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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 85 |
Jan 26 |
Reply |
I'll take a look at mono, but I suspect it doesn't have enough contrast to make a really good B&W. It would be nice to have more reflections in the water. Next summer, I'll have to try to shoot it at a time of day when the clouds reflect in the water! Great idea! |
Jan 17th |
| 85 |
Jan 26 |
Reply |
Thanks, Pete. Can you elaborate a little? How would cropping on the right improve the photo? I'm afraid I don't see it. Perhaps you mean the biggest cloud would look better closer to the middle. And perhaps the island, being a diagonal from the center right to the center bottom, would provide a bit of a frame for the picture. It would also take out most of the darker tones in the image. IMO it would place all the interesting parts of the photo up against the right side, and leave a lot of boring trees on the left side. |
Jan 17th |
| 85 |
Jan 26 |
Reply |
I once, a long time ago, had a photography mentor say to me, "If you want to be known for your best work, then only show your best work". With that in mind, I think anything we are going to display, and in your case, anything you are going to try to sell, is well worth the effort. I think the effort on this image is worth it. |
Jan 15th |
| 85 |
Jan 26 |
Reply |
Hmm... I can't decide which I like better. It is always hard to go back and reprocess a file from the original. You often end up with a different picture altogether. I like how you warmed up the image, but you lost some of the intensity of the light that makes the bridge stand out from the sky. And I'm not sure cropping the sky helped. I do like the added space on the left, but I see what you mean about the distractions. You couldn't remove them because of the bridge wires? Perhaps cropping a bit more to the edge of the structure (building?) and then using the remove tool to take out the dock underneath? Sometimes it's the smallest things that trip us up in an image! |
Jan 14th |
| 85 |
Jan 26 |
Reply |
I've taken a lot of pictures of this building. I like this view, but I don't think cropping this image is a good idea. It is too far away. I'll keep this in mind next time I'm out there shooting in that area. Thanks, Lisa! |
Jan 14th |
| 85 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
Ooh, I love this photo. Another lovely one! Colors are nice, and the post-processing is well done. I do think the left tower of the bridge is a little too close to the edge of the picture. I see you cropped some off the left, but rather than cropping, I recommend just removing the boat and maybe the light pole on the left side. If you do crop, I wouldn't crop in quite that far. Maybe just to the right of the white boat. That would give the left tower about the same distance from the edge of the picture as the right tower, and would appear more symmetrical, for a more balanced image (but that's a little nitpicking thing).
I want to get DxO PureRaw and play around with it! I hear it does an excellent job of noise removal (I'm still using and old version of Topaz DeNoise) |
Jan 13th |
| 85 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
Nighttime Christmas light photos are so much fun, and a great subject for drone photography. It certainly makes compositions more difficult, though. I like how you cropped the bottom of the picture. But the right side of the posted images has more detail than the "original". Did you stitch two images together for the final?
Colors are great. You might want to try to do a luminosity mask and darken down the highlights near the edges. Not so much that it removes them, but just a little to bring the viewer's eye back towards the center.
I haven't taken my drone up at night yet... just recently got new anti-collision lights for it, and most of the time it has been way too cold to get out at night flying. I've been a bit of a cold-weather wimp this year! But I'm looking forward to it. |
Jan 13th |
| 85 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
Nice image to document the buildings. I would recommend moving it up a tiny bit in the image so the lower left corner of the building is not touching the edge. I also recommend kicking up the saturation for the oranges and reds in the photo to create more interest. You might want to tone down the gray highlight of the roofs, and add a vignette, especially in the lighter area on the middle right.
I agree with Pete about wanting a little more room around the edges in the photo, although that would, of course, reduce the view of the fine details. |
Jan 13th |
| 85 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
Very good job of processing. And I like how you brought out the fall color in the tops of the trees. It is a nice composition, and I know a lot of people flip their images right/left, but for people who live in the area or are familiar with it, it will not look real. With so many AI-generated images cruising around today, I try to keep my landscape images looking as real as possible. |
Jan 13th |
| 85 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
Hi Lou. Although I like the high-key aspect of this image, I think the snow looks a bit over-exposed. I see from the original it was lightened quite a lot, but you lost detail, and the shadows are too blue. The sky replacement is good, and I like the bright colors of the ship, the tugboat, and the flag.
I agree with what Patrick said about the buildings. I'm not sure what tools you used to remove them, but the Generative Fill or even the Remove tool in Photoshop would probably have done a better job. If you use Generative Fill, you might have to run it several times to get an acceptable result. |
Jan 13th |
| 85 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
I agree with what Patrick said! Brighten and maybe a little more saturation.
Perhaps I am inundated with images of the Bentonite Hills (I have about a million of them myself), but I'm not finding it particularly compelling. But that's likely not true for people who aren't that familiar with these types of Utah geographic abstracts. People who live nearby might also appreciate the pictures more. |
Jan 13th |
| 85 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
Hi Lisa. I agree with Patrick, and he said it well... "...certainly says something, but what?" If you are shooting it for documentary purposes, then it is a pretty good shot. But as art photography, not so much.
I would recommend lightening the train area at the bottom to make it stand out more in the photo, and perhaps saturate the colors of the train cars a bit more. Perhaps it might help to include a little more below the train to show down to the river, or even a little bit of the river. That would move the train further up in the photo.
But I like Patrick's suggestion a lot. Perhaps a wide panorama at the top of the hill to show the buildings in their beautiful light! |
Jan 13th |
| 85 |
Jan 26 |
Reply |
Thanks, Lou. Wide expanses often don't make the best pictures (sometimes they are too wide for the subject to be well defined). I like how the island is almost a leading line out of the lower left corner in his composition. |
Jan 13th |
| 85 |
Jan 26 |
Reply |
Thanks, Patrick. Yes, I like your crop much better. I've been so intent on keeping to a 16X9 aspect ratio lately (because I use them for a screen saver on my big-screen TV), but lately I've noticed a lot of the pictures are better cropped in. I also like how you cropped in a bit on the bottom too. I need to be more flexible in my cropping to get better compositions if needed!
I don't see much difference in the color of the water (other than cropping out a lot of the brown). That has been a bit of a problem for me. I've had trouble with my color adjustments to get better color (that goes for my grass greens too, in general).
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Jan 13th |
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