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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 1 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80
I guess after almost 64 years of togetherness we can still disagree. I like the swing of the clouds and by cutting off some of he top you would lose that. What I do like that Stu did, although I'd like it a little less on center, is the funnel lighting. Nice image overall. |
Feb 5th |
| 1 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80
wow!!! What a stunning image. Even I who hates mornings would make it my business to be up before sunrise with hopes of getting anything close to this.
Have you tried adding a few clouds in Luminar if you have it? Might not be as good as what you got, but never know if you don't try. |
Feb 5th |
2 comments - 0 replies for Group 1
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| 2 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80
Beautiful image. One of the places I'd love to get to but probably never will. I think it might lose something by eliminating the sky but you might give it a try. I think I might try to enhance the sky a bit as I feel without it the remaining almost all green palette would change the whole beauty of the image. |
Feb 5th |
| 2 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80
I find this a fascinating image. My first reaction was that it might be a batter of some kind and wondered what you were preparing. Funny how the eye sees what you sometimes think you are seeing rather than the actuality. Love the colors and textures of both the rock and varieties of sand |
Feb 5th |
2 comments - 0 replies for Group 2
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| 6 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Lovely image. With a house full of Lladros, I really must try this technique one of these days. Your lovely work certainly gives me the incentive. Well Done! |
Feb 8th |
| 6 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
This turned out to be a very interesting abstract and I definitely agree that the monochrome would probably be my choice as well, but I'd actually love to see the original image as well. |
Feb 8th |
| 6 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80
Nice shot Jean. I concur with the other comments and would like to offer a hint. I used to frequent Butterfly World here in Florida and shot more shots than I could ever count. Their curator offered me the following: Butterflies are least active when the weather is cooler. Therefore try to stay away from the very warm or hot days as the butterflies are too active and therefore more difficult to shoot. |
Feb 8th |
3 comments - 0 replies for Group 6
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| 8 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80
I find it interesting that in today's world these buildings still exist and take up land space where more modern buildings could be accomplishing more. Nice image |
Feb 8th |
| 8 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80
I find it interesting that in today's world these buildings still exist and take up land space where more modern buildings could be accomplishing more. Nice image |
Feb 8th |
| 8 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Very creative, Mark. However, I wish you had included some info on the process you used to create the image. |
Feb 8th |
| 8 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
This is a lovely image, but I really wish you had included some information about the image itself other than just the technical data. |
Feb 8th |
4 comments - 0 replies for Group 8
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| 9 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80
David, this is gorgeous. Where in Florida is this? I'm on the south east coast area between West Palm Beach and Ft. Lauderdale and would love to keep this in mind if it's a reasonable distance. I'm somewhat limited as my husband uses a walker and with back issues finds it uncomfortable to do very long drives but we both want to shoot so I'm always looking for new local or at least reasonably local things I can convince him to try. |
Feb 14th |
| 9 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Your work gets more beautiful every month. How are you? Are you surviving Corona well? |
Feb 14th |
| 9 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80
You did a great job on this building. Well composed, the textures on the building itself are obvious and the icing on the cake is the sky. Was that natural or maybe borrowed from Photoshop or Luminar? And, by the way did you see the plane (?) up there just to the left of the left tower? |
Feb 14th |
| 9 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80
You did a great job on this. I used to have an action that created an action from the picture with one click. I wish I could remember the author of that. It was great. He also had a few other actions I used over the years and best of all it was FREE.
This one you did is lovely and a great memory. |
Feb 14th |
| 9 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80
You did a great job on this. I used to have an action that created an action from the picture with one click. I wish I could remember the author of that. It was great. He also had a few other actions I used over the years and best of all it was FREE.
This one you did is lovely and a great memory. |
Feb 14th |
| 9 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80
You did a great job on this. I used to have an action that created an action from the picture with one click. I wish I could remember the author of that. It was great. He also had a few other actions I used over the years and best of all it was FREE.
