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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 5 |
May 25 |
Comment |
Hi Natalia, welcome to our group! I hope you get some value out of it and look forward to your perspectives too. I did read your bio and go to the Instagram page and understand you are all about straight out of camera with no further digital manipulation.
Polina is a wonderful daughter that is happy to pose for her Mom and that is great. I love your image of her and the idea behind it. There is some magic here and I really did enjoy what you have achieved with filters and your camera. Looking forward to June!! |
May 17th |
| 5 |
May 25 |
Reply |
Thanks Sophia. I always appreciate your insights |
May 12th |
| 5 |
May 25 |
Comment |
Yeah the younger contestant is so intense and it really makes this image. So I like Pete's interpretation throwing all our attention on him. We can't process the other man's sword out of his face but it would be even better if his sword was above the young man's head |
May 9th |
| 5 |
May 25 |
Comment |
That is just so good. My thought (because I am so square) is to crop rotate and flip!
BTW its great that you give us images to play with that are way bigger than the 1400. Mine have always bounced back when they are oversize but yours were over 2500. This makes any edits we do way better. What is the trick to getting larger images into the system? |
May 9th |
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| 5 |
May 25 |
Comment |
Wow you have breathed some real life into an image that did not appear to offer much. Brilliant!! And interested in the HDR as applied to a moving car. Did you have to do some work there to get it sharp.
Xiao, your approach is really novel! I can't figure out if I like it because its so unusual to have a significantly blurry foreground and midground. At any rate I think I agree the poles are too dominant in what Pete has done but the alternative would be to apply a selective lightening. Or use the +2ev photo in the HDR masked in on the poles. |
May 9th |
| 5 |
May 25 |
Comment |
I Don't have any experience with this bird but like the tonality of the image as a whole and how it works against the super soft background. I think the head and eye are a little soft and Pete seems to have fixed that in his version (he didn't mention sharpening but maybe he put the image through Toapaz. I would try that. I do like Pete's crop because it balances the image...cropping more off the bottom seems to create the sense of more space at the top. I did notice that you had done a denoise on the image and maybe that took away some of its sharpness? What did you use? |
May 9th |
| 5 |
May 25 |
Comment |
Hi Keisha I think the concept is great and innovative to completely lose the left hand side. I know some people will ask for some shadow detail and if you did then it is a version of a strong concept. Agree with Xiao and Oliver about his cheeks being blown out and also the nose where we have lost skin texture. In this version I applied a low level of noise in Photoshop just to produce some grain that simulates skin texture. Not sure that you will see it...but it does make a difference in my editor |
May 9th |
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