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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 14 |
Aug 17 |
Reply |
Maybe a much narrower white or gray (or even pink) border would be less intrusive, but really does need a border of some kind.
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Aug 23rd |
| 14 |
Aug 17 |
Comment |
Your composition of this magnificent sight is just right. I agree with Charissa, though; to me it does seem a bit drab for the colors of the Sedona area. You did well by enhancing the colors and contrast of the gray day, but to me you quit too soon. I would do even more. On the other hand, I hate to sound like a bad club judge, but "go back on a sunny day. The colors will knock your socks off."
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Aug 22nd |
| 14 |
Aug 17 |
Comment |
I have to agree with Terry. This is a great image. It is a nice sunset, but more importantly, it tells a story of a peaceful time and place.
I have to disagree respectfully with Charissa; the foreground, especially the lower right corner, is the story that is supported by the drama of the sky. Do this experiment: close your eyes for twenty seconds, then open them and look quickly at the image. The first thing I always see is the high-contrast area at the lower right. That's your picture. It is said that brightness and/or contrast almost always draws your eye first; in this case, the contrast does it for me. The brightness of the sky does draw attention, but secondarily. If it were mine, I would tone it down, which seems to unify the image for me.
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Aug 14th |
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| 14 |
Aug 17 |
Comment |
With sharp flowers and wonderful colors and a good composition of the flowers, this is one is a keeper. To my eye, the background is too prominent and a bit distracting in part because of its bright colors. If it were mine, I would darken the edges, including the loser flowers and particularly the leaves, to emphasize the big flower and unify the composition. I think it "reads" better if it is reversed, and reversing further helps to de-emphasize the leaves.
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Aug 13th |
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| 14 |
Aug 17 |
Comment |
You have added a fresh new idea to discuss, a combination of an abstract reflection with a colorful and contrasting foreground. You have a good collection of picture elements to start with.
I think you need to simplify it. To me, it seems "busy," and lacks cohesion; my eye wanders. Easy changes can make a big difference. Remembering that one's eye almost always goes to the highest-contrast part of a composition and usually to the brightest areas, I centered a moderate reversed circular black gradient in about the lower right third and turned down its opacity. Then I adjusted the white point and contrast in Levels, increased vibrance and saturation, and made it all brighter. Now my eye stays in the frame and doesn't wander. You had the right time of day and fine colors that you might have used to the hilt.
One of the beauties of abstracts is that good ones say different things to different people. Note that Terry and I see totally different pictures. And both probably are different from what you saw!
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Aug 12th |
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4 comments - 1 reply for Group 14
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| 33 |
Aug 17 |
Reply |
The bright curving line grabs my eye, whereas the auroral hole and pillar are the picture that you want everyone to see, the bright line being just an extra. I take Paul's point, so how about this one? I took my version, gave it a shallow black circular gradient centered on the pillar, adjusted its opacity, erased part of it in the foreground, and then adjusted the overall brightness and contrast.
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Aug 23rd |
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| 33 |
Aug 17 |
Comment |
This clearly shows a peaceful time of day with good colors and an interesting composition. To me the interesting part of the picture is the trees at the upper right, but my eye has to jump over the brightness of the pond to get there -- which really says "divided interest." You can unify it by something like this thumbnail. It's the brightness of the pond and its lack of interesting detail that's a problem for me. I simply ran a linear black gradient from the lower left to the upper right to tone down the pond. Now it seems to me to have only one center of interest.
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Aug 22nd |
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| 33 |
Aug 17 |
Reply |
Not at all. Paul makes it a very picturesque place. I've been all around Wales, but never more than a few miles inside. Maybe Welsh photographers don't know what they have.
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Aug 18th |
| 33 |
Aug 17 |
Comment |
A peaceful scene well captured! The colors make this image, and every bit of the image is needed; I wouldn't change any of the cropping. While you need all of it, the barn is clearly your picture, and it is a bit drab. I think it helps a lot if you do something like this: Select the face of the barn, I used the polygonal lasso, then did a small feather followed by increase in brightness and contrast (now of the barn alone.) Then I darkened around the edges with a light circular gradient, and brightened things up a bit. Does this help?
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Aug 14th |
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| 33 |
Aug 17 |
Comment |
This shows good technique with crisp focus appropriate to the subject, good colors and good composition. My eye is drawn directly to the tree by the composition, in spite of it's not being especially prominent. A lower camera angle and maybe a step or so to the right (if you had wading boots) might have made the tree much more prominent against the sky.
Why are yours the only pictures I remember seeing of Wales, which you make a quite picturesque place?
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Aug 13th |
| 33 |
Aug 17 |
Comment |
The simplicity of your image is what makes this scene. It is well composed, has perfect technique, and is well presented.
I suggest two changes, one important (to me anyway,) and one with importance that depends on how and where you show it. If it were mine, I would tone down the bright, curving line, because t takes away from both the reflections and the auroral hole and pillar that is the most interesting part of your picture. The other one is a that a thin possibly greenish border would probably spiff up the image by separating it from the black background; otherwise in this case the image looks lonely in a huge black background.
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Aug 12th |
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4 comments - 2 replies for Group 33
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8 comments - 3 replies Total
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