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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 23 |
Dec 21 |
Reply |
Agreed! The frame goes on last but is needed here because the surrounds are black and a dark background to a pictures needs an edge. |
Dec 6th |
| 23 |
Dec 21 |
Reply |
Not sure if it was any bigger than now, but there are often articles about techniques and this one was clearly written and useful. As I said, I use it a lot, sometimes for backgrounds and sometimes in combination with other techniques to make stand alone images. Different blending modes give different effects -you just need to experiment. Once you've remembered the sequence it is a very quick and easy thing to do. |
Dec 6th |
| 23 |
Dec 21 |
Comment |
I completely disagree with Brian here! I like the swirl of the mane and how it flows across the image. Maybe the ears are a bit close to the right hand side, but if they were further in then the emphasis would start to move away from the mane to the head so I think it is just right as it is. I like the letterbox framing and I am with Brian on borders. This needs the single pixel white frame to show where the edge of the image is so it doesn't bleed out onto the black surrounds. A lovely image! |
Dec 5th |
| 23 |
Dec 21 |
Comment |
Brian showed me your photo and I wondered about another way of eradicating the OOF bit. This is a technique I have used very successfully to make creative shots. It was an article in the PSA journal by Bill Brown in Sept 2016 and I really liked the effect. |
Dec 5th |
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2 comments - 2 replies for Group 23
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| 32 |
Dec 21 |
Comment |
I'm not a fan of the etchings version as somehow it seems to have made the bridge look slightly deformed and some of the wires have been lost coming down from the front tower. I like the colour version -as Jennifer says the red white and blue look crisp. The mono does seem to have lost some of that contrast. I know you are all accustomed to seeing the fog bank around the bridge but I find it very interesting and it provides endless opportunities for photography. Here we've just got unrelenting rain at the moment! |
Dec 28th |
| 32 |
Dec 21 |
Comment |
I really like both the colour and the mono versions. I like the mountains showing in the background, because they also provide a dark backing to the foreground fog. I don't think you can crop off any from the left because the fog is what makes this picture. However I did try a small crop off the bottom which made me concentrate more on the wispy fog tendrils in the front of the trees. |
Dec 28th |
| 32 |
Dec 21 |
Comment |
So yet again I am out of phase with everyone else. I hate the toned version -too OTT for my British sensibilities! I like the original colour image and I can't understand why you would change it to mono -the whole point of sunsets and sunrises is that they have colour! I can appreciate why you might use a mono like this in a composite as it has such lovely rays, but that would be for the light shapes and not for the colour. |
Dec 28th |
| 32 |
Dec 21 |
Comment |
I do like the cropped image-much better than the whole front. It is so sharp and well defined with gleaming chrome. I don't think you could flip because of the writing and I'm not sure why you feel the right hand side is better than the left. I might darken the tree in the corner behind the car but it is beautifully out of focus so it isn't a major problem. Good one and one that old car lovers will really like. |
Dec 28th |
| 32 |
Dec 21 |
Comment |
I think maybe if you are not going to use it for Nature comps, then the easiest idea is to extend the post downwards, which would get rid of the partial notice. I don't like cutting off the tail feathers as they are beautiful. I think you need the whole bird and I do like the wayward feather. |
Dec 28th |
| 32 |
Dec 21 |
Comment |
I am just so jealous as I cannot grow orchids at all. I inherited one from my sister and it has never flowered again, despite Wes giving me some growing advice. At the moment I have banished it to the cold porch to see if maybe it will get over its sulk and grow something interesting.
I did find the original a bit sombre and I prefer the ones with lighter petal detail. I'm also impressed by the fact you made the candle holder.
We have a Still Life competition this year and I'm looking for new ideas, so I've been doing some light painting but I shall have to go out a buy an orchid to have a decent subject! |
Dec 28th |
| 32 |
Dec 21 |
Reply |
Wrote the request after the wrong comment. Yes please can you suggest some articles. |
Dec 12th |
| 32 |
Dec 21 |
Comment |
Thanks. I realised the goat was too bright but didn't see how to sort it out. Everyone says the lighting is wrong but I think I have an inability to recognise that as a problem. I just dropped a sky in which had a dark top and a lighter bit over the hills. I know the highlights on the whee and rock need toning down. The birds were not real birds at all -just some metal birds on an archway. However in mitigation, it wasn't meant to be a real landscape but a surreal one so I thought anything goes! Obviously not-people look for reality, so maybe I have to try even harder to remove reality. Please can you send the tutorials info though I can't guarantee that I will understand them! |
Dec 12th |
| 32 |
Dec 21 |
Reply |
Yes that would probably be a good idea but it never happens! I just get into a creative mood when I'm sitting idly at the computer and then have to trawl through folders to find suitable items. I do have a good memory so I can usually go to the right folder for a picture and I've got Lr now to help. |
Dec 5th |
| 32 |
Dec 21 |
Reply |
Maybe the also rans get in because they are something out of the ordinary and judges recognise that.
The initial idea can arise because I have seen someone else's photo and assume often wrongly that I can do something similar without plagiarising. Or else I've found out how to do a new technique and simply start 'playing'. A lot of my creative images come from that, because I start something and then keep adding and don't quite know when to stop!
Yes I do need to darken the rock but the goat was meant to be a surreal touch. Would it have helped to make the vertical scale of the shed much greater, though that would hide the mountains behind which I quite liked. |
Dec 5th |
| 32 |
Dec 21 |
Reply |
Yes I am aware that the truck is not the right size. As I said, the perspective issues and sizes were all major problems. If I'd taken lots more photos at slightly different angles originally, it would have been easier but hunting for possibly suitable photos to incorporate is what I was doing. I've tried beams of light once before-on my alien attack photo if you remember -and found them hard to do. Any good ideas on how to make them? |
Dec 5th |
| 32 |
Dec 21 |
Reply |
No I only do this group-one is quite enough. Also I normally do creative images which I find that Americans don't like -mine can be subtle and may not look overtly manipulated which produce pictorial images- or else they are so OTT that people wonder what is going on in my head! I enjoy producing them but I have to be in the right mood so to make one to order every month would not be right for me. |
Dec 5th |
7 comments - 5 replies for Group 32
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9 comments - 7 replies Total
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