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02/01/2003 04:36:53 AM |
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hehehe, i bet that car isnt going anywhere in 3 days, much less 30 minutes! first of all, i have to say that i like your choice of converting to negative for this shot! it reminds me of the intro to the old TV show, the Outer Limits! i have stared at it forever, trying to imagine what it would have looked like otherwise, and have decided that it has a wonderful dreamlike quality that makes you want to take a second look!
i enjoy the composition of this photo for what it is--it makes me astounded (and slightly jealous!) that you get so much snow! you did a fabulous job in capturing that (as i am sure was your intention) with your angle. i can totally imagine a car under that mound! also, i really like the tilt to the framing. technically, it looks great--it is really only the post processing that i want to talk about! :)
the rest of this critique is only my opinion--i know that we, the viewers, have no real idea of why a photographer cropped a certain way, or chose certain lighting or any other aspect of a particular picture-- we only know what we might like to see! now, i know virtually nothing about IR type photography, so i could be way off base--but i assume that it turns the darker aspects of your picture lighter and vice versa, right? so in this case, one of the most intriguing aspects of the photo are the trees, since, being the lightest thing in the frame, are what my eyes are drawn to first. basically, i find myself straining my neck to look over the snow to see more of them! i think would like to see perhaps a broader framing—as if you had stepped back a few feet to capture not only the irony of the huge amount of snow against the sign, but more of the fascinating background as well—to break up the smoothness of the snow and sky, and to give more depth to the picture. I just think that in converting this photo to a negative, the snow is relegated to a less interesting part of the picture, due to its murky color. And since the snow takes up a good portion of the frame, it winds up almost detracting from the photo as a whole. ican imagine that the original really enhanced the snow/parking sign with the bright white against the green (?) of the sign---but the switch to negative has a fascinating eerie quality that i am definitely drawn to.
all in all, this is a great photo—you have given me a new appreciation for negative photography! :)
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01/26/2003 11:28:15 PM |
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01/26/2003 09:48:31 PM |
| This picture is a bit confusing. What am I looking at? jgillard5 |
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01/24/2003 11:11:32 AM |
| The trees are blowing me away. I wish there was more of them in the shot. Cool cut off with the sand though. I imagine there is some good technical term for that but I don't know what it is. This is my favorite pic so far. And the first 10. Well done - Inspzil |
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01/24/2003 09:56:16 AM |
| nice use of perspective to make this pile look bigger than it actually is. i think this would look much better if you would crop most of the snow off of the bottom of the photo. then i wouldn't be staring at mostly just a pile of snow |
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01/24/2003 01:10:19 AM |
| Is this Infrared ? Anyway the color is great. |
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01/24/2003 12:29:24 AM |
| different...after a 100 or so comments I don't know what to say. Not bad just different. |
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01/23/2003 11:56:35 PM |
| Looks like all-Winter parking now... |
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01/23/2003 08:30:53 AM |
| Not bad. Interesting actually. Is that a pile of mud at the bottom left? |
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01/20/2003 07:23:22 PM |
| I'm not usually a fan of infrared type photo's but I guess in this case the photo would have been quite boring in normal colour. Focus is good and the trees add interest. Is the sign deliberately crooked in the photo? |
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01/20/2003 10:44:44 AM |
| I like the composition and IR other-worldliness of this photo. Good photo!! |
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01/20/2003 05:42:23 AM |
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01/20/2003 01:56:46 AM |
| Good shot, and very funny. Nice DOF and framing! Cub |
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