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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 49 |
Mar 22 |
Reply |
Thanks for the tutorial on helicon. I need to look into that! |
Mar 22nd |
| 49 |
Mar 22 |
Comment |
Dicky,
Thanks again for giving us a glimpse of life in Hong Kong.
Like the others in our group, I am puzzled by the inclusion of the chains. They are not sharp, so I would either have made them very blurry or made them very sharp and let the rest of the scene be softer. Like Alan, I hope you explored the man y individual scenes that are in this image that look truly fascinating. Sorry the sky was not cooperating with you. An empty mid-day sky isn't helping the image. I can just imagine this scenat say dawn or dusk with some wonderful clouds. |
Mar 20th |
| 49 |
Mar 22 |
Comment |
Alan,
Thanks for showing us what can be done with helicon and focus stacking. I've just used PS to do this. Please tell us why you like helicon to do the job better.
You've nailed sharpness and I love the water drops. That always makes flowers look fresh and alive! Suggest you tone down the leaf in the upper left. It is too bright and competes with the darker flower that is of course your subject. Since you have clipped the two red petals on the left and right, you may want to crop off about 20% or som off the bottom, thereby clipping the bottom red petal the same way you clipped the left and right ones. This would rid you of the bright green foliage in the bottom of the image. |
Mar 20th |
| 49 |
Mar 22 |
Comment |
Josh,
What a beautiful warm image! Love how you have made the grass seeds pop out with a wide open aperture.
What most concerns me about the image is the bright sunlight in the upper right. Perhas if you had shot this at a different camera angle so as to eliminate that brightness, it would give greater emphasis to the grass seeds. The crop that Alan suggested moves in that direction. I'd also suggest toning way down the grasses in the foreground. Several of the stalks are too bright. This would increase the efectiveness of the bokeh effect that you were going for. |
Mar 20th |
| 49 |
Mar 22 |
Comment |
Jo-ann,
I've only tried putting multiple images on one canvas a couple of times and they weren't as successful as your poster. Good imagination!
I think I would stick with the original three images, rather than show several mages more than once. I'd clone out the red earing, it is very distracting. On the image in the lower left, I'd clone out the coffee cup. On the one in the upper left, I'd clone out the stray hair at the very top of the image and give her head a little more room between her head and the top of the image frame. The bottom center image is smaller than the other imagers of the mayor. Suggest you make it the same size. |
Mar 20th |
| 49 |
Mar 22 |
Comment |
Craig,
What a wonderfully imaginative image! Masterful use of PS to construct the image you had in your mind!
Several suggestions: Wish you had not clipped off her elbow on the right. The magenta hues on her apron work for me, since it is believable that the bright magenta on the street would cast that hue on her apron. I'm also OK with that hue being on the left side of the coffee cup. I'm less persuaded by the magenta hue on the coffee pot. It seems like it ought to be on the left side of the pot, not down the middle. |
Mar 20th |
| 49 |
Mar 22 |
Comment |
Sylvia,
I also had the great pleasure of visiting antelope canyon. It is an incredibly inspiring place! Photographically it is a very difficult place to shoot because of the crowds, the dust, and the very high contrast. You must have been on a photographer's tour, so they can keep the crowds back for a while. The problem with this image is the blown out highlights. To solve that, you needed to be on a tripod and need to shoot 3-5 shots at different shutter speeds. Then when you get home you combine them in LRC using HDR. Then the software will help expand the very high dynamic range of the scene. |
Mar 20th |
| 49 |
Mar 22 |
Reply |
Dicky, Not sure what you mean by "high profile?" Do you mean making the exposure brighter? |
Mar 18th |
| 49 |
Mar 22 |
Comment |
Josh, thanks for the suggested cleanups. I'll check out using the exposurea little. |
Mar 15th |
7 comments - 2 replies for Group 49
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| 67 |
Mar 22 |
Reply |
Thanks all for your encouragement. I won first place for the revised version of this at my camera club last week!! |
Mar 21st |
| 67 |
Mar 22 |
Comment |
Bud, I love images of moving water. There is so much you can do with them! This is a big waterfall with lots to capture!
You elected to go with the "freeze the moment" option by shooting at 1/2500 sec. That gives it a sense of the power and excitement of the falls! I usually go with the 1/5 sec option to give the falls a smooth look. But there is no "right way" to do it. The only thing I might have experimented with is shooting it as a vertical, so that we can see the water crashing on the rocks below.
Great capture!! |
Mar 19th |
| 67 |
Mar 22 |
Comment |
Larry, this image is very well done. The lighting on the GBH and the sky are beautiful. The only comment I would make by way of constructive criticism is that the bird merges with the tree on the right. Wish you could have caught him a few seconds before he got that close to the tree. |
Mar 19th |
| 67 |
Mar 22 |
Comment |
Jason, I really like the pose and expression on this coyote! The image is sharp and you caught the animal looking right at you! Well done. It's hard to get much detail in the snow, but have some near the animal's feet. The only thing I might suggest to improve a very good image would be to put a vignette around it to push the eye toward the coyote. |
Mar 19th |
| 67 |
Mar 22 |
Comment |
Michael, You have an exciting action shot. I really like the angle of the bird. I agree with the other commenters, that you needed a faster shutter speed to make something on the bird sharper. I'd also consider cloning out the branch behind the bird's tail. |
Mar 19th |
| 67 |
Mar 22 |
Reply |
Thanks for these comments. It made me rethink the iage. Did I want it to be an abstract that looked like the galaxy or a prety cool piece of ice. I wanted the first effect. So here is a shot at that. |
Mar 9th |
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4 comments - 2 replies for Group 67
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11 comments - 4 replies Total
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