This one you did is lovely and a great memory. |
Feb 14th |
| 9 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80
I love the result you obtained. This image should be a winner for you. It is extremely well done. I used to have Nik's filters and lost them when I replaced my computer...must reimport them one of these days. |
Feb 14th |
| 9 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
John this is a lovely image. I particularly like the blue shading around the wheels. Was this a texture or your artistic hand with a paintbrush. Only one small glitch on the rear of the front left tire is th highlighted "stroke" partially around the tire. Calls my eye right to the spot and easily removed. Overall a very well done image. |
Feb 14th |
8 comments - 0 replies for Group 9
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| 17 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Nice image. Based on the image...check the U on the building, I feel pretty certain that you did flip it but never made the change on the U. I wonder if you would have been able to get the full height of the building had you stepped back a bit and then cropped in post processing.
Nicely done. |
Feb 8th |
| 17 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Nice image. Based on the image...check the U on the building, I feel pretty certain that you did flip it but never made the change on the U. I wonder if you would have been able to get the full height of the building had you stepped back a bit and then cropped in post processing.
Nicely done. |
Feb 8th |
2 comments - 0 replies for Group 17
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| 30 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
That webinar was fabulous |
Feb 15th |
| 30 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80
This flower is so sharp it leaves you unlimited opportunities to play with the options. It is lovely as it is and I certainly like Steve's suggestion. I would like to suggest that you also try to play with textures altering the background. I did try to create a suggestion for you; but, when I tried to retrieve it to post, it disappeared and I just don't have the time right now to redo the whole thing. If you'd like further information on working with textures, take a look at Marie Altenburg's website, mariealtenburg.com. It's a treasure trove. |
Feb 14th |
| 30 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80
I absolutely love this image. I for one would love to see a tutorial or a webinar on creating this kind of image. As I am active in a couple of camera clubs, if you are interested in doing something, give me your email and I'll follow up and see if I can make something available for them. This is so creative that for me it's mind boggling. |
Feb 14th |
3 comments - 0 replies for Group 30
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| 38 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80
I love the image Your improvement from the original really brought the whole thing to life. Art's crop really brought the eye down to the far end of the canal. Well done. |
Feb 4th |
| 38 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Art, This is really super. Wish I could get as good as you. I can't even get any near this lucky in getting activity there when I go. We were there about two weeks ago and the extent of the activity was when Stu fell and wound up in the ER. |
Feb 4th |
| 38 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80
The sky is really beautiful and I think that Art's submission for change is right on. I, too, found the magenta a bit overpowering and hat "highlight" to the buildings is an added plus. |
Feb 4th |
3 comments - 0 replies for Group 38
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| 44 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80
This is a lovely image. I did, however, notice a couple of things that I thought might improve it so I took a couple of liberties to make suggestions.
The trees on the extreme right seem a bit tilted to I brought it into photoshop and using the transform option straightened them out a bit; and personal taste, the sky is pretty outstanding whereas, to me the "strawish" grass is just o.k., so I cropped it a bit to give the whole image a more panoramic feel. Would appreciate your comments. |
Feb 4th |
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| 44 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 7 80
Please don't misunderstand me as I don't mean to be critical, but in that this is a study group, I'd like to offer a suggestion. The image is well done but kind of "I came, I saw, I shot it". I don't know if you have the latest photoshop but if you do, have you tried sky replacement?. If you have don't and you have your own collection of skies it's a bit more time consuming, but at the very least, you can enhance the sky just enough to be more than just there.
