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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 32 |
Mar 19 |
Reply |
Really there are so many good Utube videos out there telling you how to do it. Even Ps produces a simple instructional one. |
Mar 23rd |
| 32 |
Mar 19 |
Reply |
I preferred this without the poster edges effect -it looks cleaner! |
Mar 20th |
| 32 |
Mar 19 |
Reply |
I've just started using photo stacking as we have anew macro group in our society and one of our members uses it to get stunning images. It takes time to get the focus of every bit right but does work well. Ps seemed to cope even with a large number of images to work with. It means even the back bits would be sharp. |
Mar 20th |
| 32 |
Mar 19 |
Reply |
Initially find a suitable sky! Sometimes that is the problem. Open the sky and make sure it is large enough to cover the whole area of the blank area. Make sure they have the same bit size and profile. Open the street image. Then use any of the many Utube videos to get it right. Petapixel does 2 minute very easy instructions. He is Peter McKinnon and his videos are good. It's much easier to follow than other people's and I like being able to stop and start so I can do what he says on my picture. |
Mar 20th |
| 32 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
I don't think it's too busy but I actually prefer the colour version. I like the subdued colours. I am not sure about the poster edges treatment. What did it look like as a straight mono conversion with Nik structure? This is certainly an image worth taking and playing with. Can we see some alternative treatments please? |
Mar 19th |
| 32 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
I thought the original was the better but after viewing both, I came to the conclusion that in the original, the dominant part was the reflection and in the mono, this disappeared and the person became the dominant part. Weird! I love the bright yellow jacket, though the real one needs darkening a little bit. The crop is good to take away the top right corner. Could you lighten the shaded part of the face in the mono one as her eyes have disappeared. Her left hand is the lightest part of the image which detracts from the face and the tracing. |
Mar 19th |
| 32 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
I like the greater detail that Jennifer achieved and I thought it made it much more interesting. My only other suggestion would be to drop a more interesting sky in, because the white sky at the top is too glaring. You have such great detail of the street and you want to keep the viewer looking there and not being drawn up and out at the top. |
Mar 19th |
| 32 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
The detail when I looked close is amazing. However the light fall-off is quite dramatic from bottom right to top left and I think this is your problem, because the eye gets drawn up and then there's nothing there -just black background. I feel you need to keep the light much the same across the whole flower. i don't know how much of the flower made up the original picture, but I wondered if it was possible to cut off the top and left side so that the picture became even more constrained to just the centre and a bit of the florets at the back. Then I would use the curves tool to increase the contrast. |
Mar 19th |
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| 32 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
I like the mono conversion and you've made it really crisp. I felt that it needed a more diagonal slant to make it more pictorial. At the moment it is a bit straight up and down even though there is a slight tilt. I also might go for a blacker background. I agree the water drops are a bit lost. If you've already used Nik, then I can't think of what else to do! |
Mar 19th |
| 32 |
Mar 19 |
Reply |
I tried darkening the wall at the back and thought it was too dark for what was a high key snow image. I wanted the effect to be white snow and the bikes to be all important. With the darker background, the bikes lost some of their impact I felt? |
Mar 19th |
| 32 |
Mar 19 |
Reply |
Yes, I thought the snow came up too white. I tried the high structure but it made the rest too detailed. perhaps I need to do some careful masking to keep the rest smoother. The wall at the back was made of snow bricks. The builders had done a good job of creating a sledge area, a long distance ice skating path across the lake which was lethal and had big warning signs, a kiddies skating area, and a sitting area with deckchairs beside several BBQ sites. They were also offering hot chocolate for those brave enough to sit in the cold.
perhaps the answer to entering competitions is to choose places which don't get snow because then it is unusual!
I shall try to enter your salon. |
Mar 5th |
5 comments - 6 replies for Group 32
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5 comments - 6 replies Total
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