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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 49 |
May 22 |
Comment |
Dicky,
I agree with the others about the dehaze slider and contrast to help with the flat colors. You might also consider cropping out the bridges at the top right. They take my eye out of the photo. Crop in from the right until the two bridges disappear. Then it is clearer that the subject is that cable cars. |
May 13th |
| 49 |
May 22 |
Comment |
Alan,
I haven't made the jump to mirrorless, so it was interesting to get your take on these new cameras.
This is a nice portrait of the prairie dog! You caught him/her in a interesting pose. My only suggestions would be to go back to PS and darken the area around the subject a little more. The piece of bark or dirt on the lower right might be cloned out. You might consider putting a vignette on the image as well. |
May 13th |
| 49 |
May 22 |
Comment |
Josh,
This is a very effective image of the eye of the cat! The eye is very sharp. Well done. The back ear starts to get blurry. Not sure if shooting at f6.3 might help that. I'd put a vignette around it to draw the eye toward you suject. |
May 13th |
| 49 |
May 22 |
Comment |
Jo-Anne,
Shooting alligators can be fun! They look so pre-historic! I think you needed to decide whether you wanted the whole gator, or a part. It appears you have most of the body with the eyes on the left edge. So you have cut off the snout. Suggest just shooting a close up of the eyes or eyes and snout. |
May 13th |
| 49 |
May 22 |
Comment |
Craig,
What a moment! Since you brought your own strobe light to light p the scene, you could control where it falls. I think it would be a better shot if the dancers were well lit aas you have them, ut the back wall were underexposed. I guess the way to do that would be to have the dancers stand closer to the strobe and back away from the wall. The way it is now, the many cool things on the wall compete with the dancers. |
May 13th |
| 49 |
May 22 |
Comment |
Sylvia,
I love the impressionistic style, so I applaud what you are doing in this picture. The soft backgrounds ae lovely and keep my eye on the sharper of the two flowers. I also like that you have the stem of the flower coming into the frame from the corner. This makes for a more dynamic shot. Well done! My two suggestions are that to emphasize the importance of the flower on the right, I'd consider using a vignette or perhaps use LRC "select subject" and darken th rest of the image subtly. The other suggestion is to blur the flower on the let. It is not sharp, which was your intention, but it still complete's with the star of your show. |
May 13th |
| 49 |
May 22 |
Reply |
I'm going to give these ideas a try. |
May 10th |
| 49 |
May 22 |
Reply |
Never quite sure what curves are all about. Let me give it a try. |
May 10th |
| 49 |
May 22 |
Comment |
Alan,
Thanks, that is what I was looking to do with this composition. Thanks for confirming that it appears to work. |
May 10th |
7 comments - 2 replies for Group 49
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| 67 |
May 22 |
Comment |
Bud,
Superb action shot!! You've got the birds separated and LOTS of interaction! Suggest you try denoise again. I seem to see lots of noise in the sky. |
May 13th |
| 67 |
May 22 |
Comment |
Richard,
Thanks for giving us all the info on your outdoor studio. I've got to figure out how to do that! The image of the bird is tack sharp and you have the bird in an interesting pose. I also really like the stump the bird is perched on. This makes the scene look very natural. The only thing I might consider is darkening the background some more. The bright yellows to the left draw my eye away from the bird. You might darken and desaturate theis area. |
May 13th |
| 67 |
May 22 |
Comment |
Larry,
Really nice capture of the heron! Suggest you consider desaturating the rocks behind the bird. The bird's head and mouth have some of the same tones and colors as the rock immediately behind him/her. At first those portions of the bird merged a bit into the rock for me. |
May 13th |
| 67 |
May 22 |
Comment |
Jason,
How can you miss with baby and mom? This is a universal theme that should touch all of us! Obviously you turned it into B&W, but I wonder what it looked like in color? What color are those eyes? I keep thinking tht if the eyes were a nice yellow and the twig was of course green, if the photo would have even more pop? |
May 13th |
| 67 |
May 22 |
Comment |
Frank,
Just getting an image of this beautiful bird with its plumage vibrant and visible was not easy! OK so you got it in a porr composition, but you improved it. While I have no problem with sky replacement, I thin original 2 is also a strong composition. It has the bird flying out of the brush. For your sky replacement version, I love how you have the break in the clouds mimicking the angle into which the bird will be flying. Nice touch! |
May 13th |
| 67 |
May 22 |
Comment |
Michael,
Such are the travails of a nature photographer! nature throw a log at you!!
To me the biggest distractions in the scene are the somewhat flat light and the sky on the left. I like what Isaac dis to crop off most of that sky and to enliven the colors. |
May 13th |
| 67 |
May 22 |
Comment |
Thanks bud! No higher praise than to hear someone say that they can imagine being in the scene! |
May 12th |
| 67 |
May 22 |
Reply |
Larry,
Thanks for confirming my initial thought about the composition. I took several other photos from the same spot as verticals and was half contemplating doing a comnposite. Now I will not bother. |
May 10th |
| 67 |
May 22 |
Comment |
Thanks, Richard. I wondered if I should have done this as a vertical pano to get more of the trees? |
May 4th |
8 comments - 1 reply for Group 67
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15 comments - 3 replies Total
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