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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 31 |
May 19 |
Comment |
I just put a comment and it disappeared. Just visiting from group 32.
Well done Ian for the possible appointment.
Re the photo, I wondered whether you could lighten the pale bits of the frieze so they matched the candle flames. Were they actually black candles -I didn't go to see them. I also thought maybe the perspective needed tweaking so the verticals looked more vertical. I know you were looking up, but the slight angle distracted me. |
May 14th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 31
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| 32 |
May 19 |
Reply |
Yes, I agree. It's a bit like taking stained glass windows. A lot of judges think they are not your work so score them lowly. It's better if the window is just a part of a churche's interior. So maybe, you could incorporate the head as part of a hugely manipulated complex image, but I don'y think you do that sort of photography! |
May 20th |
| 32 |
May 19 |
Reply |
I could crop off a large portion of the sky and some of the bottom and make it a letter box shape? |
May 20th |
| 32 |
May 19 |
Reply |
Thanks. I shall try moving mine to a sunnier windowsill. I'll also repot and feed. It is in a very small pot with probably too little root room, so it's not getting enough nourishment, although it's leaves are very lush green. |
May 20th |
| 32 |
May 19 |
Comment |
Square images are a good format because they fill the frame when projected, but many pictures don't actually suit square, and sometimes, the author has just cropped down and down and the subject isn't right for square. We've had a couple of competitions where the title was square format and we all found we had to go out and take specifically for it. Our back catalogue didn't have suitable images. |
May 14th |
| 32 |
May 19 |
Comment |
I like what Stephen has done -adding contrast and straightening it. I tried a small crop off the bottom of the uninteresting grass and also the bush. It's a pity there is so much bush obscuring the corner. I would either put in a new sky or improve the contrast on the existing one. I've never seen this tower block. I had another thougt. Did you try standing at its bottom and shooting looking up, with a wide angle lens to give depth of field. That would create dynamism. |
May 14th |
| 32 |
May 19 |
Comment |
I agree with Lynne -it needs a crop off the bottom. I think it also needs greater contrast beyond what you've done already to make it more dramatic. Having been judging all weekend, I think this would only get a relatively low mark because it still looks too ordinary. Isn't it annoying that people put chains round things to keep people off, because it spoils it You could probably clone them out quite easily! |
May 14th |
| 32 |
May 19 |
Comment |
I actually don't think they've got the light quite right as the shadow cuts across the eye as well. because it's such a harsh spotlight, all the shadows are rather dark on my monitor and as Lynne says, there are also very bright highlights. I wondered whether a crop off the bottom would remove some of the base, roughly along the line of the curtain backdrop and then the shelf would not be distracting. Is this a she or a he? |
May 14th |
| 32 |
May 19 |
Comment |
I'm not sure this works for me because there is too much negative space and because it is white shading at the corners, it still makes a very long thin picture with 2 centres of interest -the leaves at the bottom and the buds at the top. I'm also not happy with the top of the flower pot showing at the bottom and I don't know how you ca get rid of this. maybe drop the plants out of the pot while you take the photo and then repot? I think i will be happier to see the orchid flowers when the arrive. How do you make your orchids flower again? I've never managed it. I've got a plant from my sister who died and I'd like to get it to produce flowers again but so far -3 years on - it stubbornly only has leaves. |
May 14th |
| 32 |
May 19 |
Reply |
Yes, it does put the grass in a better place and improves the picture. I never thought of making it more square because my usual thought for a landscape is a horizontal format. |
May 10th |
5 comments - 4 replies for Group 32
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6 comments - 4 replies Total
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