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« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2011, 02:32:44 PM » |
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Very nice.
Classical composition, calming, muted colors, good use of foreground, good balance between shadows and highlights (i.e., shadows not opened too much).
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Riaan van Wyk
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« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2011, 12:35:52 AM » |
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Thank you Slobodan.
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« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2011, 03:12:42 PM » |
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Howzit Boet, Not too keen on the buildings in the pic. Maybe flatten them with a bulldozer or just clone them out with photoshop.  |
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Riaan van Wyk
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« Reply #4 on: August 27, 2011, 12:01:02 AM » |
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Hello Heinz
Yeah, I would love to flatten those buildings..them and the huge power lines towards the left makes compositions difficult from this spot.
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« Reply #5 on: August 27, 2011, 04:44:59 AM » |
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Howzit Boet, Not too keen on the buildings in the pic. Maybe flatten them with a bulldozer or just clone them out with photoshop. Hand of Man? The composition reminds me of a Timo Lofgren picture, so that would make it a compliment! William |
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RSL
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« Reply #6 on: September 24, 2011, 09:47:56 AM » |
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Exactly! The hand of man always is what makes good landscape.
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« Reply #7 on: September 24, 2011, 01:58:06 PM » |
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Exactly! The hand of man always is what makes good landscape.
I guess that makes the majority of Ansel Adams' landscapes crap. |
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« Reply #8 on: September 24, 2011, 02:46:41 PM » |
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You said that, Pop, not me. But I do think a lot of Ansel's stuff would have been better with the hand of man included. If you want to do great landscape you can do worse than to learn from Turner and Constable.
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Slobodan Blagojevic
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« Reply #10 on: September 24, 2011, 05:25:02 PM » |
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Exactly! The hand of man always is what makes good landscape.
You know, Russ, I was about to comment about your comment, but then I realized that you and Eric are now closely watching what I post and measure it against your newly instituted snide-o-meter... so I'll pass |
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« Reply #11 on: September 24, 2011, 07:05:59 PM » |
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Watch it, Slobodan. Michael's likely to lock the thread if you talk like that.
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Eric Myrvaagnes
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« Reply #12 on: September 24, 2011, 10:53:59 PM » |
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You know, Russ, I was about to comment about your comment, but then I realized that you and Eric are now closely watching what I post and measure it against your newly instituted snide-o-meter... so I'll pass Slobodan, I consider Russ's latest comment about "the hand of man" to be an excellent example of a snide comment (unlike this one). Eric __________ <= (space for inserting your own choice of smiley) |
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Eric Myrvaagnes
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« Reply #13 on: September 24, 2011, 10:57:43 PM » |
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Riaan,
First, let me apologize for taking your thread off topic.
Next, let me say I like your photo. The grasses are very sensuous and the human artifacts are small enough that they don't bother me (but if it were my image, I would probably remove them, especially if I were planning to show it to Russ).
Eric
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« Reply #14 on: September 25, 2011, 07:11:30 AM » |
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Riaan, Eric, always looking for a fight, he became a mad man, so I am with you. Lets fight back |
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Riaan van Wyk
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« Reply #15 on: September 25, 2011, 02:35:53 PM » |
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Riaan,
First, let me apologize for taking your thread off topic.
Eric
Not to worry Eric, it's what makes LuLa special for me- the stables here are full of horses called " Tangent" |
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« Reply #16 on: September 25, 2011, 06:12:09 PM » |
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Well, since everyone seems to be pussy-footing around making any snide remarks here, allow me to take the bait: Exactly! The hand of man always is what makes good landscape.
Rubbish. The truth is, any evidence of man in a landscape ruins it. The only tolerable evidence of man would be in a cityscape ... where buildings, skyscrapers, city lights, etc. are the main focus ... or perhaps a farmscape where the "peaceful farm" is the story. Those are totally different genres IMO. But in a straight landscape shot (note the word "land"), any evidence of man is an automatic delete of the file (unless it is minor enough to where it can be "healed" out of the final image). __________________________ __________________________ I guess that makes the majority of Ansel Adams' landscapes crap.
You said that, Pop, not me. But I do think a lot of Ansel's stuff would have been better with the hand of man included. If you want to do great landscape you can do worse than to learn from Turner and Constable.
Correction: that's exactly what you said, Russ (well, you implied it, technically). In fact, you went on to confirm your implication by stating how Ansel's work would have been better with "the hand of man" in there, as if you're in a position to judge one of the great masters of the genre. No disrespect, Russ, but judging by your last effort at a landscape, I seriously doubt your qualifications to judge anyone's landscape work, let alone that of Ansel Adams. Stick to street stuff, Russ, because you're very good at that  Jack . |
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« Reply #17 on: September 25, 2011, 06:47:36 PM » |
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Rubbish. The truth is, any evidence of man in a landscape ruins it. The only tolerable evidence of man would be in a cityscape ... where buildings, skyscrapers, city lights, etc. are the main focus ... or perhaps a farmscape where the "peaceful farm" is the story. Those are totally different genres IMO. Well! Here we go! Jack, have you ever gone to a museum and stood in front of one of Turner's masterpiece landscapes? Try it some time. It may change your attitude toward landscape. If you can't find a Turner, try a Constable or a Thomas Cole, or an Albert Bierstadt. These guys understood what landscape should be. Ansel's all-time greatest photograph was "Woman Behind Screen Door, Independence, California." Bet you've never seen it. |
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« Reply #18 on: September 25, 2011, 08:51:56 PM » |
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See? I don't need to make snide remarks. I can count on my serfs and minions to make them for me.
Thank you, Jack!
Eric
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« Reply #19 on: September 26, 2011, 01:57:36 AM » |
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Rubbish. The truth is, any evidence of man in a landscape ruins it. The only tolerable evidence of man would be in a cityscape ... where buildings, skyscrapers, city lights, etc. are the main focus ... or perhaps a farmscape where the "peaceful farm" is the story. Those are totally different genres IMO.
Since you start pithily (not snidely), Jack, so will I: drivel. Don't try to ply the trade in England, if that's what you believe, or France or Italy or any other moderately densely populated country where the landscape has been formed, over hundreds of years, by man. Are you seriously suggesting that, for example, Michael's wonderful photos of the Palouse are not "landscape" because they show crop fields? To suggest that only virgin landscapes such as the American south west are the only places where landscape photographers can take photographs makes no sense at all. Jeremy |
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