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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 78 |
Feb 23 |
Comment |
I have posted my focus stack workflow on the Bulletin Board. |
Feb 22nd |
| 78 |
Feb 23 |
Comment |
Your changes have significantly increased my liking of this shot. |
Feb 19th |
| 78 |
Feb 23 |
Comment |
Jim Hagan's brightening of the center really helps.
I am purplexed with the behavior of green in the image. I agree that the greens in the background are too distracting, but when I tried to desaturate them, not much happened to the green while the yellows faded as expected. I've not had time to look into this, but I will.
Although I am in the Biology Department, the center of my interests is the biophysics underlying the regulation of gene activity. My work makes use of genetics, molecular biology, chemistry, and physics.
I will also (not right away as I'm pretty distracted at present) put in the Bulletin Board a description of my macro shooting and processing procedure. |
Feb 13th |
| 78 |
Feb 23 |
Comment |
With time, I've found that on first looking at this, the amazing feet grab my attention. Then, in a bit, I discover, wow, that that there is much more to the story, and an entire Buddha is involved, making the story much deeper and more interesting to me. Therefore, I now think that others might see this more quickly if the head and uppermost portion of the Buddha were brightened somewhat. |
Feb 6th |
| 78 |
Feb 23 |
Comment |
I've slightly increased the sharpness of the flower's supporting stem and I have reduced the saturation as much as I dare. I'm uneasy about the effect of the saturation change on the image as a whole. Possibly this is just because I'm more used to the more saturated background. I have not attempted rotating the flower because I don't know how to do that and still leave the window frames in the background vertical and horizontal. |
Feb 5th |
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| 78 |
Feb 23 |
Comment |
I love the geometric complexity as well as the subject's artistic complexity. I prefer your image's degree of color saturation as greater saturation is too much for me. |
Feb 4th |
| 78 |
Feb 23 |
Comment |
I have nothing to add to the comments above. I agree with all of them. |
Feb 4th |
| 78 |
Feb 23 |
Comment |
I like that the monkey is in context. Additionally, I like the fact that the monkey is facing us and her(?) backdrop is the out of focus tree. On casual inspection, it looks like the tree in front is in better focus than the monkey. I'm not sure that this is true however. I don't know how it would feel to blur that front tree trunk a bit, and/or increase the contrast of the fur on the monkey so that it more strongly appears to be in focus. |
Feb 4th |
| 78 |
Feb 23 |
Reply |
My camera is the Canon R5 and the lens is the RF 100 mm f/2.8 macro. I guess you would call this a high dollar setup, although in my hands it is perfectly capable of producing blurred and crappy images. |
Feb 3rd |
| 78 |
Feb 23 |
Comment |
I love the scene with the autumn colors and the road curving off to the right. I also like the way the leafless trees frame the image. To me the sign remaining on the lower left feels very natural, and to me, the image would feel empty if it were absent. I like the image still more after appreciably increasing the local contrast as shown. I prefer the more natural sky of the original shot. |
Feb 3rd |
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| 78 |
Feb 23 |
Comment |
I like most of the trash cleanup, but leaving a little could make the picture feel more natural. I also like the cloudless sky as it advertises that this was taken in a desert region. Finally, I like the inclusion of the cacti which further give a sense of locale. I agree with Sunil concerning B&W. For me the reason is that the home predates the general use of color photography, so that B&W naturally fits the age of the home. I have played with a variety of crops as I have tried to make the image feel less like a portrait of a house and to focus more on the age and abandonment of the house. |
Feb 3rd |
| 78 |
Feb 23 |
Comment |
I agree with Mitch, amazing colors, and nicely emphasized. I also like the unusual angle for shooting a statue. I am used to motion from left to right, so I would like this a little more if it were reversed left to right. On the left of the present image are some flowers, a box, and a photograph. I'd prefer that they were absent, particularly the photograph because it crosses the border. The midsection of the statue is fairly bright. I wonder if the amazing feet would be even more dramatic if that midsection were dimmed a bit. |
Feb 2nd |
| 78 |
Feb 23 |
Comment |
I thank everyone for their hospitality.
Yes, I'll try desaturating the green. Thank you for the suggestion. |
Feb 2nd |
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