Darn it! I was able to see my post from my computer at home and now they are red x's. I am still able to see sfbay 420 posts and evryone elses. Any suggestions? The size of my photos went from 640x512 to 28x30 all by themselves. Any web gurus out there who have any ideas why?It could be that your office firewall is blocking outgoing traffic to certain web sites and/or access on various ports. I know that with some of the people I deal with they are unable to access the Pbase website as it is blocked by the company's firewall - there is a list which is updated with non business friendly websites which companies download onto their firewalls to prevent employees wasting company time on personal web browsing; this maybe what is causing you some difficulties.
I like the 2:1 finally. I agree about the mist. I wish I could see a 1:1 print. The scale here makes it difficult to actually appreciate how immense the mountains are, and the car looks pretty small. I like the photo more all the time.Thank you. I have a 40x20 inch print sitting next to me, and I'm going to go have it mounted shortly.
I would love to post some of mine to get some feedback on them. But i dont know how to post them here ..Just look for the URL of the image you want to show us and then post this.
Can someone help me with that ..?
How are you doing your black and whites?Hi Paulbk,
paul
Oops! the link doesn't work (Error 404). Can you fix it and try again?The link doesn't work, but if you try just copying and pasting the text into your browser, you'll see that the site works just fine.
Haven't been here in awhile.Scott great shots - I liked the ones at Sierra Nevada Mountains, CA - Glacial Divide
Take a look see ... tell me what you think.
http://www.light-quest.com
Later ....
-Scott
Boku,Birds of a Feather!
Nice images! I have a story similar to you. I majored in photography in college, opened a commercial studio right after, got burned out after about 10 years and stopped doing photography.
I have always liked doing landscape photography and that's mainly what I did in college, but when I was making a living in the business I stopped doing what I loved the most. After not touching a camera for 12 years I bought a DSLR a few months ago and the creative juices started flowing again. I now enjoy making my own images again.
I'm learning the whole world of digital imaging and that has been a challenge. Digital is much more fun than the chemical lab process. Still an adjustment, but I'm slowly getting it.
Regards,
Scott B
Bernard, your Fujisan is stunning - I could only see the thumbnail but it was lovely!Thanks!
It would seem several of you regard film cameras as tantamount to being a blasphmere
As already suggested, perhaps this is the type of image that only works as a huge, highly detailed print. At this small size, the foreground could be just rubble for all I know. And why B&W? If foreground detail is going to be a feature of the image, then color would surely help.The image is B&W because it was shot in the rain and there really isn't any color anyway. But I think you're on to something with the suggestion that the lower foreground doesn't add that much to the image. I've already cropped some off the bottom; I'll experiment with cropping off some more.
The image is essentially in 2 halves with nothing much to integrate the 2 halves. A jutting cactus plant, distorted tree shape or interesting rock in the immediate foreground would have helped.
I settled on a smugmug account, this seems about my level for now. You can see some of my stuff at:Hi Bob,
"Have you studied composition and design formally?"I personally havent formerly studied composition and design myself.
I have heard that such studies are a waste of your time and money and that all you need to do in "just blow."
Not landscapes but most definitely nature - 2 photos I currently have on display at the Juneau City Museum as part of the Alaska Photographic Arts Association juried showYou are happening, dude!
All that said, I must say that I was not overly impressed with your black and white photo as published here Jonathan. I suspect that the original is much more beautiful than the version that I am seeing through the media of internet and graphics card and monitor. I love black and white work, and your piece appears to be technically very well done. The subject matter is interesting and nicely composed as well. I just find the photo ... flat. I think the rest of your work presented here is on a higher level.As I said before, I have no problem with a negative critique if it is thoughtful and well-reasoned and presented reasonably civilly. What I find irritating are negative comments that by the poster's own admission, have no basis other than rudeness for rudeness' sake.
I could suggest you crop a bit more off the top of the sky, but that's a minor refinement.Minor, but worth doing. I decided to go back to the original panorama concept and widened the scope of the image back to 3:1, while trimming just a bit more off the top. This version is a bit bigger, so I'm linking it as a
This is great.. I loved those canoe photos boku - they are on your site yes?Yes - they are buried in there in the "Hinkley" galery.
I see very few people actually posting their photographs here so I'll post a few to start the ball rolling a bit faster.Here's some of mine:
"I like the first and last one, ... ."I don't have any profound theoretical analysis to offer, just a personal gut reaction. What I posted reflects my personal likes and dislikes, and what I would have done to the images if I was preparing them for display. No more and no less.
Can you say why?
"... the middle one should be cropped more horizontal by reducing the bland ground and sky areas and focusing more on the pattern of the houses."
