Activity for User 137 - Jon Allanson - joncallanson@gmail.com

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27 Jul 18 Comment Looking at our original image, you were in a situation where the background was too busy and brightly lit, and the main subjects were not well enough lit to effectively use the darken, desaturate and soften technique effectively. Your cropping has removed a part of the problem but still have unwanted figures close by which would be almost impossible to clone out and reconstruct the background there.
I have approached it by leaving the background brilliance as it was and reducing its contrast and then brightening up the figures and increasing their contrast. This keeps the image similar to your final image but has more impact.		 Jul 13th
27 Jul 18 Comment Club portrait nights are always a problem in that too many members all take virtually the same image. (I judged one club exhibition with 13 similar portraits of the same girl taken on the same night. The challenge is introduce a personal effect into the images ie a personal prop, or to differentiate things in the post-processing stage. You have chosen to convert to mono and then add a low opacity texture to create a
pleasing different style of image.I would have liked to see some more tonal variation in the background		 Jul 13th
27 Jul 18 Comment Vietnam is fabulous country for people portraits once you get away from the main tourist spots. I really like your tight crop it definitely keeps attention on the face. I feel that the eyes would benefit from being lightened very slightly. Jul 13th
27 Jul 18 Comment I like this very much, I feel that you have got the tonal levels and the overall sharpening just about right particularly for the background. The feather could be sharpened a little more or its contrast increased (both of these will give a broadly similar visual effect). I feel that the image would be much stronger if rotated left to become vertical or flipped vertically. This would make the quill in the ole be at the lop right intersection of the thirds which is much stronger position to its present one. Jul 13th
27 Jul 18 Comment Your removal of the original sky was very necessary and I like the idea of separating one flower spike by 'artificial differential focus'. To me the treatment to the distant row of flowers looks very artificial, particularly due to the banding on the flower spikes (though I accept that this could be due to the reduction of the image size and the use of a lower JPEG quality).
Though the central sharp flower spike is the main subject I keep having my eye drawn to the pink spikes on the extreme right, perhaps they could be cropped off.		 Jul 13th
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