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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 49 |
Sep 21 |
Comment |
Alan,
This image gives a feeling of tranquility amd invites the viewer to join the people on the canoe on what appears to be a lovely day. The river provides an excellent leading line allowing my eye to travel up the river to the water beyond. Great capture!
Suggestions: This seems a little over processed. the ripples in the water and the vegetation seem overly sharp. Also it looks like you may have over saturated the blues and greens. Easy things to fix! |
Sep 20th |
| 49 |
Sep 21 |
Comment |
Khalid, Boy it's great to see a drone photo in our group! I have not tried doing that! It seems like the story you are telling with this image is lush greenery on on side of the river and desert-like conditions on the other. The boat and the bridge are visually compelling and immediately caught my eye! I wonder if the image is strengthened if you cropped out about the third of the left portion of it, so that you don't see any of the houses, just the trees and vegetation? Then the river is no longer in the center and the story is much more about a world with water and a world without. What do you think? |
Sep 20th |
| 49 |
Sep 21 |
Comment |
Jo-Ann,
You encountered a difficult situation. The light in this scene varies from very bright to semi-dark. Our cameras are just not good enough to handle that wide a dynamic range. You could have waited until the turtle got into more uniform light or you could have shot it at different exposures and let LR merge them using HDR. The problem with that is that the HDR merge works best if the different images are all almost exactly the same. Not easy to do with eaven a slow moving subject. The left portion of the turle's shell is blown out as is the head. The head merges with the ground behind it. |
Sep 20th |
| 49 |
Sep 21 |
Comment |
Sylvia,
Bird photography is tough! It requires a lot of patience! Wildlife never seem to be in the right position for us! The problem with this image is the highlights in the background are very distracting. One solution is to do what Alan suggested, which is to crop out most of the background. After having done that, you might try to greatly darken the background. Another concern I have is the presence of the turtle. If your goal was to have both animals highlighted, then the turtle needs to be as sharp as the GNH, but it is not. Also, if you have 2 actors in a scene, they need to be interacting. They are not in this scene. So I'd be inclined to clone out the turtle. |
Sep 20th |
| 49 |
Sep 21 |
Reply |
Thanks, Alan. Like you I really liked the different colors and was hoping I got tack sharp all that needed to be tack sharp. |
Sep 16th |
4 comments - 1 reply for Group 49
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| 67 |
Sep 21 |
Comment |
Thanks so much for everyone's very thoughtful critiques. Here is a better version of the image taking into account what I learned from you. Look better? |
Sep 20th |
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| 67 |
Sep 21 |
Comment |
Bud, Great capture of an eagle in flight! I think your cropping and other post processing decisions were spot on. What's particularly imressive is that you did not blow out the whote head and still have good feather detail on the underside of his wing. Bravo! |
Sep 20th |
| 67 |
Sep 21 |
Comment |
Richard,
This is a great capture! The duck is sharp and the balancing act is visually intriguing! Love it.
Sugestions: The tonality on the duck is spot on. I'd darken the background a touch to allow the duck to pop out more. |
Sep 20th |
| 67 |
Sep 21 |
Comment |
Larry,
The continuing saga of Boris is incredible! Your attention to detail on when to go to Brois' area is impressive! My concern about this shot is that Boris's right wing merges with his beak, making it look as if his wing is growing out of his beak. Suggest you wait until his wing comes down some for your next shot, which I'm sure you did. |
Sep 20th |
| 67 |
Sep 21 |
Comment |
Jason,
I love the idea of shooting moving clouds with a very slow shutter speed. It's similar to what m ay of us do with waterfalls!
Suggestions: The tones in the bottom aren't working. There is also some haloing where the mountain meets the sky. That may be from using too much contrast. I like what Larry did to bring out more in the foreground and the cluds. |
Sep 20th |
| 67 |
Sep 21 |
Comment |
Cindy, I salute you for trying to do this. I live near Washington DC and never see the Milky Way because of the ambient light from the city.
Suggestions: The whole image is too bright to be believable. You can only see the Milky Way at night after all. I''d especially darken the trees. They look like they are bathed in midday light. The sky should be an inky black. I like what you did to correct the WB from the original. |
Sep 20th |
| 67 |
Sep 21 |
Comment |
I relly like the image posted as "original." It is very sharp for the two damselflies and the bokeh is just right. The other one is challenging to figure where my eye is supposed to rest. Some of the damselflies are sharp and some are not. Some we see in profile, but others are head on. |
Sep 20th |
| 67 |
Sep 21 |
Reply |
Yah, Cindy, I think I will try that. |
Sep 16th |
| 67 |
Sep 21 |
Reply |
Larry, thanks for the tips on bird shooting, whcih I can see is one of your specialties. I could not mount my camera on a tripod, because I was on a boat. I agree that an f stop of f5.6 would have been better, but I have been burned too often by lack of shaprness, so I went with the higher f stop.
I'll try what you suggested in PS. |
Sep 16th |
7 comments - 2 replies for Group 67
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11 comments - 3 replies Total
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