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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 49 |
Feb 23 |
Comment |
Alan,
What a great action shot! You've got the lead dogs sharp and with very interesting expressions. Love the snow on their faces and the little blue booties on their feet! Alsomost wish you had the sled driver in sharper focus. Next time use say f18-f32. |
Feb 28th |
| 49 |
Feb 23 |
Comment |
Josh,
Like others, I really like the fog! It adds an element of mystery to the scene and depth. Given how monotone the whole scene is, you might just try rendering it in B&W, just to see how you might like it. |
Feb 28th |
| 49 |
Feb 23 |
Comment |
Jo-anne,
What a wonderful tower. I thought at first that it was the Eiffel Tower, but of course it is not. I like what other commenters have suggested about straightening the image and then using PS's sky replacement to get rid of the blank sky. |
Feb 28th |
| 49 |
Feb 23 |
Comment |
Craig,
The model and the horse are very sharp and you have her looking right at the camera. Great job!! Hving her wear a red scarf is also a bonus! While you have created a blur for the images behind the woman and the horse, the white campers on the left and the white railing on the right draw my eye away from the model and the horse. Suggest you either darken them down significantly or preferably clomne them out. |
Feb 28th |
| 49 |
Feb 23 |
Comment |
Owen,
This is one of those shots that I want to have in my portfolio. It reminds me of some of those classic Ansel Adams shots. The trick with something like this is where do you cut it off? I'd crop in a little on the left to get rid of that tiny piece of one of those posts and on the right to get rid of a portion of a post. Then you have an image with full posts and shadows suggesting other posts. |
Feb 28th |
| 49 |
Feb 23 |
Comment |
Thanks all of you for your kind words. OK, here are some of the answers to you questions.
I'm not quite sure how it works, but when you hit a moving object with a flash with your shutter open, of course, it tends to freeze the action. So on some of my experiments with this, I set the camera on bulb, used a darkened room, opened the shutter, hit the flash, and then closed the shutter. The shutter might have been open for 1-2 seconds, but it captured something that took place in probably 1/1000 sec.
I used a gel over the flash to create the green light. I bounced the flash off of the back of a light tent, which is white. That is why you see more light in the upper right than the rest of the photo. I have tried using another light to bathe the light tent in one color and then use a different color on the flash. So for example, blue and red equal magenta.
I have attached a copy of the original photo, where you can see the back edge of the bowl I was using to contain the water. I went into PS, used the gradient tool and lots of healing brush to smooth out the line between the water and the background. I wanted to give the impression of the background fading into infinity.
To synchronize the flash to the camera, I used a MIOPS Splash device. It allows you to set the size of the waterdrops, and the intervals between them. It took hundreds of shots to get it to give me these results. Patience!! |
Feb 12th |
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| 49 |
Feb 23 |
Reply |
Owen,
The shutter speed was in fact 1/100 sec. The reason it is so slow is because the flash that freezes the instant. I have other shots where the shutter speed is several seconds. I was shooting in a dark room, but the flash freezes the motion. As the first waterdrop rises, it collides with the second waterdrop coming down. The umbrella shape is what it looks like when 2 drops collide. The waterdrop that you see just above the water is a portion of the column of water that is descending back into the tray. |
Feb 11th |
6 comments - 1 reply for Group 49
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| 67 |
Feb 23 |
Comment |
Bud,
You captured a great moment! Like others, I am drawn in by those orange eyes of the mother! Without your narrative, I would not have guessed that the baby monkey had just rushed back to mom's protection. I wish I coud see more of the other sibling's face.
As far as the lighting issue is concerned, as photographers, we are making images and art, not just taking pictures. I thought the darkened background was natural and not overdone. |
Feb 17th |
| 67 |
Feb 23 |
Comment |
Richard,
What a great moment! I prefer the more vibrant sky in your edited version. Too bad you could not have gotten more of the bird on the left. I'd be tempted to clone him out. All of the action is between the parent bird with the fish and the chicks on the right. |
Feb 17th |
| 67 |
Feb 23 |
Comment |
Larry,
You've got the sharpness right where you ant it on the coyote's face. Those eyes are a picture of intensity! At first glance i was distracted by the barbed wire, but I think this becomes and interesting part of the story. Nice job! |
Feb 17th |
| 67 |
Feb 23 |
Comment |
Cindy,
This is a great capture! Love the size of that fish! I agree with the other commenters about eliminating the black lne at the top, while still maintaining some room. Your recent crop looks great. I'm bothered by the bird on the right. It is not sharp and merges abit with the mif=ddle bird. It would be great if you could clone out the one on the right. Then you would have the swallowing bird and the middle bird watching him in the act! |
Feb 17th |
| 67 |
Feb 23 |
Comment |
Susan,This is a classic eagle shot! Great job in cropping it down to the essentials. One of the hard parts of shooting eagles, as Larry mentioned, is getting the head and tail right. His suggestion is one I use as well (underexpose). The other thing that is hard to get is proper lighting on the underside, but you had the sun in just the right spot to avoid a dark underside. Well done!! |
Feb 17th |
| 67 |
Feb 23 |
Comment |
Michael,
I really like the sharpness of the deer's head and the tongue is a real eye grabber!!
About the only suggestion I might venture is to clone out a couple of the dark spots on the body of the deer. Make them the same color as the surrounding lightwer color. I'm sure this is just where the deer's body peaks out between the vegetation. |
Feb 17th |
| 67 |
Feb 23 |
Reply |
Cindy, I love the idea of making a separate picture out of the right portion of the image. Will work on that one!
I did not try shooting this image at a slower shutter speed. I guess I was too focused on getting the rainbow effect. I'll keep that one in mind for the future. |
Feb 9th |
| 67 |
Feb 23 |
Reply |
Thanks, Biud. You are right. That was where I was in the morning! |
Feb 5th |
| 67 |
Feb 23 |
Reply |
Thanks for the comments, Larry! This is Yosemite Falls, located not far from where we stayed. |
Feb 3rd |
6 comments - 3 replies for Group 67
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12 comments - 4 replies Total
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