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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 49 |
Sep 24 |
Reply |
Thanks Mark, I appreciate you taking the time! |
Sep 22nd |
| 49 |
Sep 24 |
Reply |
Thank you David! |
Sep 21st |
| 49 |
Sep 24 |
Comment |
Hi Peggy
That's an amazingly clear shot for 1/8th of a second handheld, nice work! I like the composition too, the way you've got the stairs walking you into the image up to that lovely lighthouse works well. The red on the lighthouse is handled nicely too - it's easy to blow out reds but they appear to be well handled here.
A few thoughts for consideration. Your watermark is running off the page. The little chunk of blue fence on the left is distracting, and doesn't add to the composition, consider closing it out. Move the crop up or down on the bottom to include more of / fully exclude that bottom step. The current crop leaves that thin, dark, angled line.
Thanks for sharing
Josh |
Sep 21st |
| 49 |
Sep 24 |
Comment |
Hi Alan
High ISO noise handling is excellent, I'd never have guessed this was 3200 (aren't these new cameras amazing?!). As Craig points out, the green background is perfect, and the composition is spot on. The branch this little fella is sitting on is nice and supportive (no pun intended) of the overall scene too. A supporting little flash of light to balance things, but not distracting with lots of little twigs or leaves.
Well done sir!
Josh |
Sep 21st |
| 49 |
Sep 24 |
Comment |
Hi David
I think it works. As presented, there's a lot of story there with all the markings on the walls, the cracks and dirt, and of course the handprints. It really sets your imagination up to wonder what happened there, who the people were, and for me - why they put their mark on the wall. Rendering it in monochrome really helps me focus on that story too, as opposed to any possible distracting colors.
As far as consideration points, it does feel a little dark, but perhaps that was the point - in which case disregard. I find when I process monochrome, I often underexpose (unintentionally) and then when I go back have the same thought that it looks too dark. You could consider a couple of radial gradient masks, albeit very subtle ones, to bump your Whites a bit to draw the viewer's eye to the hands.
Thanks for sharing
Josh
PS, thanks for the backstory Craig! |
Sep 21st |
| 49 |
Sep 24 |
Comment |
Hi Mark
What a fun image! It's so interesting, and my eye keeps going back and forth between the obvious subject up front and the great line of dancers standing in the background.
Personally, I find the real value in these image sharing sessions when folks offer thoughts / suggestions / critiques, so always try to toss something out there for consideration. It seems a bit nitpicky here, but it's all I got (this a great image after all), but you could consider removing the one dancer in the background with the bright white legs. Not sure your thoughts / ethics on using AI, but it might make removing them a cinch; alternatively, just deemphasizing highlights &/or exposure of that dancer would likely achieve the same effect.
Thank you for sharing, this is an awesome image!
Josh |
Sep 21st |
| 49 |
Sep 24 |
Comment |
Hi Craig
Malta!!!! Man, I spent six months there in college and the second I saw the word Marsaxlokk, I knew where this was 😊I actually have a framed picture of St Julian's Bay on my dresser.
The colors of the boats there are amazing and it's fun to see one here.
There are some bright (arguably distracting elements) to this image, but the first distraction that caught my eye was the squiggly dark lines on the top left.
Not sure what your raw file looks like, but you could consider cropping in on it a bit too, give us a better view of the great colors, ropes, and textures of that well-worn wood.
Thanks for the walk down memory lane!
Josh |
Sep 21st |
| 49 |
Sep 24 |
Comment |
Hi Tyrah
Great image! I like how you've filled the frame with your subject without encroaching on it, and I like the warm tone that you've left on the image.
As to a suggestion, the neck/breast area of this cow is quite a bit sharper than the eye and as you may have heard, when photographing critters of any kind, it's always important to have that eye(s) in focus. Given the brains of camera bodies these days, you can usually set them to track eyes so if you haven't explored that yet, you might put it on your list to dig into.
Thanks for sharing!
Josh
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Sep 21st |
| 49 |
Sep 24 |
Reply |
Hi Alan, thanks for the feedback, and see my response to Craig about the aperture.
As to the focus bracketing, I'm really glad you said something. The R5 definitely does and at your suggestion, I've since tried it! I haven't checked out the results yet but it's one of those features that I've always known existed, it just never occurred to me to try at the time that I could have actually used it.
We'll see how much experiment turns out when I finally caught up with processing it 😉 Thanks again for the suggestion, that's the very reason I stick w/these critique sessions!
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Sep 21st |
| 49 |
Sep 24 |
Reply |
Thank you Peggy. |
Sep 21st |
| 49 |
Sep 24 |
Reply |
Thanks for the feedback Craig, it's always appreciated. I swear, I'm addicted to that fast aperture, but I very much see where you're coming from. Especially w/the detail that exists in this pottery, it would make sense to show more of that off. |
Sep 21st |
6 comments - 5 replies for Group 49
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