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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 85 |
May 24 |
Comment |
Nice. I still like the clouds in the corner above the dark land, and I think a little more of the dark land on the left wouldn't make it look stuck up in the corner quite so much, but I realize it is just opinion. Overall, I like it! |
May 16th |
| 85 |
May 24 |
Reply |
Thank you, Don. Nitpicky is good! It is often the little things that make or break a really good image. See my comments above about the red light.
Yes, the lights and bright cars at the bottom of this image created a bit of a problem for me. I did some cropping to remove much of it, and then used the remove tool and darkened with a luminosity mask to get rid of some of those distractions. I left some of the lights in the lower right corner along the entryway because I didn't want to completely fake the location. |
May 15th |
| 85 |
May 24 |
Reply |
Thanks, Richard. See my comments above about the red light. I haven't made it back down there since then. I think I am going to wait until early summer. |
May 15th |
| 85 |
May 24 |
Reply |
Thank you, Alex. I have quite a few shots from that day. I was there for the sunset, and stayed until it was quite dark. So I have several shots at different times that I liked, but I think I like the night shot the best. |
May 15th |
| 85 |
May 24 |
Reply |
Thanks, Lou. Yes, I should probably remove that red light! Do you think people would still notice there was a lake there if the red light and its reflection were not there? The blue horizon line is very dim! |
May 15th |
| 85 |
May 24 |
Reply |
Thanks, Pete. Wow, I now live near where you used to live, and you live near where I used to live! What a superposition :)
When I cropped it, I was concentrating on the circular grounds being centered in the photo, but I see what you mean. I should have paid more attention to centering the top of the dome. I intentionally left the red harbor light and its reflection in the image so it was easy to see that that was the lake behind the image. But several of you commented that it was only a distraction, so I suppose I should remove it. I thought the red car lights on the right side of the temple somewhat balanced it out, but perhaps I was overthinking it. |
May 15th |
| 85 |
May 24 |
Comment |
Hi Alex. Another image with interesting color processing. I like this one better than the one last month with the street view. It seems like you might be trending towards making this your signature style. You have added some interesting color to the lower right at the foot of the hill, and enhanced that color in a couple of other areas of the image, while bringing down and darkening the blues in the background. It certainly puts emphasis on the little building at the top of the hill. I like it. Make sure while you are adding the color areas to the image, you think about why you are adding those colors where you do. I'm not sure I understand what the reddish browns in the lower right gives the viewer. But perhaps it is just to give them a starting point as the eye moves up the hill (but isn't distracted by the mountains and sky in the background). |
May 15th |
| 85 |
May 24 |
Comment |
Hi Don. The composition of this image is a difficult one. My first inclination was to crop off the right side of this image, but I think the mountain in the background provides a certain amount of balance. But I still think it would be a better image if the road was at about the 2/3rds line. I'm not sure the little building at the end of the road adds anything. It is too small to have much visual interest. Of the 3 places in the image where the eye goes to rest after following the leading line up the road, this little dark spot only serves as a distraction. I would either lighten it so it blends in with the surrounding sand and sage, or remove it entirely. And cropping off the right side would provide a much simpler image, but I think it would have more impact.
About the comments that the image looks titled, I agree. I have found that sometimes even if the horizon is correct, if it looks tilted (as sometimes happens with water lines, such as along the edge of a lake) you have to provide a slight tilt so that it appears level, even when it is not. |
May 15th |
| 85 |
May 24 |
Comment |
Hi Richard. I like the abstract nature of this image a lot. I think if you had cropped off the sand in the bottom of the picture (and perhaps the darker water color just above it), then it would have enhanced the effect. The image has a soft flowy effect with the boating trails and water circling around the darker land on the left, but the light bottom draws the eye away from that and ruins the flow. Cropping that off would leave a lovely image with a very peaceful feel. The others are right about the heavy balance with the darker land and clouds in the upper left, but I think without the bottom bright sand, that is an area of power. The eye moves from there, down along the white sand on the edge of the land, catches the boat trails, follows the swishy blue colors, and returns to the power area in that corner. I rather like the eye movement. I think it makes for a lovely photo! |
May 15th |
| 85 |
May 24 |
Comment |
Lou, this is a beautiful image. There are many iconic pictures of Vestrahorn, and this rates up there as one of the best. There isn't too much else to say, other than perhaps watch the cyan color in the sky. I think this one is ok, but you might want to try adding a small touch of magenta to the sky. It would also bring it down a little closer to the color of the water.
It is one of the places in Iceland where I haven't been, and I would love to go there!
I don't mind the unbalanced nature of this photo. I think the snow-capped mountains in the background are an important part of the image, and I wouldn't recommend cropping them off. I think the lack of balance in this image actually helps with the drama of the scene. I think you cropped it just right!
I would recommend when you are out capturing video, if you see a lovely scene like this then switch over to capture a still photo (and shoot in raw). A frame capture might work for you now, but if you ever want to print a larger image, it might be difficult to do with a frame capture of a lower-resolution video (even software that can blow up images to a higher resolution doesn't work as well as the original shot taken in raw).
As far as keeping track of your images in Lightroom, I have found that filing things in folders named with the date and location, and then adding keywords, works well for me. |
May 15th |
| 85 |
May 24 |
Comment |
I like the feel of this image. I like the composition you set up with the two predominant colors, the yellow/green of the hills and field, and the blue in the little lake and sky. The blues are separated by a change in the terrain as the eye wanders from the lake up towards the sky, with lots of leading lines in the hills encouraging the eye movement. In my case, it eventually went back down to the lake. I like how this image encourages this rather pleasant eye-wandering around the image. It's almost like you were intentional in planning it that way! :) The perfect cropping enhanced that effect and removed some of the distractions on the right side, and the color processing brought out more yellow in the hills. Another good job, Pete! |
May 14th |
| 85 |
May 24 |
Comment |
Good job with processing. As mentioned by the others, the blown-out area in the upper left corner might have worked better with multiple exposures for an exposure blend. If the sun was there it would be ok to have a little blown-out area, but this constitutes half the sky. Still, a good try at recovery. I liked the color adjustments to both the water and the trees, as well as the right side of the sky. The colors are all very well-balanced and complement each other.
I think one area where this image could be improved is the composition, although that is not as important with a documentary-type image. But assuming you were going for an artful image, the balance seems to be a little too heavy on the left. Perhaps moving to the right a little and balancing out the upside-down V-shape, and perhaps centering the line where the water is flowing over the dam, leading the eye across the water to the forested area above, might have worked better. The balance of the 3-way angles (inverted triangle??) would have provided visual interest.
Also, the bottom left corner does not add much. It is a rather bright spot and draws attention to the area. You might not want to remove it because it provides the viewer information about how you go up the stairs to the walkway, but darkening that corner down a bit will put more emphasis in some of the more interesting areas of the image, such as the attractive turbulent water close by. (Is that you operating your drone there in that corner?) |
May 14th |
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