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Thank you, Mike,

    My nephew, as seen here, enjoys superhero cosplay and games, so I conjured this up for him :) He enjoyed the photo very much and his parents got a kick out of it, too. Thanks, again!

Thanks, Kathy. I do wish I paid more attention to my distance before composing and pulling. He was quite the busy body on this day :) I hope to have a few more opportunities for outdoor shoots before the winter rains set in. Thanks, again!

Accidentally overexposed, but couldn't discard it. Salvaged with

de-saturation, diffuse glow, and double exposure effect. Thoughts and

critiques very much welcome :)

Thanks, Mike,

    This fella is said to pack quite a bite, so I do my best to stay clear of them. I was completely unaware of this insect until I happened upon this scene. Thanks, again!

Thank you, Carol, for your kind words!

Even though all trees were in full bloom, this battered cedar is the

only evergreen. In full light, it is hard to distinguish it from the

others. I treated the cedar with color in post to announce its

presence and individualism, even in a strange world.

I have been dabbling in IR and near IR photography for a while and

have been delighted with the results. Please feel free to give me any

pointers. All critiques and comments welcomed! Thanks!

Thanks, Mike. I am enjoying much the challenges IR filters bring. I am also trying a near-IR filter arrangement with a 720nm filter. I think it poses fewer challenges, except bringing blues out in the sky. PSE9 does not have a built-in channel mixer, so a developer add-on (Grant's Tools) had to be installed and works very well. I hope to get some results soon to post here.

Thank you for your kind words!

Thanks, Mike.

You bring up a good point. The amount of changes made in restoration should be addressed and chosen only by the client. I have made an important note of this for future reference.

On this particular photo, I had free reign. That wee boy shyly glaring from the chair is me! The man to the right is my dad and, to the left, my uncle. This was shot by my mother in '84 or '85. The cigarette in my dad's mouth, among other clues, is evident of a different time and place. In today's society, smoking indoors with a child isn't nearly as common and is often frowned upon. Back then, it was really no big deal!

As young as I am in this photo, I can still remember when it was taken.

Original

Ah, yes! The color and sharpness you applied really brought out the original detail, especially seen in the jackets! Thanks for showing me a new view of this. It may be a while before I tackle this photo again, though. As you've said, it becomes an addiction once started and the time will slip by! Thanks! I really appreciate your input.

Traveling through New Orleans offers a huge amount of oppurtunities

to shoot. This shot was influenced by the Austrian art of lomography

where the "rules" are more like suggestions, seeds of artistic inception

and loose guidelines! I've contemplated for a while about lomography,

so I figured I would try a popular lomo technique...shooting from the

hip :) I got lucky to get as much of this church in frame and in focus as I

did here, on the first try. Two other attempts on different days had

extremely different and terrible results. A little cropping and some

pseudo lomo effects in PSE9 are what made this photo "look" lomo-

ish. I was once complacent with using the PSE9 built in Lomo Effect,

but preffered to learn the manual ways of manipulating images for

more artisitic control. Thanks for looking and any advice and tips are

more than welcome!

http://gallery.photo.net/photo/15076113-md.jpg

This is my first attempt at photo restoration. I'll post the original for

comparison. Please feel free to critique. Thanks!

'60's themed baby bump session for Jessie and Eli. Comments and

critiques very welcome...brutality, if need be, as well!

Early morning in transit to the grind, I took advantage of being the

passenger and snapped this on the run. Thanks for any advice and

critiques on how to make this better.

After approximately 30 shots and endless angle chasing, I managed

this shot of the moon. Thanks for any comments and critiques.

If, the operative.

Point taken, Fred. I absolutely concur and would use this debate if someone was to label a multitude of unrelated photographs. Currently we are talking about THIS photo taken by THIS photographer. The logic that says that this photo has achieved its goal belongs only to the photographer, so we as onlookers can only take stabs as to what is going on. That's what I was trying for, anyway. It was just my two cents worth.

If it were only that easy, right?! Well, the logic can be exercised in strings of art class, but trying to re invent Algebra, Language, Physics, etc would yield suboptimal grades and possibly detention! Anyway, we all know that this is no test for grade or right of passage. It's a meeting of minds where logics will unavoidably, yet invitingly, differ :)

Perhaps the oversaturaton of the clothing and such other treatments are to camouflage the important parts of the photograph, like the facial expressions, as if to intentionally draw the attention away early and to save the treats for last. "Oh, I thought this photo [at first glance] was about color contrast, but now that I really 'look', there is so much more".
I like the Easter egg effect. I like discovery. I like the approach, if this be the reason. Clearly, it worked. We all sat here, looked at our screens and went over every pixel of this shot, and have seen what the photographer wanted the audience to see.
IMHO, no one who has posted to this critique/discussion did so without some emotion being felt when seeing the photo, even if it were just pure disregard and disgust. If emotion SHOULD be the ultimate goal, this column spells success for it. If there was no emotion, the comment would not exist for any good reason.
Kudos, Randy, on letting us see this scene in the way that you do.

Ah! So many nice elements of humor and irony here! On the glass above the smart car "Be Inspired", perhaps to go green? Above the hood of the limo is written "Room & Board"! Haha! Very nice capture and very well seen. Pano is the perfect perspective, as well!

Thanks for your compliments, Thom. I was really hoping the feel of the muted washed out colors that the swamp areas emanate would translate well!

Thanks, again!