Activity for User 112 - Robert Schleif - rfschleif@jhu.edu

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30 Oct 19 Comment In the full sized TIF image the fern is quite sharp and cannot be further sharpened digitally without the appearance of halos. The reduced size jpeg format does lose some sharpness. I've been playing with the full sized image, and to my mind, reducing contrast away from the fern looks the most pleasing.
As the weather has cooled, the fern's colors have changed, and now are dominated by a muddy green where it used to be white and red.		 Oct 25th
30 Oct 19 Comment Thanks to the help from Jon and Dorinda, I like the latest version more than the earlier versions. As for Judy's comment about the white--that's the way this fern looks, and changing the white to green or red might look interesting, but it isn't the way I saw the fern. Oct 18th
30 Oct 19 Comment Well, in blurring the background, I did lose some sharpness of the fern. Do you think that this could be the reason the image is no longer interesting to you? Alternatively, in the original, there was some consistency in the sharpness of the fern and the background stone. In the modification, this unanimity is gone, and perhaps some tension is generated as a result. Perhaps this is what you are feeling?
I've played with blurring or reducing the contrast of the background outside the immediate area of the fern. Here's what reducing the contrast looks like. I would like to know how both you and Dorinda like this version.		 Oct 17th
30 Oct 19 Comment Thank you for the name of the fern. It seems as if I have great difficulty in learning, despite a number of similar suggestions in the past, to tone down the backgrounds in such pictures. Here is the fern with the background blurred as, I think, you are suggesting. Oct 13th
30 Oct 19 Comment Spectacular! I'd love to see this blurred as though the car were in motion, either as though the camera were still or the camera were panned. My editing program cannot do such blurs, but Photoshop can. Perhaps someone could give it a try? Oct 7th
30 Oct 19 Comment I like this better in B&W. Oct 7th
30 Oct 19 Comment My initial thought that cropping from the left wouldn't work proved to be wrong. Here is such a crop combined with Dorinda's thought of reducing the green of the rocks. Oct 7th
30 Oct 19 Comment When are one of your frog images going to be titled "The Prince"? Both Dorinda's and Judy's images this month depend on the fact that red inescapably draws one's eye. In the case of your image, the red draws my eye away from the frog. Thus, I'm saying pretty much the same thing as Jon. Since I don't see how to crop and retain balance in the image, perhaps it would be possible to change the red to a dark brown? Oct 6th
30 Oct 19 Comment I think we all have seen some stunning photographs of this region of Washington. I'd have found it frustrating to have been at the right place, but at the wrong time for a great picture, and you did wonderfully well at making the best of the situation. As Jon noted, the color of Maude's coat is crucial to the success of your shot. Oct 6th
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