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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 79 |
Aug 22 |
Comment |
Hi Lauren, Great stacking job! Cameras with in-camera stacking focus have been a great addition to the technique. I don't think I could do as good a job with any mechanical focusing rail. They just wobble too much between shots of extremely small subjects. Your Olympus does a great job.
I do like the background texture. It adds more context rather than a subject floating in black or white space. If all of the contacts on top and bottom would be included, we would see a robot centipede! Karl |
Aug 14th |
| 79 |
Aug 22 |
Comment |
Hi Lynne, I just got a Lensbaby 85 when B&H had them on sale. It's been fun shooting the same subjects with a 105 macro and with the Lensbaby. I find good manual focus hard to achieve (aging eyes?) so it's been a bit challenging, too.
You have done a fine job with the focus. I like the image better when rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise so the light appears to come more from above. The flying 'creature' in focus really makes the image interesting. Presenting it in monochrome helps us examine it for line, shape, and composition. Nicely done. Karl |
Aug 14th |
| 79 |
Aug 22 |
Comment |
Hi Judith, This interpretation didn't resonate well with me. In the film days we used Kodalith lithographic film to make extreme contrast images with no gray between pure black and pure white. The technique removes the distractions of color and tonality. To make an image 'work', it must be cleanly designed with critical subject matter clearly defined. In this case, the leaves are smudgy with incomplete outlines. The flower lacks a clean outline. The border goes well with the hi contrast interpretation. The subject itself in both original and processed versions did not elicit my excitement. Karl |
Aug 14th |
| 79 |
Aug 22 |
Reply |
Our Senior Center photo group will hang an exhibit in September with the theme of songs made visual. While Annie isn't in the song explicitly, she could be the object of the song. While I never had a girlfriend named Annie, there was a girl in college who modeled for me from which I made my first color prints via a painstaking tray development process. It took two entire days to make the first print. I have fond memories of Annie who I knew for only a few weeks. I think I'll keep the name in the image. Karl |
Aug 12th |
| 79 |
Aug 22 |
Reply |
The bottle edge lighting was done using two strips of LED lights. One had a yellow gel and the other a blue gel. Strip lights at the sides are often used in photographing glassware to outline and define the shape. Karl |
Aug 12th |
| 79 |
Aug 22 |
Comment |
Hi Gerald, Very eloquent aged hands. I notice a color shift from near neutral black of the 2 left hands to a slight bluish tone of the right hand. The tomatoes are like shiny marbles. I modified the image by rearranging the hands after creating a separate layer for each. I corrected the non-color areas to neutral black and desaturated the red by 20% to be a bit more real instead of exaggerated. This result gives me more of an interactive 'giving' feeling between the hands. Karl |
Aug 1st |
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| 79 |
Aug 22 |
Comment |
Hi Freddie, The image reminded me of Cadillac tailfins or something from Star Wars. The red areas really bring pop to the image. The slightly rippled water surface takes the subject to another world. Very interesting and surprisingly multi-colored for a boat reflection. Karl |
Aug 1st |
| 79 |
Aug 22 |
Comment |
Hi Gerald, I like the idea of a reflection. Thank you for the suggestions. They will help me improve the image before the Song Title exhibit. Karl |
Aug 1st |
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