Again, I hope you do not take offense as it is not meant that way. |
Feb 4th |
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| 44 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80
This is a lovely image. I particularly like how you've detailed all of the steps you described in obtaining your desired result. I, for one, will make a note of this image for reference so that I can borrow some of your processes in the future. Very well done. |
Feb 4th |
3 comments - 0 replies for Group 44
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| 48 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Thank you. |
Feb 20th |
| 48 |
Feb 21 |
Reply |
Thanks Jean. I just submitted it to our camera club March competition. Keep your fingers crossed for me, I've been doing terribly so far this year. |
Feb 20th |
| 48 |
Feb 21 |
Reply |
Thanks Emily |
Feb 20th |
| 48 |
Feb 21 |
Reply |
Thanks Lynne |
Feb 19th |
| 48 |
Feb 21 |
Reply |
Part of my problem is when I submit for a club competition 9 out of 10 times it shows up a bit washed out so I've been tending to try to get the colors more intense. It's going in for March so I'll let you know how it does. |
Feb 18th |
| 48 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
I changed the shading on the rose looking for more impact. I put it into March's club competition and will let you know how it does. And, Margaret, when you apply a texture it applies only to the areas where you apply the texture. |
Feb 17th |
| 48 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
or maybe I should be a little less picky |
Feb 17th |
| 48 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Emily, this is a lovely image. However, I'm not sure why you included that wide white border. So, when I opened the image the first thing I did was remove it. Then, while I was working on the image, I opened Topaz Studio 2 and chose their suggested basic improvement option and got this result. Hope you like it. |
Feb 9th |
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| 48 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Jean, this is a beautiful image. This is the kind of image, with the work that you put into it, where you should try to include the original image so the group can see the changes you made. |
Feb 9th |
| 48 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Lloyd, this is a great bird catch. What I'm not overly thrilled with is the background. Have you considered replacing it with a textured background? They work wonders in remaking an image from beautiful to fantastic. See my notes on the previous image re textures. |
Feb 5th |
| 48 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Lovely reflection. I agree with Lloyd regarding the removal of those two distracting items. Otherwise coloring and reflections are quite beautiful. |
Feb 5th |
| 48 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
I love the colors in this. I'm not a big fan of abstracts as usual but this one is done very well. Actually in looking at the original to my eyes it's not that soft. If you have it, try taking it into Topaz Sharpen AI. It works wonders. Another option if you have it is to go into Topaz 2 and open up Smudge and sharpen there. Another great sharpening tool. Then, if you haven't done it, try playing with masks. I saw a couple of webinars done by Marie Altenburg (article in the January issue of the PSA Journal on sharpening that will blow your mind. See if you can get your camera club to set up a webinar with her...mariealtenburg.com it is more than the most worthwhile webinar I have ever attended. |
Feb 5th |
| 48 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Love the colors in the mountains. What is appearing a little strange about the sky is that it almost looks like the mountains are pasted onto thee sky. Did you replace the sky? If so, you need to soften the edge of the mountain just a tab so it doesn't look pasted on. Otherwise an super image. |
Feb 5th |
9 comments - 4 replies for Group 48
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| 51 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80
Well done image and the deer make a very interesting subject for this. Once in a long while we photographers get lucky. |
Feb 19th |
| 51 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80
A great piece of street photography. |
Feb 19th |
| 51 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80
I am not a cell phone photographer but I continue to marvel at the results that some of you get.
