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C/R |
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Image |
| 87 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
Adoration was a misspell, thank you autocorrect. It was meant to be aberration, meaning chromatic aberration, meaning the green or magenta fringing around high contrast areas. keystone is the trapezoidal perspective when not viewing an object at a 90º plain. looking up the top appears smaller than the bottom. Lightroom, has a corrective (to some degree) tool for this, called Transform. Smart Filter is a function of Photoshop for editing non-destructively. Orton effect is a generic term of a slight blurring glow effect, achieved through a Photoshop technique or a number of plugins or stand alone image editing products.
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Mar 17th |
| 87 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
Adoration was a misspell, thank you autocorrect. It was meant to be aberration, meaning chromatic aberration, meaning the green or magenta fringing around high contrast areas. keystone is the trapezoidal perspective when not viewing an object at a 90º plain. looking up the top appears smaller than the bottom. Lightroom, has a corrective (to some degree) tool for this, called Transform. Smart Filter is a function of Photoshop for editing non-destructively. Orton effect is a generic term of a slight blurring glow effect, achieved through a Photoshop technique or a number of plugins or stand alone image editing products.
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Mar 17th |
| 87 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
Jennifer, great subject and moment captured. i downloaded the original to Lghtroom® for closer scrutiny. The cropping is good to isolate and bring your subject closer. I also like to see these creatures lolling in their environment. I believe a good compromise would be directing the focus with a combination of graduated and radial filters in Lightroom®. About a half a stop (.50) darker from the top and bottom, to the edge of the seals. Use a small radial filter, set at a subtle .10 of .20 to highlight key areas like the gull, seal with bright tongue and seal with red face. I would also try finishing with a subtle post-crop vignette.I tried (amount -10, midpoint 39, roundness +60, feather 77) with pleasing results. Good luck on your submission. |
Mar 17th |
| 87 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
Gram, I believe the dust or aboration is not so noticeable in it color version. The monochrome version is a good attempt at stylization. Was this image only desaturated to allow hints of color in the background, on the left? The hint of red also draws attention to the spots. I am an advocate of B&W photography when it can enhance the subject. The original color version, I believe had more life and interest. The image could have been made better, in my opinion, by backing up, just a bit and stoping down your aperture to focus just slightly above the foreground berry. The focus point on your image is located on mid branch, throwing the foreground and background fruit into softness. |
Mar 17th |
| 87 |
Mar 19 |
Reply |
Thanks, Lance. If you notice on Orig image 1, the white areas represent blank canvas that needed to be recreated because I did not want to crop into that area and loose significant areas of interest. The lower clock hand tip was mostly recreated.
Orig image 2 was the actual original image.
Mike |
Mar 14th |
| 87 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
Great capture, Benny. I like the composition, sharpness and DoF of this image, as well as the pensive attitude of the subject. The color temperature, however, is a bit too cool for my taste. I don't believe this species to be blue. The color does contrast nicely with the background, but i think warming up the shadows to compensate for the color cast, might be worth trying. |
Mar 12th |
| 87 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
Lovely subject and nice composition, Irene. The image suffers only due to it's primary subject, which I perceive to be the open flower is not tack sharp. Macro Photography requires a bit of practice. Depth of field is razor thin. Some techniques you might try, when shooting hand held, is finding a sweet spot of the smallest apperature, f11 or above and a fast shutter speed 1/100+, compensating with a comfortably high ISO, then shooting in continuous bust. Thus increasing your chances of hitting the focus spot. Or you can take the batch of images and attempt to blend them in photoshop, or other blending software, to selectively mask and reveal focus points. Otherwise, I would strongly suggest investing in a comfortably portable tripod, where your chances of success will be greater. |
Mar 11th |
| 87 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
Lovely composition and symmetry. all trails lead you to the mountains. You, fortunately, had some texture to the clouds on an otherwise flat and dreary day, which are rendered nicely in the refections. The shadows in the tree line are a tad too deep and probably be helped along with some subtle toning to bring out a bit more detail. B&W conversion and toning, I feel is, quite appropriate to evoke a cool mood to this tranquil image. |
Mar 11th |
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