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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 10 |
Apr 26 |
Reply |
PERHAPS BAD NEWS. From what I understand all lens baby lens DO NOT auto focus. Maybe should start from that view point? Doug W is on this group and he has at least one lensbaby.
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Apr 17th |
| 10 |
Apr 26 |
Reply |
Thanks Susan. Welcome to the group. I was waiting to read bio before commenting. I'm old school (really) and enjoyed your path down digital art. Have to run so I don't miss Oak Island. I didn't really consider placing bud on the crack. Bud I might try it, I love the DD so that ideas like that can be productive. Have to run. I do quite a bit of impressionism images, particularly flowers. |
Apr 15th |
| 10 |
Apr 26 |
Reply |
In Lightroom classic on the right groupings of adjustment sliders it probably has a closed < and when it's opened there is a graph called "Tone Graph" with 4 sliders. Pick a Raw image that you haven't adjusted yet and see how the sliders adjust. I rarely need to use Contrast and very much Saturation. You can probably find a video by its title on YouTube. Hope this helps |
Apr 15th |
| 10 |
Apr 26 |
Comment |
Meredith, I really like the composition and colors in your image. The colors of the vegetation, the rainbow and the reflections just bring it all together. Seems like you have this place to go to for an afternoon rainbow. That's so handy. The inlet just brings my eyes so gently to the back of the image. However, I can only find a little nit and that on the left bank about half way there is a white area that could stand some reduction in highlights. |
Apr 12th |
| 10 |
Apr 26 |
Comment |
I would edit my image very close to the post processed image here. Frans does an excellent job of making the most from a staged setting. The SOOC image is lacking some enhancements, like coloring the lily pads and flowers in the wreaths and the boat. I think the image was created via a drone. It's a fantastic image. |
Apr 12th |
| 10 |
Apr 26 |
Comment |
Still was a little chilly to do outside work so I did this. Many blending options didn't work, but dissolve did. I'm afraid some will think it pasted on so there should be another one, that lets some opacity reveal rock thru flower. I removed the flower from its garden setting put the layer in Ps and tried the various blends. |
Apr 11th |
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| 10 |
Apr 26 |
Comment |
Doug, I think Donna is on to something that you were thinking unconsciously. You shoot many closeups, with limited DOF and tightly cropped that then you turn into abstracts. You did pick the subject and photographed well.
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Apr 11th |
| 10 |
Apr 26 |
Reply |
Donna, you solved much of your intended because the main image has that very nice image with waterfalls coming over the top edge and also showing in your original. But Bob, you say, That's not intended to be a waterfall. It looks it to me. You could add some more blue or gray color. I just reread your "about image" again, the velvet lens baby has done the painterly effect for you. To enhance, increasing the light slider on the tone curves. I use tone curves often. It allows for adjustment without overexposing. |
Apr 11th |
| 10 |
Apr 26 |
Reply |
Thanks Donna, I'll try to composite with mask covering the rock texture. I know what you and Meredith mean and I'll try to do it. |
Apr 11th |
| 10 |
Apr 26 |
Reply |
Thank you Meredith. I appreciate you suggestion (maybe unknowingly) to make a mask of the Rose bud so that the composite texture is blocked. I'll try it and report back. Not likely today. Yardwork today. |
Apr 11th |
4 comments - 6 replies for Group 10
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| 80 |
Apr 26 |
Comment |
Thank you Ingrid. I'll do my best to do that. |
Apr 19th |
| 80 |
Apr 26 |
Comment |
I apologize for missing your black bug.
Bob |
Apr 17th |
| 80 |
Apr 26 |
Reply |
Thanks Nadia, I'll have to try your recent tips. Have to admit that I've never added noise but closer crop is a winner to me. We are trying something this year. At least one grower will email the list of flowers she is going to divide and we can go and get what we want (still dormant) and bring them home and plant with no loss and hopefully beautiful flowers in 4-6 weeks. Enjoy.