Why would such a crop focus more on the subject? I suppose the easiest answer might be "Because then the subject would be the only thing left, and there would be nothing left to look at." But what is so special about the pattern of the houses?
Take a look see ... tell me what you think.
Johathan, I sometimes hear "put up or shut up" which implies to me "show and tell" or words to the effect that if I don't show, then I have nothing credible to say, so shut up.In that particular instance, you made some statements that defied common sense and offered no proof to back them up. But I've never made any attempt to have your ability to participate in the forums curtailed.
Doc, have you considered studying composition to see if you can figure out what causes that "tingle" and perhaps make it happen rather than just letting it happen?To be honest no I had not thought to go off on a course to find out what makes the tingle - its always just been there - like the hairs on the back of you neck go up!
There are plenty of books available that would not require an art class.
I really say it's ugly to make Jonathan to understand the some people get hurt,,for he's commen sometime.I can handle legitimate criticism of my work, and have no problem admitting I'm wrong when someone shows me where I went off track. Check the sensor design idea thread for an example. But just making up random unfounded criticism is rather pointless, and not conducive to enhancing one's reputation as an insightful critic with something meaningful to say.
But I'm no a photographer I'm trying to be one.
Why did my pictures ended up arranged horizontally? they didn't look that way in the preview post pane.All pictures end up like this.
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Here's a couple of shots of my favorite place in Alaska...
Nice, I could probably shoot all day just from that one location. How long/strenuous is the hike up?
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Great to see this topic is still happening!
Here's a shot with my new lens.
(http://www.inetsonic.com/kate/stuff/pond.jpg)
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very nice image... simple, good composition. drama, and colors are not overdone at all!
jim
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Hello everyone,
I can't believe this thread is still going. Here is a shot from a recent trip to Italy, sort of a townscape I guess.(http://www.billyyunck.com/galleries/bex/images/5terremanarola6927.jpg)
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Framah Ha! Not at all! I would be a fine one to suggest such a thing! Not.
I thought your photos were very painterly. Reminded me of a woman who painted at the same time as the Abstract Expressionists in the 50s in New York - and who was ignored except as the teacher of her two male students, whose work was extremely dirivitive or hers. In a minute I'll remember her name. ... umm. Helen Frankenthaler!
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Great to see this topic is still happening!how about some underwater digital landscapes for a change of pace. Taken with d70
Here's a shot with my new lens.
(http://www.inetsonic.com/kate/stuff/pond.jpg)
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Framah Ha! Not at all! I would be a fine one to suggest such a thing! Not.
I thought your photos were very painterly. Reminded me of a woman who painted at the same time as the Abstract Expressionists in the 50s in New York - and who was ignored except as the teacher of her two male students, whose work was extremely dirivitive or hers. In a minute I'll remember her name. ... umm. Helen Frankenthaler!
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vaz, how did you make those thumbnails?im not a ral computer guy, i did them by save for web in ps, is there a better way?
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What a lovely looking place! Where in Italy is that place? It looks exactly the kind of a town I'd love to visit and shoot.
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wjy, there are lots of photos of this place from that angle published on the net but yours is the best by far. Thanks.Thankyou Katherine.
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the last of fall colors in the western grand canyon:
(http://misheli.image.pbase.com/o4/10/364410/1/53147493.B5FS6432copy.jpg)
Very nice stuff everyone.
Lin I love that shot with the bison and mountains.
Here's one of mine from this year:
(http://www.pbase.com/sdaconsulting/image/53817483/large.jpg)
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Hi Matt,
Sorry to take so long to get back - been way busy with all the holiday things....
Thanks Eric. Nice of you to comment. The former is Owen Sound Ontario harbour last Sunday. The latter is a place called Half Way Rock, and is located on Georgian Bay, almost to the top of the Bruce Peninsula. The site is rugged but easy enough to get to. Love it. If you want to go there at any time, let me know and I will provide specific directions.
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I get up to Bruce a couple of times a year (last time http://www.timgrayphotography.com/gallerie...ruce/index.html (http://www.timgrayphotography.com/galleries/200511bruce/index.html) ) I think I recognize the name, and know where it is, but my recollection is that the trail is quite a bit above the water at that point - any tricks to getting down to the water?
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Tim - take the highway to Emmett Lake Road, which skirts along top of the First Nation Hunting Grounds. You will eventually come to a sign that indicates Half Way Dump sidetrail. Park in the lot and take the trail to the shore. The Bruce Trail continues along the cliffs overlooking the shore to the northwest.Katemann:
Don't go when the horse flies are out. You will find that this particular piece of shore is much more deserted than the Cypress Lake park road.
