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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 2 |
Mar 22 |
Comment |
Well done, Martin. That's a tremendous amount of work to get to your final image - which is very powerful. I love her hair and the lighting on it. Truly, a statement image! |
Mar 13th |
| 2 |
Mar 22 |
Comment |
Jaqueline, Congratulations for getting involved with PSA classes - and portraits at that. I can't come close to matching Martin's comments regarding the technical aspects of this realm of photography, but, one of the first things I noticed was the shadow line of the hat crossing the your beautiful models right eye (camera left). I feel as though the reflector should have been held just a bit lower, then pointed up just a little, to eliminate that shadow line.
As a side note, Now that I'm an avid (and amature) "birder" in SW Florida, and a new member of the Audubon Society, I've quickly become educated to the horrible practice of "Plume Hunters". High society women in the 1920's decided they needed bird feathers/Plumage to add to their hats to create a high stylish fashion look. Entire populations of mating and nesting birds were nearly wiped out in order to fulfill this fashion "need". With the new parents being killed, the young chicks soon died also of starvation.
Your model's hat is an example of one such hat.
(sorry to throw that fact in there, Jaqueline, but education is important). |
Mar 13th |
| 2 |
Mar 22 |
Comment |
Karen, I had to do a double-take when I first opened up this image to make sure the website had indeed advanced the screen from Shirleys. I chuckled.
I really like the effect you did with the background. Very interesting. I'll have to give it a try, too.
I love what you are trying to achieve with the overall compositions, but I feel that the focus is not sharp enough on more of the image to accomplish what you were really going after. The 200mm macro lens really limited your DOF to even include the flowers stem and remaining leaf, let alone the central "disc flower" or the 3 bees. Just my thoughts on an otherwise wonderful effort. |
Mar 13th |
| 2 |
Mar 22 |
Comment |
Shirley,
Like Piers, I love the image, but agree that the "breathing room" is important to the overall composition. Great colors and vibrancy. The softening of the background to force viewers focus more towards the flower has a beautiful effect.
One item of distraction to me is the presence of residual editing artifacts along the lower edge of the image. There are rounded shapes that don't appear in nature. (for reference, I just got a 27" monitor to use with my laptop, so I'm likely viewing the image larger and closer than normal) |
Mar 13th |
| 2 |
Mar 22 |
Comment |
I really like the cropping and editing you did the "clean up" the corral and the barn. Masterful job.
The only issue I have with the image relates to the composition, and this struck me immediately upon first seeing it - before even noticing the entire scene, is that the twin-trunked tree appears to be growing out of the horses back. There's no evidence of the tree trunk beneath the horses.
Otherwise, it's a great portrait of two handsome horses. |
Mar 13th |
| 2 |
Mar 22 |
Comment |
I really like the cropping and editing you did the "clean up" the corral and the barn. Masterful job.
The only issue I have with the image relates to the composition, and this struck me immediately upon first seeing it - before even noticing the entire scene, is that the twin-trunked tree appears to be growing out of the horses back. There's no evidence of the tree trunk beneath the horses.
Otherwise, it's a great portrait of two handsome horses. |
Mar 13th |
| 2 |
Mar 22 |
Reply |
Thank you for your comments, Jaqueline.
My wife doesn't like the soft focus either. I'll play around with the image some more and try to use a brush in LR to remove some of the effect of taking down the Dehaze. |
Mar 7th |
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