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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 30 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
It is an interesting process and a nice result from all the work. I'd like it more if the arrangement of the flowers didn't leave me feeling that the image was accidentally cropped too much from the left. |
Jul 11th |
| 30 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
I like the background and I like the observation of the overpainted ivy. For me however, the combination doesn't work well. |
Jul 11th |
| 30 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
I like the side-by-side of the blossom and the bud. I'd prefer that the blossom be in focus, perhaps at the expense of sharpness of the leaves on the left. I think I'd also like the leaves on the left and on the right to be of similar sharpness. |
Jul 2nd |
| 30 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
I love the intense concentration of the cyclist. I'd prefer that the runner and cyclist in the background not distract my attention on the cyclist. To me, it would help to reduce the complexity of the background by removing the runner and his shadow and the cyclist and convert the blue windows to more wall, and then crop to emphasize the main cyclist. |
Jul 2nd |
| 30 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
I agree with Tom on the colors. I would like this more if a greater fraction of the image were sharp. Here I've cropped off some of the blurred regions, sharpened a bit, and reversed the image. |
Jul 2nd |
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5 comments - 0 replies for Group 30
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| 42 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
Ah, the Rocky Mountain National Park. When I was growing up, my family would take the Trail Ridge Road, picnic above timberline, and fly kites. I'd like this more if the marmot's eyes were in focus and/or there were less of sharpness difference between the near and far rocks. Taking this at f/16 would have helped. I'd also suggest reversing this left to right as often it seems more natural to me to have things facing to the right. |
Jul 11th |
| 42 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
It looks like we are becoming the Canon R5/6 group. It sounds like it was a lot of work to make this, but it was worth the effort. I, too, would remove that little branch. Otherwise, I prefer it as it is. |
Jul 11th |
| 42 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
It is an interesting picture. Instead of cropping from the left and right as Stuart suggests, I'd crop a little from the bottom and add a little more space at the top. |
Jul 11th |
| 42 |
Jul 21 |
Reply |
This is good. The increased contrast helps and it still feels like sand to me. |
Jul 4th |
| 42 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
Thank you both for the help. I'll address that green stem near the top as well as the dark smudge near the lower left corner. I don't find any halos on in the white and yellow part of the flowe, so it may not be oversharpened. In real life, the patterns are sharp and well defined.
With respect to the suggestion of toning down the greens, usually I do like the backgrounds to be darker and unobtrusive. In this case however, I am trying to replicate the feeling of a fairly well known Japanese painting of an iris, and I need to maintain the background brightness to do so.
I have wondered about the fairly large tilt of the stems and leaves and I half expected to be advised to bring them all closer to vertical. |
Jul 4th |
| 42 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
Generally, I like B & W to be pretty contrasty, but when I upped the contrast on this, it looked less like sand and a bit artifical. This is an interesting subject that made me look and think. I think I'd like a little more contrast, but the amount depends on the taste and intentions of the photographer. |
Jul 2nd |
| 42 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
Not so long ago, images shot with an ISO of 1000 were too noisy. Now, 20,000 looks great. The R5/R6 seems like a great camera, and the 70-200 is wonderfully sharp. They combined to make a nice picture. |
Jul 2nd |
6 comments - 1 reply for Group 42
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11 comments - 1 reply Total
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