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Hi Patrick, I got rid of the text in the image. Looks much better! Left the numbers in - may try to go back & take them out. Those will be harder to edit out bcoz of the shading/patterning in that region... -Aina
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The light thru the Pyramide really makes this image pop. Great composition as well with shadows & positioning of the people! -Aina
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I really love the composition here & the endless shades of blue in this image! -Aina
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Beautiful contours on those snow banks really add a wonderful background for the animals... -Aina
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Thank you for those kind comments Daniel. Glad you like this photo. I had to shoot about 50 of these before I got the shot I wanted... -Aina -
Giangiorgio - I agree that these figures are like lifesized chess pieces. Gaudi had these figures [or their heads] at least in a number of his works. Another excellent example of them can be seen in the Casa Mila in Barcelona also - I have a photo in my gallery of them. The photo is titled Chess pieces... :)))
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Thank you Vincent, for your very kind remarks. I guess I can say that these photos have been shot with love. Paris is 'sans doute' my most favorite city in the entire world. Many of those B&W shots I have posted on PhotoNet were shot years ago - some with film & negative, others with an earlier digital camera. Work commitments have required me to go there many times. Indeed, a recent work commitment gave me the good fortune of living there for 6 months in 2018. I LOVE using colored filters to play with B&W while I am taking pics. Post-hoc processing e.g. Photoshop, just cannot reproduce those same effects... I say that as someone who has used Photoshop since its first version many years ago. Since I also study how the brain sees, I am very sensitive to these low-level features. They really matter! - Aina
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I like the crispness in this light & shadow play shot. It works for me as is... - Aina
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Wow. This is a really beautiful image. It showcases the harshness of the landscape [in the left foreground], but at the same time provides a lovely gentleness of the terrain - the extreme sidelighting achieves that. Masterful shot! - Aina
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Oooh, I really love the minimalism here... - Aina -
I think that the contrasting blue background here really shows off the beautiful subtle pink of those lovely blossoms. A gorgeous celebration of Spring! -Aina -
I really like the contrast between the harshness of the lines of the skyscrapers & the softness of the clouds. Yet, those soft clouds still leave their mark on the skyscrapers in their own way... -Aina
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I really love the menacing sky on this vanishing point shot Dana. - Aina
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Ha Patrick! I originally did that & did not like it. :))) I still do not like it as it is. I think you are right - I will try to edit the text out & it might finally look decent. I appreciate you articulating here what was bugging me about the image. Seriously.
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Thanks for the compliment Giangiorgio! I adore shooting in B&W. I try to 'see' in B&W. Those Paris shots, for example: some were shot with film/negative & others were digital & shot on a day when I decided to shoot only B&W. So on a day like thats I set my camera to 'Monochrome' mode & shoot with filters in front of the lens - yellow for nice architecture shots, red to make the sky in landscapes pop more, and so on. [i have used the Cokin filter system since the 90s - really nice & easy filter holder with slide in slots that fits quickly on different lenses.] That makes for minimal post-hoc adjustment - maybe just S-curve or perhaps brightness/contrast. I prefer to do most things at the time of shooting the image. I sometimes convert some color shots that I do not like to B&W - that can make them better, but I do that only infrequently.
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Hi Vincent, Yep. I edited the S-curve a bit on this one. This was an iPhone shot! One really cold late Fall morning I went outside to see some friends off - who had stayed a few nights with us. There was a really amazing hoar frost. I could not run inside & get my decent camera gear, but went for the iPhone shot instead. The cameras in those phones never cease to amaze me - they can be excellent for macro shots... -Aina
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Beautiful detail of the features on the wings. You are right about the Mediterranean light - makes the image really pop & lens perform well. I shot one of these butterflies in my garden one summer & it was a fairly overcast, darkish day. I have it in my photostrem, but the image does not have that beautiful lightness like yours. -
J'adore le détail dans cette photo. Le regard du faucon est formidable! Vous êtes vraiment expert avec l'appareil photo!!! C'est incroyable que vous avez pris cette photo 'avec la main'... -Aina -
Quelle belle délicatesse ici... -Aina
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