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pablophotographer
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You are welcome to look through my pictures and leave comments. All pictures are my copyright.
Critique or advice are always appreciated. As is your time to write it, also.
Similarly, if you think my critique was helpful please remember to nominate it as Constructive Critique. I may not be very as well as I want to be, able to take the pictures I want, but I am happy to make others to improve theirs. Knowledge should be shared for everyone's benefit.
All the best to your photographic journey.
You are welcome to look through my pictures and leave comments. All pictures are my copyright.
Critique or advice are always appreciated. As is your time to write it, also.
Similarly, if you think my critique was helpful please remember to nominate it as Constructive Critique. I may not be very as well as I want to be, able to take the pictures I want, but I am happy to make others to improve theirs. Knowledge should be shared for everyone's benefit.
All the best to your photographic journey.
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Hello all.
Correct me if I am wrong. A smoking volcano is to be considered active.. Or is it we call active volcanoes we historically know they have errupted?
We have a photographer daring to go there, wearing or not wearing a gas mask, he takes the picture of a smoking volcano from close..., I'd applaud his/her courage first.
I suspect the use of an old lens with no electronic connections to the camera. Wise choice Bernabe. I'd put my money to a good life insurance rather on the lens.
The issue here you might say is the picture but I thought to pay dividends where they are due.
Panoramic images are mostly landscape and landscapes may or may not be just that. Presentations of the geography of a place. The picture we see does exactly that. As an extra you get some smoke too, making this a landscape with action.
Suppose you were there. If we were to reduce some space from the left to exchange it for seeing more smoke on the right now much should we have given? Could we see beyond the smoke? Is more smoke more interesting than more of the geography of what lies beyond the volcano?
It is a matter of a careful weighting of importance to proportion and for me although the ridge of the volcano we see is big in proportion to the image, it is what it is. A correct geographical pictorial information.
Before I start writing my thoughts about the image here, I had seen a mod by darklord that excluded the smoke but no text yet. It looked like a picture from a mountain rather a volcano, so I think the smoke is optional but for me it does worth staying in the frame. I would have loved to see an image as paulbroad describes as I can not manipulate the image where I am now. It may had worked to do the sky less bright, the right side of the ridge darker but the smoke would need some burning, right?
I am not sure if this picture will stay in my memory a couple of years down the line. But for the time being I applaud it with a standing ovation.
pablophotographer- 16 Apr 2018 9:10AM
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Leadenhall Market
Hi, nice shot.
I reckon this is a good subject for sepia. Black and white conversion would turn the light from the lamps white and cold and as a concept this as a roofed area would provide some comforting warmth. Sepia is warmer than black and white so, why not?
A walk on the memory lane.
pablophotographer
p.s. I think you could tilt it one or two degree(-s) to the left to look upright- 14 Apr 2018 10:10AM
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sweet 14
Hello all,
yes, I think some cultural issues have to be understood.
Please read this article of wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinceañera
15 is an important age so being too close to this age can be celebrated too in an image.
And what is the best colour to identify with freshness and youth? Green!
Mono is a absurdity as a concept here. I have been old enough to know pictures in black and white and I still use black and white film, but for architecture and still nature. But for a kid in the green? No, no, no. It is not a men versus women discussion this. Think of old and mono and new and green.
What nobody seems to have discussed until now is lighting. Metadata show this was shot at nearly 12AM -midnight- and no flash was used but I see some shadows on her face and highlights on the leaves that tell me an off-camera light source has been used.
I produced a modification myself veering to softness. And I flipped the young lady on the left to make a point that left or right it makes no sense when viewing a single picture. It does mean something when you literally read a series of images on a page.
I must check my blood pressure now. Garçon! Tequila!
Oooph!
pablophotographer
- 13 Apr 2018 10:30PM
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Howdy, Pardner!
Howdy dudler.
I cropped because of the strange colouring effect of the suspenders had on her thighs. I could describe it as ''reverse shadow'' or ''tanning mishap''.
I thought on my second mod the hat would be cut a bit further down so as the round top isn't visible, as cowboy hats had a flat top.
The colour intensity changed from mod to mod but the idea was to increase the flesh tone.
Kind regards,
pablophotographer- 12 Apr 2018 3:18PM