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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 49 |
Apr 21 |
Reply |
Thanks Cora. I'll work on showing more of the floor to keep her grounded. |
Apr 30th |
| 49 |
Apr 21 |
Comment |
What a great idea! In effect it is a still life of a set of three keys reflected off black acrylic.
Suggestions for improvement. The light bouncing off the keys from the LEDs is very harsh. Suggest that you place a diffuser between the lights and the keys. When I have shot something like this I put the subject in a light tent and shine the LED light through the sides of the light tent. For the composition, I cannot decide if you wanted the pattern of the 3 keys to be random or symmetrical. The top key and the bottom key are almost parallel, so it makes me think that you were trying to make them parallel, but didn't quite get there. |
Apr 15th |
| 49 |
Apr 21 |
Comment |
Very interesting image. At first I thought it was the Eiffel Tower! Thanks for telling us about Pakistan.
Areas for improvement: The image needs to be straightened. It is leaning to the right. All of the birds are a distraction. Suggest cloning them out. You were stuck with a boring sky. You could replace it using Luminar or PS. Normally the guideline in shooting architecture is to shoot it dead on symmetrical or deliberately non-symetrical. This is shot non-symmetrical, but I'm not sure that that angle helps it. You might consider cropping off the left side, |
Apr 15th |
| 49 |
Apr 21 |
Comment |
Good job in cropping and in getting a dark background that is out of focus. I thought that petal in the middle back was in focus, but the rest were too soft, especially the one closet to the camera. The petals on the right and the back left are very bright. You might consider burning them down a bit in either LR or PS.
Very lovely photo. |
Apr 15th |
| 49 |
Apr 21 |
Comment |
Love the idea! To me what was interesting about this photo was having one dreidel still (the one in the center) and two showing motion (left and right). So to make that work, assuming you like the concept, you needed to use a fast shutter speed to capture the one in the middle, which is not sharp and a slow shutter speed for the ones to the left and right. The fourth dreidel merg=s with the one on the right, so I would clone it out. So to do what I am talking about would require that you make a composite image in PS. |
Apr 15th |
| 49 |
Apr 21 |
Comment |
OK, good point! I'll lighten the bavckground so you can see some floor. |
Apr 10th |
5 comments - 1 reply for Group 49
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| 67 |
Apr 21 |
Reply |
Very kind of you to say that Bud!! |
Apr 27th |
| 67 |
Apr 21 |
Comment |
Terrific capture! What a moment! I agree with Larry's comments on the strength of the composition.
Suggest that you do some dehazing of the bird's back and as Larry mentioned, darken the bright spots on the branch. |
Apr 15th |
| 67 |
Apr 21 |
Comment |
Great capture. When it comes to wildlife patience is a virtue! Thanks for waiting around for the two owlets to give you a good pose. Like the foreground greenery and how well you have blurred out the background. Looks like you did some subtle sharpening, which worked well. My only suggestion might be to do some burning down of the background behind the owls. |
Apr 15th |
| 67 |
Apr 21 |
Comment |
Larry, I'm jealous of your ready access to areas without low ambient light! I live in an area where the Milky way is never visible! Love the story of how you got the shot. Long night for you!! I'm certainly no expert in Milky Way photography, but this is very good.
Suggestions: Too bad you had some clouds to deal with. I think I would have just light painted the tree and not the rocks. Perhaps crop off the bottom 1/5 or so of the photo? I would not have guessed that the bright light on the left was the moon if I had not read your synopsis. It looks like car headlights. |
Apr 15th |
| 67 |
Apr 21 |
Comment |
I've never seen a snowy owl in the wild! How exciting that must have been for you! The composition is good giving the =owl some extra space to "fly into" on the right. I'm OK with sky replacement. I prefer how Luminar does it over PS, but the effect is very good.
Areas for improvement. I agree with Larry that it needs to be denoised. I also like Topaz denoise to do this. Not sure whether it is worth cloning out the one or two pieces of grass that merge with the owl. |
Apr 15th |
| 67 |
Apr 21 |
Comment |
Todd, what a wonderful capture! The head and eyes are sharp. You've cropped it very well to have the elk fully in the fram, but not bumping into the sides or top! You's get the whole set of antlers with room above them. Great composition! Boy it shure pays to take your time and work the subject. Bravo! |
Apr 15th |
| 67 |
Apr 21 |
Comment |
Love the old fall river road! It was one of my first introductions to the Rockies! Great background out of focus! It is bright enough to set off the birds. The birds are sharp and the eyes are sharpo. Great job!
Areas for possible improvement. Wildlife is always hard. The animals never cooperate! It would have been better to see separation between the two birds. Never crazy about shooting an animal from behind (butt shot!). The two animals are not interacting. The one of the left is looking left and the one on the right is looking right. Hard to get these critters to do what you want! |
Apr 15th |
| 67 |
Apr 21 |
Comment |
Hey Michael, that's a great idea! I'll give it a try in B&W. I put the cloud in there so as not to have so much empty space andf to give the impression that the tree was lifting up a cloud for our entertainment. Maybe that idea works, and maybe not! |
Apr 10th |
| 67 |
Apr 21 |
Comment |
Thanks, Larry. Now that you mention it the portion of the rock in shade needs some texture/clarity. |
Apr 5th |
8 comments - 1 reply for Group 67
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13 comments - 2 replies Total
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