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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 60 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
What a gorgeous cathedral and your edit is stellar. I like the symmetry and detail and the people giving it a sense of size. The only critique i have is about the perspective. I suspect you shot it standing a bit to the left of center in order to get the top center decorations visible both the ones closer to you and the ones in background. But the secondary effect of that is that for a shot that screams to be symmetrical, it isn't. |
Feb 12th |
| 60 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Beautiful job with the macro lens getting the flower sharp through out and the colors are gorgeous. I would darken the stairs right and back as well as decreasing the clarity on them. You can use an adjustment brush for that. I agree that the sharpening should only be on the flower. It sounds as if you are comfortable using layers in PS. If so, you can mask the sharpened layer so it just effects the flower. Was there wind? If not, on a tripod, you could have left ISO at 100 and lengthened the shutter speed |
Feb 12th |
| 60 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Firstly, on my calibrated monitor, the exposure seems perfect. I think Damon has an interesting idea to try with moving the shadows a tad towards blue and the highlights towards gold but be careful re making the snow blue. I like the contrast foreground vs background a lot and you brought out the detail nicely in foreground. My only suggestion is compositionally...the diagonal line is wonderful and I would try to accent it. Maybe crop a little higher bottom so the foreground is coming out of left bottom corner, crop some off the right to make top right of diagonal come out of corner. I don't suppose you have any more of the photo on top so that the tree top wasn't cut off? If not, I would clone out that tree.
I have a slightly different philosophy than Damon re judging. For myself, I fear that if I aimed towards pleasing the judges, I would both lose my passion for photography and also lose touch with my own vision. |
Feb 12th |
| 60 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Firstly, on my calibrated monitor, the exposure seems perfect. I think Damon has an interesting idea to try with moving the shadows a tad towards blue and the highlights towards gold but be careful re making the snow blue. I like the contrast foreground vs background a lot and you brought out the detail nicely in foreground. My only suggestion is compositionally...the diagonal line is wonderful and I would try to accent it. Maybe crop a little higher bottom so the foreground is coming out of left bottom corner, crop some off the right to make top right of diagonal come out of corner. I don't suppose you have any more of the photo on top so that the tree top wasn't cut off? If not, I would clone out that tree.
I have a slightly different philosophy than Damon re judging. For myself, I fear that if I aimed towards pleasing the judges, I would both lose my passion for photography and also lose touch with my own vision. |
Feb 12th |
| 60 |
Feb 21 |
Reply |
Both of your suggestions are thought provoking. I will give it some more play. Thanks |
Feb 12th |
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