It is one of my favourite spots on earth. Have fun!
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(http://www.jcollum.com/coastal/images/collum_009.jpg)
(http:///coastal/images/collum_219.jpg)
(http://www.jcollum.com/coastal/images/collum_101.jpg)
(http://www.jcollum.com/coastal/images/collum_251.jpg)
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my 2cents
my favorite of the series (haven't looked at your web page yet)... i love urban decay.
(http://to-mas.net/gallery/main.php/d/744-1/psycho-25-by_to-mas.jpg)
a few from the last visit to salton sea
(http://www.jcollum.com/fm/salton_one.jpg)
(http://www.jcollum.com/fm/salton_two.jpg)
(http://www.jcollum.com/fm/salton_three.jpg)
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great, some are to flat for my taste by otherwise.... i love it
I checked your website and found many really great pictures. I like your style and that places. But I need to say that I dont like your BW , their are to flat for my taste.
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thanks for looking.. yea. most of my stuff resides on the opposite end of the contrast/saturation slider from most people... it's not everyone's cup of tea.. but not much i can do about it.. the images are what i see
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but i need to say that thay look to much like default digital photos.
I dont know..... i think that potential its much bigger and recommend try some other wat of postprocessing.
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most of what's on the web of mine are 'sketches'... the images that i sell are traditional platinum over color pigment, and really aren't meant for web presentation.. you really can't replicate the texture and tonal scales from the print on the web satisfactorily.
this is a scan of a final image.. but really doesn't do much unless you view an actual print.
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Yikes. Nothing for the entire month of October? Here's a bit to bring the thread back to life.
I just completed a few more images for my Spring City project and also finished working on a couple other landscapes.
(http://www.artbyphil.com/phfx/photography/nature_landscapes/images/tetanoid.jpg)
nov01 - Tetanoid.
(http://www.artbyphil.com/phfx/photography/nature_landscapes/images/septicity.jpg)
nov03 - Septicity.
Cheers!
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Of the three, the second one does the most for me (much to my own surprise.) The man's head next to the hanging melons, and the bell-shaped whatevers (light shades???) beyond them all make for a very surrealistic effect. And then the oranges echo the same shape in the midground, and the blurry bananas seem to be protesting because they aren't round.
I don't know what it "means," but the shapes sure resonate for me.
The third one reminds me of a scene I photographed in Siena, Italy, last spring. A naked dummy (statue?) peers out of an apartment window, with one hand clutching the curtain. I'll try to find it and display it here.
Tim,
The third one doesn't show up for me.
Eric
P.S. I got it to open, by going to your website. Somebody must have been censoring it!
Of the three, the second one does the most for me (much to my own surprise.) The man's head next to the hanging melons, and the bell-shaped whatevers (light shades???) beyond them all make for a very surrealistic effect. And then the oranges echo the same shape in the midground, and the blurry bananas seem to be protesting because they aren't round.
I don't know what it "means," but the shapes sure resonate for me.
The third one reminds me of a scene I photographed in Siena, Italy, last spring. A naked dummy (statue?) peers out of an apartment window, with one hand clutching the curtain. I'll try to find it and display it here.
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Thank you Lars. I would start by doing a google search on "high dynamic range imaging". That's the general idea behind those last few. I'm happy you like them.
Phil
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I posted a long while back. Thought I'd pay another visit. Some wonderful images from you guys.
Here's one of my own recent favorites.
(http://www.stebbings.com/daa/TreeVinePath.jpg)
Dave Aldrich
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Interesting image, and pleasing to look at.
The image seems bisected right to left by the near and far objects and the line down the middle. A more interesting crop might be to move this line left or right.
I would crop the background on the extreme left. I don't think it adds anything of significance.
The bright area on the left of the tree's trunk leads my eye over there and then drops me, no way to get back.
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I know there are the ol' rules of thirds and other rules of composition but I sometimes find it difficult to follow them. Is it much like other things where the rules are guidelines and one is allowed to bend them?
"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs."
-Ansel Adams
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Howie, thanks for your kind comment. I have a gaussian blur layer sandwiched in the middle (gleaned from here) I am considering sharpening up the seeds a bit, might crop a titch off the left, might not.
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I love coming back here to see what you all have posted in the interim.
Here's a view of the CN Tower in Toronto.
Lovely photo. Do you have any more alike this?
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thank you Andy! Yes, I have more - I spent the entire ferry trip freezing on deck. I liked this one in particular.
