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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 49 |
Oct 21 |
Comment |
Alan,
Sunflowers provide us with a multitude of pictorial opportunities! most people forget that the back side is interesting too! The framing of this shot is spot on. You have some room all around the flower. I like the soft look of the green part of the flower. That is different. I'd clone out some of the black spots on the flower. Most troubling is that most of the yellow petals are blown out. |
Oct 20th |
| 49 |
Oct 21 |
Comment |
Khalid,
These kinds of shots are never easy. The subject is dark and the background light is too bright, so striking a good balance is not easy. Several suggestions: Straighten out the vertical lines. you can do this in LRC>transform. Darken the sky some. Bring out more of the detail in the statue and the surrounding arch. You needed to ensure taht the object the statue is holding did not merge with the background. Hard to fix that one! |
Oct 20th |
| 49 |
Oct 21 |
Comment |
Jo-ann, Great scene! Love the throw back feel of a farmer using a plow driven by horses. Seems like a scene from the 19th century! I agree with Alan's suggestions for improvement. Another thought is that you might try it in B&W with perhaps a sepia tone to give it more of a 19th century feel. |
Oct 20th |
| 49 |
Oct 21 |
Comment |
Sylvia, I can see why this scene caught your eye. You have lots of warm tones and a blue awning. Where I struggled with this one is trying to decide what the subject was. At first glance I thought it wa the car. It almost seems like a car ad. Then my eye bounced around the photo latching onto the bright areas. I think I would crop down the upper third of the photo to eliminate the bland roofs. |
Oct 20th |
| 49 |
Oct 21 |
Reply |
Thanks Alan. The day was overcast, which explains the flat light. I'll try bumping up the contrast a little. I really like the idea to try it in b&w. What do you think about cropping it down to just the lower portion of the window and some of the wall on the right. This would give greater emphasis on the torn lace curtains. |
Oct 10th |
4 comments - 1 reply for Group 49
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| 67 |
Oct 21 |
Reply |
Richard, thanks. That is what I was thinking too. A wall hanging at a beach house! |
Oct 25th |
| 67 |
Oct 21 |
Reply |
Well that's exactly the kind of gimbel that I use, a sidekick. As you say it is lightweight and inexpensive. I also have an RRS ball head that I really like. I'll have to investigate monopods. I had one for a while, but I could never master how to make good use of it. Thanks for these tips. |
Oct 21st |
| 67 |
Oct 21 |
Reply |
Larry
I'm intrigued by your boat shooting technique. What kind of gimbel do you use and are you happy with it? What kind of boat were you shooting from? I assume that it is not a kayak? |
Oct 21st |
| 67 |
Oct 21 |
Comment |
Richard,
What a tender moment! Mom and calf! I agree with the commenters that this works very well in B&W. I'd blur the background fence even more and get rid of the branches above the elk. |
Oct 20th |
| 67 |
Oct 21 |
Comment |
Larry,
You've done some amazing things on those FL lakes. Still can't imagine how you are able to shoot with a monopod with a gimble head on a boat! Wow.
You're right that it would have been better to have the bird flying toward the sun to get better light on his head and eye. I like the background. Yes we are used to seeing birds flying above us against a blue sky, bu they also fly among the trees, so the background does not bother me. You have it nice and soft. |
Oct 20th |
| 67 |
Oct 21 |
Comment |
Jason,
Great landscape shot. You have a tree framing the left side and the mountain framing the right side. Given the conditions, B&W was the way to go.
If the subject is the ray of sun, then I suggest you brighten the sun's rays using the adjustment brush in LRC. The image is surprisingly noisy given that your ISO was at 320. Suggest you run it through LRC noise reduction or Topaz Noise. |
Oct 20th |
| 67 |
Oct 21 |
Comment |
Cindy,
What a story! The hike up there with your camera gear sounds treacherous! Bravo! The image is well exposed and leads my eye to the back of the cave. What is confusing to my eye is the green curtain. You explained it well that the green color comes from the soil, but it is confusing in that that color green says "spring" or "summer." So to my eye the green is the color of the outside foliage being reflected through the curtain. I'd almost tempt you to consider changing the color to a light blue to connote a wintry feeling.
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Oct 20th |
| 67 |
Oct 21 |
Comment |
Michael,
This is a kind of classic landscape shot. You have used the stream as an effective leading line that draws the viewer's eye through to the mountains. I also liked the clouds hanging over the mountains. There's a kind of mystery implied. Well done!
I'd suggest several things. You say that you brought down the highlights on the stream. I'd darken the stream a lot more. While you have some interesting color with the yellows and some green, I'd try it in B&W just to see what you think. The trees on the right are devoid of foliage, so B&W might help them. |
Oct 20th |
| 67 |
Oct 21 |
Reply |
Stephen, I really appreciate your affirming my gut instinct that sometimes the whole scene is the "subject." I'd try another shot of the Bay of fundy, but I was just visiting there for a [hoto workshop. |
Oct 5th |
5 comments - 4 replies for Group 67
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9 comments - 5 replies Total
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