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stained glass greenery
09/12/2004 10:58:10 PM
stained glass greenery
by janfries

Comment by lcarterdavis:
Beautiful. The branches make nice spirals. Would be excellent if the sky retained a little more blue.
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stained glass greenery
09/12/2004 01:02:47 AM
stained glass greenery
by janfries

Comment by bclements:
I really like the perspective in this photo.
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Planet
12/16/2002 03:09:28 PM
Planet
by janfries

Comment by emorgan49:
Belated greetings from the critique club-

I don't know what I can add to the other comments on your picture, though they were a bit contradictory (crop closer, crop wider). I think this is a Could Have Been Better picture and I suppose that is what frustrated the viewers.

It is a great image, very bizzare looking and very much looking like a dynamic electric earth (which I see it was). It does look like a planet beseiged by storms, the veins of lightnening at the core seem to move even. The separation of green pn one end, blue on the other woth all the variations between sets up a nice contrast. I especially like that it seems to have a diagonal axis and you have tilted it towards the center of the picture along that axis. Makes a nice composition. I can't decide which I like better regarding the cropping. I think the close up crop makes the planet look more alive and swirly, where more of the black expanse of the universe around the planet might have made it look more like a planet out in space. Did you try it both ways.

Obviously you lost points for focus, out of focus seems to be an unforgivable sin here. How do you focus on a round object? It looks to me like you have focused on the lightening which is actually inside, right? So the surface is out of focus. But when I look at it as a planet I think the lightening is also on the surface and I find the out of focus mountains and edges disturbing. Could a deeper DOF have helped? I know you were outside at night and may have been limited to a wider aperature but maybe a narrow one and a longer exposure would have helped the focus......no wait....you needed the fast shutter speed for the crisp lightening. Obviously I know less than you do.

Overall I thought it was an interesting picture, thought provoking (is OUR plantet about to explode?) and I gave it a six (fell into the out of focus trap myself).
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Planet
12/01/2002 10:28:26 PM
Planet
by janfries

Comment by waltoml:
Very interesting photo. Focus and lighting are good. Subject matter meets the challenge. 7 waltoml.
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Planet
12/01/2002 10:28:26 PM
Planet
by janfries

Comment by Konador:
This is really.... weird! What is it? I like the mic of blue and green, it works well, and the uncentred composition is good. Its so easy to fall into the trap on centering a single object. One gripe I have with this is that it isnt completly in focus.
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Planet
12/04/2002 09:56:17 PM
Planet
by janfries

Comment by Reuben:
The blue glowing outline on the left is great. Overall a good job, but I feel the composition could be better for my tatste. I would like you to be a bit further out, so the planet could feel like it is hanging in space a bit more. The amount of black on the right seems a bit odd. I would want it either centered or to have more negative space on the right. I prefer the option with more negative space, but I feel both are a bit better than how it is now.
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Friend of Night
11/09/2002 12:38:00 PM
Friend of Night
by janfries

Comment by anz:
im not sure if this photo was supposed to be grainy, but it is a lovey effect and it adds mysteriousness into your photo-anz
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Friend of Night
11/04/2002 03:23:00 PM
Friend of Night
by janfries

Comment by jmsetzler:
I don't believe I like the level of focus you chose for this shot... Personally, I wold rather see the detail on the cat's face. I am not sure where it came from, but the red, green, and blue dots are qute visible in the lighter areas of this photo, and it's creating a distracting cross-hatch pattern for me... The concept of this photo is excellent and the composition is also very nice... my tastes just don't care much for the presentation... - setzler
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Chrome Illusion
11/02/2002 02:48:00 PM
Chrome Illusion
by janfries

Comment by Karl:
Nice idea, should have used a different bakground though.
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Chrome Illusion
11/01/2002 02:26:00 PM
Chrome Illusion
by janfries

Comment by mcrael:
Nice car - is the illusion that the car is actually not all of these pretty colors?
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