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12/14/2005 04:56:51 AM |
| What a beautiful scenery! you're a poet too. Ha Long Bay in QuangNinh, not in Hai Phong as you told. |
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07/12/2005 10:48:43 AM |
| I imagine this scene in a movie....wonderful silhouettes and a well deserved ribbon! Wonderful! :) |
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06/18/2005 10:11:58 PM |
| This picture leaves me breathless. |
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05/05/2004 11:42:34 AM |
Hi, im yet new in thee world of photography but i know enough to say that you are brilliant mate!
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04/30/2004 08:37:52 PM |
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04/29/2004 04:15:02 PM |
| Once again... great work Manuel! :-) |
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04/28/2004 12:23:18 AM |
| And by the way, thanks for the online DOF calculator! That is a great help! |
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04/28/2004 12:22:26 AM |
This is a great image! I have fallen in love with it at first site...Specially the way reflection can be seen in water. Great Job!!
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04/26/2004 05:29:49 PM |
Originally posted by Azrifel:
Originally posted by darcy:
But I have to ask, how can your aperature be so large - 1.8 - when your depth of field seems to be so deep. Doesn't a large aperature usually give a shallow depth of field? |
"At a fixed aperture, focussing at a greater distance brings more of the foreground and background into the zone of sharpness." quote from National Geographic's Photography Field Guide.
The usual dramatic small DOF of a 50mm @ F1.8 is mostly seen with portraits shot from a relative close range. The focus point here is considerably further away. |
True, take a look at this page...
The online dof calculator: //dfleming.ameranet.com/dofjs.html
For example, if you have the lens set at 28mm, f/1.8 and you focus on a spot 20meters away then you get sharp image between 10.5-216.9 meters.
Just check out the online dof calculator. It´s a cool tool! |
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04/26/2004 04:31:21 PM |
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04/26/2004 03:59:11 PM |
Man you are making a run on the D70 page! Give us poor slops a break ;-)
Congratulations on another great photo, I'm sure a blue ribbon is just around the corner.
Message edited by author 2004-04-26 16:00:32. |
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04/26/2004 02:21:12 PM |
| Sorry so late, congrats Manny. |
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04/26/2004 01:56:06 PM |
Originally posted by darcy:
But I have to ask, how can your aperature be so large - 1.8 - when your depth of field seems to be so deep. Doesn't a large aperature usually give a shallow depth of field? |
"At a fixed aperture, focussing at a greater distance brings more of the foreground and background into the zone of sharpness." quote from National Geographic's Photography Field Guide.
The usual dramatic small DOF of a 50mm @ F1.8 is mostly seen with portraits shot from a relative close range. The focus point here is considerably further away.
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04/26/2004 12:47:40 PM |
| Congrats Manny, well done image....deserves a ribbon! |
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04/26/2004 10:00:29 AM |
| Congratulations! One of my favorite images - a well-dererved ribbon. |
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04/26/2004 08:35:39 AM |
| This is a lovely image and congratulations on the red. |
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04/26/2004 07:24:57 AM |
Thank you very much for your comments and your votes. This is a very lucky shot for me. I am not much of a landscape but rather more of a portrait person.
The first night of our package tour to Vietnam was in Halong Bay area. I woke up at 5:00 a.m. and was out in the shores overlooking the Halong Bay at 6:00 a.m. (since breakfast won't be ready until 7:00). I spotted 3 fishing boats. I took plenty of shots (close to 50). I was also using my newly purchased 50 mm. f1.8 lens (per suggestion of dpchallenge members). In the LCD, I wasn't impressed with my shots. I would rather save my children pics so I deleted a lot. But when I downloaded the un-deleted ones in my computer, I was surprised by the clarity of the details and the drama of the early morning mist.
Darcy, I check the exif file again and it was f1.8. Sorry I am not a very technical person so I couldn't answer the question. maybe somemmembers can answer this.
Once again, thank you very much for all the critiques.
Manny |
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04/26/2004 05:53:52 AM |
| Way to go Manny!!! Congrats!! |
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04/26/2004 05:20:13 AM |
A blue is on it`s way soon, I`m sure.
Congratulations,
Gordon |
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04/26/2004 03:12:52 AM |
Congratulations!
But I have to ask, how can your aperature be so large - 1.8 - when your depth of field seems to be so deep. Doesn't a large aperature usually give a shallow depth of field? |
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04/26/2004 02:11:06 AM |
congratulations manny! well deserved IMHO;-) glad you are going up from 3rd to 2nd. Next step is the highest step... soon to come;-)
Eric |
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04/26/2004 01:50:08 AM |
| Manny, congrats guid! But a one? Come on! (That probably cost you the blue ribbon ...). |
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04/26/2004 12:45:38 AM |
| My top pick for the challenge. Going in my favorites. |
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04/26/2004 12:33:18 AM |
lol I knew it was you! I really love your work, congrats on the ribbon.
