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Just a bity of fill from the semi-lit side of the trailer.

Brrr!

The Colorado DOW confered that there is always a mortality on a roundup. One died this time but not the animal pictured.

? Been awhile since a uploaded?

...go to the large version, it's a skier hiking into the sun.

Nice photo but just not quite up to the POW standards I have

been accustomed to.

 

I , too am bothered by the small whale and the inconsisntent

window frames. I usually balk at such a symetrical compliant but

in this case, it just does not help the image read well. I would

have cropped the right frame out.

 

As far as Oliver's comment on "Retouche", I commend the

photographer on not resorting to that, if ya got it, ya got it. If you

didn't then don't urge him to cheat, eh?

 

Please give us a bit better scan as far as size and

compression...and ditch the border...that stuff is SO hokey

looking.

 

Congrats on POW .

There is no technical information on this. Was the 50 1.8 lens used for all the layers that were added to the piece above?

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..This is my all time favorite aircraft...:-)

 

I have a favor to ask though. Could you please extend our viewers the courtesy of posting the photoshop teqnique in your image information?

 

P.S. Ever heard of George Hall / Check Six?

This is one of my better picture agencies, one image of an F18 cat launch at sunset has grossed well over $22,000 now. The images I shot while in the Navy some 15 years ago still bring in a good amount of stock sales, just got a big ready room mural contract.

 

Have fun,

 

db

...Photo Disussion of the Week is what we should call the selects that grace our monitors.

Why should the POW pick always be seen as something to live up to? That's kind of silly considering that photography, art and photographicly attained art is at the very least, subjective.

I have to agree with Marc on the comment of destroying Di Vinci's work. Ummm, arent we allowed to be inspired by our mentors and masters? If this is Lasse's way of expressing his admiration for the legendary figure, then let it ride.

As for the image itself, I think it would be a great album cover if it were the musician in the cog. The darker area in the upper left bothers me a bit as do some of the undefined layers behind the two human forms. You have a style with this that is emerging and will continue to do so if you look for deeper meaning in your art. The monochrome feel is what draws me in to this image. The image seems complex as if there would be a deep and powerful meaning to it, but that's were it ends.

"Remake" in my opinion is work in progress.

Congratulations on image of the week...:-)

It matters BIG time how an image was created and what information as to it's origin is given to the viewer.db

....Yer showin yer age 'N' pompossity Dos' Candidos.

 

My favorite lenses for candid work are my 24mm F2.0 and my 85mm F1.4. The reasons for this are the speed and the fact the lenses aren't the size of a small water heater scaring the subject away or giving your self away.

 

Does this mean that Photographer of the Year or pulitzer awards aren't given to folks who occasionally use long glass to get, say, a candid spot news image such as a fire or some other restrictive scene...heck no mate!

 

We photojournalists use whatever lenses needed to get the shot. I don't know that I would make it a habit of using a rather obtrusive 300 zoom or a 16mm fisheye lens to get a candid shot of someone. But on the same token, I think that it is kind of funny that the majority of the "street scene'rs" seem to think that you have to use a Lieca M6 with a 34mm 1.4 aspheric loaded with Tri-X to get into thier league....horse manure!

 

Maybe thier stuff would not all look the same if they thought a bit more out of the box...afterall, it is not the car, it's the driver. ( Now don't get all miffed, your stuff is great Tony!)

 

The fact that rui used a long piece of glass made the scene compress a bit, sometimes it is easier in my experience to "Single out" the subject with a longer lens. For the record, I only pry into people's lifes if the image before me is exceptional.

 

db

...constant addressing of the use of photoshop. Here we have a nice image that was brought to a bit more life with the use of motion blur. The motion blur effect thing is not that hard to do. Just stop nay-saying and get out and try it. I use it alot in my work to show that things are indeed moving.

As far as Dennis's comment on hand holding..I am lucky to have the gift of vibration reduction built into the brain.:-) I routinely hand hold a 85mm down to 1/8th of a second and have had the rare luck of getting a sharp image with a 400 2.8 @ near minimum focus...at 1/30 of a second. I simply at least try because I like to challenge my self.

