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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 5 |
Oct 21 |
Comment |
If ever there was an example of the "alabaster skin" this is it! The tones of the model and her costume are bang on and I love her pose.
My only problem with this image - which is absolutely lovely for its main subject - is the the edges and I think you could have paid a little more attention to getting perfect symmetry. She is posed perfectly centrally both on the balcony she is standing against and against the balconies opposite and her head is beautifully framed between two light panels. It therefore irks that you have more balcony on the right than the left. I would have either tried to neaten it up so that she was perfectly central left to right of the frame or as David suggests above don't even try to do that and put her on a third. |
Oct 11th |
| 5 |
Oct 21 |
Comment |
Thank you for your comments. Richard I think you are right and I will look at a square crop on it. Oliver, I deliberately tilted that building as I hate an architectural shot that is slightly off vertical or with receding verticals - and this had both (I wasn't using my TS which I would normally use for architectural shots, though not necessarily closed in abstracts). Therefore - given that it is an abstract, I thought it was fine to take it to an unreal angle. I'm glad you like that. I like your extra contrast in the bubble building but I think it is a little too much in the more conventional one. That would be easy to split in LR. |
Oct 8th |
| 5 |
Oct 21 |
Comment |
I always like a portrait where the sitter is not directly engaged with the camera and I think you've achieved this beautifully. I'm much more taken with her head and shoulders with that lovely dreamy expression and the head leaning on the hand. I'm less keen on the rest of the body. Her right leg appears anatomically removed from the rest of her body and the rather clunkily shod foot is bent at an angle that looks uncomfortable. Her clothes do her no justice (or provide any interest) so I'd have been inclined to a much tighter crop. |
Oct 8th |
| 5 |
Oct 21 |
Comment |
A beautiful image of a flying bird with a great PoV. As I'm no ornithologist and am hopeless with species, my first thought that this was another of your composites with that scaly head on the feathered body! Your detail is amazing particularly in its left wing (stage right) where you can even see the skeleton through the plumage. The only distraction for me is the blurred upturned feathers at the tip of its right wing but that is the nature of the beast and it is hard to improve on a near perfect shot. |
Oct 8th |
| 5 |
Oct 21 |
Comment |
At first glance, this is a very pretty image with a pleasing colour palate. On greater inspection, it is quite hard to figure out where the eye should land as there is a huge amount going on. Much of the right of frame is out of focus and I find this a bit of a distraction. |
Oct 8th |
| 5 |
Oct 21 |
Comment |
As a huge fan of rugby, I was drawn to this image. I think your focus on the main protagonists is a good choice. However, I don't think the blur in the background has worked particularly well as the fence looks like a grey smudge that is quite heavily haloed. (Caveat, I wouldn't have the sill to even attempt this in photoshop - so a question of do as I say not as I do!). I do think it's a shame that you changed the colour of the blue socks - I think I'd have intensified the primary colour rather than obliterated it. |
Oct 8th |
| 5 |
Oct 21 |
Comment |
Nice expression of light and colour and a brave use of the orange background. Possibly a greater depth of field would have given less foreground blur (or focus stacking if you could be bothered - I probably couldn't!). |
Oct 8th |
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