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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 49 |
May 24 |
Reply |
Thanks for your kind words Craig. I tried cropping my 8msge as well Stephen suggested, but ended up l8king it the way it is presented here! |
May 21st |
| 49 |
May 24 |
Reply |
Alan, you did a great job in reducing the negative impact of the background! |
May 17th |
| 49 |
May 24 |
Comment |
Peggy,
What a lovely scene! Makes me want to be there having a cup of coffee first thing in the morning! You did a nice job in getting the vertical lines straight. The peeling paint at the top of the arches is interesting. My only suggestion is to be careful in post processing. The blues next to the pillars seems smudgy. Did you clone out some things? |
May 17th |
| 49 |
May 24 |
Comment |
Alan,
You got great sharpness on the ducks and I love the blue color of the water. The ducks have enough separation so that it is easy to see that there are two ducks. Good job! I would just add some canvas to the right side to give the ducks room to swim into. This can be done in PS by using the crop tool, pull the handle to the right to create extra canvas, and then let PS fill in the new blank area with "content aware." |
May 17th |
| 49 |
May 24 |
Comment |
Josh,
The image of your friend is engaging and welcoming! You caught him in a good pose and a very natural smile! Great job! The lighting on his face is spot on! I wish you could have gotten him with a better background. My eye goes to the bright windows and people behind him. Tone down the background? |
May 17th |
| 49 |
May 24 |
Comment |
Stephen,
To me one of the hardest parts of taking pictures of buildings is straightening out the lines. Inevitably we are at ground level shooting straight upp and the lines all bend. Hey, that's physics for you! But you have nailed straightening out those horizontal and vertical lines. Bravo!! My only concern about the image is the whote background. It does not seem quite natural. Maybe replace it with a bluish sky and a few clouds? |
May 17th |
| 49 |
May 24 |
Comment |
Craig,
Although I am not much of a "car guy," I really like this image! The rust, the yellow, and the word "Caterpillar" all lmake this a very intriguing shot! My suggestions for improvement would be to reduce the highlights of everything in the background. I'm especially bothered by that vertical line in the upper right. Perhaps clone it out? A small nit is that in taking ths shot you were not quite dead center. |
May 17th |
5 comments - 2 replies for Group 49
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| 67 |
May 24 |
Comment |
Bud,
I can never see enough eagles in flight shots! Love that one bird is chasing the other! Great moment! I like the version where you added some canvas to the left side. it gives better balance to the shot. I am bothered by the haloing around each of the birds. Be careful not to over process images, especially when using the contrast slider. |
May 17th |
| 67 |
May 24 |
Comment |
Richard,
I doubt that I will ever see a bobolink in the wild, so thanks for sharing this image with us!! Like the other commenters, I'm torn between leaving the crop as you did it, which shows us all of the plant and its seeds and cropping it down more to focus more on the bird. The first approach tells the story of the bird feeding on the rice, but the second is just about the bird. Can't decide, myself. On suggestion I would offer is to tone down the background to let the bird pop out more. |
May 17th |
| 67 |
May 24 |
Comment |
Larry,
As always your tales from Florida are as captivating as the image itself! As a pretty adventuresome guy, I would not have charged off into seagrass in the dark! Bravo to you!!
I've only done the MW a couple of times. I live near a big city, so between the light pollution and the clouds, we never see more than just a few stars here on the clearest of nights. The time I did shoot the MW in Moab, UT, we shot two shots and merged them in PS. I like that technique because then the foreground looks softly lit and therefore more natural. My only suggestion for tis shot is that you tone down the foreground. |
May 17th |
| 67 |
May 24 |
Comment |
Cindy,
Love that you captured this with that wonderful backlighting. I admire that you took a number of shots to get one that you really liked! One of my weaknesses is not having enough patience!! I agree with Larry about the bottom and right side crops. I also suggest that you clone out the white spots on the left side. |
May 17th |
| 67 |
May 24 |
Comment |
Susan,
Greaet job capturing a wonderful moment! The angle of the birds is reflected in the angle of the tree and you have just enough separation between the two birds so that they don't merge! I agree with the others that the only downside to this wonderful image is the time of day and lack of some interesting clouds. The birds could use a bit more sharpening. |
May 17th |
| 67 |
May 24 |
Comment |
Michael,
I am inclined to agree with Cindy's take on this one. By having two pointed structures in the image, I'm not sure which one my eye is supposed to go to, the one on the right or the one on the left. I prefer the one on the right, so I would propose cropping off the left side, or better still make that a different photo. I'm surprised that the sky did not go darker, given what you showed us in the original. |
May 17th |
6 comments - 0 replies for Group 67
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11 comments - 2 replies Total
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