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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 12 |
Oct 19 |
Reply |
Thanks, Marti, for looking in on us! Yes, we allow "reworks" - thank you for yours. |
Oct 25th |
| 12 |
Oct 19 |
Reply |
You hit the nail on the head! An image is never done, because tomorrow when we look at it again, we often want to change something! |
Oct 23rd |
| 12 |
Oct 19 |
Reply |
Ansel Adams was known for his burning and dodging. That's basically what I did to your photo to make your desired areas stand out and lead the viewer's eye to what you intended the viewer to notice besides the whole effect of the whole picture. |
Oct 21st |
| 12 |
Oct 19 |
Reply |
I used the phone app called Nception to make my Halloween Car Mask. I used my phone to take a photo of the left rear corner of the car. Then I played with it until I found something that sort of looked like something!!! The app can be used on videos, too. While using the app, the viewer can visit their area where people have put their creations. Probably on Instagram and Facebook, too. Some people do some really great things! |
Oct 21st |
| 12 |
Oct 19 |
Comment |
As often happens, when I went to do a quick edit, I did more than I'd planned on. Here's my edited version where I fiddled with it in Camera Raw Filter in Photoshop. My changes were directed by my wanting to make the stream show up more and the tree stump log to be resting comfortably in a bed of fall colored grasses. I made the changes by changing the brightness and darkness tones using the adjustment brush tool in a variety of spots. I realize that this isn't how the scene looks in real time, but it seems that everyone is editing their photos to make them look the way they wished they looked. And in person, the shadows and highlights don't look this perfect. We live in fake reality with photography nowadays.............. |
Oct 12th |
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| 12 |
Oct 19 |
Comment |
This is a unique-for-me view of the golden aspens. The top half of your image is what most of my own Colorado photos look like. I love the way you found a log and then a stream for the bottom half of your photo. If this were my picture, I would've reduced the highlight brightness of the foreground grasses...I guess this is called sculpting with light when we edit our photos. I guess I should go do it and then post my image.... |
Oct 12th |
| 12 |
Oct 19 |
Comment |
Did anyone notice the cute orange border she put around her photo? Perfect touch to enhance the idea of "indications of fall"! It's not often we see a tree with about half of its leaves changed to red-orange. Kansas is a month behind Montana or even Colorado, so I am just beginning to notice trees that look like yours did. I prefer the dark vignette. Maybe on a white instead of a black page as we have here, your white vignette would look different. A suggestion for your current photo would be to selectively slightly darken the brightness in the couple inches (on my monitor) below the tree's leaves. |
Oct 12th |
| 12 |
Oct 19 |
Comment |
Sure does indicate fall! The drama is the color. Wow! I like the slanted aspect of the background. I know I would've kept it completely vertical and thereby created a static image! I think those 2 thin twigs on either side help frame the leaves and keep our eye on them. I find myself repeatedly looking at what I'd call 2 distractions, and those are the bright orangey red spot on the left (probably a leaf) and the circular black hole on the fence just above the twig on the right. If this were my picture, I'd remove them. You did a good job creating an interesting image from a miscellaneous group of leaves! |
Oct 12th |
| 12 |
Oct 19 |
Reply |
I like the dangling left twig and how it sort of frames and points to the main subject. For me the distracting thing is the tiny bit of bright orange/red leaf at the very left. That is what pulls my eye to the edge and makes me pause a split second. Does anyone else notice that? |
Oct 12th |
| 12 |
Oct 19 |
Comment |
This view looks so very realistic...a pile of pumpkins however the person decided to pile them up without the thought of someone like us coming along and trying to get a creative composition! What strikes me most is all that texture! That main pumpkin stands out as the main pumpkin so well. The f/1.8 has done its job well. I know that most of us tend to use a lens other than the 50mm, but you've reminded us that the great "normal" lens has its own wonderful capabilities. I wish I had a 1.8 lens!!!!! |
Oct 12th |
| 12 |
Oct 19 |
Reply |
Plus you learn all the capabilities of your software, be it on your computer or your tablet or your phone! Only fiddling with your software without guidance gets you only so far. Google your software and learn things you'd never think of just by looking at your software windows. |
Oct 12th |
| 12 |
Oct 19 |
Comment |
Our DD group is unique in that we can use any techniques as long as we approximate the assigned subject. So I encourage you to do more than find an image that fulfills the topic. Make composites. Use creative filters. Change the coloring. Change the reality! It's fun! |
Oct 12th |
| 12 |
Oct 19 |
Reply |
I don't usually alter the look of my images. I tend to try to make them look better instead. But after a while that becomes "just another pretty picture" that I've mastered. So I'm going back to creating alternative-looking images which is what I used to do and got tired of doing. Back and forth! |
Oct 12th |
| 12 |
Oct 19 |
Comment |
Administrator Comment - I can't post the 2 photos side by side for you to see the black and the white vignettes simultaneously. So please click once on the smaller image in order to see it as large as the other one. |
Oct 4th |
7 comments - 7 replies for Group 12
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| 13 |
Oct 19 |
Reply |
I agree that your image gives me a very good idea of the busy, city environment where you live. I live in suburbia, and I forget there are scenes like this. When I go visit an art gallery, it is like I'm going to a completely different place! I like the feeling you've captured. |
Oct 15th |
| 13 |
Oct 19 |
Comment |
I'm thinking I should be seeing a reflection of you as you take this photo. Where are you? |
Oct 15th |
1 comment - 1 reply for Group 13
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8 comments - 8 replies Total
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