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Well Andy - I shall have to look through that lot again and prepare one if you mean that you want to see another from the series.They're your liberties, take as many as you like! Especially with results like this. Sometimes these things reveal as much (if not more) about you the artist as much as you the technician, and you the artist will nearly always be more interesting to me at least.
Here's one from last year on the Skyline whatever it was in the Appalachian Range of the US.
(http://www.jensenmusic.ca/kate/skyline_2.jpg)
It's totally different of course - and it is the first time that I pushed the parameters of decency quite so much. I like it, but then I have a background of messing with oil paints. I understand that some photographers find the liberties taken somewhat offensive.
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Ireland- NW-Atlantik Coast
well composed and colorful landscapes
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that's lovely, Dancing Bear!
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nice shots, laughgbear. specially the second one.
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Hi, and welcome to the list!
What is it about this image that appeals to you?
Mike.
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Hi, and welcome to the list!
What is it about this image that appeals to you?
Mike.
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Good question. I know I don't see it. Looks like an underexposed boney cow, chained under a tree, eating grass. There must be more there.
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But great grabbed shot.
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It might be a "great grab" but it is the details that keep it from being a "great" image of this type of bird. Look at published images of birds in Audubon for example. The details are much better handled.
If you can't control highlights, as in this image, there is no reason not to take the photo. But a wide public display may require more than the photographer's explanation he couldn't manipulate a banana leaf. If the bird is extremely rare, the standards may reduced. A grab shot of a unicorn may be enough just for the subject.
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Nevertheless it must be appreciated as a good effort. If only perfect images of birds must be displayed, they'd all be in Audobon. Being a new member here,am I to understand you will rip apart anything less than perfect?
Regards
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Yes, it is a "good effort." No, not all birds displayed would be in Audubon. But there is no reason they couldn't be that good.
A new member or not, if all you are trying to achieve is "good effort," that's fine. You can take whatever criticism offered or not. It is up to you. But it might be diffficult to learn to be an Audubon caliber photographer if all you hear is "great image - wow," for your good efforts. For sure, a subnission to Audubon will get tossed if they are merely good efforts.
Try to be mediocre, and that is about all you will ever be. It takes only a little more effort to try to be excellant.
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I seriously doubt if the photographer was aiming at being published in Audubon.I also doubt if any of the Audubon caliber photographers started out with perfect shots. You've got to start at a place to reach somewhere. My point is, a little acknowledgment of an effort coupled with a gentler criticism helps far more than mere trashing.I have no idea of the photographer's aim. I don't really care.
Sometimes that can stall someone so he never reaches that obscure place of the"excellent", which is highly relative. I wouldn't want to do that to someone.
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I have no idea of the photographer's aim. I don't really care.
I too doubt that Audubon caliber photographers started that way. But somehow they manged to get over being a newbie snapshooter. That was likey by desire through work, practice and honest assessments of their work. And they are probably still working to learn and improve.
I certainly wasn't aware that suggesting a different crop (didn't even offer one as this has been previoudly identified as "I know best") or that the highlights were hot and distracting, were "mere trashing." If you do, I would just say you have never been really trashed.
If my comments are enough to stall his growth, I would say he is wat too sensitive to grow and/or just doesn't want to be any better. In the latter case, then he is just looking for a slap on the back.
Would "Good effort" be a better assessment? If so, then; Good effort.
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Good effort and here's how I think you could do better is more like it.... The trash comment was about something else,not the crop comment.You are obvious alloyed about something I posted, but won't say what. How am I supposed to stay off your toes in the future, especially when the image isn't even yours. Ever wonder how anybody can say anything without getting someone in an uproar?
Would you like to say Hi to a new member? Nice to meet you Howie.
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You are obvious alloyed about something I posted, but won't say what. How am I supposed to stay off your toes in the future, especially when the image isn't even yours. Ever wonder how anybody can say anything without getting someone in an uproar?
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You just scared me. that's all. .....I wanted to be sure I can get you to be nice . I'll post some of mine and you can trample all you wish on my toes . Really howie, no offense.
Take care
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Go ahead and post without fear, at least of me. I won't comment. I have never posted comments intended to trample on toes. It's too easy. Or just to be "nice" or politically correct.
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Hi Gabe,
I don't read Audubon or any other nature mags so I can't compare your shot to that, but it works for me - well done.
Bonus points for getting it on a PHD camera as well..
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Hello.
Here are a couple of landscapes taken from Rothera Point on the Antarctic Peninsular.
(http://www.uncletravellingmat.com/d/863-2/pointsunset1.jpg)
Mat.
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That said, I really do appreciate people taking time to look at the photo and offer some critique. Here's a revised crop.. any better?
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nice shots, specially interesting angle of view in second one