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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 40 |
Jul 22 |
Comment |
Nice Edit Andrew. I just watched a podcast that talked about when to, and when, not to, convert to black and white. I like your color edit. I even like the small tree in the forground. I feel you need that forground for the color to work. Jamie, you have lots of food for thought for your return visit. |
Jul 14th |
| 40 |
Jul 22 |
Comment |
Wow! I did not know about white Vignettes either so that makes at least three of us. I like the sort of "Mystical" effect the vignette makes and thought you captured a perfect moment between mother and daughter. It sort of reminded me of those movies where the main character goes to heaven. I've got to get me one of those 600mm lenses (I only have a 300mm). Would I have to sell my car? Nice job. |
Jul 14th |
| 40 |
Jul 22 |
Comment |
Hey Andrew. Thanks for the comment. I think that is very funny and I now can not unsee the dog. My wife thought it looked like Africa. Thanks |
Jul 13th |
| 40 |
Jul 22 |
Comment |
Hey Lin, welcome to the group 40 neighborhood. I am impressed that you use manual focus lenses. They seem to be very popular these days. I have questionable eye sight so I like my lens to focus for me. I like your image. Here is what I really like. I like the obvious eye contact between the two, and I like that it looks like the boy is feeding the Hippo. I like that you did not crop out the top of the tank and that you can see the surface. I like the floating debris that make the tank look like a natural habitat. The Hippo's face looks clearer in the edit. I like that you did not lighten up the Hippo's face, so that it looks like he is feeding the Hippo. The boy and the Hippo are deffinently communicating. Nice job and again, welcome to group 40. |
Jul 11th |
| 40 |
Jul 22 |
Comment |
Hey Jamie. I can understand liking a place and returning to shoot it more than once. There is a little town south of Sacramento that I keep going back to. Interesting image. I llike the foreground better in the original. It gives a better perspective to the mountain. In your edit, when I first looked at your foreground, it looked like a lake, or body of water. your submission needs to be straightened a little, and the whites from the snow seem to be a little blown out. I opened it in Adobe Camera Raw and played with it. I could not seem to get seperation between the mountain peak and the clouds. It is a classic mountain. It looks like there should be teams of climbers waiting at a base camp. The blue cast on the original was interesting. If you shot in raw, the white balance should have taken care of itself. If you shot in Jpeg, maybe the white balance is set to give you this. Anyway, I like your image and when you go back, try some different things like Bracketing and HDR if your camera does this stuff, and try exposure compensation. Unless your shooting film, you have plenty of shots to play with. I just purchased a mirrorless camera and what I see in the viewfinder is amazing (not that my shots are amazing). Keep shooting and try different stuff if you have the time and the SD card space to let you. |
Jul 7th |
| 40 |
Jul 22 |
Comment |
Hey Andrew. I had to look up what a Samsung A10 was. I have gotten some nice shots from my mobile phone, and it looks like you have too. I like the blue mosaic and I love the frame, but what I like the most is the discolored bricks at the bottom and the sidewalk pavers. It is so much better than just having the sign centered. (you know, rule of thirds and all that). Exposure looks good. I wonder what more contract and texture would do. It might make it look unnatural. You have taken a simple sign and made it look more interesting with the stuff below the sign. I love when you get a "one word" shooting assignment. My wife says I do better work when I have an assignment. Thanks Andrew. |
Jul 2nd |
| 40 |
Jul 22 |
Comment |
Hey Henry. I love this shot. I must say I have never been to Theodore Roosevelt National Park, but it sounds like a place that would have plenty of Buffalo. I love saturating colors, especially in a shot that is sort of comical. It was hard to get a sense of how tall the bird was, and then I had an idea: How about a person holding a large bucket as far above his or her head as they could reach, sort of like trying to feed it. That would show scale. The green grass sort of reminded me or a mini-golf course like I used to live close to in Florida. Actually, I went back and looked at the original and I noticed a stop sign and a street sign. That gives me the sense of scale that I needed, so you could have left that in with the explanation. I also liked some of the twisted stuff in front of the bird. I did not see anything else that I might have done differently, so keep on shooting interesting and funny subjects. |
Jul 2nd |
7 comments - 0 replies for Group 40
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| 74 |
Jul 22 |
Comment |
Thank you Arne and Haru. I go there about twice a year but the boat is getting more and more demolished. I will take both of your comments and see where it goes. I am printing the image today and will be giving it to my niece when I visit her in Seattle this weekend. Her, and her husband have a boat (in much better condition than this one). Thanks for your thoughts. |
Jul 8th |
| 74 |
Jul 22 |
Comment |
Hey Haru, I like the black and white better than the color, which is odd because I usually like your color stuff better. I like the way you highlighted some of the brush in the background sort of like you were shinning a spotlight on it. I was wondering if you played around with shutter speed when you were shooting the image. I think you might have hit the sweet spot, but I woud have like to have seen a little slower shutter speed, just to convince myself. By the way, I opened your image in Photoshop and added Clarity to try to give the image a "wetter" feel, but it did not work. Thanks for sharing the image. |
Jul 7th |
| 74 |
Jul 22 |
Comment |
Hey Arne, I like your image. I am glad you sort of changed the mood with the dark sky. I am glad you left in the tree, as it sort of connects the plane to the ground. My dad flew DC-3's after WWII, so I have always loved that plane. I like how the sky is lighter behind the plane. Nice |
Jul 7th |
| 74 |
Jul 22 |
Comment |
Hey Haru, I really like what you did. it give the dark tone that I was going for. It does bring up an issue that I really need you or the group to help me with. If you look at your version, at the back of the boat, up higher, you can see a halo. Also ther is a halo at the top of the pilot house just below the cloud. I have had that in past images that I darkened and I had to back off. Can I just burn the area where the halo is. If we can solve this, I will push the image closer to your version. Thanks Haru.
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Jul 7th |
4 comments - 0 replies for Group 74
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| 96 |
Jul 22 |
Reply |
I prefer the black and white edit. |
Jul 7th |
| 96 |
Jul 22 |
Comment |
Hey Haru, Once again, I love your images. I see the center of the image as the Cherry Blossoms, and I understand their importance in Japanese Culture. The composition works very well for me, but I must say, the original seems to me to have more texture and the Blossoms on the left seem to be sharper than your submission. My questions is: is the submission the original and the original the edited product? So I am not sure, but I like the one on the right better. I think the color version has sort of a blue cast. I am sorry but I am confused. |
Jul 7th |
1 comment - 1 reply for Group 96
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12 comments - 1 reply Total
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