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I appreciate that Andrew. some friends ask for comment and once they read something they don't like to hear, they get upset! I have a few Sun captures in my Into the Sun folder if you like to check out.

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What I do like about this is the fact that you did it, I love the sun. It is so overwhelming in this scene that it has an almost a gloom and doom presence. What I wish were improved is actually beyond your control and it's the level of contrast that has blown the colors in the sky. Maybe capturing in raw would have given you more control over exposure. Also under exposing a bit and using curves to recover the mid tones would be an option too.

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Your beayle is good too Bonnet but like you said, the colors are a bit washed out. I did enjoy looking at your other macros though, very fine work my friend.

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Nice shot Manel. I like the Matallic blue, good work.

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Well, here you have it, it seems like a very fine composition with nice subtle tones to me.

I'm not sure what it is but seems like part of a tree to me, well done my friend. Also, Thank you for the well wishing for the holidays and the new upcoming year. I wish the same and more to you my friend and may the new year bring you happiness, success and prospertiy.

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Very good take on the "Pearl Earing" and I congratulate you on this. The earing is dwarfed a bit though and you may want to work on the tones and textures a bit. It's a tad plasticky for my taste and this is meant as an act or encouragement and NOT to undermine your fine work.

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Sorry for the delay in response as I was trying to locate the original raw file to examine the shooting conditions.
The photo was taken in high noon with a spot metering on the flower. The original file shows the presence of the deep blue taken at a temperature of 4850. I did turn down the temperature about 100 degrees to get the whiter tones on the flower but that did not change the amount of the blue by any significant amount.

My own explanation is that the that the direct light, ambient light, cast light and deeper shadows always have a different temperature and hence a slightly different color shift. I do use this property of light sometimes to create some background colors which visibly do not seem to be there. try this for instance in a room where the subject is in the light of a window facing south/west facing window. If your lens is pointed at the subject, lets say, at a 45 degree to the light source, with a low aperture you should be able to get a bluish background. in the case above, I think the presence of cooler water has also help produce the bluish tones.

Hope all that makes sense,

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What a dramatic sky. love that bluish, purplish clouds on the top.

Therese, I wish you and your loved ones a very Merry Christmas and a happy 2007.

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It actually works well and the vertical position is fine. I do think though you can further explore the idea with a more powerful background, something like a light source or such.

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Thank you my dear friend, you have left me speechless. what you have said in your comment, speakes so much more for yourself and your character first and foremost. I do hope we'll have more members like you who shows prejudice and judgement in their evaluations of other people's work instead of putting down copy cat ratings and comments.

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Vey fine action jot my friend, have a Happy Holiday season.

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have been given a bad name and they mostly are gentle and harmless, They are actually afraid of us!

I wish you a Very Happy holiday season Daria and very happy new year.

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I wish you and your family a very Happy Holiday season and I wish you a very happy, productive and prosperous 2007.

Fine capture as always Wilson. I'd like to know your thoughts on looking at this, flipped horizontally.

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have been smoking again, my friend but I like the action!

I do wish you and your loved ones a very Happy Holiday season and a great upcoming 2007.

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Nice catch in flight dear Huy. I do wish you a very Happy Holiday season my friend.

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I do wish you a very happy Holiday season and a great 2007 dear Cherlyn.

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dear Biswajiy. The pieces are still being put together.

I do wish you a very Happy Holiday season and a productive upcoming new year.

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You're off to your landmark beautiful winter shots again and this looks wonderful.

I do wish you a bery Happy Holioday season and a productive, prosperous new year.

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Thank you my friend, wish you the same and I did have you in mind!

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It's from the same night as you can tell.. He can't speak yet but got excited with the new hat and is showing it off.

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My long time, neglected friend!. Good to see here again and I do wish you all the happiness for the season..

Rafik, thank you. It does have a combative pose. Thanks for the comment.

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Hope you had a good Christmas eve with the family.

you are right, the blue channel was hot and I cooled it down a bit, hope it looks better. you are also right about giving it a name which I'll go to bed thinking about it!

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and I do wish you a happy 2007.

I did some explanations and some test shots in response to Dave's question about my high ISO, low noise photo. If interested, click here and go all the way to the bottom of the page where you see Dave's question and my bottle of wine!

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First off, I hope you are having a great holiday season and I do wish you and your family a very happy and productive 2007.

Dave, the result you have obtain here is impressive and let me also mention that you, yourself , are an impressive man as well!
What this does for me also is the fact that I can retrieve more shadow detail from the file at the time f conversion. This is so because by over exposing the shot, it gives more exposure time to the darker areas and hence more data recorded.

I thank you so much for the test results and also your non-competitive, learning attitude.

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My dear friend, I just checked that and it looks impressive. I will comment on it momentarily.

My best wishes go to you and your family and I wish you all the hapiness that the season could bring.

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