The centering and the railing don't bother me.The timing on the man on the right does a bit.

HINT: For good slo-mo or blur work, hammer off no less than 3 frames with the fastest motor speed you can use (if you have one). What you will find is that the first one and maybe even the second will be soft. The third or last one might just suprise you...:-)

db

The sunstar is not a digital artifact but a natural star caused by diffraction at a small aperature. The smaller the aperature used, the the sharper the angle of the intersecting aperature blades resulting in longer diffraction spikes.

 

The late & great mountaineering photojournalist, Galen Rowell loved this affect as do I. A few my my images on this site have the phenomenon in them.

 

db

Very, very clean and concise image. The fact that the line of the feather coming from the top right corner does not finish exactly in lower left adds an "imperfection in nature's perfection" touch.

 

I like the sunstar or flashstar in the water droplet as well.

 

The slight breakup of the pattern in the feather's upper left corner is a tad distracting but, CONGRATULATIONS FOR NOT LEANING ON PHOTOSHOP TO CLEAN IT UP...:-)

 

A pow image does not always have to be overly complex and full of computer mischief to win now does it.

 

Congrats and enjoy shooting the microworld.

 

db

Could you please put some of the more important information that is in your post above that includes "Production Notes" into the "Caption" section of the images main data? The vital information left out is that the image is not a photograph but a computer illustration derived of photographic images.

 

One post just a few above reads:

"I am getting the feeling that the frog is fake and that the setup is posed."

 

It is important to include that information on the main data list when some are rating this image based on it bieng a real, single photo.

 

The computer illustration that it is, I like what you were going after but you need to clean up some clone marks just to the left of the frog to add to the realism you were seeking.

 

The members of this site and myself would greatly appreciate it and thank you in advance.

 

Daniel Bayer,

 

The Aspen Times,

National Press Photographers Association,

Colorado Press Association, The Associated Press.

One day this Summer past, I was hiking up in the high country near Aspen. The area is famous for it's long defunct silver mines and prospects. I was about treeline (11,700 feet) when I stopped to remove my fogged up sunglasses. I looked up and noticed a strange dark area high up in a rockband some 2 miles away . I started hiking down the trail and noticed that it dissapeared so I walked back to the spot and made a mark on my topo map and set out for it. The scramble up the last 200 feet was a bowling alley of loose scree at best. When I entered what I figured was a mine opening, I was kind of spooked. There were simply no signs of any recent entry for ages. I was stunned with my mouth wide open when my headlamp struck the handle of an old pick ax. After showing the image to many local mine experts and historians, they were floored! Judging by the examination of a large print, it has not been touched since the prospectors left some 123 years ago.

 

A print now hangs in the office of the ghost town of Ashcroft and helps the staff tell the story of the miners.

 

I am still the only one who knows of it's remote location. I have not been back since.

 

db

I just use photoshop to color balance, dodge and burn and such. I use to use it for some sharpening but with the scanner I now use (Nikon 4000ED) I don't have to do that.

 

There are some techniques I will use to rescue a bad neg that someone might bring in to the paper such as replace color on a super underexposed high speed neg shot in tungsten light. Email me if you have any other specifics.

 

I wish I had more time for this site but I am hella bizzy lately with the fall colors and other projects.

 

db

...Jacob. He is wearing all black, lucky for me. I just spotted off the guitar deck and bracketed under. I would never put a good reputation at risk through altering of images, it's really not needed, I think. Thanks for inciting it's (Photoshop) posssible use though, it's flattering....:-)

...Wonderful computer aided painting! I also like the one titled "Learning to fly". Light painting is great stuff but you have really picked it up a notch with the use of Photoshop.

 

This reminds me of some beautifully exposed Kodachrome 25 in National Geographic in the 70's. Howard Shatz did a wonderful pictorial book called "Redheads" that he shot in an underwater studio, all straight chrome and no photoshop of course. These images remind me of that lighting.

