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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 49 |
Nov 22 |
Comment |
Dicky, this is a very dramatic image! Love the fact that you did not let the Sun get blown out. Good job. My only suggestions are that you might consider cloning out the drone that is above the bridge and to the left of the bus. The other suggestion is that yo might have changed your camera position to put the sunlight in the middle framed by the cables, but that may not have been possible. |
Nov 25th |
| 49 |
Nov 22 |
Comment |
Josh, like others in the thread, I really like that you decided to shoot something ordinary to get us to appreciate the ordinary. I could easily imagine this hanging in a Starbucks! I'm also a fan of macro. I love the degree of sharpness that you achieved in a bunch of the beans in the middle, but find myself wanting more of the beans in focus. Perhaps 5he solution is to have either a smaller aperture like f16 or 18 or to place the beans you want in soft focus further away from the camera. What do you think? |
Nov 25th |
| 49 |
Nov 22 |
Comment |
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Nov 25th |
| 49 |
Nov 22 |
Comment |
Joanne, well as others have said you definitely have an other worldly look. The halos around the trees however looks like you've just over processed it. You might try changing the colors of things if you want the outer space look. |
Nov 25th |
| 49 |
Nov 22 |
Comment |
Craig, I love this shot. The dof renders the background into a soft green. Very good. My only suggestions are to perhaps use a bit more dof to get the throat feathers in focus too and wait for the bird looks a bit more directly at you. |
Nov 25th |
| 49 |
Nov 22 |
Comment |
Owen
I live in the dc area and love to take pictures of our national monuments. Very nice dawn shot. You have the statue of Jefferson perfectly in the spaces between the columns! Well done. Suggestions woukd be to clone out a couple of light fixtures, like the one to the right of the dome. To achieve a better reflection you might use a slow shutter speed with perhaps an md filter. The highlights above the dome almost merge in tonality with the tone of the dome. You might try selecting the subject in lrc and invert the selection. Then reduce the luminosity just a touch. Just a thought. |
Nov 24th |
| 49 |
Nov 22 |
Comment |
Thanks you all for your helpful comments. I think I'll end up cloning out the house in the upper left and cropping about 10% off the right side. This retains the white and red houses and the road connecting the two. Like several of you I like the layers on the top and bottom. Thanks again for your feedback. |
Nov 23rd |
| 49 |
Nov 22 |
Reply |
Owen, thanks for this feedback. So if I cropped off the right half woukd you include the white, brown, and red houses? What do you think? |
Nov 12th |
| 49 |
Nov 22 |
Reply |
Craig, I think the flat lighting is because of the overcast sky. I'll work on burning in some of the rocky areas. Thanks. |
Nov 12th |
7 comments - 2 replies for Group 49
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| 67 |
Nov 22 |
Reply |
I know what you npmean Richard I'm an east coast guy. This shot was in the Shetland island. I'm pretty much blown away with the whole idea of sea stacks., |
Nov 26th |
| 67 |
Nov 22 |
Reply |
Thanks Larry |
Nov 25th |
| 67 |
Nov 22 |
Reply |
Larry, I like the idea of using you as a judge for our camera club competition. I'll pass tgat along. What I referring to was the psa classes you mentioned. Do you have a link so we could get to those classes? Thanks. |
Nov 25th |
| 67 |
Nov 22 |
Reply |
Cindy this is an intriguing version. I like the color and the softer sky. While I was interested in the horizontal bands of clouds versus the vertical cliffs. Now I wonder if the clouds might detract if I bring up the contrast in them as I did. Thanks for thinking creatively with me.! |
Nov 25th |
| 67 |
Nov 22 |
Comment |
I also like Larry's crop. |
Nov 24th |
| 67 |
Nov 22 |
Comment |
Richard, loved the bird and the feather detail! I agree with others that the branches in the lower left shoukd be cloned out. I might add more canvas to the left side so the bird has some more room to fly. When I expanded it I lost some clarity, so consider sharpening the bird. |
Nov 24th |
| 67 |
Nov 22 |
Comment |
Larry,
Great work in ps. I'm in love with moving water images but I've not thought about taking shots at different shutter speeds and then combining the best elements in ps. I usually take the same composition with different shutter speeds and pick the one I like best. I'll certainly try this technique. My only suggestion woukd be to darken that tiny hint of an upper waterfall in the upper right. I'd either darken it or woukd have moved more to the left to get more of it into the image. |
Nov 24th |
| 67 |
Nov 22 |
Comment |
Cindy, I agree with the other suggestions. My greatest concern is that the back of 5he bear is pretty bright and loses definition in the fur. Try reducing the highlights in lrc.
Larry, I really appreciate your description of the levels! Coukd you give us a link to your talks on competitions? |
Nov 24th |
| 67 |
Nov 22 |
Comment |
Frank,
I can see why you want to rescue this one! Endearing shot! If you go with b&w, then the sky is not a problem. You are going high key. I'm more concerned about the upper adult. I cannot see his face. Consider cropping out the top two monkeys? What do you think? |
Nov 24th |
| 67 |
Nov 22 |
Comment |
Michael,
I like the shot of the bird and also like 5he idea of putting the bird in its environment. The wide open shutter gives you just what you want for the bird, but it also brings along with it some foliage that is sort of sharp and most of 6he rest as blurry, almost like there is motion blur. I found that distracting along with the bright spots behind the bird. So having said that, you might take the pic into ps select the bird and invert the selection. Then apply a mild Gaussian blur to the rest so that all of the background is similar,y blurry. |
Nov 24th |
| 67 |
Nov 22 |
Reply |
Oh frank I like this. I guess I thought that with so little color in the original that the b&w treatment woukd work better. Having the sky softer with less contrast might work better too. Thanks. |
Nov 24th |
| 67 |
Nov 22 |
Comment |
Larry and michael, thanks for you constructive feedback. I'll work on dodging and burning to get better definition to the sea stacks. I'm not that skilled in doing that but this will be a good excuse to try. One of my concerns was that some of the sea stacks merged, like the ones on the right, so I did a lot of dodging on the front rock and burning on the larger one behind it. I think that worked to separate them.
Michael it is interesting to me that you liked the original unctopped version. I think I can see myself cropping the left side and leaving the right side uncropped. What do you think?
My goal in cropping was to get your eyes to look through the slot to see the two smaller rocks in the ba k. |
Nov 22nd |
7 comments - 5 replies for Group 67
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14 comments - 7 replies Total
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