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Apr 17th |
| 80 |
Apr 26 |
Comment |
Rich, I had a problem with Dougs image loading and unfortunately I didn't get it loaded until after Marti had made her comments. I made judgement that pulling the original at that point would cause more questions. So in my mind the images are the exactly the same. |
Apr 15th |
| 80 |
Apr 26 |
Reply |
I agree your additional image is beautiful and I'm guessing that did well in competition? You clearly are showing a background out of focus and in your rose there was nothing to show that intent or that the white background was in focus or not. I didn't find it objectionable but was picking up on Marti's comment and my thinking (now not likely, Sorry) that you had intentionally made it soft. Knowing that the background had issues, I might of backed up went to 300mm and increased the iso so that you had a shutter speed that you could hand hold. I've had to practice this all the time because I'm no longer holding steady under 1/500 sec. I also use a Nikon feature called back button focus which I push giving me auto focus while I rock back and forth. Some with intention and some with old age. |
Apr 15th |
| 80 |
Apr 26 |
Reply |
Ok, that explains the shallow depth of field. I know that camera lens combo can shoot higher than the f5/6 so did you have a specific reason you wanted to make it less than as sharp as possible. Ah yes, now I have that answer. You took that class from Kathleen Clemons and softish is important for those flower profs, but here at PSA and at many camera clubs (and I have good reason to believe that you know this) Sharp or Extra sharp is the word. Sorry to burst your bubble, but trash me if I'm incorrect and please tell us. |
Apr 13th |
| 80 |
Apr 26 |
Comment |
Kamal, another very nice flower with out of focus background. Perhaps you were short of time, but I find the grayish flower parts or whatever to detract from the composition. Maybe the eraser tool can remove them. Also at about 11 o'clock there is a shade or tonal difference that looks unnatural to me. |
Apr 13th |
| 80 |
Apr 26 |
Comment |
Doug, another Hosta leaf but somehow you manage to find them with all the various shapes? Regardless, you do a masterful job of capturing all their sharpness and stacking them together. I light the honey color and all the shapes. |
Apr 13th |
| 80 |
Apr 26 |
Comment |
Rich, A beautiful Rose and a perfect choice for high key. So Marti mentions a little more depth. And you failed to tell us what you shot it at. Modern day cameras record that for each image. Maybe you were "snowing" us because you really wanted real snow. :-) I think I would have dropped the highlights on the subject and the bud, just enough to remove those white areas. |
Apr 7th |
| 80 |
Apr 26 |
Comment |
Ingrid, you managed to take this stark Colo winter scene and see how the blue shadows added so much. You might of driven past this tree multiple times but not in that light. I think I would leave the small branch on the right coming out of the snow.
It brings your eyes further into the image. If it were in the shadows, then remove it.
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Apr 7th |
| 80 |
Apr 26 |
Comment |
A beautiful Iris Nadia. The water drops add a special quality to the flower. Your background is fantastic as usual. Our Iris greens have just poked up from the cold soil. |
Apr 7th |
| 80 |
Apr 26 |
Comment |
Very, very Nice Marti. Great job of lining up the car parts and doing the Blur filter. I wouldn't have thought that the white car would create that hi light that throws light back into the tulips. It probably doesn't but I think it creates the possibility. |
Apr 7th |
| 80 |
Apr 26 |
Reply |
Thanks Marti and Rich. I'm not sure how familiar with DayLily's you are, especially if they are in the Legg collection and I don't do the weeding. In peak bloom season blooms often come outdone in front of the other. Sometimes I can get both flowers in focus, but this flower was not having it. Last year was the first year and we'll see how they line us this year. Including the stem increases the depth of field even more. It depends if the stem is in the front (towards yourself) or in a cluster at the back. All good points that I was anticipating. |
Apr 7th |
9 comments - 4 replies for Group 80
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13 comments - 10 replies Total
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