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| Group |
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C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 78 |
Oct 24 |
Reply |
Because the lamp is centered above the door, its illumination of the door should be symmetric. |
Oct 29th |
| 78 |
Oct 24 |
Comment |
I agree with the abaove compliments.
To me, it would look slightly more natural if instead of the blue, grey were used to add features into the sky area.
A couple areas of the horizon (sky-mountain interface) have a white halo from sharpening. This can be removed by cloning from an adjacent region of cloud using a darken only mode of a cloning tool. The darken only makes for a very rapid and precise process. |
Oct 13th |
| 78 |
Oct 24 |
Reply |
It's not that I had a particularly steady hand, the Helicon software somehow was able to align the images and make the decend composite. |
Oct 13th |
| 78 |
Oct 24 |
Reply |
My journey to my current style and workflow evolved over a period of about five years in many small steps. I began with a special close up lens no longer sold by Canon and went from there. If you have a camera that will automatically generate focus stacks, (like the Canon R5), you are off to a good start. I think a tripod is close to essential. A macro lens is helpful, but not essential at first. Jumping right in with a dedicated stacking program like Helicon is probably possible, although I slowly worked my way up to this program using a few others first and even manually building up a focus stacked image. |
Oct 13th |
| 78 |
Oct 24 |
Reply |
I don't see the crunchiness that you mention. Unfortunately, I don't have the original images of the focus stack to see if the processing changed the texture. Since the stacking program would have used bands from the originals, it seems unlikely that the stacking itself produced the texture you are commenting on. I'll look closely at the processing of the original stacked image.
Yes, burgundy is closer to the color of the blossoms on the bush I photographed than the red in Ed's rendition.
I am beginning to appreciate the value of showing some stem and having it be in focus. Sometimes however, the stem is positioned such that an in-focus shot of the stem does not sufficiently blur some of the background and additional processing steps may be required. |
Oct 13th |
| 78 |
Oct 24 |
Comment |
I feel the same as you do about substitutions of sky. I should have looked more carefully. On the very far left however, in your processed image, the dark cloud bank looks parallel to the roofline directly below whereas in the original they are not parallel. All the rest of the sky does look like it came from the original without distortion. Sorry for my mistake. |
Oct 5th |
| 78 |
Oct 24 |
Comment |
It is an interesting subject that makes me think. I like the cropping and the lightening of the dark shadows. I liked this more after darkening the greens a bit. |
Oct 5th |
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| 78 |
Oct 24 |
Comment |
"Tickled..." for a title?
To me the sky looks substituted.
The bright pink certainly does catch one's eye. |
Oct 5th |
| 78 |
Oct 24 |
Comment |
Your editing made this a really attractive image which I like a lot. Your brightening of the blues in the clock face and in the pendulum case are particularly effective. Brightening of the rest of the clock also conttributes, as does the overall increase in color saturation. I'm not enthusiastic about the enhanced steam. I think it may also help the image to remove all traces of perspective distortion caused by aiming your camera upwards. For the most part, these have been corrected, but some distortion remains in the buildlings on the left and in the base of the clock. |
Oct 5th |
| 78 |
Oct 24 |
Comment |
What an amazing and beautiful transformation from your original photograph. When I looked more carefully at your image, I discovered that I'd have liked it still more if the lantern didn't feel like it was hanging in space. While the extensive ironwork actually supporting the lantern is something of a distraction, perhaps retaining just the central supporting member would suffice. A second type of change would also increase my liking. That would be to make the illumination and shadows consistent with the lantern providing all the illumination. At present the shadows, particularly the shadow under the primary arch, place the source of the illumination quite far to the right of the doorway and are inconsistent with the lantern providing the light.
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Oct 5th |
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