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Hi Rachel first of all a Happy New Year !!
A very fine image to jump into new year and theme .
I would like to echo Gabriela .......... she has such a nice ability to use that special wording to describe stuff , i wish her images would be as good as her wording ....... LOL !! Was a joke !!
Rachel this is a very fine image , no negative crit from my side
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Keep up the nice work for this year , TFS Andreas
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Hey Rachel.
This really works well and looks very natural, likely close to what it was like on the day?
I gotta get up there someday!
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Thanks Gabriela, Andreas and Morkel for the kind comments. Morkel, yes, this is almost straight out of camera with only very slight adjustments made.
Thanks again,
Rachel
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Hi Rachel, a very well balance image and I like the ratio between subject & environment, I also like the % split of land & sky. Together the soft tones & ideal location work and I think it fits the bill nicely - a bright, soft, low-contrast image.
TFS
Steve
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Polar bears and snow make for a natural high key image and this one is excellent! I really like the composition of all the whitish horizontal layers of snow and water and then the beautiful solitary polar bear staring right at you. This animal looks magnificent & strong against this bkgd.
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Thanks Steve and Nancy. I'm glad you like this one. And yes, Steve, people often seem to forget the low contrast aspect of a true high key image.
Thanks again,
Rachel
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Just thought I would throw that in... also the image needs to, IMHO be high key and shot that way rather than taking an image and trying to convert it, same issues as converting a colour to B/W, it doesn't always work.
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Lovely...I love your Polar Bear images. The scenery is fantastic.
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Thanks Dumay, much appreciated.
Andreas - the traditional definition of high key does include an element of low contrast because it stems from high key lighting or using fill lighting to eliminate shadows and create a bright image with the vast majority of tones above mid-grey.
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Rachel
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A fabulous image Rachel, I like the way you have handled exposure, the whites are very nice and the detail in the bear is nice. TFS.
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Stunning image, Rachel!
Simplicity in white..
The comp works well with the bear as the anchor, the pieces of drift ice in the BG tells about the vastness of the bear's environment.
The bear's pure white against the blue-tinged ice takes the eye immediately to the subject.
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Great animals cape, and I'm particularly impressed with the perfect details throughout the image - no mean feat in a shot with all these whites
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Thanks Sanjeev, Andre and Mike, glad everyone seems to like this one.
Andreas - I'm fine with calling it "traditional" rather than "true" but I don't think we can change the definition of a high key image or high key lighting. Advances in technology and software may add to the ways we can achieve a high key image but that doesn't alter the definition. And my dad had a b&w darkroom in the house while I was growing up. So I have fond memories of watching the image emerge in the chemicals but I put down the cameras for a long while before getting back into photography.
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Rachel
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Rachel all i wanted to achieve with my comment was to state that there are numerous ways of calling an image a HK image .Like we would call people who mainly photograph i.e. landscapes a landscape photographer, but for me there is not īthe true or traditionalī landscape photographer .Because the variation of people and there ways of photographing are so different as we humans can be . Some people are placed in a box (by others ) because they photograph or process todays images like one of the old masters i.e. Ansel Adams, maybe they copy things from the past but they can never be like them even if wished by themselves
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To keep it short ,difficult for me to discuss this seriously due to my missing vocabulary, i just think the variations of i.e. HK are just so wide today that we should accept all kind of it , and yes there is the "old or true" HK effect where all the different variations came from .
Thanks a bunch for your replies and this nice discussion about this ....... i loved it .
Cheers Andreas
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Love the light and soft, subtle color of this one. Has a nice hint of warmth while still capturing the cold and I like how the BG fades away into white.
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