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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 12 |
Feb 18 |
Reply |
Wouldn't dare go to the location of the silhouetted sculpture of Lewis and Clark in the dark. This park is in an isolated, industrial part of town and is considered dangerous to be alone. Our club went as a big group! The statue is located down a long path through a completely dense forest. It couldn't be more unsafe if it was a movie set for a horror movie! It seemed scary during the time I was there! |
Feb 28th |
| 12 |
Feb 18 |
Reply |
The cropping really makes a big difference. Why didn't I think of that? I'm guessing I was in the "skyline" train of thought. This kind of cropping will probably help all the other photos I took that evening! Thanks. |
Feb 28th |
| 12 |
Feb 18 |
Reply |
One more try...the other photo was too large in pixel dimensions to be able to see it all at once (if you happened to click on it). So here's one scaled to 800 px tall. |
Feb 23rd |
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| 12 |
Feb 18 |
Comment |
You have a lovely Christmas scene in your downtown. Lots of lights competing for our attention. I think the curving design created by the multiple white lights is the main center of interest. So I cropped to enhance that. I also rotated the image to straighten it out, because your picture had a slanted feeling to it. |
Feb 23rd |
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| 12 |
Feb 18 |
Reply |
I agree that the grouping of the white lights become very, very interesting as the center of attention when the bright McDonald's sign is gone. |
Feb 23rd |
| 12 |
Feb 18 |
Reply |
Cropping out the McDonald's sign really puts the emphasis on those big white lights! But I find it interesting that your downtown has a McDonald's restaurant, and so for documentary purposes I'd leave the sign in. |
Feb 23rd |
| 12 |
Feb 18 |
Reply |
OK. Finally figured out why my photo wouldn't upload...it was over the 1MB limit. Here it is. |
Feb 23rd |
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| 12 |
Feb 18 |
Reply |
Here's my edited version. |
Feb 23rd |
| 12 |
Feb 18 |
Comment |
Downtown art is a unique photo subject. Good for you for thinking of including a person in the scene! I was wondering if you took multiple shots by holding down the shutter button for a while? Sometimes I have that setting set on my camera and then I end up with multiple photos of everything by mistake because I forgot to turn it off!
Although your photo presents more of a downtown look than my cropped version below and although the artist wouldn't like me not including the entire art piece, I like the feeling of greater impact in my cropped version. |
Feb 23rd |
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| 12 |
Feb 18 |
Comment |
Good idea to stop the motion of those huge blades! I suggest cropping to change the composition and give the grouping more impact. Since you had already cut off the blade at the top of the picture, I thought it would be okay to cut off the blade at the right. I also changed the hue of the sky to be less aqua and more baby blue...at least on my monitor. |
Feb 23rd |
| 12 |
Feb 18 |
Reply |
Maybe the downtown of the countryside instead of the city!!! |
Feb 23rd |
| 12 |
Feb 18 |
Reply |
Yes, I have seen them in person. I was astonished at their gigantic nature. And it was surprising for me to see them seemingly randomly scattered throughout fields in Iowa. |
Feb 23rd |
| 12 |
Feb 18 |
Comment |
The building scene is enhanced by that peeking moon! The bright reddish light at the left is distracting for 2 reasons. It's a big, bright shape that draws my attention over and over. And it is a "tangent" kind of distraction. When an object is touching the edge of the frame to the point of distraction, we refer to its problem as being a tangent. Maybe that's not how to word it, but you get the point. The object is touching the edge when it would feel visibly better if it has some space between it and the edge of the frame. So you either include it completely and give it enough room to be there comfortably or you don't include it in the composition. You could've taken one step to your left and shot without it in the picture.
I think the 2 cars, one at each bottom side of the picture, help to anchor the building in the frame. They give the scene the feeling of being downtown instead of a building portrait. |
Feb 23rd |
| 12 |
Feb 18 |
Comment |
I like your choice of a downtown location! I was there many years ago. Good job of capturing the street-cars-stores-stoplight with that magnificent backdrop! I don't remember seeing that composition when I was there. My suggestion would be to have taken more than one shot of this scene by bending your knees and shooting at a few levels of that knee bend. |
Feb 23rd |
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