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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 78 |
Mar 25 |
Comment |
Below is a shot of almost the entire dam. |
Mar 13th |
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| 78 |
Mar 25 |
Comment |
Thank you all for your generous comments. Yes, I tinted the ice way too much. I don't know what I was thinking. I hadn't noticed the ascending of souls, which is a fun interpretation of the image. I could do no better than Ed in emphasizing this interpretation. The spillway comprises almost the entire width of the dam. At the time this was shot, water was coming over only near the left end of the dam. I include a shot of almost the full width of the dam. The computer generated expansion of my submitted image is amazing, almost scary. There was almost no cropping of the shot that I processed for submission. Finally, indeed, I wanted to see the ice in sunlight, but the orientation of the dam and the adjacent topography blocks sunlight from the dam in the winter.
Below is shown the original of the image that I submitted. |
Mar 13th |
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| 78 |
Mar 25 |
Comment |
I believe that when the locomotive is at rest steam can come out of the cylinders as we see in the two photos you included. When the locomotive is moving, I believe that the steam from the side of the piston where expansion has just occurred is vented across the firebox and out the smokestack. This generates the puff-puff-puff... with extra smoke coming out of the smokestack with each puff. For your photo, the locomotive is pulling a load and I would not expect any steam to be vented near the wheels or cylinders, and I'd expect to see a series of larger volumes of smoke from the smokestack corresponding to each puff. The steam and smoke are lighter than air and initially rise after the exit the smokestack. In your original, I don't see any steam being released from the cylinders. I conjecture, but I don't know for sure, that when a locomotive is at rest, but all fired up and ready to go, the steam being generated has to be released somewhere, and the most logical place for this to occur is close to the cylinders. Hence, a steam engine set to go could well be emitting steam from down near the wheels.
My overall suggestions are to introduce a few small streaks near the front of the engine to suggest motion, have no steam coming from near the wheels, and if possible, build some puffs into the smoke emitted from the smokestack. |
Mar 5th |
| 78 |
Mar 25 |
Comment |
My eye goes immediately to the streamers and next to the interesting shape and colors of the two buildings. Finally it reaches the couple under the umbrella. If this is to be a street photo, to make the couple be the subject, a lot of the extraneous material would need to be cropped off. As a general photo, there is a lot of material to process. I prefer that objects, in this case the corner of the illuminated area, not just touch the boundary of the image. |
Mar 3rd |
| 78 |
Mar 25 |
Comment |
It is a very nice backlit flower that seems to glow. It would help if the filaments and anthers could be brightened without it looking like they somehow were in direct sunlight. |
Mar 3rd |
| 78 |
Mar 25 |
Comment |
I missed the fact that the woman was dozing until I read your description. Perhaps you could emphasize her status more with substantial cropping that still displays the contrast between the sleeping woman and the active folks on the beach? |
Mar 3rd |
| 78 |
Mar 25 |
Comment |
That was a lot of work, but it clearly was worth the effort. It is a really nice photo to start with. A little streaking in the direction of travel would add a feeling of velocity. The smoke or steam that you have added looks artifical, and I prefer the original. If you must add smoke, look up why steam locomotives puff, and then make your additions show the puffs. Also, I don't think that a steam engine in motion emits steam from the near the pistons and cylinders. Also, any smoke or steam released by the engine would rise, and not fall. |
Mar 3rd |
| 78 |
Mar 25 |
Comment |
Very nice to have caught both birds with their winds extended. On the far left there is a discontinuity of the boundary between snow and forest that is unexpected. I'd like it more if the partial bird on the left were absent. As a title, I'd suggest "Let's Go to Tasmania". |
Mar 3rd |
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