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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 15 |
Jul 21 |
Reply |
Thanks, Billy. It sure is an interesting project. The actors, who are creative and enthusiastic and endlessly patient and compliant, are a blessing for an inexperienced portrait photographer. |
Jul 19th |
| 15 |
Jul 21 |
Reply |
Thanks Linda, I think she would make a wonderful model for the painting. She has something of "The Girl with a Pearl Earring" in her expression. |
Jul 19th |
| 15 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
I love it, too. The graphic simplicity, calm tones and perfect balance are immensely satisfying. The sharp foreground and the soft gradation of the background give it a sense of depth. It makes me think of first snow falling on a misty lake, and I could sit and watch it for hours. |
Jul 12th |
| 15 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
Hi Linda, she seem to look straight in the viewerÂs eyes through those cool red glasses. A great background and a wonderful bold color contrast with the soft shadows. I vote for removing the mailbox. I like very much the lock on the left: it gives a special context, and tension, and I think that it also balances the composition. A wonderful street photo! |
Jul 12th |
| 15 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
Hi Billy, I have been trying to learn that the message in an image should open to the uninformed viewer without a title or explanations, and in this one it sure does! I think that you edits work great. I wonder if it is worth while to think cloning off the light stone in the middle of the bottom edge? |
Jul 12th |
| 15 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
Rick, a beautiful spontaneous portrait of the child. You have captured her in some special moment, totally absorbed in something. I wonder what causes this little worried frown on her forehead. The bright red cap frames her face beautifully, and the shade of the background (snow?) is repeated in her scarf. Just to see what happens to the shadows, I put her in the old Luminar 4 that I am still using for some facial light and dark circle removal. That did help, but the result did not look perfectly natural any more, with the extra adjustments.. Do you think that there is any difference between the programs? |
Jul 12th |
| 15 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
Jeri, I love this! I see a Jedi watching those Star Wars sledges fly past. I would crop off only a bit of both the lateral sides (the blue bottle cap on the left and the lime green one on the right edge), and clone out the green one above his head. I would darken the sand at the bottom a bit , and maybe add a small vignette to keep the eye in the center, and add some vibrance to the reds and oranges of the sledges. I would leave most of the faint lines in the background to give the feeling of motion. What do you think? |
Jul 12th |
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| 15 |
Jul 21 |
Reply |
Thanks, Jeri, I can see the lace curtains, too, or a window. She was an extraordinary model. |
Jul 12th |
| 15 |
Jul 21 |
Reply |
Thank you, Rick! That was a very good idea. I tried to adjust clarity and/or contrast of the eyes, but finally ended up with the color balance tool in Capture One. I turned the midtones hue just a little bit towards purple and increased its saturation and decreased its luminance. It is a subtle effect, bu I think that there is a bit more life in the eyes now. What do you think?
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Jul 12th |
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5 comments - 4 replies for Group 15
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| 47 |
Jul 21 |
Reply |
Sound good, I will work on that! |
Jul 20th |
| 47 |
Jul 21 |
Reply |
Sound good, I will work on that! |
Jul 20th |
| 47 |
Jul 21 |
Reply |
Thanks, Ed! You are right: the original scarf indeed was a period piece. I wish there were a way to diminish the migraine-generating effect of the slightly blurred weave. |
Jul 18th |
| 47 |
Jul 21 |
Reply |
Thank you, Jen! I am getting very fond of the new angle of the story where her down-turned eyes and posture play a big role. |
Jul 18th |
| 47 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
Hi Jen, I think that both the cropped square format and the present one would work fine. I think that the present format has a fine tension between the group of three and the odd one farther apart. I also like the diagonal in the grass that is mirrored in the sky. |
Jul 15th |
| 47 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
My husband also converted a Fuji for infra red, and the way the foliage comes out always amazes me. The otherworldly tones of the trees make the magnificent storm clouds look even more menacing. I think that the horizon is very well spaced to give room for the sky. Maybe also the waterline might be a little lighter to show some details? |
Jul 15th |
| 47 |
Jul 21 |
Reply |
Thanks, Colin! I think that it was the unlucky woven pattern that behaved especially annoyingly. I ended up taking the cloning material from the skirt. I think this was a clear improvement, and also fits the revised story... |
Jul 15th |
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| 47 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
It looks like a grand spectacle! About the progressive blur: I got a crazy idea from the gun-smoke in the background and tried to apply layers of mist&fog assets on the image, erasing them here and there in different degree to reveal the fierce fighters in the front clearly and leaving the rest more in the fog. Would such an approach work?
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Jul 15th |
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| 47 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
An impressive scenery just calling for the panorama format! About the horizon: what about counting on symmetry and placing the horizon clearly in the center by cropping just a bit of the magnificent clouds out? Then you would have both the horizon and the silvery river centered. I think that could make a quite balanced composition? |
Jul 15th |
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| 47 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
Hi Colin, I wonder if the foreground is water, smoothed silky by the long exposure? The reflections are so beautiful. I think that they balance the background sky and the large mass of the building on the left nicely. My eye finds first the contrast of the darker narrow building and the lighter areas and then wanders round the details of the larger building and then returns back. |
Jul 15th |
| 47 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
Thanks, Albert! I can see it now: I was fooled by the fact that I knew that they are a most happily married couple in real life. The image tells a different story: the wife is a maybe slightly oppressed background figure who is fussing over something, wishing to please her master. So, there is actually a different story? |
Jul 15th |
6 comments - 5 replies for Group 47
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11 comments - 9 replies Total
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