 

Keep up the good work and have fun computer painting.:-)

...around 11:00am today.... who ever we are. .

 

Paul, don't ya think you should pull that card board kid outta the box now? The circulation guys are getting a bit hacked that they can only fit 15 papers in there....;-).

 

db

Marc: "Adding beauty without modifying reality is, to me, the grandest type of photo-journalism"...

 

Very well said!

 

Bubba....I mean Dennis...or is that bennis? Or Dubba? Apples, potatoes, fibre or fruit, it's all food in the end I guess. Images are all that matter in the visual digestion of film or film-less fodder. I use to dislike negative film for I love the "way on or way off" learning curve of it. Neg film has saved my arse more than a few times. Thanks for showing interest in my work too..:-)

 

Newspaper photo departments can often be a place for ego's to clash and disfunction to set in. I know as I have seen it in the Department before.

After returning from a year away from the paper to travel, I found Paul to be a really cool, easy to work with kind of guy. In a world of fearing for your fun "Artsy-Fartsy" job, we simply have no worries.

Paul would more likely keep the police scanner volume above the 1/2 way mark, while me, below it.

I want to photograph more people than before and want to develop a better feel for it.

Paul has mentioned wanting to do better landscapes.

Aspen is a place that instills inspiration for both. The Aspen Times THE most fun, free and loving place on earth to work. The Aspen Times photo department works in a seamless and non-ego driven way that encourages what Paul reffers to as "Friendly competition".

 

We have just both decided that in light of enjoying our jobs and sharing the results with you all, we will both create a folder that we will upload our favorite photo of the week from the Times. This photo will be replaced with a new one with the old one bieng added to the permanent collection if we see fit.

 

There are many new changes for the better taking place on the site. Many of the complaints that I had are now bieng addressed and it's a happy family again!

 

.....even good ol' Tony Dummet is popping up!

 

db

 

 

...This is photojournalism at a newspaper bubba. I am sure when Paul had loaded his rig with film, he was thinking spot news and features...not skin tones. Newspapers all have a budget to stick to and the photographers (as do I) stick to one type of emulsion in several speeds. We buy it in bulk, get proficient at shooting it and win awards like I am sure this one will when the Colorado Press Association awards are given out.

 

Photojournalism is the undisputed KING of rendering life as art.

 

Great shot Pablo!!

 

Have fun shooting the concert setup this afternoon. (Paul and I are the photo staff at the Aspen Times)

 

db

...but I am physically staying in Aspen until I line something up. It's been great to be home, lots of good freelance gigs as well as a staff photographer paycheck....;-)

.....it's colors are extending out of the gamut of reality.

 

Often great skies accompany a South West or Mid-West type of supercell soaker.

 

Joel Sartore got a famous shot at sunset of a beautiful anvil cloud with a strike, the cresent moon and venus all on one frame of kodachrome while shooting for the Witchita Eagle. After battling a case of flesh eating bacteria, he is shooting for Geographic again.

 

Warren Faidly has some great lightning stuff, some that he has doped up with filters though, I tend to not like those so much, the color is un-natural and thick:

 

http://www.weatherstock.com/lightningcat.html

 

If you ARE seeing great color like this...then SH_T man! Shoot some film on it and establish a solid foundation of reality on that medium first like I have and then you will be respected for your real work when you are shooting digital.......if not, you are the one who is stuck with that twinge in your stomach as people praise the gospel for colors that have been exaggerated. By overzealous use of the contrast slider in P/S, I have had to tell several young interns that by doing that, you can build up tons of color that is not porpotionate to a real image......"Image-ass, Humphrey-ass Bogardass".

 

LOL,

 

Dan

...said I had to delete all my photos except for one, this is the one I would leave up.

...it was a "Bee-atch" finding the right holes for his eyes to peep through, subjects can become prematurely weary if they don't understand what it is that you are after.