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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 88 |
Nov 21 |
Reply |
Hi Trey, I took this picture when it was raining and windy. However I was lucky to see any kind of big waves to play with high speed or long expose. I stacked few images but almost no images were perfect because tripod was shaking. So the stacking may not align perfectly. I intentionaly did post-processed for soft waves by stacking some long exposing images with fast speed images. This process may be complicated and took time. I did not spend time. Some place on the lighthouse were blurred because raindrop on my lens. The mountain on horizontal line is natural because stood on the side that didn't many people stay this side. I will try to go there one more time to take a nice picture again. This picture took with a micro 4/3 not a full frame camera. For competition I need to retake. Thanks for asking and suggestions. |
Nov 28th |
| 88 |
Nov 21 |
Comment |
Hi Charles, what a beautiful place full of essentials for landscape photography. Your image is textured with beautiful elements of the landscape including clouds, mountains, lakes and valleys. You have successfully arranged a very balanced composition. Like other people's comments, I also found that you only need to balance the light for the subject you need to describe. In my opinion the whole picture needs to be brightened. I agree you can shoot bracketing. Usually, if you want to shoot clearly from front to back and don't use a small aperture (16 to 22), you can use focus stacking with f8. Thank you for introducing me to a scene I might visit in the future. |
Nov 28th |
| 88 |
Nov 21 |
Comment |
Hi Sanat, I love your picture so much because it present a nice natural landscape where it is very quiet and peaceful. I don't have extra comment from others. However, I love the original picture that you have cropped a nice part of foreground. I took your original picture and extend the sky to 1/3 (using Content Aware Scale), and change format to 1:1 (square) to keep your original intention. Would it help if you like it. Thanks for showing this place. Best regards, |
Nov 28th |
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| 88 |
Nov 21 |
Comment |
Hi Rich, the photo of the cypress tree standing alone is really striking, I like the fact that you took the shot with the tree over the horizon, it adds to the focus of the subject. However, if the subject is a cypress tree alone, maybe according to my view it is not yet the main subject, maybe you want to show more beaches and cliffs in the whole scene. After post-processing, the cliff may be a bit bright and that white color may catch the eye of the first viewer. You are very successful in choosing a very beautiful sky to replace. Maybe the cloud on the left third is more balanced. Thank you for recommending a place for me to visit north California in the future. Best regards, |
Nov 28th |
| 88 |
Nov 21 |
Comment |
Hi Trey, thank you for showing a beautiful landscape image. The colors and contrasts in the picture successfully emphasize the autumn scene. Adding in the technique of long exposure has made your photo very fluid and created a calmness. Viewers can enjoy your photos with a comforting sense of tenderness. For composition, I personally think you can pay attention to the proportion and scale of the whole image. I would like to crop again so that the lower 1/3 is more balanced. Thank you. Best regards and wish you the warmest Holiday season. |
Nov 28th |
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| 88 |
Nov 21 |
Comment |
Hi Louis, Your success factor is cropping the photo from portrait format to landscape format without losing any detail and color of the photo. I really like your long exposure to calm the water and show the pink color of the lights on the bridge. The only downside is that if you want the water to be flat, you can take 10s, but can make the light on the top of the bridge's slings too bright, which can be corrected by taking several different shots under bracketting. Another nice point in the photo is that you have added a very nice detail that is nesting another bridge at the bottom of the big bridge, it creates a very nice frame. I would like to see the bridgehead in the right corner clearly, but maybe because you plan to shoot with foreground portrait format, don't expand it. Thank you, I know you spent a lot of time on this highly technical photo. Best regards |
Nov 27th |
| 88 |
Nov 21 |
Comment |
Hi John, I like this landscape image with your choice of format. I get the ratio of your image is greater or equal 16:9. It a good choice to capture broader subject in landscape picture if necessary. The successful elements of the photo are the expression of the depth and pattern of the mountains and the patchwork of herbs on the hills, which is very unique. That is to say it is an area with little water. According to my own thoughts and views to express the nature photo that you have come here to take, I think that perhaps cutting the foreground part too much is quite wasteful. Because I realize you intentionally photographed the valley in front of you and then went up the hill and then the mountain. I was able to make the sky take up a third of the top part of the image because it doesn't matter and keep the 2 thirds for the mountains and valleys first. I would take the liberty of redoing a different composition and adding some areas to increase the color and contrast to reveal more of the foreground to the background of the main subjects. (Please ignore my own sky ;-)) Thank you for sharing such a beautiful nature photo and taking the viewer into the landscape. Best regards and Happy Holiday season. |
Nov 27th |
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