Delicate & Lovely
by librodo

Comment by Jacko:
Hey man, you have a great style. Most people realise that :) Congrats on the ribbon.

Lotus Mood
by librodo

Comment by Nowaytotell:
very beautiful

Delicate & Lovely
by librodo

Comment by Skye:
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and each beholder has THEIR version of what beauty is. I find this photograph beautiful & brilliant.

E N I G M A
by librodo

Comment by GreenGiant:
Wow this is just... perfection....

GG

Delicate & Lovely
by librodo

Comment by Schuff:
Wow, it begs the question if I could ever reach a blue ribbon (translated to majority acceptance in voting) would I want it just to have some "opinion's" thrown at me in a negative manner, since I don't receive too many of those at my current standing.

Either way Manny, I like it. =) Even if saying that groups me with DPCer mentality, so be it. I still like it the way it is. I guess if you belong to DPC than you fall into a certain category for taste...Ah well. ;)

Good job! (IMO!)

Delicate & Lovely
by librodo

Comment by kosmikkreeper:
Good on ya Manny! :-) Another blue bites the dust! ;-)

Delicate & Lovely
by librodo

Comment by frumoaznicul:

Originally posted by librodo: Actually, if it is a 'fashion" photography, I do smoothen the face using neatimage. I also clone out imperfections.

Fashion or not, its those imperfections, and detail in the skin that makes us human different from plastic manequins. I've seen alot of fashion photography in my life and they all do cloning imperfections and do smoothing, but they also maintain a limit that if you cross it it doesn't look human anymore. Plastic like this is only good for DPC. I mean man look what neatimage did to that blue thing covering her head. I doubt the fashion world can accept something like that. Fashion photography must have detail too. If you would of said it's experimental or something like that I would of bought it but fashion is not an excuse for this. No way.

I am only trying to tell you that is wrong to waste your obvious talent going the DPC way. A way that will hardly be accepted anywere else but here. Take it or leave it, it's my opinion. I think that blue ribbon doesn't worth the amount of bad habits people develop on this site. You do how you wish.

Delicate & Lovely
by librodo

Comment by Artyste:

Originally posted by terje: Originally posted by Artyste: Over smoothed, oversharpened, and yet still an 8.1 Unbelievable. Guess that's the prize for being a recognizable and very well liked artist on this site. Of course, compositionally it is as great as ever, although I'd have loved to have seen a more colorful background. The black seems to really point out the over-sharpening where a more natural background may have helped hide it a little more. Also, once again, would that I had a bank of "exotic" looking people to shoot.. seems to really make a punch with North Americans. Anyway, for me, a touch less of smoothing and sharpening would give this photo some real life.. Guess that's why I usually don't score well here. 8.1 because it was the best of the lot, not because it was "Over smoothed, oversharpened" as you said, and not because it was taken by manny (anonymous during voting, several people have submitted photos like this in the past). Vote and comment on the photo, and accept the result, don't be a loser and whine about it. The reason your photos don't score as high, is mainly because the many hundred voters on this site don't find them as interesting or good as other photos, blaming that on "popularity" or "over sharpen/smoothed" is just plain wrong. I gave this 10 and I suspected it was librodo, but if it had been anyone else I wouldn't have rated it any different. So I disagree with what you've said.

Look, I have my opinions and I commented them. This is Librodo's comment section, not "attack people" section. If you want to do that, PM me please.

Delicate & Lovely
by librodo

Comment by terje:

Originally posted by Artyste: Over smoothed, oversharpened, and yet still an 8.1 Unbelievable. Guess that's the prize for being a recognizable and very well liked artist on this site. Of course, compositionally it is as great as ever, although I'd have loved to have seen a more colorful background. The black seems to really point out the over-sharpening where a more natural background may have helped hide it a little more. Also, once again, would that I had a bank of "exotic" looking people to shoot.. seems to really make a punch with North Americans. Anyway, for me, a touch less of smoothing and sharpening would give this photo some real life.. Guess that's why I usually don't score well here.

8.1 because it was the best of the lot, not because it was "Over smoothed, oversharpened" as you said, and not because it was taken by manny (anonymous during voting, several people have submitted photos like this in the past).

Vote and comment on the photo, and accept the result, don't be a loser and whine about it.

The reason your photos don't score as high, is mainly because the many hundred voters on this site don't find them as interesting or good as other photos, blaming that on "popularity" or "over sharpen/smoothed" is just plain wrong.

I gave this 10 and I suspected it was librodo, but if it had been anyone else I wouldn't have rated it any different. So I disagree with what you've said.

Delicate & Lovely
by librodo

Comment by christie3:

Originally posted by librodo: NO EXCUSES for comments below. Well, I guess I just know how to adapt my style. Actually, if it is a 'fashion" photography, I do smoothen the face using neatimage. I also clone out imperfections. However, if I intend it to be a gritty image, I leave it as it is...even make it more grungy. As far as having my work recognized, it can work both ways. The 2 1's explain it. If you want un-smoothen face...documentary style of photography, I would like to plug my site. Please click the link underneath and please leave some comments. I am very proud of this gallery. //www.pbase.com/manny_librodo/nanbw Many thanks for the comments again. And btw, here are some OUTTAKES from this session. //www.pbase.com/manny_librodo/students Many many thanks again. Manny

Yes, yes, I looked at your site right after I typed that comment up last night, and THAT is what I like. Those shots are not all "the same", an Asian girl on the left hand side of the frame, you know? No offense, at all...It just seems that a lot of your entries here on DPC have been just that. Girls in the left two thirds with pretty eyes. (please don't get mad at me! *begs*)

Your site shows some more, some totally different shots, and that is awesome. : )