joel benford

August 5, 2001

Pretty good, though I too like the upside down version. Maybe you could upload both?

August 5, 2001

Nice shadows, and I like the colour tinge. What's darkening it across the top -- is that a shadow or a grad?

August 3, 2001

Verry effective toning, adds a certain coldness.

August 3, 2001

Clever idea.

August 3, 2001

Windows, wheel, "25km" notice. Maybe you could put something like this in a circular frame.

August 3, 2001

The only thing I can think of that would possibly improve this picture is to delete the title. Let us wonder why he's there and what he's doing (sleeping, crying...).

August 3, 2001

I'm... awed by this picture. Fantastic composition, fasntastic use of space and light.

August 3, 2001

How did you light this?

July 31, 2001

What's in the background?

July 31, 2001

I think bumping the contrast up after scanning would have helped here. Nicely composed and framed, though.

July 30, 2001

"I would have used fill flash"

"Besides, the composition is flawed. I'd like to see the guy's right hand."

Sometimes I get the feeling that 70% of photo.netters have read a 500 word article entitled "basics of composition" and do all their critiquing/rating by scoring the picture against the "ten key rules" summary at the end.

July 29, 2001

I would have liked this to have a little more contrast (sparkle) and saturation. But I love it anyway. A9, O8.

July 29, 2001

I don't usually go for this sort of thing, but this is great. The structure of the picture, with the water widening to the right, really works.

Did you use a filter, or did you manage to find light (which reproduced as) that colour?

July 29, 2001

Love the use of light and grain

July 24, 2001

The frame looks tacky, I'd have given a higher aesthetics score without it.

July 6, 2001

The drops along the top are good

July 2, 2001

Do I detect a hint of purist sour grapes in the ratings?

June 28, 2001

"I too would like to see a miniature of the three separate images"

I'll attach the three shots to this comment.

For the basic technique I used here, see: http://www.digitalsecrets.net/secrets/DynamicRanger.html

My friend Jawed Ashraf refined this by using smoother curves to compress the highlight/shadow versions. I'd suggest experimenting with these curves, and the blending opacity, to suit each image.

June 26, 2001

"seeing the middle frame alone would help..."

Here's the middle exposure.

One downside to this technique is that overlaying three different sets of ripples in the water changed the texture a bit. You really need truly stationary subjects.