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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 85 |
Feb 23 |
Reply |
Thanks, Janos. Yes, perhaps with the road crossing at a different angle. I should have stayed and moved the camera right and left a bit to see if I could have gotten a better composition. I looked back through my originals, and the other angles I took were drastically different and didn't work at all. |
Feb 24th |
| 85 |
Feb 23 |
Reply |
I agree. A good point about where it would be hanging. My first thought was that I would never crop or frame an image based on anything other than how it looked its best. But then it might look its best if you hung the vertical one in a tall skinny space, for example, and the horizontal one in a large area like over a piece of furniture. Good observation! |
Feb 24th |
| 85 |
Feb 23 |
Reply |
Thanks, Lou. I like both. But I think I will still go with my version. |
Feb 24th |
| 85 |
Feb 23 |
Reply |
Thanks, Pete. Yes, definitely thinking along the same lines. I like your version of the image as well, but I didn't like losing the rocks on the right. In my version, there is a diagonal symmetry between the rocks on the lower right and those on the upper left, and the eye goes between them. If only it didn't have to cross such a solid line! I wonder if it would help if I brought down the contrast of the highway and gave it a little more of the reddish color, so it blended in better.
In choosing which image, I guess it's a matter of which you want to be your main subject. Is it the highway or the rocky terrain? |
Feb 24th |
| 85 |
Feb 23 |
Comment |
It looks like a marvelous place to be. It can be so hard to get a clear shot around Los Angeles. This is quite the panoramic view! You did well to isolate a part of the large panorama. I have often wished for the ability to zoom in with my drone! I guess it would make it harder to hold the camera still though.
Green at the bottom of this image really attracts the eye of the viewer, but is that the main thing you want them to see? I would recommend cropping it at least to the bottom of the tree and its shadow. The off-center tree doesn't seem to work very well, especially with the skyline being at the upper 2/3rd point. I agree perhaps flying left to put the tree at the lower right 2/3rds mark might have worked to create a diagonal line visually between the tree and the skyline.
I think it might also have worked to fly a little right so that the tree was centered directly underneath the skyline, and crop the picture on the right. It would make it a symmetrical, almost square image. The eye would tend to wander up and down, right across the houses in the foreground.
I've heard you've gotten some snow in Los Angeles this week. Bet this image would be amazing snow-covered (and skies are often very clear after a storm passes). |
Feb 24th |
| 85 |
Feb 23 |
Comment |
Beautiful image. I love the white building, I want to see more of it. I vote for moving right and getting a little closer, while keeping the intense blue water in the picture as much as possible. The blue of the roofs almost matches the blue of the lake. I'm wondering if you got in close enough you could have put the white of the building in front of the blue water to make it pop more, but then perhaps the blue roofs would fade into the water. In any case, the red trees look very nice with the blue water. Brightening the sky so that the clouds on the horizon don't look quite so gray might look good, but I would have to experiment with it and see. |
Feb 24th |
| 85 |
Feb 23 |
Comment |
Hi Lou. I really like the composition a lot. I'm fine with the center composition, and I like how the rocks on each side form a little diagonal towards the lower corners of the picture, leading the eyes back to the beach area. I do think the picture looks a little flat and that the colors could be brought out more, especially in the sky. Watch that you don't make it more cyan-colored in the sky though. |
Feb 24th |
| 85 |
Feb 23 |
Comment |
Another beautiful image, Pete. The colors and tones are beautiful. I must say I was wondering if you used a sky replacement, so I copied the original into Photoshop and darkened it down quite a lot. I saw the sky pattern but it was very posterized, so I don't know how you did that processing so well. I guess it's the difference between operating on a raw file and the low res jpg. In any case, very good job!
I have always wanted to shoot that area but never got up there when I lived in California.
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Feb 24th |
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