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<b>I must say thank you all photoneters for the feedback on my work!</b>

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and specially thank you Momo, your interest is really appreciated, Ive browsed into your portfolio and I must say you got very nice work published!, is evident your enjoyment on landscape photography

and Im even more proud because of this your nice words

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A great and constantly increasing passion for photography chases me, I allready do work as a photographer under request

for some private clients, mainly big format printing and sale terminal points.<br>

All the images you see here is author own work because of my real passion in photography, landscape and outdoors,

they all have been taken in between November 2004 and nowadays,

and mainly on the Manzanares High Basin Regional Park in the Sierra of Guadarrama, NW province of Madrid,

the place where I actually live, just by the surrounds of home 8^)

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My technique is varied and constantly developing, I love to try new undiscovered things for me, but always searching for a

determined result. I have been learning myself always, self-taughting is part of me, I enjoy finding my own way.

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Of couse I edit my JPEG or RAW files on Photoshop and complete the hole process of the image before printing it, level and curves adjustments are the usual work here, as some color correction in some rare cases, allways chasing what I saw and perceived.

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Ive tried braketed exposures, reflectors, various fill flashes techniques, long exposures, Neutral density filters (never colored or tinted dont like them), polarizers, and a long etc...

all are techniques to learn and improve and keep learning and improving, but with a goal in mind and "understanding" light and what you photograph with your own perceptions and feelings.

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The <a href="http://www.photo.net/photo/3862710&size=lg">photograph</a> Mark Pav mentioned is a clear example of this, I used a technique I developed just improvising and discovering, and of course enjoying!, a single long exposure combining in-camera and manual Nikon Flash with myself jumping, running and laying on the soil against obstacles and shutter speed,

flashing the places I previously improvised and visualized in the obscurity, some nice physicall effort in each try! and a big temporary blindness if you keep your eyes opened on pops!.

Another important fact to add to this exposure is that it was a fast moving semi overcasted full moon night (2 a.m) in a Wild Forest 2.000.mts above sea level.

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Meteorology is an important theme to know about too, as well as local light conditions (as possible), I often do revisit remote places just to take home the "ideal image" and I do not always succeed!<br>

Maybe another important fact is that I really admire and enjoy those places as well as study and observe their conditions, I also do work as a ski instructor on winter and sporadically as a mountaineer guide, enjoy rock climbing and traverse skiing, I know quite well the sierra I present to you, I do have some forest and peaks to explore tough and lots of images I have admired by missed! 8^)

Im convinced there are some special light conditions on this sierra because some varied reasons (Im working to document all this in who knows maybe a book)

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But you guys have so much natural resources and beauty over there.. I lived for over a year on Lake Tahoe, Sierra Nevada CA, in the 90s and obviously I must came back sometime with camera gear and a big portable Hard Disk!<br>

There are some great landscape ambassadors in this portal, I?m proud my work got your attention specially, maybe is because is totally a different place?, dunno, I would really like to go to the Paria river or Anthelope Canyon for ex. to know about all this "" 8^)<br><br>Really thanks to all again, <br>Best<br>Rafael

Im trying to post into the Critique Request, and after the confirm

interface it appears me this kind of error;<br><br>

<i>Problem Updating Database<br>

There was an error upding the photo.net database. Don't quit your

browser. You might be able to resubmit your post five or ten minutes

from now.</i><br><br>Could someone tell me something, mucho

appreciated!, regards

I think the main thing is not just the low rates, but from who they come (user) and how is this realized (no comment at all), I?ve observed that the "bombing" of low rates comes usually from the critique forum where the main rating activity is and in the shape of anonymus, I?ve been her on PN for one month aprox, and well I really enjoy to share my work with others, but I?m really observing in this brief amount of time is that usually the people who give low ratings are the ones either with no photos or with poor work.

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Great photographers who take seriously their job or hobby are waisted by guys who maybe even have not a camera (!), is this good for these low rater guys?.., surely yes because their feed their arrogance, they have fun and important, <b>they learn a lot</b> with the images they see daily here, even if they blow with their anonymus rate...is this good for the photographers?... I think not, is quite anoying and animates to maybe give up and share the work in other place where quality criteria is a premise ?

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Well this is just a hopefully little "dark" side of a public portal where there must be room for everybody, personally I think there is quality in here, and that is why I share my work and critiques, because the quality in photographers and people involved here, if this becomes downcreasing, maybe we all should think how to change it

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Cheers