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For what concerns people size, they are undoubtely too small, so they are a fake. I'm not against photo manipulations per se, and I understand that where to place the limit is a matter of taste (so any discussion about this topic is useless). We could instead discuss if this kind of photo manipulation is ok in this photo. To me it looks like this wasn't the right place for this kind of manipulation: the St. Paul Cathedral is really huge and there should be no need to reduce people to deliver this feeling...

Just to add some "environmental" information: it isn't precisely true that "everybody smokes in Italy", even if in Italy people smokes, on the average, more than in the USA or UK. But, most of all, nobody is allowed to smoke in a church, museum or similar place. You will be immediately thrown out if you try :-).

Nevertheless that "beam light" phenomenon is quite common in churches because of incense (spelling?) and, most of all I believe, haze. I never tried to get it into a photography, but I don't see any reason that would prevent it from being registered in the photo.

I've been missing from photo.net for some months (just took a peek sometimes to the POW but I must say that there were just a few people who made interesting comments - one was Tony - and I noted that most of them don't make comments any longer, so definitely I don't care POWs anymore).

 

Then I was curious if there were news in Tony's folders. It's always a pleasure to see Tony's inventive. BTW, I've just bought a D100 too. And the idea of these mega-stitches is intriguing (obsessive? Maybe, but fun!). I won't be as skilled as Tony, but I'll give a try.

 

See you later!

Guys, you *must* pay a visit to Jaap's portfolio since it is exceptional.

It happens that the bow is the main subject. Also the Cappella Sistina is dull if you remove all the paintings from the wall...

 

Ciao.

The photo would be excellent even if colours were a bit less saturated. It's the mood of the fog and the details in the branch that makes it, IMO, together with the green-red contrast.

Jaap,

 

your photo are superb - and your country too. I definitely must have a trip to your Netherlands...

Great timing, DOF, focusing and composition :-)

It's wonderful. But I already knew you're a master.

Here the contrast between the green spots and the black lava makes this creek picture outstanding.

Sky lighting does it all. One of the very best pictures ever see on photo.net. My first 7/7 after the changes in the rating system.

Excellent use of negative space, complemented by the "shadow texture" on the left, the mountain profiles floating in the fog and the small but delicious pinch of pink at the right.

 

You were definitely skilled both in properly capturing the image and in finding the magic moment.

B/W here rules...

Hope to visit Mono Lake next year...

Wasn't Lassie saying that he just wanted to have fun?).

BTW, I'm posting the original Leonardo's drawing just forthe sake of comparison (BTW it seems to me that the square and the circle are in the samerelationships in both images).

My problem is the overall aesthetical result. Going into details there's quite a mess in the centerof the image, near the model's belly. What I see is something that looks like when I jam twoslides into my projector. There are some objects (is it a draping?) that look confused andI don't understand why they are there. My eyes are continuosly moving near the center searchingto focus on something and they can't, and I find it quite disturbing.The model attitude is too simmetric - yes, look atthe feet and the lower legs in the original Leonardo's drawing and you'll find that he was able to break the simmetry a little. OTOH I find that Lassie's image is too static. Moreover, themodel herself does not match with the subject, I mean she looks like a model for a CD cover,a fashion magazine, a soft-erotica magazine, everything but a classic subject like this.

We are thousands and thousands of users here, we cannot expect to see only things that we like.An POW is not a 'premium', it is just a pick over a photo that fosters discussions. I'm learninglots of things even from stuff that I dislike.

No problems about digital manipulation, the technique may also be very good, but the overall

result...is just ugly. Good as a proof of technique, but the comparison with Leonardo sounds

hilarious... I don't feel comfortable with most of other Lassie's work, but at least is original.

Excellent photo. Perhaps I don't like the right brown leaf but just a bit.

... and colours are also excellent (perfect dark background in contrast with orange/light brown bird heads).

Not too busy. After all it's a bird colony, so it must be busy. I like that all the birds are just sitting

with the exception of the one with the head up, and blur at the wing tips is ok to enhance the still/motion

contrast. It would be also better if the bird at the left had wings down (thus leaving the first bird the only

contrast in composition).

One of the best lightning photos ever seen. It is not too busy for me, as lightnings are well balanced.

B/W works perfectly enhancing the graphics in lightnings (I suppose a colour photo would have some

distracting coloured details from the city lights).

Nice sharp details and pale colours. The pale mountains are a perfect background, neither too white, nor

too distracting. There's a bit of washed out detail in the top of the tower but it isn't so important.

The sky is beautiful, but there's a bit of confusion in the foreground.

Good photo, but the clouds seems washed out. A graduated filter should be used in such cases.

More depth of field would improve the photo.

Given the vertical orientation of the subject, I would crop the sides to emulate a vertical shot.