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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 49 |
Mar 23 |
Reply |
Thanks very much Alan!! |
Mar 24th |
| 49 |
Mar 23 |
Comment |
Good Morning Alan
Interesting shot of history. I like your combination of 120mm with f/5.6, it created the perfect depth of field to keep all parts of the pump in focus, while throwing the background nicely out of focus. |
Mar 15th |
| 49 |
Mar 23 |
Reply |
I guess it depends what you compare it to. Most current cameras are now hitting 1/8,000 of a second shutter speed, and the R3 does 1/64,000… by comparison, 1/200 is pretty slow.
Interesting point on the trees leading into her head, I hadn't caught that.
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Mar 15th |
| 49 |
Mar 23 |
Comment |
Good Morning Owen
I like the monochrome version with the full background - it tells a more complete story.
In the spirit of what you were trying to do with emphasizing the skater, you could try selecting everything but him and trashcan and bringing the exposure, highlights, and sharpness down just a bit to deemphasize them. The ground is quite bright and seems to pull my eye initially away from the subject.
Nice work on the timing! |
Mar 15th |
| 49 |
Mar 23 |
Comment |
& the original... |
Mar 14th |
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| 49 |
Mar 23 |
Reply |
Good Morning Owen!
Thanks for the thoughtful reply, I appreciate it. Your feedback was spot-on too - what you suggested is more-or-less what I was trying to achieve to begin with. The thing that I forgot about was that the viewer doesn't get to see the original, so has no idea that mellowing-out the background was my goal (which I thought I'd achieved).
So, I took your advice and further pushed deemphasizing the background and drawing the shadows out (and generally increasing) brightness of Potter herself (she's a lady cat, apparently they thought she was a boy initially, but by the time they discovered she wasn't, the name had stuck). And, seeing as we're in a group that does this kind of thing, I also posted the original so you could see why I thought I'd gone far enough.
One of the things I want to be careful when pushing something this far is to not create haloing around the subject, but it's good to be stretching myself and trying something new - so thanks! Alright, enough chattering, images! |
Mar 14th |
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| 49 |
Mar 23 |
Comment |
Hi David
What a fun idea! These have a great abstract quality about that them that really stopped me in my tracks and made me immediately want to figure out what they were. It's always nice to see something new that we haven't seen before, as opposed to ANOTHER cat picture. As an added testament, my wife just walked in the room and immediately walked over in interest at your image.
I'd imagine the selection process you went through to get the edges defined was tough, this looks like it'd be really challenging anyway. Not sure what's possible these days, but I know a lot of development has been put into Photoshop (if you're a user) to give editors new options - may be worth exploring those to help with a subject like this.
One other thought, try bumping the "Lights" and "Highlights" just a bit, it REALLY makes this image to come to life. |
Mar 12th |
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| 49 |
Mar 23 |
Reply |
Thank you Jo-Ann, I really appreciate that! The image is pretty much entirely processed with Masks in Lightroom and below's a screenshot of what was done to the subject (just sharpening).
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Mar 12th |
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| 49 |
Mar 23 |
Comment |
Good Morning Jo-Ann
You pointed out the opportunities that jumped to my mind about this image.
On the positive side, the colors feel about right, your composition is nice, and you've left room ahead of your subject, which is especially important with bird photography because there's so much implied movement.
I've never tried to capture birds in flight but heard quite a bit about the process from "birders" in my photography club, it's not easy! |
Mar 12th |
| 49 |
Mar 23 |
Comment |
Good Morning Craig
The exposure of this image was handled well, no highlights blown out nor shadows lost in black.
A few things to consider. The model's face is out of focus, and while no EXIF data's been provided (and was stripped from the image itself) it looks like a slow shutter speed, based on the elongated catch-light in the model's eye. Perhaps a quicker shutter speed would help with the blurry model.
The star effects in the model's hair are very sharp and quite bright, which make me feel like this image is more about them, than the model.
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Mar 12th |
| 49 |
Mar 23 |
Comment |
Hi Alan, I'm seeing this same image and commentary from last month's submission. Is it me/my system? |
Mar 12th |
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7 comments - 4 replies for Group 49
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7 comments - 4 replies Total
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