Keep it up... |
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04/26/2004 12:16:44 AM |
| amazing shot, manny....bilib na talaga ko sa'yo... |
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04/26/2004 12:10:46 AM |
| Brilliant. Manuel, you are a true artist! |
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04/26/2004 12:08:07 AM |
| This is awesome. I could look at this all day. Congrats! |
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04/26/2004 12:04:52 AM |
| Congratulations on your ribbon! Very nice picture! |
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04/26/2004 12:03:49 AM |
| Congratulation on another Ribbon, Manuel! |
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04/25/2004 10:35:06 PM |
| er, this is wonderful. How are mere plebs like me supposed to win with competition like this ? ;-) 10. |
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04/25/2004 10:01:04 PM |
| Excellent sillouettes, great foggy background. A bit tight of a crop on the right. |
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04/25/2004 04:58:56 PM |
Beautiful tone. I really like the composition, having two of them in the frame and including the mountains in the background. Nice foggy atmosphere, really adds a mood to the photo. The rippled reflections are great. It looks like it was taken in Asia, is this librodo?
Well done, good luck... |
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04/25/2004 03:26:03 PM |
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04/25/2004 07:54:58 AM |
| wonderfully moody - like how you used the fog to create the silhoette. great detail in the water. second pass has me up this to one of my ribbon picks |
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04/24/2004 10:23:42 PM |
| While the border adds nothing to this image, it's still a 10. Superb capture! |
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04/24/2004 07:43:00 PM |
| Good shot. Would have skipped the frame. |
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04/24/2004 02:46:57 PM |
| Amazing photo and i hope it does well...would love to see a story behind this! |
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04/24/2004 02:22:22 PM |
| Awesome picture works well in duetone, would like to see it in color too :) Great job |
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04/24/2004 07:56:27 AM |
| I hope you get a ribbon with this fantastic shot. I like your placement and the open space to the left definately gives me the feeling of distination. But, it might be a lttle over done. My eye gets kind of distracted by perhaps too much space. Great image. Good luck! 9 |
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04/24/2004 03:18:58 AM |
| Nicely done. The soft tones really convey the calm of a morning before the world wakes up. |
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04/23/2004 11:45:41 AM |
| looks a bit over-processed |
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04/22/2004 10:38:29 PM |
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04/22/2004 10:37:29 PM |
| ................... Wow .................. there is no other words |
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04/21/2004 10:38:08 PM |
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04/21/2004 05:36:49 PM |
| Exceptional B&W image. Nice greyscales, lighting and composition. There is a touch of haloing along the sharp edges of the boats but no other digital artifacts. The fog and calmness of the water gives this a haunting richness deserving of a ribbon in this challenge. |
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04/21/2004 01:02:53 AM |
| This is lovely...a 10! It seems to capture a culture. |
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04/20/2004 10:13:52 PM |
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04/20/2004 09:09:53 PM |
| One of those magical moments in this magical land. Glad you shared it with the DPC community. 10 |
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04/20/2004 06:04:41 PM |
| This is a gorgeous photograph... definitely my favourite in the challenge. |
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04/20/2004 03:48:17 PM |
| Gorgeous work... This is one of my top two favorites in this challenge. I love the rural feel here. It also seems quite peaceful. = 10 |
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04/20/2004 07:37:25 AM |
| This really is a beautiful photo and very atmospheric |
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04/20/2004 07:37:07 AM |
| Great atmosphere, really expresses a quiet early morning. I wonder how it looks in color. |
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04/20/2004 02:04:13 AM |
| Even though the elements do not appear in as sharp focus as I would like to see, your image is very well composed, has natural silhouettes, a subdued and interesting background and nice relfections. |
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04/20/2004 12:28:39 AM |
| what a magnificant scene- great capture |
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04/19/2004 09:13:40 PM |
@#$! baeautiful shot. So what magazine will this be appearing in?
BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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04/19/2004 06:40:55 PM |
| Very nice graphic! Background adds a lot to the overall feel to this image. Reflections on the water are nice. |
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04/19/2004 01:58:24 PM |
| Great photo, I will be interested to hear where this was photographic at the end of the challenge..10 |
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04/19/2004 12:30:48 PM |
| i like the effect on the water... |
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04/19/2004 10:28:26 AM |
| Lovely graduations in the contrast really bring this to life...9 |
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04/19/2004 07:55:49 AM |
| Spectacular. Love the reflections in the water and the misty background. |
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04/19/2004 07:16:49 AM |
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04/19/2004 05:04:25 AM |
| Beautiful choice of subject matter and the morning mist just compliments it perfectly. Composition doesn't work so well for me - because the two boats are not symmetrical anyway I think it would be better to have them as a whole centred within the watery background. Alternatively the extra space would work better for me above and to the right of the boats - perhaps because of the direction of the body of that man with his pole? Still one of my favourites in this challenge. |
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04/19/2004 12:25:15 AM |
| 7 from me. Nice work. I love the fog/mist. The reflections are very nice. Would only of liked a bit more off the bottom. Good work. |
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