Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: BernardLanguillier on February 25, 2014, 08:35:09 am
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Frankly, does this work for you?
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7457/12769975985_a0ef54eca7_o.jpg)
Pano stitch, Otus on D800.
Cheers,
Bernard
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Frankly, does this work for you?
Yes!
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Well done Bernard!
I hope that the St Bernard dogs rescued you quickly after you took the shot.
Michael
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It definitely "works," Bernard. I'd say it more than works. Bravo!
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Sure it works, Bernard.
But Rob C would have wanted you to include some bikini-clad models climbing the scaffolding (and smiling). :D
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Great shot, with nice sense of depth.
Cheers
~Chris
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No; it leaves me cold.
;-)
Rob C
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Love it, but I can't help seeing the structure in the background as a scale model. Looks like a still from a gerry Anderson programme... which is fine by me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Anderson
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For me the image would have been much stronger if you had been a tad more to the left, so the branches/stumps framed the structure behind, as opposed to overlapping slightly.
Otherwise I like it.
It'd be nice to see full size version to properly appreciate the quality from stitched D800 images.
Likewise I always feel like Michael's work should be seen much bigger or preferably in the flesh, as a small web image is unlikely to do his work justice.
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For me the image would have been much stronger if you had been a tad more to the left, so the branches/stumps framed the structure behind, as opposed to overlapping slightly.
Looking at that relief I would guess he would have been in a crevasse as he seems to be on ridge.
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Thanks Michael and all for your comments!
Cheers,
Bernard
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I love it… It reminds me some local antennas and radar. You seem to have a real winter in Japan!
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Superb Bernard!
Mat
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Extraordinary!
Tony Jay
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I have to be honest here. What's so special? I can't see it. Someone please explain.
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I have to be honest here. What's so special? I can't see it. Someone please explain.
Nothing.
Just a nice shot with a nice sense of depth.
Daddy has spoken and the choir follows ...
Cheers
~Chris
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I have to be honest here. What's so special? I can't see it. Someone please explain.
I am not sure either. ;)
Cheers,
Bernard
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I have to be honest here. What's so special? I can't see it. Someone please explain.
To appreciate it properly you should, first, spend at least two hours shoveling heavy snow out of your driveway, and after you finish that, go back into your warm house, take off the snow boots and seven layers of coats and mittens, and fix yourself a good mug of hot chocolate (laced with whatever appeals to you).
After that, you can sit and enjoy Bernard's photo, thankful that you don't have to be out in it.
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Nothing.
Just a nice shot with a nice sense of depth.
Daddy has spoken and the choir follows ...
Cheers
~Chris
haha, that's funny!
For me personally, I couldn't care less if I'm the only one who likes it, your approval or disapproval means nothing to me. I have a house on the Arctic Circle in northern Sweden, it is extremely difficult to get an image that accurately portrays the conditions. The wind-blown ice formed on the trees, the low cloud, the man-made reflecting the natural form of the trees but most of all to me is the black and white conversion and the square crop, it works beautifully as a whole.
There are few images I see on here and wish I had taken but this is one i'd be proud of, doesn't mean anyone else has to like it, that's the whole point of this isn't it? Everyone likes different things.
Mat
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haha, that's funny!
For me personally, I couldn't care less if I'm the only one who likes it, your approval or disapproval means nothing to me. I have a house on the Arctic Circle in northern Sweden, it is extremely difficult to get an image that accurately portrays the conditions. The wind-blown ice formed on the trees, the low cloud, the man-made reflecting the natural form of the trees but most of all to me is the black and white conversion and the square crop, it works beautifully as a whole.
There are few images I see on here and wish I had taken but this is one i'd be proud of, doesn't mean anyone else has to like it, that's the whole point of this isn't it? Everyone likes different things.
Mat
I think its a good shot - I didn't say I don't like it.
But I also don't think it is THAT extraordinary.
It has a nice sense of depth and appealing features, but is just not top notch, IMO - nothing wrong with that.
And honestly, I don't think we are all THAT independent from leading figures like Michael.
Rationality is overrated, caveman instincts underrated in general.
I can of course NOT judge that in every single case - so - so if you think these effects do not apply to you or not in this case that's totally okay.
But I shared the astonishment of Ray, and what I wrote was my explanation for it.
Cheers
~Chris
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In reply to Christoph, yes, I like it. My first thought was of how the tallest tree on the right is mimicked by the antenna tower in the background, becoming almost mirrors for each other. I also like how the two smaller stumps provide an 'almost' square frame for the square building in the background, so the forms work well for me. There's a sense that the natural and the man-made, the trees and the buildings both have to face the same storm together, so are they adversaries, or are they thrown together by conditions? Are there things I would change if it was mine? Probably. I'm not happy with the black corner in the upper right, and I find the contrast a little high for me, but that's looking at a compressed jpg and we all know what that means.
So, my 'Well done, Bernard' is entirely my own. ;)
Mike.
And yes, I have 'fond' (?) memories of working outside for 12+ hours a day in conditions like that...
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For what it's worth, I have not posted this image to get praise and I don't find it particularly outstanding myself.
I tend to be pretty objective about the value of what I do relative to what I am trying to achieve and pleasing is not really very important to me. This doesn't mean I don't appreciate people liking what I do, but that criteria has little weight in influencing my choices during capture and post-processing.
I posted this image here because I am unsure whether it works for me in the first place. It is a deviation from what I usually do:
- The B&W conversion is pretty over-done,
- The composition is not as balanced as what I usually do, in particular in terms of the conflicting heigth of the tree and tower,
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Now, there are things that I like:
- The co-existence of nature and man made,
- The feeling of coldness,
- The co-existence of different lights/of the contrasty and soft light,
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So I appreciate the comments. ;)
Cheers,
Bernard