Dovedale Barn
by Paul

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Frozen pond
by RUEDISCHMUTZ

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Birling Gap - Where Sussex Meets The Sea
by Altastic

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Reflections
by TDCollins

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Haytor
by paynekj

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Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, 2009
by fas-ligand

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Still life, San Fransico
by hajeka

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Hah! Bravery points awarded here. You HAVE studied your Ansel, haven't you? Execution falls a little short, unfortunately, most noticeably in the light dropoff front to back on the egg cutter; my eye is drawn inexorably to the bottom left and out of the image by the flow of light, and that's very un-Adams. If the lighting were a tad more even, you'd have been able to better-express the purity of the white tones: you have them mostly on Zone VI where they really want to be clustered around Zone VII... Also the cropping lower left is very arbitrary. Sharpness is excellent, DOF is very good, detail is excellent, composition (especially on the right side and lower left) is a bit lackluster. Still, a good effort and one that goes beyond the surface of Ansel's most popular imagery.

ETA: Pity about the misspelling of "Francisco" in the title :-(

Cabezon Peak dot dash
by rajron

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Global Not-So-Warm
by gzupruk

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Lighthouse Perspective
by Qiki

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What I wanted to say: as far as capturing the tonalities of the white stonework, the lighting and processing here are simply outstanding. And the sky is quite beautiful, very rich and strong and Anselish.

Compositionally, unfortunately, it's another story. The whole composition feels cramped, there's no sense of space and dimension. The convergence is a bit much; one wishes it had been possible (was it?) to step backwards a considerable distance and regularize things a bit. As far as replicating Ansel goes, of course he had a view camera to deal with stuff like that, but the convergence in any case isn't something he's have allowed, or not to such a degree.

Photoshop actually allows a great deal of latitude for correcting perspective with the skew and perspective controls in the edit menu: here's a quick example of what's possible:

and a revised version 2 with height more retained: .

So, I love the luminosity of it, the processing of it is very pure, but the composition is way too tight for me and the convergence is just too extreme for my tastes. I could handle it on the tower, actually, but not on the base structure.

ETA: Looking back now I see that I could have kept a bit of the stretch, the base structure looks a bit squat now doesn't it? But you can see the possibilities are there. Revised edit posted above.

Message edited by author 2009-02-06 21:36:16.