Activity for User 1587 - Drema Swader - photography@drema.com

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85 Dec 24 Reply I like it. It also cuts out the unattractive parking lot with the cars. I would clone out the distracting piece of roof in the lower left corner, and of course, add more to the top. Dec 29th
85 Dec 24 Reply You're right, the tower is too close to the top. I should have caught that. I'll see what I can do. Thanks! Dec 24th
85 Dec 24 Reply Thank you, Lou. I might try darkening down the sign a bit. Perhaps if it is a little more grey instead of bright white it won't be as distracting. Dec 24th
85 Dec 24 Reply Thanks Richard! Good to hear you were drawn to the green first. Dec 24th
85 Dec 24 Comment Getting a good shot from a video is always difficult. This one has a rather fuzzy look in the foreground, and lacks detail. I'm not sure whether or not this is from the camera movement, but I would suggest trying a still shot and bracketing to retain detail. Dec 24th
85 Dec 24 Comment The image looks overprocessed (oversharpened and oversaturated as mentioned by the others). And the sky has a lot of noise. It needs to have a denoise algorithm run on it.

The composition is nice, although there is a little too much sky and I would recommend cropping a little from the top. But I love the round blue pond with the leading lines all leading the eye there.
Dec 24th
85 Dec 24 Comment I like the idea, but I think the composition could be improved. I'm wanting to look straight down on the tallest cactus, and I agree with Pete that it needs a little more breathing room around the edges. Also, the sand color doesn't speak to me of a desert scene. The shadow says it is probably late afternoon, but the muted sand color seems to say overcast day. Warming up the sand might help. Dec 24th
85 Dec 24 Comment I like the composition, but the blue is teetering on being too much for me. I think the sky halfway up should be lighter, even if the top is left as is. I wonder if this scene is lit up at night. If so, it might make a very interesting nighttime picture, or dusk just as the lights come on (I've seen some oil refinery pictures recently that are absolutely beautiful at night. This might be the same.) Dec 24th
85 Dec 24 Comment I like the sky replacement but I think a late day sky would have served this image better. I see from the sunbeam in the original that the sun would have been right above it, and I like the bright spot on the water, although toning it down a bit would have worked. Perhaps adding a sky with a bright spot and some sunbeams would have also worked. Dec 24th
85 Dec 24 Comment Alderjarfoss is my favorite waterfall in all of Iceland. From what I understand, the water turns brownish from sediment in summer, but turns a beautiful iconic blue in the wintertime. I was there in winter, so my shots are a solid blue. Although I like the B&W, it looks a little crunchy to me (oversharpened), especially in the water at the bottom. It's great that you could get down so close to the pond! Dec 24th

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