Very well done. |
Feb 19th |
| 51 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80
Absolutely stunning. You couldn't have planned for an image like this if you spent hours. |
Feb 19th |
4 comments - 0 replies for Group 51
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| 52 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80
We visited Zermatt many years ago but weren't as lucky to get a clear view of the Matterhorn...clouds, clouds and more clouds. This is very well done. |
Feb 19th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 52
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| 53 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80
This is a very interesting image. Miriam's crop improves it as those small boats on the left are unnecessary to the image. I would, however, like to see the main subject a bit brighter to really stand out. |
Feb 19th |
| 53 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
I've gotten much more into flowers lately and have been having a lot of fun playing with textures. Tom, I like your suggested improvement. The brightened colors really make the image stand out. And, yes, a bit of sharpening would probably help. Have you tried Topaz Sharpen AI? It works wonders. |
Feb 19th |
2 comments - 0 replies for Group 53
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| 54 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80
I often marvel at those of us who have the creative minds that dream up and put into action images like this one. Wish I was one of them. Very well done. |
Feb 19th |
| 54 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80
I find this to be a very interesting image. I view this, not as a political statement, but rather as a sign of a sad time in our history that will be studied for years to come. Having tried to photograph TV images in the past, I believe this is quite an accomplishment. Well done. |
Feb 19th |
2 comments - 0 replies for Group 54
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| 57 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80
I like what you did with this. The black space for me is quite appropriate, as I find the white in the original distracting. I also very much like that "floor" on which his tail is resting. You are just enough off center to make it interesting. I only wish his head were a little more defined on first look, or stood out a bit more. I hope someone has a suggestion for that, because I'm the gal who knows what I think I'd like but not always knows how to accomplish it. Overall well done. |
Feb 4th |
| 57 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80
For a moment, before reading your description, I almost thought it was a huge ladies handbag. It is a lovely image I took it into Topaz Studio 2 and sharpened it just a tad and then chose their suggestion for "a touch of the dramatic" to "pump it up just a bit? Actually looking at them together, they seem almost identical. I like it either way. |
Feb 4th |
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| 57 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Hi visiting from 48 & 80
I have always been a flower shooter and lately I have been working on improving my results. Sorry to say this one is not sharp. You might be able to improve it somewhat playing with textures. See Marie Altenburg's article in the January issue of the PSA journal. She does some marvelous work with textures and I've salvaged more than I can count after playing with them myself. |
Feb 4th |
3 comments - 0 replies for Group 57
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| 80 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Thanks Carol. I appreciate all of the comments even though at this point, I think I'm more confused than ever. One thing for sure --- the green background goes...after that I'll still be playing with this image for perfection if there is such a thing. |
Feb 15th |
| 80 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Actually the one marked original 2 was just created because I was so unhappy with that green background so I created a texture with the New York City skyline and played with that. |
Feb 1st |
2 comments - 0 replies for Group 80
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| 83 |
Feb 21 |
Reply |
Just an option to consider. You image is lovely as it is, but I know that often when I'm working on an image, I wonder what other options might be available. |
Feb 20th |
| 83 |
Feb 21 |
Reply |
I did apply a texture to the upper and layer corners to lighten the deep greens but enhance the textures. Do you like it or prefer your original? |
Feb 20th |
| 83 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80..
What can I say more about beautiful. And the fact that I miss Long Island makes me more jealous.
Very well done. |
Feb 4th |
| 83 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80
Your conversion to monochrome is perfect. It is so much more striking and tells the story without the distraction of color. |
Feb 4th |
| 83 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80
This is an excellent black & white monochrome. I just wonder if your definition of monochrome is limited to black and white. If not, I see a lovely green monochrome with textures worked off the original image. |
Feb 4th |
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3 comments - 2 replies for Group 83
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| 89 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80
To me this is an excellent image of a cowboy proudly looking over all his land. Technically it's perfectly accomplished and I love the sky. Very well done. |
Feb 4th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 89
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| 90 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80
This image is technically correct and your caption is so very appropriate. However, having been participating in a gzillion club competitions lately, I have to be honest, I doubt that it would score well because of the position of the bird, although it does deserve more than just a pass by a judge. I ALWAYS say I shoot for myself but find myself thinking about the judges. |
Feb 4th |
| 90 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80
Great catch. Love the colors. The only thing I would eliminate if it is allowed in a nature group is that little white spot on the lower right corner. |
Feb 4th |
| 90 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Visiting from 48 & 80
Love this flower. Although in a nature group you're not allowed much latitude, I'd love to see this in an open group with some texture applied. Check out the January issue of the PSA Journal article by Marie Altlenburg and then see if you can get your camera club to contact her to do a webinar. It opened up a whole new world for me.
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Feb 4th |
3 comments - 0 replies for Group 90
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60 comments - 6 replies Total
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