mozgur

Hi Tim, Darius,

I chose to darken and sharpen the deer to enhance its visibility. it is a personal choice that I dared to make.

 

Stephen,

I had the 19" vertical version hanging on my wall over a year now, I always felt that it needed more space on the left. Yet, having given up on this series around that time, all rework ideas had been shelved.

Recently, with a renewed interest due to another image in the series, I was able to work this one too. Based on the feedback on these images, I may summon up more energy to rework few additional images and clean few others to have more presentable series.

The USM sharpening on this images is minimal, due high resolution scan the grains in the TMAX are visible even here. (The scan ~50MPixels) I did not filter the grain noise, hence they may appear as sharpening noise.

not happy with various aspects in this series, I decided to rework

pieces into square format. comments and suggestions are welcome.

Alaska range under fine fall skies, below the wind along the delta

river providing nice dusty finish.

Enjoy,

Life flows from one form to another. As soon as I saw this patch of

red tundra, I thought the cycle of life. Thanks for comments and

suggestions,

Artificial or not, it is still a scene to remember.

Enjoy,

A roadside -kill- photo. The moon and the contrail(?) posed for merely

a minute or so, just enough to take few shots. Do you think the crop

is too tight? I think I may have to stitch few shots together to add

more of the sky above and to the right. Thanks for comments and

suggestions,

Dariusz, thank you for sharing this fascinating series with us.

I must say, almost all images in this series look so familiar. Especially this one, I feel like I've seen/known them for a very long time.

 

Is it possible for people to have the same dreams?

 

I guess not.

 

I have the same familiar feeling when I read a good poem. You know the ones that tell you who you are or what you feel, better than you can ever do.

 

Very well done!

Where man is smaller than a speck. My interpretation of great gorge of

Denali.

Thanks Ralf:

 

I can only wish that "fabolous prizes" -as they were declared- included more than point&shoot cameras that worth barely cost more than $200.

maybe next year the winner will get something better.

 

Cheers,

A scene that surely be missed in couple of decades. Enjoy when you can.

Sasan,

 

you do not need much to make good or great images. Big sensors, giant lenses or traveling the most remote, never-before-seen-fantastic places, are no help, if the light does not cooperate, or one cannot see.

 

Yet, software tools are useful to flatten the barriers, in many levels. The image seen here is a 16bit, 40MPixel image. I don't know you, but I would not have been able to take this with any existing camera+lens system at the time - and I doubt one can take this today.

 

If one can achieve results with "$1K system + software" that may -perhaps- be achieved with a $100K camera+lens system, then it should be good idea to start looking into what software really brings to us.

 

I know riverbend. I am not sure what "interesting" photographic options you see there.

 

May the light be with you!

 

-m.ozgur

Berrak,

Alaska'da Valdez'den yaklasik 30dakika uzakta Prince William Sound'ta bir yer.

 

Again, the location is just off of Valdez in PWS.

There are still places on the globe that shaped only by sun, water and

wind. Rarely, but surely, the ones who seek, find all three in harmony.

I caught this smooth, elusive scene just off Valdez. Enjoy,

it must have been my lucky day.

Thanks for noticing.

Once underneath a thick glacier, and now at the middle of ocean, the

little hill comforts two lovers in their short journey. Enjoy,

good idea!

enjoy,

Mike, until recently, I would not have argued against cut-the-weak-keep-the-strong cropping strategy.

 

Now, I do.

 

I did, indeed, print several versions, including two different 18"x18" square versions and one cropped version as you and others suggested.

 

I stared at them months. Now, I have one square version of this scene -not the one seen here- is hanging on my wall. Having said this, the sky in the selected version is not as empty-looking as the version seen here.

 

My point is this: I no longer feel constrained by what is captured in a single frame. I can use as many photographs as I need, to create a new image that is stronger than any of the source images considered individually. With this new freedom, I can "improve" the weak in a single shot, rather than simply cutting 'em out. Similarly, if necessary, I can also deliberately "weaken" the strong parts, so long as the composition, message or whatever the key effect desired is improved.

 

-m.ozgur

This is a hand-stitched panorama from 5 landscape shots. As I try to have 3.5:1 aspect ratio, two outer frames are almost cropped out.

There was no forst on dead trees themselves.

Enjoy,

Ignoring the footsteps, bird tracks and texture, this looks like a flag of a new country. It could have been even more so, if the umbrella had not been tilted.

 

IMHO, the bird tracks do not add much to the overall composition, if anything they are distracting. I like the footsteps very much though.

I like to suggestion of disappearance (or passage) -to Alice wonderland, or to Narnia-.

 

I am curious what folks would have thought if the footsteps were not as uniform leading up to the umbrella? Perhaps slightly zoom-out version of the image, suggesting some indecision by the lone soul who embarked in a perilous journey.

 

Well done Salih, and congratulations for your POW selection!

The main fish figure seen here is a minimally-altered smoke image. It

is very rare to have such figures (1 in >5000 shots) captured in smoke

shots. Enjoy,

Marc, I am not sure what part of the color change looks unnatural to you, all I can say is that there are two changes I made in the sky: first the saturation level was increased; second, the top edges of the clouds were blurred. I hope this answers your questions.

I went out to see the sunset after a late summer storm. beside the

color change, reflections etc, I was facinated by the elusive movement

of the fog formed on the lake. When breeze blow towards me, you can

see individual strands of vapor flying on the surface, creating a

surreal effect. unfortunately, without a secondary light source, i

could not capture the fog closeby. it looks denser far away, hence it

is easier to record 'em at far edges of the lake. enjoy,