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"But WHY??????????"

 

The photo or the bullfight?

a naked lady would have been great... specially for you!!! :-))))

 

Yes, it was a constructive comment, as always. I was talking about this one: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=515194

 

Regards, and thanks for beeing a "feedbacker" all this time.

great! I think the blue-black tones are a good choice to show the lack of light. It's really like a living eye in the middle of the flower, makes me scare...! :-)

good choice to include the non-white patch in the middle, it breaks the continuity of the snowed landscape.

yes, maybe too centered but I dont find it specially disturbing.

nice, but isnt that blue a little weird? Or is it just the "velvia effect"?

beatiful tones, excellent post-shoot processing, better lights, would have liked to see mother's face too.

this kind of subjects are best catched with lateral light, in order to have some shadows to accentuate the texture. Also the piece of iron out of focus doesnt fit IMO.

como te comente antes, este es un tema que me gusta hacer mucho a mi tambien. Se nota que has hecho ajustes de contraste y brillo sobre el fondo, especialmente por el halo alrededor del tronco, no es que quiera ser puntilloso, es simplemente intentar ayudarte a llevarlo a un grado de perfeccion. Lo que me tiene intrigado, es como logras manejar las diferencias de contraste de la escena, las veces que yo lo he hecho expongo para el tronco, pero el fondo me queda sobreexpuesto, sin detalle alguno. Haces dobre exposicion y luego las fusionas...?

Muy bien, Guillermo, ya sabes lo que me gusta esta serie, espero que sigas posteando, me parece que vas mejorando a medida que vas subiendo nuevas. A mi me encanta la onda de raices de arboles, hechas con mucho dramatismo, algo que has logrado muy bien aqui, el trabajo sobre el cielo es clave.

Saludos.

me parece una toma muy buena, muy explicita, muy dinamica, hay una tension que se respira. Por supuesto yo tampoco recortaria nada. No te puse mas en estetica porque me gustaria que los tonos sean un tanto m᳠sutiles, es como que asi esta muy contrastada. Quiza eso sea producto de la compresion.

Nice, interesting, would have loved to see this as a background of a main subject in the foreground, it's like something's missing here... The almost B&W look makes it attractive, though.

 

BTW, I've been reviewing some of the first shots that I posted when I came here, one of the first comments was from... you! :-)

Surreal landscape, but compositionally none of the two subjects (cow and cars) prevail, I think that if one of them were more preeminent, would make a stronger composition. For example: how about a foreground of half the face of the cow, on one side, and the cars on the backrounds.... Just an idea.

 

BTW: the system is discouraging me too, the abuse section is not doing its work and mate-raters are using much more space than ever for quite mediocre images... So most probably I wont renew my subscription, there's not too much to pay for and maybe I spent enough time here, time to move forward :-)

3/5 explains for itself: original idea to shoot such a subject, but I dont find any aesthetical merit, there is no need for words if you are clever enough to read the numbers accordingly. Believe me, I was sincere and even more important: VERY generous, cause I didn't want to ruin your collection of 7/7s.

 

I too find a social merit in pertaining to a mate-raters club, though. Or did you really think that all those high rates are sincere enough to help you improve your photographic skills?

ah, ok, puede ser que granulado de la pared + compresion de la sensacion de baja calidad... Seguramente en una version impresa se veria mejor. En general ayuda a quien critica o comenta, que le agregues los detalles tecnicos, como estos que comentas, lo de escanear de la copia impresa.

La verdad que no creo que esta merezca un 1 en originalidad ni en estetica, si bien tampoco un 7 ;-)

 

PSI, yo suelo a veces puntuar una foto en una forma similar, tratando de dejar en claro que algo, por ejemplo, puede ser original pero horriblemente hecho, o viceversa, algo esteticamente muy logrado, pero hasta el hartazgo (ej.: flores, algunos paisajes, etc.). Algo que por supuesto casi nadie hace, con lo cual por supuesto no estoy de acuerdo... Es por eso que muchos cuestionan el sistema de puntuacion actual con dos conceptos separados, porque quien puntua no los diferencia, un puntaje alto o bajo en uno de los conceptos, arrastra al otro concepto en la misma direccion, lo cual no es del todo correcto, como seguramente concordaras.

 

Yendo a lo fotografico: creo que la sobresaturacion en la pared ha hecho que le quite uniformidad, probablemente debido a la compresion, quiza deberias revisar ese procedimiento para una mejor calidad de la imagen subida aqui. Un mejor procedimiento es hacer la toma con pelicula, llevar al maximo de saturacion desde el escaneado, y luego si aumentarla en el software de edicion.

Agree about the frame, too thick for my taste, makes it too heavy, too overimposing to the picture itself. I also think that the theme is overdone, but in this case in a new way, converting it to B&W is a good option to accentuate the shapes and lines.

interesante pero me parece que la chica esta un tanto subexpuesta -en terminos fotograficos, claro, no en los otros ;-)

 

Quiza si se la iluminara desde detras de camara lograrias un mayor dramatismo por el contraluz, y una mayor visibilidad... Tal vez pintando con luz con una linterna...?

vi la foto y no pude evitar la tentacion de invertirla, creo que como solo tiene lineas lo que la hace ideal para ese procesamiento, la verda que no queda tan mal... Lastima que la original esta recortada en la punta... Luego me dices que opinas.

Bellos colores, aunque creo que da para mᳬ experimentar con otras composiciones, etc. De todas maneras, un interesante motivo para fotografiar. Saludos.

"it is not a documentary photo any more any way :) best regards"

 

of course it is not anymore, perhaps I wasn't clear enough... I meant that I see it as part of those travel-like shots.

 

With regards of the "dramatism", I'm saying it for the contrasted tones, those deep blacks... all that convey a very dramatic feeling to the image. And they just, ehm... are very "contrasting" with those smiley, posed faces.

 

Anyway, it's just my personal opinion, you allready know what it is said about them, "everyone has one".

The starting point of life on earth...? :-)

 

Would like to hear something about the size of such a natural fomation - a gingantic geode...?

interesting composition, a little bit weird. Maybe too contrasted for me, though.

Hmmm, interesting composite, but something bothers me...

 

There's a mix feeling of surrealism and travel imagery here; for the first one, the people on the boat, with that smiley and complicit looking to the camera, substract dramatism. And to be a "travel" or "documentarian" shot, it's too unreal.

 

I think you should know better where you want to go, before making such composites. I would tell you: dig deeper inside, you obviously have something to say. ;-)

beautiful! The best: the desaturated nature of everything except for her skin. More, more, more!!!