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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 49 |
Nov 25 |
Comment |
Morrie,
Hats off to you for trying to do street photogra[phy, probably on the fly. I really like the solitary person with a slight reflection on the wet cobblestones behind him/her. This suggests loneliness. But my eye starts wandering on the names of all of the shops in the background. You might have blurred the background with a wider aperture or in LRC, blur the background by using a brush to reduce the clarity and texture. Well seen scene!! |
Nov 14th |
| 49 |
Nov 25 |
Comment |
Alan,
Those old steam engines are a greaat subject to photograph! You've got a sense of the length of the train with the curve in the tracks. I wish you could have gotten more of the steam coming out of the smokestack. Perhaps a vertiacal shot would have done it? If you had a tripod, I'd suggest that youm shoot several vertical shots and merge them in LRC. |
Nov 14th |
| 49 |
Nov 25 |
Comment |
Josh,
Great idea! Use a long shutter speed to capture the light trails of the moving cars. Some of the cars are stopped, so you don't get their light trails. Perhaps try this at an even slower shiutter speed? I love the foggy, misty feel of the image. I might either greatly reduce the highlights of the two very bright signs on the left or clone them out. My eye goes to them instead of the light trails leading me to the capital building. |
Nov 14th |
| 49 |
Nov 25 |
Comment |
Craig,
This is certaily an imaginative image! Flower power, baby!! I like how you emersed the subject in a sea of flowers. The PS work looks pretty good. My only suggestions for improvement might be to reveal her left hand. The arm goes down and disappears behind a flower making her look like an amputee. You might also reduce the glare in her glasses. |
Nov 14th |
| 49 |
Nov 25 |
Comment |
Cindy,
Really like this image! The bee is sharp and so is the stem and flowers. I like that the stem is at an angle. Great separation between the bee and the green soft background! That makes for a more dynamic image. I only wish those little blue flowers were a bit more full. Seems like they are at the end of their season. |
Nov 14th |
5 comments - 0 replies for Group 49
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| 67 |
Nov 25 |
Reply |
Butch,
thanks for catching the light spots above the lion. I was so focused on eliminating the hundreds of flies from his body that I missed that! |
Nov 11th |
| 67 |
Nov 25 |
Comment |
Bud,
Agree with butch. Carion are not attractive, but hey there is the circle of life going on here! You did a great job increasing the canvas on the top and sides. It was too tight in the original. I agree with Butch about darkening the foamy wave in the back. Otherwise great shot! |
Nov 11th |
| 67 |
Nov 25 |
Comment |
Butch,
One of our challenges as photographers is to look at familiar things in a very different and arresting way. Well you sure did that! We've all seen saguaro cactus images, but not like this! Great shot. My only suggestion for improvement is to clone out the plant on the right that jenny mentioned and consider adding some canvas to the top. the top of the catctus is bumbing into the top edge of the freame. |
Nov 11th |
| 67 |
Nov 25 |
Comment |
Larry,
OK, you're in the running for the next comical bird competition! Seriously, this is a great shot! The bird is looking right at you and you've got him looking right at you! I agree with burch about cloning out the branch on the lower left. |
Nov 11th |
| 67 |
Nov 25 |
Comment |
Cindy,
Getting one elephant dusting itself is pretty cool, but you got two at once! Way to go! Your story says that they were fighting it out, but this picture does not say fighting to me, but two elephants trying to keep the bugs at bay. The crop is very good. You got rid of the bald sky and focused our attention on the elephants. If I were to pick just one of the elephants, as butch suggests, I think I prefer the one on the left. You see more of the body and you get more dust. Great moment and well captured! |
Nov 11th |
| 67 |
Nov 25 |
Comment |
Jenny,
Welcome to the group! I love the composition! You have interesting rocks in the foreground with a body of water leading us to the island. Youy were also smart enough to leave a little gap between the island and the mainland on the left, so that we could appreciate that it is an island. Had you moved several feet to the right, then the mainland and island would have merged. Bravo! Great that you experimented with different exposure speeds. I try between 1/2 sec to 2 secs. on moving water shots. My oly suggestion might be, what if you had waited say 20-40 mintues later? Could you get a starburst of sunlight over the island? Just a thought! |
Nov 11th |
5 comments - 1 reply for Group 67
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10 comments - 1 reply Total
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