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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 76 |
Jul 23 |
Reply |
Thanks Trey. I see what you are saying about the village at the left, but no it wasn't deliberate. I don't think the perspective would change enough to hide the village, but I was in a hurry to take this because there was a group of people about to walk into the view - the viewer never knows what is just out of shot in an image. |
Jul 28th |
| 76 |
Jul 23 |
Reply |
Thanks Ian. As regards a series of images, we live about 6 hours drive from Cornwall, so it is not somewhere I can build into a portfolio. I am however considering a talk about coastal scenery in the UK, and this would be one of the locations. |
Jul 19th |
| 76 |
Jul 23 |
Reply |
Thanks Henriette. It is often said that landscape photography is all about lighting, so when we are on holiday my wife and I try to get out for sunrise/sunsets. |
Jul 19th |
| 76 |
Jul 23 |
Comment |
I must be ignorant of fairy tales, because I had to look up Carabosse - but now I know! I think this is a good record of the elderly lady dancing and I hope she liked it, but what I really like is the very serious expression of the little girl on the right. Jay is right - the Photoshop Remove tool takes out that stray arm with a single paint/click (image attached, though it needs little more tidying up). What is unfortunate is that we have lost some of the other girl's faces - particularly the one on the left behind the 'bat wings'. Difficult to do anything about that as I guess you chose the best picture of the main character. |
Jul 15th |
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| 76 |
Jul 23 |
Comment |
Regarding focus, I think there is a slightly 'blurry patch' on the bottom petal. It looks like the stacking has blended an out of focus image for that area, but it's difficult to be sure from the upload here.
Apart from the above, the textures in the wood and flower make a good subject for mono, and it takes out a lot of the green distractions in the background. I am not a huge fan of colour popping, but I think it works well here. I wonder why you cropped out the bottom of the image - it means the centre of the flower is now below the middle of the image, so we are looking slightly 'down' on it. |
Jul 13th |
| 76 |
Jul 23 |
Comment |
With these types of portraits the interest is all in the lines etched into the face by years of sun and weathering - and you have captured that very well. Your 'little' processing has slightly lightened the face which improves the image. One tiny suggestion - try cropping out the orange at the left side - I think removing that area focuses even more attention onto the face. |
Jul 13th |
| 76 |
Jul 23 |
Comment |
The tree roots certainly make an interesting subject and I don't mind that the tree is chopped off - it's not practical to include all of the tree, and the stump gives the roots somewhere to go. Although people talk about 'dappled sunlight' in forests, I always find images in-camera look a lot more contrasty than our eyes see - something in the way our brain interprets the scene. I can see you have softened out the contrast which is good. Just watch out for the highlights because the brightest highlights behind the tree have gone a bit flat grey. |
Jul 13th |
| 76 |
Jul 23 |
Comment |
If you are starting to concentrate on B&W images, this is a good start! Wonderful textures in the dramatic sky and a good range of tones from black to white. Although the sky is the most interesting part, the landscape is also interesting enough to hold its own, so maybe splitting the image 1/3 landscape and 2/3 sky would give a nice balance?
(PS I generally 'default' to F8 for landscapes, then go up/down in aperture if I need more/less depth of field.) |
Jul 13th |
| 76 |
Jul 23 |
Reply |
Thanks Sanford. The benefit of this group is to get a look at your own images through others eyes, so I might delve into my collection of skies and see if I have a better choice. |
Jul 13th |
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