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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 39 |
Jan 26 |
Reply |
David - thank you and I really appreciate your detailed analysis. |
Jan 27th |
| 39 |
Jan 26 |
Reply |
Good luck! Would be v interested to know if your successful (I obviously meant 'shouldn't' ) |
Jan 20th |
| 39 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
Paul - this is an excellent mono study, with interesting back-story (thank you). Yes, the material could be toned down a tad while retaining texture, but you have put this together very well. Impressive.
Have you tried flipping it anticlockwise one turn, so the diagonal emergent from bottom left - may help? |
Jan 20th |
| 39 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
Paul - this is an excellent mono study, with interesting back-story (thank you). Yes, the material could be toned down a tad while retaining texture, but you have put this together very well. Impressive.
Have you tried flipping it anticlockwise one turn, so the diagonal emergent from bottom left - may help? |
Jan 20th |
| 39 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
Mary Ann - You did well both to see this, knowing it had the potential to for an engaging image and your PP. I think you intended the scene to show a variety of people enjoying their morning coffee - hence bringing out the detail in the main window - done very well. So having evidence of people on the left continues this theme - I would just tone down the birthing on the left table and the top of the chair - so they are 'there', but not drawing eye. Ditto top right corner area.
This is great Street work and it is made by you capturing the main two clearly engaged. Week done. |
Jan 20th |
| 39 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
Vincent - you pose an interesting question (mono or colour) - abstracts are traditionally mono - but red on blue is powerful. As presented (nearly all) does not leave the viewer with much to study and maintain interest. But selecting say just the top left corner as a close up - possibly altering the perspective - may be a case that "less is more". |
Jan 20th |
| 39 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
You have a good eye for a picture Paul! Great as mono. I love all the textures - including him. My only suggestion is to tone down the relatively bright rectangle top left a tad - it just pulls my eye on that direction. Impressive image. |
Jan 20th |
| 39 |
Jan 26 |
Reply |
Thanks Mary Ann - I could colour-pop her dress, but I'm not sure if that would give me something I could use - and she is not the main subject as I see this - he is. |
Jan 20th |
| 39 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
Very skilful Bob - and very effective! I love the central V shape you have created. This really is wonderful. Great art - would look amazing printed huge in a high vaulted modern building! What are you going to do with this? It should just stay in your computer! |
Jan 20th |
| 39 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
You have a good Photographer's eye David, seeing this and capturing the full series of frames. Many - including me - may have zoomed closer to take the main rectangle (or done that in post). But as has been said, this forces the viewer to look what is there in each frame and is better for that. Mono works well. |
Jan 20th |
| 39 |
Jan 26 |
Reply |
Paul - Thank you! I very much think you're right about the crop - a was wanting the viewer's eye to be forced to the people, but I accept that I lost the shapes as a result. Having the whole of the left pillar, takes one's eye better from bottom left into the image. I will also look at the colour version re blue cast - I am absolutely rubbish at picking that up in an image! |
Jan 15th |
| 39 |
Jan 26 |
Reply |
Bob - Thank you for your comments. Following Vincent also commenting on contrast, I have made adjustments and have filed an adjusted image when replying to him below. In doing this, there are very few pure blacks, but I have tried to create more contrast while maintaining what was a very bright scene.
I agree, the image would not have been worth taking were it not for the people doing interesting things. |
Jan 9th |
| 39 |
Jan 26 |
Reply |
Thank you Vincent. Re the colour one - yes, there are flowers at the top and I have removed (from that version as well as in the mono) them since submitting this.
Re contrast - I am not good at that! Thank you! I have darkened the back (in both) and tweaked the light sliders (rather than Contrast) to both and I do think they look better. Here is the adjusted Mono version. |
Jan 9th |
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7 comments - 6 replies for Group 39
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| 72 |
Jan 26 |
Reply |
The colours in the birds really are clear now, without looking wrong. |
Jan 22nd |
| 72 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
Isaac - Iceland delivers so much possibilities for landscape photography and your image here is an excellent one. I like very much the water treatment (not easy to get right) and the snow on the mountain adds much to take ones eye deep into the image. I like your foreground of colourful rocks and vibrant moss between the waterfalls further adds interest. |
Jan 17th |
| 72 |
Jan 26 |
Reply |
Thank you Maria! |
Jan 17th |
| 72 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
Well done Maria, great image, both in its capture and PP. Must have been fun to watch! |
Jan 17th |
| 72 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
Richard - you did an excellent job in reacting to capture this lovely ibis in an interesting position - I love the angle. As you asked, I played with it in Lightroom creating a mask for the bird and adding a reasonable amount of Clarity, bit of dehaze and texture plus lighting shadows, as the above tends to darken things. I don't know if this is what you imagined. |
Jan 17th |
 |
| 72 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
Karen - great image! Your PP is impressive, to make the light fall on its face, showing off good detail and those eyes! Well done!
