just about perfect under the magic of this ceiling. I liked what Hans did, but from my view, your version feels epic, if not, hallucinatory. I would not change a thing other than the scale, which I would want on the order of 30x20 (inches over here!!!). Beautiful work Colin.

Thanks Hugo. Have you seen any volcanic action lately? Stay in touch...

Very elegant. The one issue I might work on here would be greater separation between the hair and background. On my monitor her hair disappears. This is a image I could enjoy for a long while. My compliments...

Don, my disappointment in seeing this manipulation from you got expressed perhaps more stridently than was necessary. The best of your work stands on its own without the need to resort to such obvious manipulations. In my view, this kind of alteration diminishes your body of work. Natural landscapes are disappearing. Our relationship to those that remain and to the moods they evoke deserve our fidelity.

 

Your original posting of this scene did not garner such high ratings. This one seems to be more of an attempt to play to the tastes here on PN. Is that really where you wish to go?

Don, this can't be satisfying. No matter how you justify it. The colors and light and even the moment here are false and unintegrated. You can certainly get away with it with most folks, even here where supposedly there are folks who have some familarity with photography. But really what is the point of doing this? Art? Not by my recoknning.

Well done Pnina. Thanks for sharing the original, which is good too. But I like what you chose to do with it best.

The highly graphic nature of this works very well Pnina because of the beauty of the form and interest in the golden pattern -- I'm curious as to whether this was done to salvage a blown photo? Not that it matters, but if that were the case you did very well...

Thanks Pnina. I too found this one to depart from the usual shots of fall and it's the leaves scattered around in this tall brush (it was 5 feet tall). Thanks again Pnina...

Carsten, this too is my favorite. The scattered leaves with their color really gives this one the feel of a magical moment. This one will end up being printed.

Thanks Peter, Pnina, Colin and Carsten. This is not a HDR processed image Peter. I would have done so had I had three exposures but for some stupid reason I shot a single exposre of this scene. I ended up creating a second exposure from my raw file and blended the two files to get at this dynamic range. Perhaps a slightly different camera placement would have added to the composition with the tree being more on the right side than centered. Still, I like this one for its contrast with the dark forest. Thanks again folks...

Hello Peter. This shot is actually quite fine, both versions. The more I look at it the stronger it grows -- this wispy sky imparts a wistful feeling that sometimes comes with being alone at the end of a crisp fall day. What I had being trying to say earlier was that perhaps a different, more brooding sky might integrate this scene more strongly, but maybe not.

Hello Peter. I like the dark brooding tones here. My sense is that the sky which covers most of this space doesn't quite carry this image. To be fully integrating I would like to see a more moody sky. Tell me your thoughts on this one.

Regards,

David