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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 96 |
Dec 20 |
Reply |
Emily On the subject of the amount of "uniform sky" - I thought of my comment to you when I saw this series - for some it is "the" feature of the image
https://www.benrubigallery.com/exhibition/658/landscapes |
Dec 28th |
| 96 |
Dec 20 |
Reply |
thanks - I think the step I was not realizing was the change in color in Nik - I will experiment |
Dec 24th |
| 96 |
Dec 20 |
Comment |
Dale - I am still hoping for instruction - please |
Dec 23rd |
| 96 |
Dec 20 |
Reply |
Dale - my reply - is below (I messed up which button to press) |
Dec 23rd |
| 96 |
Dec 20 |
Comment |
Dale - yes definitely "over-saturated" but deliberately so. I was aiming for the colors in an impressionist painting (well not precisely but in the direction of "not-realistic") |
Dec 23rd |
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| 96 |
Dec 20 |
Reply |
Emily - I was mortified to have the spots pointed out. I was totally unaware of them - and have never seen before (though clearly that is no guarantee that they were absent :-( ). Worse - I had even submitted this to an online competition with the spots.
Can anyone enlighten me ... do such sensor defects indicate a degrading component or are they intermittent or are they dirt (and would require cleaning). Is my baby in trouble? |
Dec 23rd |
| 96 |
Dec 20 |
Comment |
Hi Robert, I think the scene and the time of day was beautifully selected for the interplay of light and shadow on the trees.
I am sorry but disagree with the group. I find myself wanting to see this scene without the lens flare - and I expect that it would be more striking. To my mind - if you like the the flare then it could be added in post - but it cannot be removed - and therefore I would avoid it when possible and try instead to produce a clean image file - even though I would then be more than willing to manipulate it. |
Dec 23rd |
| 96 |
Dec 20 |
Comment |
Emily - I have little to add to the comments of others - except to continue this direction - and more for fun than a statement of opinion - I took your image through NIK software and did high contrast harsh (to B&W) and then a bleach bypass (in color pro) to add a further effect. The result is highly stylized but I think it enjoyable for the vintage effect. Once suggest I will make though is that the sky is in my opinion too uniform to be interesting and I would crop much of it away even if you retain the full foreground. |
Dec 23rd |
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| 96 |
Dec 20 |
Comment |
Dale - first of all -- I love it - I just do not understand how you did it (or rather how could I do it). It comes across to me as a book illustration particularly because you have suppressed details: the church wall in particular seems to lack texture as though it is colored with a single brush stroke, and even the undersides of the balconies - and yet the outlines are rigid and clear. Again I like it - and I want to reproduce it. |
Dec 5th |
| 96 |
Dec 20 |
Reply |
Robert - perhaps we can start a rebellion and fight for color-full photography. I have a color wheel - and I will take it out for a twirl next time. |
Dec 5th |
| 96 |
Dec 20 |
Reply |
Dan - thank you. Now that you mention them, the spots are obvious but I had stared at this image so many times without seeing them; I doubt I will miss them in future. I do not think I added sharpening - but it could be a by-product of the "high_frequency" button on the tonal adjustment - something I will check. |
Dec 5th |
| 96 |
Dec 20 |
Comment |
Perhaps a little more should be said :-)
To my eyes, this image is a combination of both color and texture - either alone would have served, but it is striking to find them merged. The patterned sand acts as a sort of high-frequency backdrop with the bull kelp acting as a strong and dominating bass taking my view into the back. The color of the sky is arresting but the nicest touch for me is the way the sunlight sort of bleeds color in a cone onto the monotoned sand - almost ending at the pointing kelp.
As a story, my mind sees the kelp as snakes; an obvious take but it seems to be happily supported by what look like tracks in the sand.
My only suggestion is to pass on what an instructor said to me when I tried to take a picture with the sun ... it might be interesting to add a little color to the disk rather than leaving it as pure white.
What is ACR? |
Dec 5th |
| 96 |
Dec 20 |
Comment |
Dan - trust me - it is good |
Dec 1st |
7 comments - 6 replies for Group 96
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7 comments - 6 replies Total
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