4 months! impressive! I wonder if you've 'done' Costa Rica where we have seen howlers many times, but never this close. I haven't seen them in Panama yet (been 3 times and there again in March). Where in Panama did you see them - on the Pacific side, or Caribbean?
I'm sure you will enjoy your adventures! Look forward to sing more output! |
Jan 17th |
| 72 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
Maria - this close up is lovely (as well as interesting - see comment to Richard). Your PP worked well to show off what is going on and having the whole branch of the plant works well.
You could try rotating it anticlockwise to the point that the stem emerges from the bottom right corner - some may flip it to the bottom left - just a suggestion for you to play, to determine whether you like it better. Its fine as is. |
Jan 17th |
| 72 |
Jan 26 |
Reply |
Thank you Richard for the Natural History lesson! I thought all spiders made webs to catch their prey. This is the fun of photography re wildlife/nature - it widens our experiences and knowledge. |
Jan 17th |
| 72 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
Bruce - Seeing these huge creatures close to is always an exhilarating experience! And as you say, bubble net feeding is spectacular - often as a group, working together. We saw this behaviour at the very north of mainland Norway in 2023 - there was a group and we could hear them communicate to each other. They were coming straight up and this isn't as good as your one here, where your chap seems to be swimming along the surface with mouth open - where in Norway the fish must have been a bit lower so the humpbacks came up from below and closed their mouth by the time they surfaced.
Your image here is great, with it very clear what it is doing and with background and small boat to demonstrate scale and location information. You're lucky to have a daughter pay for a special trip for you - in my case, money goes in t'other direction! Enjoy and I look forward to seeing images later. |
Jan 17th |
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| 72 |
Jan 26 |
Reply |
Thanks Richard. Many of them used long grass, picked from some way away and used yes for bedding, but also in their bonding with partner like this. |
Jan 14th |
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| 72 |
Jan 26 |
Reply |
Hi Bruce - Many thanks for your suggestion here. I know you tend to like tighter crops than me and in this case, for better or worse, I prefer to have a sliver of ground visible and the grounded bird clearly sitting. |
Jan 9th |
6 comments - 5 replies for Group 72
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| 91 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
Cindy - very well captured with the worm in mouth and well positioned for you in an interesting tree. My first reaction was that both the original and final image a a tad bright everywhere resulting in the bird not showing off its beautiful colours. So Bruce's work with the dehaze slider is helpful, up to you how much feels right. Lovely image! |
Jan 16th |
| 91 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
Maria - this is lovely. Nice interesting little bird (I don't know it either) and image that is helped by the diagonal branch and it looking in the same direction. While I like this square crop, I would play with different aspects such that there is a tad less at the bottom and the branch emerging close from the bottom right corner. |
Jan 16th |
| 91 |
Jan 26 |
Reply |
Thank you Bruce |
Jan 16th |
| 91 |
Jan 26 |
Reply |
I agree - fish missing! May be sometime! |
Jan 16th |
| 91 |
Jan 26 |
Reply |
Thank you Cindy. |
Jan 16th |
| 91 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
Steve - to me I see this as a stunning portrait with much fine detail to enjoy. I'm not experienced enough re these magnificent creatures to know whether there should be anything more to its head - I wander if some detail has been lost in the small files that we see here. |
Jan 16th |
| 91 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
Sunat - great capture! Well done capturing the large snake - I guess you'll have a number good shots from this sequence. You positioned 'him' well in the frame and the whole image is great.
Looking at the original, there doesn't seem to be any sign of this being taken in early (or late) light, but you final output certainly looks like that. If it was taken early/late it may be that your camera was set at Auto White balance and you have corrected for that in PP. I virtually always shoot with White balance set at Daylight, to drive consistency. Have done for many years. |
Jan 16th |
| 91 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
Gosh Bruce - were you flying as well! You seem to be at near eye-level which enhances the viewer's experience. Lovely detail and colours. I wander what a 16/9 format crop would look like - more in front, less proportionately below. |
Jan 16th |
| 91 |
Jan 26 |
Reply |
You certainly know your birds and/or have a good reference facility Cindy! Thank you for identifying this. |
Jan 16th |
| 91 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
Jerry - This is a very striking image, well timed with the open mouth with lists of interesting things (like feet) to enjoy. |
Jan 16th |
6 comments - 4 replies for Group 91
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19 comments - 15 replies Total
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