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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 6 |
Aug 21 |
Reply |
You make it sound simple. What a wonderful effect you achieved! |
Aug 28th |
| 6 |
Aug 21 |
Comment |
This is wonderful! I love the detail of the veins in the leaves. The great left to right composition, the way the tendrils draw the eye around the photo, their delicacy, and the greenish black background. How did you get that background? |
Aug 26th |
| 6 |
Aug 21 |
Comment |
Very pretty and interesting! I don't think I've ever seen such a bud before. I like the sharpness of the bud, as it allows me to really study it. I do find the background distracting. I like Janet's crop, as it reduces the distraction. However, I can't make up my mind as to whether there should be any background at all, as if you should cut the bud, stick it in something to hold it up, and photograph it on a black, white, pink, or green solid background, well-cropped. Or, on the other hand, do the leaves and the flowers show where the development of the bud is going? |
Aug 26th |
| 6 |
Aug 21 |
Comment |
Nice work with a rose! I, too, like the water droplets. I also like the highlights on the rose, which maybe I'm not supposed to like, but I do! That having been said, Dick did some very good work on this. I like his 4th one best. I like the larger crop, which includes all the petals. And strangely enough, I like the darkness of it, which seems to contradict the fact that I liked the highlights in the original. But the entire photo is a lot darker, and the lack of highlights seems to make sense and seems rather luxurious and elegant. |
Aug 21st |
| 6 |
Aug 21 |
Reply |
This is very much what I would have liked to achieve if I could have! Great work! I have since learned they do this by splitting the stems and sticking the different ones in different colors. Interestingly, the roses never opened up . . . . |
Aug 21st |
| 6 |
Aug 21 |
Comment |
Good for you for catching this! I've never seen a wasp like this before. I am fascinated by the long, dark mandibles (if that's what they are) ed around the flower. Great composition -- tilting diagonally to the right with the flowers all looking towards the wasp. Good crop, too.
As for changing lenses -- if you've never seen one of these wasps in you garden before, you might never again. I remember explaining to my hubby why I was returning my first macro lens and getting one with an image stabilizer when heading for the desert with my granddaughters. Bugs fly away fast! This photo is fuzzy, but would you have got it if you took time to change lenses or set up a tripod? And if you did, would the wasp have stayed still long enough to get a clear, deep DOF on the shot? Image stabilizer is the best bet perhaps if you need to hand hold-- but I'm too much of a novice to be sure of that. |
Aug 15th |
4 comments - 2 replies for Group 6
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| 79 |
Aug 21 |
Comment |
Incredible technical work! Very instructive to those like me are beginners. But I find the artificiality of the gnome not worthy of all the rest of your work. A less artificial and doll-like face would have been better -- a real person expressing some well-communicated emotion. |
Aug 27th |
| 79 |
Aug 21 |
Comment |
Great image - great work on deleting the distracting light, given light at the end of the perspective, and the face was very inspired work! |
Aug 27th |
| 79 |
Aug 21 |
Comment |
Very, very pretty and interesting. I like your crop and the changes you made from the original--it looks more ethereal and floating, as you intended. I do find the "swoosh" in the center a bit confusing as I expect it to be another figure, but it's not. |
Aug 26th |
| 79 |
Aug 21 |
Comment |
I agree with all the comments. I love the painterly effect of this, and even more the impressionistic effect. I love photos that look like paintings! Or, here, perhaps a mosaic. Nice job! |
Aug 21st |
| 79 |
Aug 21 |
Comment |
I think this is a lovely shot. I don't agree with some of the comments. I like having both the flowers and those around. I like the blurs in the receding background. My only suggestion would be to flip the shot so the eye moves from left to right rather than right to left. They say that's a better composition. I like the sunlight on the lily. If this were before my macro group 6, though, they would say the highlights are blown out and that should have been addressed before and after the shot. I disagree, because the sunlight here, along with the lily catching it, is your subject matter. Again, a lovely photo! |
Aug 15th |
5 comments - 0 replies for Group 79
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9 comments - 2 replies Total
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