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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 31 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Thank you Paul, I appreciate it. |
Jun 14th |
| 31 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Thank you Peter, Ed, and John.
Peter - Everything I submit here has been printed first and viewed under a color corrected light. I then submit the finished image (saved as a *.jpg) for everyone to comment on. Everyone has been very helpful and I am thankful for that.
Ed - The obstacles differ in the chemical darkroom from the digital darkroom. Selective bleaching of a silver print with potassium ferricyanide (Farmer's reducer) works well with a small watercolor brush. Dodging is about the only tool in an editor and has more limitations.
John - I have taught photography classes in the past and it was always fun to see a students reaction to being "under the hood" for the first time with a large format camera. It is an eye popping experience for them to actually see the change in the depth of field when shutting down a 12" lens on an 8x10 camera from f45 to f5.6 when standing in the student parking lot and actually watching cars go out of focus on the ground glass. That 15 seconds explains it all without me saying a thing. After that, the rule of reciprocity makes sense when explaining the exposure triangle when talking to someone holding a digital camera set on manual for the first time. |
Jun 9th |
| 31 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Very well done Ella. For me the view of the salt pan in the foreground is the highlight of this image. The mountains and sky are a natural stopping point for the eye and cause me to look down and re-examine the foreground where all the detail is concentrated. I guess I am at an advantage since I live next to the salt flats of northern Utah and have a similar view.For me, no changes are needed. |
Jun 9th |
| 31 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Very well done Paul. Exposure and contrast are excellent as well as the composition. This would make an excellent print. |
Jun 9th |
| 31 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Very nice image of the foliage reflecting in the water Ed. Personally, I like the original image better as the dominant reflections are of the foliage on the right bank and the blank sky does not interfere with those reflections. |
Jun 9th |
| 31 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Excellent image Ian. There is nothing I could suggest to improve this photograph. Well done. |
Jun 9th |
| 31 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Very well done Peter. It will be very difficult to repeat this exposure as the road has been re-routed around Oxbow Bend for "riparian repair" and it would be a bit of a hike to get there now. I believe AA would approve. |
Jun 9th |
| 31 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
An interesting abstract John. Very nice gradation from light to dark when viewing from top to bottom. Personally, I would like to see another element in the image to help clue me in that the image is of grass. |
Jun 9th |
| 31 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Thank you very much Peter, Ella, and Ian. I really appreciate your input.
When working with film (as in this image) I tend to do very little dodging and burning when making a print as I attempt to do as much of the work as possible in camera. As this is a scan of a film negative, I use Photoshop to try and reproduce the same image digitally before printing. I agree with the lighter areas being distracting but burning them in (in my opinion) ruins the overall tonal balance.
A questions for those of you with more experience that I have. Does viewing a photograph on a monitor versus in a print produce a perceived increase in contrast in the highlights and a decrease in contrast in the shadows? |
Jun 9th |
9 comments - 0 replies for Group 31
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| 93 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Thank you Jean. I used the brightness adjustment and the color is more lifelike. Thanks. |
Jun 18th |
| 93 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Thank you Ed, I appreciate it. |
Jun 14th |
| 93 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Very nice image Dan. I really like how you have a very sharp focus on the grasses in the foreground and the reflected tree tops on the lake and how that contrasts with the apparent softness of the trees produced by the fog. This would definitely make a superb print. |
Jun 9th |
| 93 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Very nice image taken in inclement weather. I doubt that I would have taken my gear out in the wet weather and wind. Did you do much post-processing? |
Jun 9th |
| 93 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Really nice composition Paul. Excellent exposure and good tonal range throughout the image. The inclusion of the hay tedder adds a point of interest. |
Jun 9th |
| 93 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Very well done Jean. Echoing Jerry's suggestion and agreeing with you about walking with non-photographers, try adjusting your settings while you walk and talk with the group. If you want a larger depth of field, stop down and count how many stops you adjust the aperture. In this case, 2 stops from f7 to f16. Then increase your ISO the same number of stops, in this case from ISO 100 to ISO 400 (the number doubles with each stop). Your shutter speed does not change and 1/250 is plenty fast for a 24mm lens being hand held. Beware, once they see your images, all the non-photographers will be asking YOU for help with their photography. |
Jun 9th |
| 93 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Well done Darcy! I like the image as is. If you do lighten the foreground, definitely use a gradient and experiment with the the amount you lighten. |
Jun 9th |
| 93 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Jerry, I really like how you used the vignette instead of cropping the image. It really focuses the eye on the subject while simultaneously removing the distracting elements. Very well done. |
Jun 9th |
| 93 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Thank you Paul. I could clone in some water from another shot to cover most of the weeds but I don't want to attempt to clone over any part of the reflection of the tree. It would just be too obvious in a print. I will probably just go there again and try to find an angle where the weeds are not in the view or use an ultra wide angle lens to have more weeds in the foreground and crop the final image accordingly. Lots of choices with lots of solutions. |
Jun 5th |
| 93 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Thank you both for the comments. |
Jun 2nd |
10 comments - 0 replies for Group 93
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