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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 30 |
Nov 18 |
Reply |
I agree that the lower two power lines are of questionable value, but because there is so little texture and detail in the image, I am reluctant to crop more than I have already.
In some of my earlier comments I said that I thought that making parts of the image rectilinear made it too "rigid". I think a better word would be lifeless. Some of the same is why Judy's image is nicer when tipped as she has it and why her image last month of the umbrellas was so nice. |
Nov 16th |
| 30 |
Nov 18 |
Reply |
Bob, B&W indeed unifies the part of the image. I really like the result. I don't know whether I prefer your sepia toning or pure black and white. Perhaps the contrast in your clouds is overdone. |
Nov 15th |
| 30 |
Nov 18 |
Comment |
Generally, one would crop some from the top of an image that seemingly has nothing there. To me, in this image, the extra space at the top feels natural because the image has a feel of spooky mystery, and the extra space at the top enhances this feeling. |
Nov 9th |
| 30 |
Nov 18 |
Reply |
Tom, you raise an interesting point concerning the background. I certainly agree with you for subjects like portraits and athletes in many sports events. In this particular case, to me, the background seems like it is a real part of the story. Therefore, here I think that I'd prefer that it not be blurred, and not be cropped out. |
Nov 9th |
| 30 |
Nov 18 |
Reply |
Straightening the house also seems rigid to me. The chimney is in sharp focus, but the telephone pole and the wires cannot be in focus since they are quite a bit closer than the pole and wires. The birds, of course, are in motion, and also cannot be sharp because of this, even though I did everything possible to make the exposure time as short as possible: highest possible ISO, lens wide open, under exposed as far as possible. |
Nov 8th |
| 30 |
Nov 18 |
Reply |
Yes, removing the "lost" birds helps. Making the pole on the left be vertical feels too rigid to me, and because this is intrinsically a low contrast image, possessing a little color seems to add a little of the accent that is otherwise missing. I wonder about removing the two lowest wires. On one hand it emphasizes the flow into the chimney, but on the other hand, since this is an image of record rather than for artistic purposes, perhaps they should be left in. |
Nov 7th |
| 30 |
Nov 18 |
Comment |
Red surely does grab your eye. At first I thought that the bricks on the right needed more contrast so that their texture would match the bricks on the left. After looking at this longer, I think the image is quite a lot better because the texture in the bricks is not constant across the image. |
Nov 6th |
| 30 |
Nov 18 |
Comment |
This has beautiful colors. This seems to have quite a large depth of field so I'm interested to know the focal length and aperture used. Was this with natural light? |
Nov 6th |
| 30 |
Nov 18 |
Comment |
I see a gnome in the ball--most interesting. Of course, if you don't want to use gum or clay, you could always grind a flat onto the ball (here imagine a tongue-in-cheek emoji). |
Nov 6th |
| 30 |
Nov 18 |
Comment |
It is a really nice combination and arrangement of subjects that tells a great story. I think I would prefer that the more distant objects be in sharp focus, and I'm surprised that they aren't, as your focal length and aperture settings would seem likely to give you a very large depth of field. Perhaps you focused on the wheel rather than a foot or two behind it or perhaps you really don't want anything but the wheel and tractor to be in focus? |
Nov 3rd |
| 30 |
Nov 18 |
Comment |
What a fun image. I love the effect of the clouds and sky. I don't like however the unreal appearance of the steam. If the slight tilt of the cup and saucer is not intentional, you might want to remove the tilt. |
Nov 3rd |
| 30 |
Nov 18 |
Comment |
It is an interesting wide angle image. Was this a single row of 16 overlapped images, or two rows?
If you have the opportunity, try the same scene near dawn or dusk when objects can be seen, but lights will accent the view.
Does Photoshop allow you to straighten and level the horizon?
If you become interested in panoramas or just high resolution images made from multiple overlapping shots, look into the free program Hugin, which seems to be the most powerful and adaptable of the genre. It takes some effort to learn, but the effort is well worth it.
Scenes like this pose contrast problems as shown by the blown areas in some of the clouds and the yellow color in others. On my Canon, I have to set the exposure one full stop low in order not to overexpose parts of most outdoor scenes. Even then, I generally exposure bracket. Sometimes I can get by with one of the three resulting exposures, but sometimes I have to combine portions from two of the shots, and once in a while I have to process the three exposure sets as an HDR, and then construct the panorama. |
Nov 3rd |
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