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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 30 |
Mar 20 |
Comment |
I like Dorinda's and Leonid's crops and modifications, and here is a little bit more, a brighter gecko and a little cloning. |
Mar 25th |
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| 30 |
Mar 20 |
Reply |
Absolutely, a composite could overcome the technical problems posed by shooting this in twilight. Of course, it is not possible right now, and it may not be until September that students are back. The daytime shot would have to be under heavy overcast so shadows would be absent. I am, however, reluctant to make such an image. I feel that a photograph is a record of something that occurred in one place at one instant, and it is the art of the photographer to identify such instants and such places, and I leave the manufacture of synthetic scenes to others, like painters. |
Mar 19th |
| 30 |
Mar 20 |
Comment |
Here is a color version. I think it is more successful than the B&W version. The problem with twilight images is that (aside from the problem of sufficient light to prevent high noise) they are inherently low contrast, pretty much the opposite of one of the more important ingredients of a B&W photo. I guess the color in this version reduces the annoyance of noise. I feel the multiple people at different points on the path enhances the feeling of a long and winding path to some final goal. |
Mar 11th |
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| 30 |
Mar 20 |
Comment |
It is a really nice photograph, and a nice butterfly as well. Quite amazing that you could take this handheld. I wish my camera could take decent pictures at ISO 4000. The red is important in this because the butterfly is uncolored. I found the tangle of stems behind the butterfly to be distracting so I blurred them. |
Mar 11th |
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| 30 |
Mar 20 |
Comment |
It must be nice to see a bird this beautiful in the wild. I agree with Leonid that there is insufficient contrast in the Egret. As you folks are aware of, I like to see more of the background or surroundings in my shots that you do. In my image below I've increased contrast in the Egret, brightened the background, and cropped to make the bird more prominent. I've also tried to sharpen, but there is a limit when you are starting with a small jpg and crop significantly. I think that the grey region along the top of the body and head are a result of some initial editing of the image. |
Mar 6th |
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| 30 |
Mar 20 |
Comment |
This has some very interesting textures and a nice range of greens and tan.
The difference in the color of the reflected sky and the sky itself likely results from the fact that the reflection consists primarily of horizontally polarized light whereas the sky's light is both horizontally and vertically polarized.
I like this picture with the saturation increased and cropped to remove most of the featureless sky, and to move the shrub to the edge. It would have been nice to have had somewhat greater depth of field. |
Mar 4th |
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| 30 |
Mar 20 |
Comment |
Nice grandson and nice processing. I think it was correct to remove the other player. To me there are three points of interest in this shot, the head, the glove, and the hand gripping the ball. I kind of wish that I could see more of the hand and ball so that I could try to deduce what pitch he was going to throw. |
Mar 2nd |
| 30 |
Mar 20 |
Comment |
I agree with Dorinda in the advisability of cropping a bit from the right. Overall, this feels unnatural to me. The sky and sun don't seem to belong to the ski slope, and on closer examination, multiple shadows on the ski slope seem to confirm that the illumination of the slope is coming from a direction different from the location of the sun in the image. Maybe, as Dorinda suggests, making this B&W would eliminate the unnatural feeling that prompted me to look more closely at the image. What happened to the upper end of the ski lift? It just seems to disappear. |
Mar 2nd |
| 30 |
Mar 20 |
Comment |
Thank you. Yes, the sky was too bright. Subtle vignetting almost always helps an image, but I don't see the effect of your blurring. Perhaps the coarseness of a jpg image at this resolution doesn't show much. |
Mar 2nd |
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