Venice 5

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• mrcrow (3979)
• [2004-01-28 15:55]

just square it and you're there
colossally powerful..almost ethereal..
full marks..and more.

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• nielsenallan (524)
• [2004-01-28 15:57]

Wow surreal, like a photo from another century. And a very nice detail with the black "top", pure art, double points from me...

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• claudiaf (4285)
• [2004-01-28 16:12]

I agree. It's surreal! I only think it's too much black on the top.

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• photosettle (1495)
• [2004-01-28 16:12]

I love the feeling of this picture. Did you do any burning in the cloud region? I have not decide on if i like as much back at the top. This may help add to the feeling but its hard to tell on the screen because you can't view the whole picture w/o scrolling. Fuji S2 has a B&W mode? Is their any advantage to that over converting w/ channel mixer or othe methods in photoshop?

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• eelliott305 (776)
• [2004-01-28 16:25]

Amazing sky, but perhaps just a bit too much black at the top. Light on the water and buildings to the right good too. Excellent work.

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• hdl (6268)
• [2004-01-28 16:31]

SIMPLY GREAT!!!! B&W is really doing the thing here. Love the large sky. Some black on top is good, but I would have left out a bit. There is a bit too much black on top.

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• RandomCameraGuy (3046)
• [2004-01-28 16:40]

I like the idea of this one Richard, A vast threatening sky is always photogenic. In this case however, I feel that there is not enough definition in the top third. I think it would have been better off to get more of the town (... or ease up on the curves on the cloud layer a tad to see if you can get more detail up top)

I've enjoyed your Venice series Rich!

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• mogens-j (56)
• [2004-01-28 18:54]

I think one of the best b/w pictures I have seen on TE Richard. It is wonderful – everything else has already been said.

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• Guzman (577)
• [2004-01-28 20:15]

Top b/w image with great tonal qualities and superbly presented, stunning surreal looking sky with good graduation and light, an image to be proud of, worth the click

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• flamingo (109)
• [2004-01-28 22:17]

Brilliant black and white, just amazing. I don't feel the top 25 % of the photo is necessary, out of curosity, why did you include it? Bill

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• soundsangels (1681)
• [2004-01-28 23:27]

Très belle vue d`ensemble, appuyée par une lumière remarquable...
J`aurais coupé une partie de la partie noire du haut...mais pour le reste se serait "pêché" de toucher à cela....
Très riche comme image.

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• carper (54236)
• [2004-01-29 12:41]

Realy a nice one Richard,

Great composision, the sky is wonderful, it look like a painting from a prent of the bible. Very good cropping too, my compliments for this one.

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• JAF (0)
• [2004-01-29 15:32]

tres belle image entre Canalleto et le Greco
Fameux coup d'oeil Monsieur !

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• Marcus-G (88)
• [2004-02-08 15:42]

Just fantastic...

I like the composition with a very large sky, the contrast, the subject, all...

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• Porteplume (3078)
• [2004-02-10 5:14]

Very strong composition, wonderfully contrasted image!
Maybe the sky is too heavy on the city, but it also gives a symbolic meaning.
I wonder how a square size would have liked, but I'm sure it couldn't be better than this one... Great work Richard!

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• egmg (345)
• [2004-04-08 14:31]

This composition reminds me of the specific format of El Greco's works. I like this dominant dark part of the sky, it provokes a lot of interoperation.

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• DavidX (317)
• [2004-05-20 10:39]

This shot is beautiful. I like the large amount of negative space on top for advertising purposes... placement of copy and such. For a personal shot, I would prefer taking a 1/3 off the top. Look great, I'd like this one in my book.

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• Hanssie (9123)
• [2004-05-30 15:15]

Beautiful framing of this pic.
The city in sunlight, great light on the water and so much sky is wonderful !

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• jsec (2050)
• [2004-10-11 23:07]

The man is right, just square it. Superb job.

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• adipos (116)
• [2006-09-04 4:27]

Great picture. The dark red filter works perfectly and the huge dark sky above makes it more dramatic... Regards, Adi