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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 30 |
Jan 19 |
Comment |
The reversed bird explains the ripples on the water, which perplexed me, (but not enough to ask about them). I had guessed that the water was flowing to the right, but I didn't look sufficiently carefully to see that this was not the case. I think that reversing the bird was a good choice. In the original, there are two points of interest, and they are disconnected. When reversed, there is some connection. Also, it is more natural to have movement from left to right in an image. For nearly the same reason, you rarely see paintings of left-handed people doing something a little unusual, like scratching their back. The reason is that it really looks odd. To see what I mean, look at some traditional oil paintings in a mirror and see how awkward some of the people look. |
Jan 26th |
| 30 |
Jan 19 |
Reply |
Judy, I hope you will laugh with me at my offbeat reaction and not view it as a criticism when I tell you that your crop, which places the head off center and the head remains half illuminated reminds me of how I feel when I have a toothache!
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Jan 21st |
| 30 |
Jan 19 |
Reply |
Any lack of sharpness in this ought to be from just the downsizing and conversion to jpeg as I did not use the HDR processing and the individual shots are sharp and the original composite is over 8,000 pixels wide. While I used about 30% overlaps, Hugin doesn't seem to use all of the overlap when blending and fusing two images. As can be seen in the image and in the original, Hugin is very good at removing seams. |
Jan 21st |
| 30 |
Jan 19 |
Reply |
The ease of using Photoshop to assemble a panorama would be very nice. The high capability and versatility of Hugin must make it quit a bit harder to learn and use. Alas, I don't use Photoshop because I don't like the idea of "renting" the program and not owning it. |
Jan 14th |
| 30 |
Jan 19 |
Reply |
I bracketed each of the five directions, making a total of 15 shots. However, I then partially processed only one shot from each of the five directions. These five tif files then went to Hugin, that fused them to make a single image file of the panorama. I then did considerable processing of this file. |
Jan 13th |
| 30 |
Jan 19 |
Comment |
Dorinda's desaturated version feels natural, as though the relentless sun has bleached the colors of everything. I find that producing this in high contrast B&W also feels desert-like. Perhaps this directly emphasizes the brilliant, glaring sun. In this I also incorporated Jon's cropping ideas. Judy's removal of some of the back rock seems like a good idea, but is too hard for me to attempt. |
Jan 12th |
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| 30 |
Jan 19 |
Reply |
Well, maybe I should add in honesty that in the eight or so hours involved here, I also produced two other high resolution panoramas, one taken when it was just dark enough that street lights had come on, but there was plenty of natural light, and another taken well after the one I've presented. In the third, everything except the lights is much darker. To me, the gradient in the darkness of the sky makes my middle panorama the most interesting. |
Jan 12th |
| 30 |
Jan 19 |
Reply |
Yes, I agree that B&W suggests age and antiquity. Dorinda's crop removes most of the vignetting that I didn't like, and indeed, you succeeded in making the image ghost like. |
Jan 12th |
| 30 |
Jan 19 |
Comment |
You are right, it took three hours to capture the image and about five hours of processing afterwards. |
Jan 10th |
| 30 |
Jan 19 |
Comment |
Here is the image with the shoreline extended so that I'm not "distracted". I've also worked on the white reflected patches. |
Jan 10th |
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| 30 |
Jan 19 |
Comment |
The other version. |
Jan 4th |
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| 30 |
Jan 19 |
Comment |
The colors and pattern of the extended necklace(?) have a lot of potential. Otherwise, what Levitas likes, I do not. Here are two versions to consider. |
Jan 4th |
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| 30 |
Jan 19 |
Comment |
I love silhouettes like this one. Overall, this is softer than I would expect. Is this just part of the frame? Two features of this seem to subtract from the image's impact. First, the black shoreline at the top comes distractingly close to the edge of the image. A near collision like this generates tension for me. Secondly, those two white reflections near the right edge drag my eye away from the stork. |
Jan 4th |
| 30 |
Jan 19 |
Comment |
Strangely, when I worked with your original color image rather than your adjusted image, the ground came out looking quite different. |
Jan 3rd |
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| 30 |
Jan 19 |
Comment |
I found that by enhancing texture in the ground, the image became more balanced. |
Jan 3rd |
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| 30 |
Jan 19 |
Comment |
This is a very effective technique. Also, I like the fact that the auxiliary parts of the image are less sharp. I don't see the translucence however, and not seeing that, perhaps it feels like more of the flower's illumination could come from the front. |
Jan 3rd |
| 30 |
Jan 19 |
Comment |
Red surely attracts attention. The highlights don't bother me at all. |
Jan 3rd |
| 30 |
Jan 19 |
Comment |
The HDR processing gives this an almost ghostlike appearance, but as I like reality, I'm not so fond of the HDRness of this image plus its severe vignetting. Bringing the grays closer to white accentuated the aspects of this that I'm not enthusiastic about. Sorry to be so negative. I hope that an honest, but negative response is more helpful to you than insincere lukewarm praise. I'm more comfortable with this version. If you have a raw file of the image, it might be possible to recover some detail in the blown areas. |
Jan 2nd |
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| 30 |
Jan 19 |
Comment |
The desaturation is a nice change from the usual photographs of the Southwest. To me a problem with this image is the positioning of the branches of the tree. I'd like them either to entirely overlap the background rocks or not to overlap those rocks at all. Both occur in this image. Positioning as I would like might have been very difficult or impossible to achieve in this case. The rock in the foreground is necessary, but I wonder how the image would feel if it were a bit larger. As presented on the web page, I liked the submitted image the best. When, however, I displayed both images at the same size, I preferred the B&W version. |
Jan 2nd |
13 comments - 6 replies for Group 30
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13 comments - 6 replies Total
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