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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 32 |
Aug 21 |
Reply |
Could this be done using luminosity masks -have a look at website by Jimmy McIntyre <jimmy@shutterevolve.com. He does wonderful things with them and they do seem to stop any problems with hotspots. |
Aug 14th |
| 32 |
Aug 21 |
Comment |
Everyone thinks I need to increase the blackness/contrast, which is my usual style of photo! When I go for something outside my usual, it never quite works! |
Aug 9th |
| 32 |
Aug 21 |
Comment |
These are such beautiful birds with the softest feathers. This does work very well in mono. In colour it is a bit brash, whereas the orange bits have been softened in the mono. This is a close-up headshot which is much more likely to do well in America than GB, because it is so tight in the frame. However that single eye is so dominant -it draws my eye every time. The background has converted well so it doesn't impinge on the owl. Good one Wes! |
Aug 8th |
| 32 |
Aug 21 |
Comment |
I would have been taking this as well. I love the old feel to the stairs, though it is a bit strange that they appear to go nowhere. I assume from the colour that they did actually carry on further. Removing the hand rail helped enormously.This has great texture detail. The front of the building in the mono has lost the slight shadow in the colour and I wondered if this needed to be darkened so there is less brightness on the edge of the frame. |
Aug 8th |
| 32 |
Aug 21 |
Comment |
I think the mono is better than the colour because first the swimmer nearly disappears and also because the prickly branch becomes less of a barrier to the shot. I would still clone out the woman as well as the white boat. I think you got too involved in trying to find a decent foreground for the mountain, where a simpler line might have been the broken wood of the jetty on the right. Grasses etc are often too busy or create a band across the bottom, where what you needed was a simple line pointing towards the mountain. Maybe the mountain is actually too far away to be the main focus of the picture. In other words, it is one of those scenes which are lovely to look at but which don't convert to good photos.
I fully understand what you mean when you say you can't evaluate your own pictures-neither can I! I am often surprised by the comments on mine. Also I enter Internationals with what I think are super pictures and they don't get acceptances whereas the also-rans which were entered to make up numbers, do get in. There's no accounting for judges' tastes! |
Aug 8th |
| 32 |
Aug 21 |
Comment |
Gosh-this is so interesting! I didn't read what you'd written at first so I assumed it was the remains of the leaf which had dried out and I did like the effect. There is a great texture overall and the colour toning is just right. I agree with Kym that the fern needs to be centred, either by cropping the left side or by extending the canvas to the right. It is unbalanced at the moment. If there is more on your original shot, could you tilt the whole to make it slightly more diagonal? If the spores are still there, take it again with a skewed camera angle. The only word of warning I have is that spores like this can be bad for your health sometimes. |
Aug 8th |
| 32 |
Aug 21 |
Comment |
I am very jealous of your skills in removing a background so it ends up looking perfectly natural. The horse looks a bit surprised actually which is a nice touch. Is there any more canvas to the left hand side? I felt that the muzzle was a little too close to the edge of the frame with no space for him to be looking into. If there isn't, could you extend the canvas a little? The others like the softness but as usual, I wonder whether a little more contrast overall might help the horse to stand out from his new background. |
Aug 8th |
| 32 |
Aug 21 |
Reply |
The centre round bit is about half an inch across and the whole is about 2 inches at maximum. |
Aug 8th |
| 32 |
Aug 21 |
Reply |
I agree-all the veins need to be blacker. They are not leaves-it is the whole seedhead with a solid interior and an outer coat of protection. This was picked when it was dying so there wasn't much left. |
Aug 1st |
6 comments - 3 replies for Group 32
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6 comments - 3 replies Total
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