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This is my favorite photo of yours in this folder. Aside from it being visually stunning, it says a great deal about social interaction and the brevity of life. One of the few images I have seen in Photo.net that conveys a considerable amount of subtext along with the actual visual message. Nicely done. -
I gave this an average rating (5/5) for a couple of reasons. First, the light is simply too harsh. But, there is something you could do about that -- just find a way to put some shadow on your subject and shoot it under indirect light. Second, the composition -- you have clipped off part of the petals. Now, if you were doing a closer, more macro shot, of just the pistil or stamen area, then it would be alright to clip the petals.
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There are two major problems with this photo, and they both involve exposure. First, the sky is blown out. Second, the foreground is too dark. A split or graduated neutral density filter would have done wonders. Also, you really don't have a subject or theme with this composition. I would have been curious to see your possible views if you were further to the left where you could see more around the edge of the mountains.
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I agree that people sometimes go out of their way to give spiteful ratings. Whether the motivation is pure jealousy or some perverted sense of competition, who knows. This is a wonderful photograph. However, I must agree that there is a slight problem with the boats. What people have been seeing is that the light from the sun is warm light, yet the light from the flash is cool light. This can be corrected, in the future, through a combination of two things. First, put a warming gel on the surface of the flash. Second, use a split neutral density filter -- minimum of a two-stop, perhaps even a three-stop with this light. With the split neutral density filter, you bring down the sky a little and allow natural light to fill in more of your foreground. Then, you need less artificial light to bring in the detail in the boats. Great photo, though!
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Great macro work! Do you have more you can share? It looks like bubbles floating in a liquid ... or some graphical digital representation. Has somewhat of an abstract quality to it. Good saturation, too.
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Great shot. I don't know what the low ratings are all for, this is not an easy shot to make. I haven't decided if the sun flare on the right adds to or takes away from the image. I am trying to think where you pulled over to get this shot... I am familiar with the drive. Anyway, this is the best photo in this folder.
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Nice photo. Funny thing, I live about a twenty-five minute drive from Thunderbird Falls, but have never visited. I avoid it because the area has known to be a den for criminal activity ... I will visit someday, though.
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It is hard to choose which of your photos in this folder is my favorite. You have several excellent wildlife studies capturing a broad range of behavior. This is perhaps the most unique penguin photo I have ever seen, and it takes some time to really understand what is happening here. Exceptional. -
Wonderful photo. I imagine that you were either quick with your lens or had a lot of patience to find the right angle to get this shot. It is rare to capture wildlife in a grouping like this, and you rendered it very well.
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Great composition, really dramatic. Lucky you that the hikers were wearing red!
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Really nice "animal in the landscape" shot. I enjoy the relationship between the shape of the hippo with the shapes of the trees in the background. Too bad we cannot see the subject's face, however.
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I give this photo high marks for originality because it is a nighttime silhouette of a snow-covered tree, rather than a daytime one. Beautiful rendering of blues, capturing the coldness of the night. I also like the choice in composition. Well done. -
Excellent lighting and composition. I particularly enjoy the juxtapositioning of the head on the door with the young monk's head, including the slight tilt to both. Wonderful job of capturing this young monk's expression.
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Nice "cottage in the wintery woods" image; particularly good job on the exposure. I would like to have seen a little less of the cottage and more of the surrounding environment, with the cottage off-center.
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Great job on everything -- color, exposure and composition. I like how you used the rock feature to divide not only the picture, but the differences in the texture between the "outer" water and "inner" water.
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I have rescanned the image and improved the darkness from the previous version. What you see above should address any darkness concerns. -
I agree with John. Light is way too harsh... Image would be better served by an overcast day, perhaps even right after a rain, some Velvia film, and probably a green color compensating filter (otherwise the image will have a blue hue with all of that moisture in the air). Great perspective and DOF; it really brings out the magnitude of the fallen tree.
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Nice shot. I have a similar shot of a Ruffed Grouse poking its head above some grass in northern Minnesota in my Wildlife folder. They sure are tricky to photograph, aren't they?
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My first reaction was that there was too much dark space to the left. Then I decided I liked it because it allowed me to imagine that this place floated on the edge of ... the unknown. Very nice image, and too heck with those folks who are giving it low ratings.
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The photo would have been vastly superior without the doll. It distracts from the colors and shapes in the trees.
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Exceptional color saturation. Point of clarification -- you mention in a previous comment that it is Velvia film, but your notes under the image indicate Provia. Which is it? Either way, it goes to show what wonders Fuji film can do with those blues and greens. I have never taken LSD before, but I can imagine the world looking more like this if I did. Great image.
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Some might say this image is too dark, but I like it. I think it says a great deal about the nature of those great Pacific Northwest forests. Nicely done.
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... and another shot, looking to the northeast.
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