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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 5 |
Dec 21 |
Reply |
That comment was intended to refer to the first image |
Dec 14th |
| 5 |
Dec 21 |
Reply |
Yes this is less confusing but what is going on with her near wing? It looks like a double exposure |
Dec 14th |
| 5 |
Dec 21 |
Comment |
Welcome Sophia. This was a great occasion that you were able to photograph. Its great to have the birds doing something and here they certainly are (do you get the "bird on stick" critique in the US?). But out of your 100 images I wonder if this is the best shot? I really had to study it hard to figure it out. The female does not stand out and I don't think its solvable by edits. Looks sharp though (eyes for example). Congratulations. |
Dec 12th |
| 5 |
Dec 21 |
Reply |
Yes they are not doing this for fun. There is a purpose. Food presumably |
Dec 6th |
| 5 |
Dec 21 |
Comment |
Hi Richard. Like the opportunity you took to make this image. Strongly sense some tension here between a very elegant practitioner and a fellow tourist not taking the Tia Chi seriously. She is doing a beautiful job of ignoring him which makes him try harder for attention.
Not so fond of the post though. On accessing the large scale image my eye was drawn to the red fringe around his fist due to incomplete cloning of the background people. And the softening of the pavement makes him look like he is levitating. Luminar has softened the pavement all the way to the bottom edge of the image. I would mask out the Luminar layer to the point beyond their feet. |
Dec 4th |
| 5 |
Dec 21 |
Comment |
Interesting that cropping down is such common advice (in our club competitions most notably) and almost never about tight crops. Here I would question the deep crop but maybe its partly about the scope of the original shot too. Is this image just a record shot of geese or why their leader thinks its a worthwhile thing to cross a hazardous river? What is on the other side? We don't learn that and I think its important to the narrative of the image to try and explain what is going on. Cropping in doesn't give us a better image of the geese (they are very beautiful close up). So why not allow their environment to speak? |
Dec 4th |
| 5 |
Dec 21 |
Comment |
Love your image David. Like the cropping out of the spectators and the focussed gaze of the three in the car willing it around the next corner. I am sure they would love to have a copy! |
Dec 4th |
| 5 |
Dec 21 |
Comment |
New Zealand is another one of the five countries that do rodeo. Something that is honoured by the flying of the five national flags for each rodeo. Sadly here rodeo is under attack from animal rights activists who base there claims on seriously outdated practises and deliberate misinformation. Personally I love rodeo and shoot all the events I can get to. There is such drama in the faces of the riders that you only capture in a photo. I prefer to have full focus on the rider, bronc or bull and use every trick to fade the spectators out. But the spectators do make interesting subjects too so I understand why you like them in the shot, Barbara. |
Dec 4th |
| 5 |
Dec 21 |
Comment |
HI Candia Congratulations on making an image rather than taking one. I guess we all fall into the latter camp quite often including in this round! It is something that I guess we bring our own interpretation to since you haven't given us too many clues other than "11." In your image the traffic signal seems to have a life of its own, floating above the natural ground in the image due to the blacks extinguishing all details. It seems slightly apocolytpic. Maybe we are just over sensitised in our present pandemic environment. The news is packed with people that don't trust governments anymore. How does an orange hand wield any power? |
Dec 4th |
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