Kodak DCS420 Digital

-- Micheal F. Kelly (radiant@gci.net), September 23, 2000

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Very engaging photo Michael. Would love to hear the story about how you captured what must have been fleeting light. The composition is interesting to me and the light unusual and fantastic.

-- Mike Green (greenplay@hotmail.com), September 23, 2000.

Great moment in light captured here. I really enjoy the shadow patterns on the hillside.

Looks like a lot of digital noise again, espec. in the tree shadows (turning blue) and the water (turning purple), and some loss of sharpness. If you can, try using Fireworks to compress these into JPEG's next time. It's a beautiful photo but a pretty bad file.

-- Christian Deichert (torgophile@aol.com), September 24, 2000.

Very nice light made a very nicely layered image, I would also try excluding the water.

-- Umit Dincel (umyth@mailcity.com), September 25, 2000.

Very nice contrast. I like the way that cloud shadow mimics the shape of the trees in the foreground.

I tried cropping off all of the water. Without it, I find the images just float for me and the composition looses strength. In this case, I consider the water to be an anchor. It could possibly be a little narrower, but that there needs to be some there.

John Thurston Juneau, Alaska

-- John Thurston (john_thurston@my-deja.com), September 26, 2000.

I thought this was a photography critique page not scanning/jpeg commpression critique page.-J

-- josh (devil_music@usa.net), October 05, 2000.

Well, Josh Devil Music, it's all about presentation. Here on the Internet, poor scanning or JPEG compression can get in the way of a good photo, just as a poor printing, mounting, or framing job would get in the way of wenjoying a photo at a gallery. With some practice, all these technical problems can be corrected so the focus can return to photographic technique.

P.S. Really looking forward to seeing some of your photos, Josh. Post 'em on up here.

-- Christian Deichert (torgophile@aol.com), October 09, 2000.