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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 32 |
May 24 |
Reply |
Cloning is allowed if it is an open comp. Not allowed in PT. |
May 27th |
| 32 |
May 24 |
Reply |
I agree with Jennifer. When we visited Yellowstone, I was horrified when tourists approached the bison and turned their backs for a photo! We kept religiously to the suggested safe distance and even then always kept an eye out for their approach. An animal the size of a bison which had got irritated by people is a scary concept! Same idea with a wildebeest or a lion. |
May 27th |
| 32 |
May 24 |
Reply |
Yes I tried cropping the stem but the square format didn't look right. I suspect that was because the flower head was too close to the top edge. A square would work if the stem and flower were created to fit it. You could try extending the top since it is an easy thing to do when there is nothing in it. |
May 27th |
| 32 |
May 24 |
Comment |
I did try tighter cropping but then I had bits of the bust etc showing. I can't go right down to the mantlepiece because her head just breaks the line. I should have been more careful when taking the picture, but we were each taking 5 minutes in turn so there was pressure to ask for a pose, and take the shots. Never having done anything like this photoshoot before, I was not careful enough. |
May 27th |
| 32 |
May 24 |
Comment |
Why would people want to destroy this? It's part of your history! Whether to include your car or not is a difficult question. I usually try to hide our car but in years to come, people will be looking at it and working out how old it is. I like the offset angle and the contrast you've used.
Our society has a whole set of photos of our area from 1952 which we are digitising and then giving to a local archival group. The pictures are from the first Annual exhibition of the Society and they are mounted black and white prints. It is a wonderful record. We did have a set of slides taken in the 60s of the same places but they have been lost somewhere along the years. I've been the 'host' for the prints since the 80s and now I want to make sure they are safe somewhere for the future. We need to retake all of them to show what has and hasn't changed. |
May 23rd |
| 32 |
May 24 |
Comment |
Again I like both colour and mono versions, though I agree that the mono deserves much more contrast, to emphasise the dry, dusty environment. There is a story here and I would have been wandering round taking bits of the car from all sorts of angles. I know it is hard to get up again, but I would have liked to take this vehicle from ground level! What you have got shows it in it's environs but there are so many other pictorial angles as well. |
May 23rd |
| 32 |
May 24 |
Comment |
I like both the original and the developed photo. There is so much detail in the colour one, giving us an insight into how people live there - lots of covers on tables, chairs etc, which we wouldn't have here in GB. I didn't think about the possibility of you 'looking down on' the helper - standing and taking a photo is, as you said, just what we do. however, I agree with Candie - it would be good to see more pictures to show what she was doing -her hands, the dumplings up close- maybe a pile ready for cooking and then a pile of cooked ones. There is a storyline here which you could develop. |
May 23rd |
| 32 |
May 24 |
Comment |
I find the rules very confusing and the definition of what is wildlife is also strange. We are not allowed feral animals and yet in GB, many of our animals, considered by us to be wildlife were originally introduced eg rabbits brought in my the Romans. So how far back must one go? We have mink living wild here because of farms where they escaped. In Hawaii, the chickens escaped after hurricanes. What's wildlife? Are safari parks in Africa a type of zoo? One could differentiate between places where the animals are fed by humans from places where they catch their own food but again, what level of protection is provided? We feed songbirds in our gardens so is that the same as baiting ospreys with dead fish?
How close one gets to a wild animal is interesting. We went on the snow buggies in Canada to see the polar bears and we were right next to them -they came up to the buggies -and we've also been to Antarctica where the rule is 25 m from the penguins so what does one do when a penguin comes up to you and pushes it's way between one's legs?
I like your image anyway- it is dramatic and different. |
May 23rd |
| 32 |
May 24 |
Comment |
Having seen the colour one, I much prefer it to the mono. It is such a colourful bird that I wouldn't want to lose all that fabulous colour!
I did find the blurry white halo behind the bird rather noticeable and there is a distinct halo on the bird's wing and head. You could work at it to remove it but it isn't visible in the colour, so again, stick with the original.
For me, the bird is too big in the frame especially as there isn't any other habitat information so it did become a 'bird on a stick' image. In colour, the blue sky gives more info as it shows it lives in a brightly sunny area.
We don't have humming birds here so I want to see it in its gorgeous original colour! |
May 23rd |
| 32 |
May 24 |
Comment |
I agree with what has been said. I like both the black and the white as backgrounds. The fashion today seems to be to have the white alternative, but then I wasn't so happy with the stem coming directly from the corner and being quite so obvious. A less definite variation might work. I tried using dehaze to soften it and then used a blend mode of 'divide' to soften even more. Maybe this has gone too far.
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May 20th |
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