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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 85 |
Aug 25 |
Reply |
Thank you, Richard. Yes, definitely visit there if you are up this way. It is in a really nice park, and not too far from downtown. |
Aug 11th |
| 85 |
Aug 25 |
Reply |
Thanks, Pete. An interesting idea to crop to just the lighthouse, especially with the ring of trees around it. But I played around with it in Photoshop and couldn't find an image that I liked. I tried both landscape aspect ratio and 1:1, but both had things I didn't like. I think a re-shoot is in order... if it ever stops raining here! |
Aug 11th |
| 85 |
Aug 25 |
Comment |
It is such a lovely area, and I'll bet you have a lot of different images of this lighthouse from different angles!
This one is not as impactful as last month's image. I like the grassy hill in the upper left above the lighthouse, but the sky fizzles. Also, the lighter rock in the foreground is competing with your main subject, the lighthouse.
In June of 2023 I posted a picture of a lighthouse up on Lake Superior. Like this picture, it had only a sliver of the sky in the picture. There was a comment about the horizon being too close to the top of the picture, and I agree. It has bothered me ever since, and I've sometimes thought about cropping out the sky (but I would lose the waterline on the horizon). Cropping down wouldn't work for this picture, so perhaps it needs a little more sky. it would be nicer if there was some texture and more clouds in the sky. |
Aug 8th |
| 85 |
Aug 25 |
Comment |
A beautiful area, but a little too intense with the processing for my taste. And the scene is a little too expansive. If your subject is the recycling plant, it is a very small part of the picture. The long row of windmills isn't really necessary, so I would crop the picture down to just the plant, a few windmills above it, and the beautiful clouds in the top 1/3 of the picture. That would remove the road and power poles in the bottom right, which are just a distraction, and it would bring the important parts of the picture closer to the viewer.
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Aug 8th |
| 85 |
Aug 25 |
Comment |
I've seen these cars shot from the ground, and the drone shot is really much better. A couple of recommendations. I would remove those people in the background who are closest to the cars. I think those out in the field in the upper right are ok because they provide a little environmental interest. I would also add a little magenta to the sky so it doesn't look so cyan.
I'm not sure about the cans and trash on the ground. I would probably remove most of it if it were my picture, but I see how it adds to the story. I'm interested in what the others in this group think.
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Aug 8th |
| 85 |
Aug 25 |
Comment |
Hi Richard
It is a pretty bridge and I see why you wanted to shoot it!
I'm not sure the leveling helped the composition. I was going to say that I thought a more oblique angle to the bridge would make a better composition, and then I looked at your original. I don't really think it was necessary to level the hill in the background since it is obviously not the horizon. When you did that, it brought the left side of the bridge down too, and IMO it doesn't look as good. It gave the bridge a more flat-on view and looks a little too low on the left.
Perhaps if you had flown a little more towards the right side of the bridge and turned the camera to the left a bit, it would have been a better angle. If you were right over the line of rocks on the right, you might have been able to use them as a leading line.
I'll bet this would make a great autumn picture when the leaves turn! Especially with some early or late day sky color! |
Aug 8th |
| 85 |
Aug 25 |
Comment |
I think you did fine with the processing.
Funny, I have almost the same picture taken from ground level on a tripod. But the top of the mountain looks quite different. In mine, the sharp peak on this end of the butte is not there. And I do not have the mountains on the right, but I do on the left. So it looks like you were far left of where I was shooting.
One thing that I did to my rather flat (color) foreground was to lighten a path, increase the saturation, and sharpen a path through the foreground, and then add shadows on the left and right of the image foreground. It added a leading line that gave it more impact. I think you could do the same with this picture. You almost have a backwards S curve from the bottom left up to and curving towards the butte. I recommend playing around with it and see how you like how the eye is led up that path right to the subject of the image.
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Aug 8th |
| 85 |
Aug 25 |
Comment |
Lovely colors, and that is a great sky! Seems like getting up early was well worth the effort.
I don't really feel the heaviness. There is a little more (yellow) color on the left, but I don't see it as unbalanced, just a spot of color at the 1/3 mark. Plus, the white line of rocks goes all the way to the right side of the picture, which kind of balances it out. It looks almost like a flying angel in the hills!
You could crop a little off the right and the very top of the sky if it makes you feel better about the picture, but I think it is fine as it is.
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Aug 8th |
| 85 |
Aug 25 |
Comment |
I like shooting playgrounds! I think you cropped it well, and I like the colors and contrast you brought out in the photo.
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Aug 8th |
7 comments - 2 replies for Group 85
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