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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 14 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
Your image tells an interesting story. I agree with Greg that your colors need brightening, but I would go a step further and slightly darken the background to separate the man from it. |
Mar 21st |
| 14 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
Masterful indeed. Your camera technique is just right. I suggest that you lighten the shadows on his face and darken the sun patch on his back.
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Mar 21st |
| 14 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
This really tells a story; a quarter after two is really late at night, showing your attention to detail! Everything is just so. The main thing I can suggest is that you get rid if the reflection on the right of the candle holder. This is one of the few images with dark edges that doesn't need a thin light border to hold it together; it goes well with the black background, but you might feather the left side a bit to blend more with the background.
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Mar 21st |
| 14 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
Your masterful macro technique has captured this dragonfly, uhm, masterfully. My only suggestion is that you might rotate the dragonfly on his plate so that he is at some angle that doesn't imply he is part of a museum collection.
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Mar 21st |
| 14 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
This is an interesting image. I like its simplicity. If it were mine, I think I would turn the background down some, but not as much as I did when replying to your comment above. The only other thing I should mention is that a dark image needs a narrow white(ish) border, narrow enough not to call attention to itself, but to enough keep the darks of the image from bleeding onto thee black page. |
Mar 17th |
| 14 |
Mar 19 |
Reply |
There is an easy fix for that problem. In Photoshop, go to "Selective Color" and click on Black. Then increase Black as you wish. The hairs are yellow and slightly green, and won't be affected.
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Mar 17th |
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| 14 |
Mar 19 |
Reply |
I was always told that the image is the important thing, and the shape is just a container that you can use to emphasize the contents, that there is nothing about the 4X5, 11X14 and similar formats that is magical. I will,however, occasionally bow to the Golden mean.......
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Mar 17th |
5 comments - 2 replies for Group 14
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| 33 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
That clapping you hear is my appreciation of Bob Wills' conversion to monochrome of this essentially monochromatic image. |
Mar 21st |
| 33 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
You should have been there either at sunrise or at sunset; this scene screams for strong shadows! You might save it by converting to highly-contrasted monochrome.
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Mar 21st |
| 33 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
I love your colors; this image has a warmth that most such images don't. If it were mine, I would either crop off the building on the right edge, or darken it. As it is, its brightness competes with the building for attention. |
Mar 21st |
| 33 |
Mar 19 |
Reply |
I agree with Bob. We used to have a club judge who insisted that this kind of scene always needs "some place in the foreground for the viewer to stand on." He was right. This gives the scene more depth.
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Mar 21st |
| 33 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
This is truly a landscape made for monochrome, at least in part because there is no real color in it. I like the pattern, and would go a bit further than Bob by darkening the field where it is not on the right of way on the left, and cropping about half way to the right of way from the right.
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Mar 21st |
| 33 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
Great and technically demanding image! Well done. If you don't use it as a Christmas card as Bob suggests, I still would recommend you move the moon up, but not as far as he suggests. Maybe about the level of the clock or slightly above.
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Mar 21st |
| 33 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
You have a good trigger finger (and probably hundreds of waves images that didn't make the cut.) Timing is everything in wave images, and you did well. It clearly shows that something interesting is happening, along with your excellent camera technique and composition, to make an image that satisfies the three criteria that most viewers will love. If it were mine, I think I would get rid of the left-hand flying bird. Your picture is the wave. The left-hand flying bird draws the eye away from it in a way that the right-hand bird doesn't.
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Mar 19th |
| 33 |
Mar 19 |
Reply |
Thank you for your suggestion of conversion to monochrome. I seldom think of that!
The temperature finally got above zero (F),and I didn't have to go any further than our front porch to get the image. |
Mar 19th |
6 comments - 2 replies for Group 33
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| 76 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
Good portrait! You got good blacks and good whites, and I think you got the in-between tones about right. The sharpness is outstanding. You caught Old Man Geezer's personality. Tell him so for me.
The main thing I can suggest is that, next time, you make him tilt his hat back a bit; that won't show (no one will notice,) and a portrait really isn't a portrait without all of both eyes. |
Mar 17th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 76
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12 comments - 4 replies Total
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