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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 67 |
Nov 18 |
Reply |
Thank you Stephen. I am late in responding. I posted a response to another comment, this one from Wayne, that offers some insight regarding the thoughts that guide my photography. |
Nov 27th |
| 67 |
Nov 18 |
Reply |
Thank you for your comments Wayne. A primary goal for my photography is to take the viewer somewhere, to a memory or somewhere deeper into the photo and perhaps in their imagination. Often that results in a scene, by my words a mood shot. I attempt to capture the beauty of everyday nature that is all around us that is often overlooked and is not an iconic destination. That reminds me of the lyrics of the song "Feeling Groovy". Many times I end up with an image of a forest with a tiny red leaf buried in it, or a leafless majestic Oak in the winter with one bird in the top branches.
I am very interested in the point on Eastern and Western art, I must investigate. Thank you for pointing me to more learning. |
Nov 27th |
| 67 |
Nov 18 |
Comment |
I like everything about this image. I am interested in your flash setting and your diffuser. I like to set up with high speed multiple images as long as my flash will recycle fast enough. |
Nov 14th |
| 67 |
Nov 18 |
Comment |
Thank you each for your thoughtful comments. I attempted to frame the image with the trees this guided the cropping. I have a mood shot, the eye candy is the ferns and the patterns. I know that there is a gully just beyond the shot and a rise on the other side with more of the same, so this makes it personal for me. I should be aware that a wider audience needs a story entirely told by the image. I took many shots including low vantage point compositions but did not choose one of these. The saturation comments also tell me I need to pay more attention to monitor calibration, I will now go through that process and hope that will help my image quality. It is hard to believe that this is only the second month and I have received so much valued advice, Thank you again.
I am attaching an image of the same area, does this tell more of a story? |
Nov 14th |
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| 67 |
Nov 18 |
Comment |
I am impressed with your image. After looking at the original capture I see that you faced a few challenges ,banding in the sky and the haze from the fire were the most prominent. I looked at your camera settings, this is an impressive little beast! Your editing process accomplished the goal that you outlined. Perhaps the tree and sky convergence could use a little more editing to eliminate the light areas above the trees, possibly a clone stamp used along the horizon. |
Nov 9th |
| 67 |
Nov 18 |
Comment |
I think that both images draw me in to invent a story that is different for each. I like the conversion to black and white, the explanation of your technique is appreciated. The silhouette dark tone is even and the background conversion seems to have maintained the tonality and lumnance of the original. I found that the our other members comments reflect most of my own, so this is a very short. |
Nov 9th |
| 67 |
Nov 18 |
Comment |
Ah, Watkins Glen, I grew up less than an hour from there. I have many fond memories from a small child to teenage years visiting the "Glen". I often see pictures of this iconic location, in fact I recently looked at one makes me believe that it was shot on the same day as you were there. It was on Fred Miranda, the photographer was Emmauel Panagiotakis I think it was titled "Watkins Glen". Your shot is striking. One of the best benefits from exchange is see the techniques and gear used to obtain the images. I have not used filters for a few years now, perhaps I should revisit this. The description of the why and how the processing was crafted also shows the number of options are available. My workflow is constantly evolving, I only use Lightroom for its library capability and small tweaks and do most of the processing in Photoshop. The Glen memories I have include the feeling that the temperature drops radically from the areas direct sun to the areas like this that are guarded these narrow passages carved out by the water. You have captured this for me in this image. It is dark, giving a somewhat dark mood, a forecast of winter, the work done to lighten up the cliff walls revealing the erosion of the shale adds to the image. I might bring this up even more, but that may also change the feel of the scene that you were there for.
Thank you for taking me back to my youth. |
Nov 9th |
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