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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 92 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Sri Lanka is a lovely place. Your image captures some of the vibrant life. This is a nice environmental portrait, placing the tuna seller in context, and in particular the happy smiles of the seller and the guy to the left. It's probably a question of personal taste, but I prefer a slightly more punchy conversion. I had a play in PS and also toned down the yellows to darken the shirt on the guy bending to the left on the mid-left, so he blends in more with the tones in the background and so distracts less from the smiley man in front of him. What do you think? |
Jun 10th |
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| 92 |
Jun 20 |
Reply |
I expect you will get lots of photographic opportunities around the election time. |
Jun 10th |
| 92 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
A sign of our times. Thankfully in Australia we have had a very peaceful time without people protesting about the health regulations that are in place to protect everyone from corona virus infection. I wonder if a tighter crop would make it more dramatic, increasing the relative size of the police line in the image. |
Jun 10th |
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| 92 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Hi Orest, nice capture. The passing woman adds dynamism neatly framed by the other people. However, there seems to be a slightly blue colour cast (easily fixed) and it looks to me that you have applied a blur to the foreground people in post processing (apologies if I am wrong), and to me the result seems slightly artefactual. There are things that look to be at similar distances from the camera but which vary in degree of blur - for example between the leftmost man and the girl nearer and to the right (both looking equally blurred despite being different distances from camera), there is some stuff that seems less blurred than the people it is between. If you set up a mask on a duplicate layer in PS, with different levels of gray representing different distances, then the FIlter/Blur/Lens Blur can make a very convincing blur based on the grah/distance in the mask. Does that make sense? let me know if you would like more detailed instructions. |
Jun 10th |
| 92 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Ah the sense of vicarious travel. Much appreciated in these days of covid lockdown. A technical comment. I see some dark fringing on the girl's right shoulder (left of image) that probably results from a slightly too loose selection when you removed the man from the background. It would be easy to make a tighter selection and tidy up the fringe. |
Jun 10th |
| 92 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
You certainly found a "homeless" type of person with a kaleidoscope of colour in the clothing and bags. I agree with Lou that the left (and the paving at the bottom) could mostly be cropped to place more of the focus on the person. The newspaper stand adds a little interest but I am of two minds whether it adds to the story or splits the attention between two stories. Here is a very tight crop (parts of background tidied up to remove distractions in the crop) for you to consider. |
Jun 10th |
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