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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 6 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
Gorgeous! I love the background, the composition, the clarity of the details, and the color. And nothing is blown out. Great job! |
Jul 20th |
| 6 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
I agree with the others that this needs more room at the top. But I love the detail of the "veins" in the leaves and the green and purple colors. I also love the texture of the stuff at the bottom and that you show just enough of it to give us an idea of what's there. Very nice! |
Jul 19th |
| 6 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
Good for you for spotting a great photo opportunity. I love the clarity and detail of the dragonfly and the spider web, and also the green blurred background. I agree with Dick's suggestions -- I have taken them into stride and take many shots at different f stops. Here, changing angles might or might not have helped - impossible to tell. Take several, be imaginative, and then look at what you've got and take more if you are not satisfied and perhaps have a new direction. As for this shot, as it is, I would have cropped out more of the left side--at least excluding the plant leaves. You need the lower right side of the pot (which is in focus), I think, to give a context. You might even have cropped all of the pot but that part, and cloned the green background over the remaining portion of the pot on the left, just leaving the in-focus bottom right. I'm pretty hopeless with PS, but I've been to one course, and I know it can be done! |
Jul 18th |
| 6 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
This is lovely. I love the purple giving interest to the white and pale yellow. I love the droplets, which to me appear to be rain drops since some of them are so very small. It's a little unclear to me what the purple in the upper rear is, and also how exactly the leaves are related to the flower. But it's a beautiful flower and anything beyond than that is just nit-picking, which I guess is sort of what we do . . . . |
Jul 16th |
| 6 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
What a photo! I love the incredible clarity and can hardly believe you didn't use a tripod. I love surveying the little fur bits sticking out in puffs -- sort of like a hair transplant. I like the removal of the white spots and of the stem on the lower left, which I did find distracting. Can't wait to see what you get this year! |
Jul 15th |
| 6 |
Jul 20 |
Reply |
Thanks! |
Jul 13th |
| 6 |
Jul 20 |
Reply |
Interesting, how you shoot your black backgrounds. I'll give it a try! |
Jul 13th |
| 6 |
Jul 20 |
Reply |
And yes, I was using auto focus! Thanks for all the comments! |
Jul 13th |
| 6 |
Jul 20 |
Reply |
Wow. That's a shock to me. Yes I have image stabilization and I have always had it on! Thanks for the heads up! |
Jul 13th |
| 6 |
Jul 20 |
Reply |
Great comments. I did, however, take this at every f stop from 2.8 to 32, and 7.1 was the clearest I could get on the greatest portion of the photo. I did use a tripod and a cable release. I agree about the specks on the color, and I tried my PS skills, but failed miserably. I need another course in it, but everything is closed. I have a book and there are tutorials, but I have managed to fail miserably every time I try. So another course is needed, and I will do that when I can. |
Jul 12th |
| 6 |
Jul 20 |
Reply |
I shot in raw. I adjusted it in LR. What do you mean by opening up in raw? I import to LR. Should I do something else. Sorry, but I am a real beginner.
Why would you put a piece of black felt on black plexiglass? To avoid reflections? Why then have the plexiglass at all? |
Jul 11th |
| 6 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
Very, very lovely! I thought the wood was a rock, it was so smooth. All the stones are fairly smooth all around -- this comes, I think, from their being pushed in and pulled out with the tide for many years, wearing them smooth. (My brother once had a business with a conveyor belt picking up smooth stones and sorting them on a conveyor belt and selling them for landscaping.) I think it was a great spot pick for a photo, and I bet you had to be careful with your camera and tripod, as the tide must have just gone out! |
Jul 9th |
| 6 |
Jul 20 |
Reply |
It is one flower from our yard. It's the end of their season, and this was the best one I could get. I'm working on my PS skills, but so far am having little success.
I put it on a black acrylic background in our dining room, took the photo, and then decided I preferred the totally black background I got by raising the blacks a lot in LR to the reflections on the acrylic, which included not only the shadows of the flower, but also the wooden beams amongst the stucco overhead. |
Jul 6th |
6 comments - 7 replies for Group 6
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| 79 |
Jul 20 |
Reply |
I've now done some reading and have ordered a Canon extension tube, too. Since I belong also to a macro group, this should be helpful. Thank you again! |
Jul 26th |
| 79 |
Jul 20 |
Reply |
Thank you so much! I'll order a new polarizer and return the one that's coming. Then on to the rest . . . . |
Jul 24th |
| 79 |
Jul 20 |
Reply |
I am afraid what I ordered may not fit any of my lenses. I don't know anything about filters. I have a Canon 100 macro lens. Does it make sense to put a polarizing filter over that? If so, do I use the thread amount on the lens to get the size (I just learned about that). And what about a close up lens -- does it make sense to put one on a macro lens like mine?
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Jul 23rd |
| 79 |
Jul 20 |
Reply |
Hmm--I don't have one. |
Jul 23rd |
| 79 |
Jul 20 |
Reply |
Thanks - I've ordered one! |
Jul 23rd |
| 79 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
What a great catch! Good for you for spotting it. Love the face in the mushroom, and its color and texture. The monochromatic background is surprising, but interesting. I agree the brightness on the leaf in the background is distracting in that it draws attention away from the mushroom. This effect is made a little less desirable because the thing that draws our attention away from the very in focus mushroom is not in focus itself. |
Jul 19th |
| 79 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
Great expression on her face!!!!!!!! The rain just adds to the frustration and sadness of it all. I like the raindrops on the sign, and the clarity of what it says. If I had had this photo, I would have tried to either include the African-American's face at the bottom, or somehow erased her (I think it's a her) in post-processing. Cutting off her face somehow rings wrong given the context . . . . |
Jul 18th |
| 79 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
I enjoy the play of leaves and shadows here, and the perspective. I found the blur a bit confusing, though. I would have liked to see the figure lying on the lawn behind the tree more clearly, as well and the tree itself and the shadows sharpened. |
Jul 16th |
| 79 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
Pretty, pretty! Love the raindrops. I like Karl's crop and flip, but I also like the original. I guess my only suggestion would be that I like to see the entirety of a flower, which could only be done with the original shot, I guess. You could clone part of a flower in PS, but there's no place to put it, right? |
Jul 15th |
| 79 |
Jul 20 |
Reply |
I think I have a polarizer -- I just haven't figured out what to do with it yet. Thanks for the tips! |
Jul 14th |
| 79 |
Jul 20 |
Reply |
Thank you to you all for your comments. I will save them and work on them! |
Jul 14th |
| 79 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
Thank you! The interim photo is beautifully painterly. The later one is more towards a photo, and still very nice. Which do you like best? |
Jul 9th |
| 79 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
Good photo to start with, but absolutely fantastic work in post processing. I love it, and am struggling, slowly, to learn more post processing skills! The only comment I would make is that if I were doing it and knew how, I would have removed the straw hanging out of the mouth because I find it distracts from the strong expression in the eyes/face of the shaggy beast! |
Jul 9th |
| 79 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
Good for you for making the effort! I was thinking exactly how hard it would be for me to do to get that angle. I love what you did in LR -- makes it look like a painting. What exactly did you do to get the flowers to look painted rather than photoed? Also love the blurring of everything around them. |
Jul 9th |
| 79 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
I forgot to add that I darkened the background a bit in LR, and also intensified the red and the green. |
Jul 7th |
8 comments - 7 replies for Group 79
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14 comments - 14 replies Total
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