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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 87 |
Mar 23 |
Reply |
In my opinion, you have taken a nice but nothing special scene and used it to build a most interesting image. The B&W conversion is what makes it work. |
Mar 8th |
| 87 |
Mar 23 |
Reply |
Thanks Jennifer. I appreciate your comments and encouragement. |
Mar 4th |
| 87 |
Mar 23 |
Comment |
What else can I say. Very well done. Is the image color as presented, or have you added a tone? Either was, I like it. |
Mar 3rd |
| 87 |
Mar 23 |
Comment |
There is much for me to really like about this simple (but hard to capture) portrait of a Hummingbird. I like the way in which you have uses a shallow depth of focus to isolate the bird from the busy background. I can certainly sympathize with you in finding a wonderful image and not having the lens you would really need available. If you could have captured a closer look at the bird and eliminated much of the background, I feel the image would be greatly improved. You stated that you have cropped in some. Can you crop in even more and still retain enough pixels for a printable image? |
Mar 3rd |
| 87 |
Mar 23 |
Comment |
Steven. What a fine piece of creative art. I needed to look closely to see how you created this. Congratulations on first doing an excellent job of transforming a color image to B&W. Next the creativity to produce the mirror image, and the final step of rotating the horizontal image to create a vertical image. Congratulations! |
Mar 3rd |
| 87 |
Mar 23 |
Reply |
Thanks, Will. I highly value your critiques. I have tried various B&W processing methods in PS and NIK and I feel I have greater control in the process I use in LrC. |
Mar 3rd |
| 87 |
Mar 23 |
Reply |
Thanks, Steven. I always appreciate what you have to say. This is how each of us continues to grow. |
Mar 3rd |
| 87 |
Mar 23 |
Reply |
Lance, thank you for you most encouraging words. I can feel my photography and processing growing but realize that I am not yet where I want to be. You are a great teacher. Keep pushing me. |
Mar 3rd |
| 87 |
Mar 23 |
Reply |
Thank you, Cindy. I appreciate your observation that the pitcher tends to get lost in the white background. This was a purposeful decision I made in processing the image, but I always appreciate being challenged to look at other possible processes. You may have noticed that in the original color image the pitcher is in sharper detail, this would allow for the same to be true in the B&W. I made the decision in an attempt to de-emphasize the pitcher and direct full attention to the roses. |
Mar 3rd |
| 87 |
Mar 23 |
Comment |
Lance, I must first admit to my lack of knowledge of Japanese art. I read but do not really understand the meanings of such phrases as "Yin-Yang and In-YĆ…." However, I do very much like what I call, "mini" landscapes.
This is more than a simple landscape. I understand you to be conveying a mood or emotion. That is indicated to me by the use of a tone (blue) that one would not expect to encounter in this scene in the natural world. It is also my feeling that the sun is a natural part of this image. Without the sun, the left upper half of the image is wasted space. I would like to see his image as a triptych. |
Mar 3rd |
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