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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 14 |
May 18 |
Comment |
Terry has found the key to this fine image that turns it into what to my way of thinking into a great picture....almost. If she now flips the image horizontally, she has the foam leading TOWARDS the birds, like this. (I also did brighten it up some, and increased the contrast.)
This surprises me in that in that taking out what is essentially without detail simplifies the image. It also now illustrates the point that many, if not most images really do read best from left to right.
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May 21st |
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| 14 |
May 18 |
Comment |
The image is intended to be a simple, but detailed, pattern. You are looking from my desk window maybe twenty feet above the valley floor at a steep hillside at the edge of the valley a third of a mile away. The "pond" is actually a vertical cliff; if you look closely you can see details of the rocks in the middle of the "pond." (This is what Arun sees as reflections. This tells me that my image needs to be brighter and a bit more contrasty.)
The image itself illustrates my point that the viewer's eye is attracted strongly to the the highest contrast in any photographic image, almost always the brightest area, as here. There is an easy demonstration of this point: Take a print of any image with areas of light and dark in it, and show it to someone for a half second or so, and ask what was seen. Invariably the answer will be "the bright area." This is a trick that can be used like a leading line to direct the viewer's attention to what you want seen as a center of interest.
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May 20th |
| 14 |
May 18 |
Comment |
Perfect focus and exposure, simplicity, and color; this has it all. The brilliant white of the foam does tend to draw my eye from the birds. To remedy that, I suggest slight darkening from the corners to hold the eye in, and maybe flipping it horizontally.
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May 19th |
| 14 |
May 18 |
Comment |
The mountain and the sky are your picture, while the foreground is necessary because it unmistakably tells where it is. If it were mine, I would emphasize the top by darkening the immediate foreground and making the sky more contrasty. |
May 19th |
| 14 |
May 18 |
Comment |
Brilliant colors and a simple and strong composition are what make this image. It's almost impossible to take my eyes away from the bird's eye! The only things I might do if it were mine would be to cut a little from the right and maybe from the bottom, up to the fuzzy feathers. |
May 19th |
| 14 |
May 18 |
Comment |
It's amazing how a single, fairly simple image can stir such different ideas of what's in it. I think the girl is just being pensive in the middle of some festivities. I think the composition is just right; the background is needed to tell the story, and your desaturation of it does help to do that. The stark white of the out-of-focus background does tend to grab my attention from the girl, though; I suggest toning it down or darkening it from the upper left corner and/or returning just a hint of color. |
May 19th |
| 14 |
May 18 |
Comment |
Your technique is right on. There are details throughout both highlights and shadows, and colors are fine. I like the idea behind your composition, but must take issue with one point: to my way of thinking, such a strong leading line should lead somewhere, hopefully to a strong center of interest. Instead, it seems to me to cut the image into two, and lead me out of the image. This is reinforced by the eye-attracting brightness of the boardwalk. |
May 19th |
7 comments - 0 replies for Group 14
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| 33 |
May 18 |
Reply |
It was snowing lightly at the time, which accounts for the lack of detail in the upper right background; it was an effect I wanted. Detail in the background would have taken away from the simplicity of the scene.I wanted form more than detail. The snow cover was scant over the newly planted winter wheat, and I worried about the resulting dark lines in the snow. Did that come through OK?
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May 22nd |
| 33 |
May 18 |
Comment |
This is beautifully well done, a story-telling image for sure. About the only change I can suggest would be to darken the blue of the sky significantly; this would emphasize the weathered white of the front of the building and make it stand out even more. |
May 19th |
1 comment - 1 reply for Group 33
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8 comments - 1 reply Total
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