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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 12 |
Oct 22 |
Reply |
I use the keyboard shortcut of the letter K. You don't need to turn on the capital. Just hit the letter k key. Then click on Brush. But first I suggest watching all the tutorials that are offered to you. Also, watch a couple youtube videos on it. Find someone you like on youtube. Much easier than trying to figure it out yourself. It is easy once you know how. If you're familiar with regular layer masks, that is what you're making. I use the "k" shortcut on almost every image...to fix some little or big thing. And it is non-destructive to your image and adjustable just like any mask. |
Oct 26th |
| 12 |
Oct 22 |
Comment |
This image says "window light" to me. It also says "in" a window. In this assigned subject group we are allowed to interpret the assignment and be not completely traditional or expected. As long as you explain yourself and your goal or purpose, we are happy to hear about your vision.
This image looks to me like someone could've painted it. It has an overall slightly dull, maybe sad, look to it. It would look completely like a photo if the colors were edited to be bright. You know, how we fix up our photos now to look they way they don't really look in person! We live in a fake world now! This image looks as if I'm on vacation with some bad weather, and I'm making the best of it. I confess I'm one of those people who would've brightened the flowers and changed the mood to a brighter one. Plus, I myself would like to see the flowers' details better.
I think the upper window bar is needed to frame the flowers and also to break up the wide expanse of the nothing sky. |
Oct 26th |
| 12 |
Oct 22 |
Comment |
The way you framed it with the window frame gives me the feeling of looking through a window, and therefore using window light. My eye is led directly to the shave. Part of the reason could be due to the dark hands and the very light shaving cream. Our eyes do get drawn to contrasty areas such as this, with dark darks and light lights, when the rest of the image has medium tones. Our eyes go for something different. Since this image wasn't in color, we weren't drawn to something colorful. I feel this image is just right! Congrats on a great candid shot! And with such a short telephoto lens. As Gavin said, I'm surprised you didn't get caught! |
Oct 26th |
| 12 |
Oct 22 |
Comment |
I forgot to say I put a vignette around this image, and I think it changed it from a snapshot to a portrait. |
Oct 11th |
| 12 |
Oct 22 |
Reply |
I cropped it in Photoshop with Content Aware. That's what filled in the bottom right corner of the image. |
Oct 11th |
| 12 |
Oct 22 |
Comment |
Welcome to our group, Lee Ann! You've given us an out-of-the-ordinary image. I like your creativity. I couldn't quite figure out at first what I was supposed to be seeing. If this were my photo, I'd crop it a little bit to make that creature more prominent. I must be on a vignette kick this month, because I think the vignette I applied also helped the main subject be the "main" subject. Here's my idea. |
Oct 11th |
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| 12 |
Oct 22 |
Reply |
Click on my image to see it larger. Press the ESC key to go back. |
Oct 11th |
| 12 |
Oct 22 |
Comment |
Sounds like a nice setup, with a gold reflector. I like the composition. The light coming from the left didn't light up the bird's face and eggs as the main thing. It lit up his hind end! Not the main topic! When you're faced with your main subjects being in the shadowed areas, you can use selective editing instead of making changes to the entire image. That's what I did for my suggested image editing. Brightened just the face and eggs. Darkened the bright areas that were secondary or distracting. I use the Adjustment brush now. I used to do it in layers. Photoshop's Camera Raw filter or Lightroom has the Adjustment brush, where you simply paint the areas you want to edit. All kinds of editing, like brighten, darken, saturation, sharpness, tone, everything! Easily adjustable, too. I do it to almost all my photos nowadays. |
Oct 11th |
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| 12 |
Oct 22 |
Comment |
I used to have a row of Rose of Sharon bushes, so I know how beautiful they are. Midafternoon is a good time to take photos of the flowers because they show up so well. My immediate reaction to this photo was that it needed a simple vignette, because my eyes aren't kept in the image without it. With the slight darkening of the image's edges, my eye stays on the light areas. This helps me appreciate the plants. I think the image looks less like a snapshot when the view is limited like that. What do you think? |
Oct 11th |
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