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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 16 |
Jun 22 |
Reply |
Thanks for your comment, Bogdan. The image is sharp, though when downsized significantly as required for submission to Group 16, it may not look like it. |
Jun 26th |
| 16 |
Jun 22 |
Reply |
Thanks, Mohan. I plead guilty to preferring darker, more saturated exposures. Thus, my camera's exposure compensation control is routinely set to underexpose by 1/3-stop. I do like your suggested crop. |
Jun 15th |
| 16 |
Jun 22 |
Comment |
Nice composition and effective crop. I agree with comments about the balance of light and shadow, but it's obvious you've already done some remedial work in that realm, perhaps to the limits of your software's ability to do so without generating a bunch of noise. Could it be sharper? Perhaps, but a built-in lens with an extreme (83X) zoom range like the one in the P900 encompasses a lot of optical compromises. Add to that the limitations inherent to a smaller sensor and the effects of heat shimmer when shooting through a lot of air at 1000mm. I think you've done very well, Bogdan. |
Jun 11th |
| 16 |
Jun 22 |
Reply |
Terry, my original title was "Tenacity," but it was pre-empted and changed to "A Pinon Pine Sapling" because I didn't know how to attach the title to the image. Yes, it's a tenacious little tree, but it's doomed. |
Jun 10th |
| 16 |
Jun 22 |
Comment |
Composition, color rendition, and detail are spot on, Joan. I wouldn't change a thing. |
Jun 8th |
| 16 |
Jun 22 |
Comment |
I love the character of the weathered, well-worn appearance of the boat, Mohan, and agree that it leads the eye to the people transacting their business beyond. But I also believe that the composition is unbalanced. While there's a lot of visual content in the right half of the picture, the left side is rather devoid of it. Accordingly, I'd recommend cropping off much of the watery expanse in the left half of the image so that the stronger elements in the right half dominate the frame and the viewer's attention. What remains should be sufficient to convey a sense of the watery environment in which the action takes place. |
Jun 8th |
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| 16 |
Jun 22 |
Reply |
Thanks for your comments, Terry. The "story," at least as I envision it, concerns the hopeless struggle of a sapling in a completely inhospitable environment -- steeply sloping, arid, naked rock. You'll notice that there isn't one other living thing in the picture, not even so much as a blade of grass. The presence of the tree is an aberration, but there it is, no doubt due to some absent-minded jay or chipmunk.
I'm not opposed to edits that are believable, like your suggestion to lightly dodge some of the shadow areas. But if, as you recommend, I were to dodge the streak of light at left to diminish its intensity, how would I explain the difference between it and the similar surface to the right of it that's brightly illuminated by the same direct sunlight? |
Jun 8th |
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