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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 32 |
Jan 26 |
Reply |
Yes the 400 is heavy, being a F2.8 lens, I can still manage it handheld, but maybe in a few years will have to switch to OM system, because wieght will become to much to manage.
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Jan 29th |
| 32 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
Tom, I like the effect you achieved, although now having seen it, I think I could get a very similar result without Topaz AI.
Diana, As far as I know Topaz may be using pixels from its library, so strictly speaking it would be no-no for salons/exhibitions, but to play devil's advocate, how is a Jury/Judge going to know?
Thanks for the inputs. |
Jan 16th |
| 32 |
Jan 26 |
Reply |
They are almost always grazing, so it is unlikely that they will not see you. I wouldn't even think of being out of the vehicle with a black rhino arround, but the White Rhino is very docile. Most of the trick with wildlife photography is to know the animals behaviour (or have a guide who knows the animals behavior) |
Jan 15th |
| 32 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
I like it Stephen,
Might have just used a smaller aperture to keep the upper branch also in focus, and removed the leaves in the final edit, as the eye wanders from the figurine to the leaves.
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Jan 15th |
| 32 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
Here is my effort, I selected Sky in ACR, brought down the exposure a bit, then put a linear gradient over the bottom half added contrast, reduced exposure and made the shadows a little bit darker. Then came out of ACR, removed some blobs in the Sky. |
Jan 15th |
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| 32 |
Jan 26 |
Reply |
This looks better than the original you had posted. It is a good composition, but balancing sky details and foreground details is tricky |
Jan 15th |
| 32 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
The layering is lovely, you just needed a moose in the foreground to give the eye a point to latch on to! Maybe a composite, because you can't really choreograph a wild animal to appear!
I would have gone a little wider (as you had the zoom anyway) and included a little more space at the top.
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Jan 15th |
| 32 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
Good composite, I never learned to do composites properly, so am always in awe of well done composites!
My only issue is that the truck is dark and the building and background are light, If I think of where the light would be coming from, if this was a single shot, the clouds suggest , it would be diffuse sunlight, then the difference in exposure of the truck and building don't quite match up and the shadow of the truck's tyre (bottom right) is out of place.
But as I have said, I don't understand composites, I am looking at the end result as a single shot. |
Jan 15th |
| 32 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
Diana,
For me the colour version looks better, I am sure it will do well in your people competition!
As Stephen says, the face and neck are dark compared to her shoulder and legs.
Her clasped hand are overlapping the clock in the background, a little repositioning could have separated them, giving a "cleaner" look. Also the details in the clock are lost, maybe f/16 would have kept it, as you were in studio, I presume that it would have been possible.
I'm nitpicking! |
Jan 15th |
| 32 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
Here is a friend who was photographing lying in a depression in the ground, we did this one at a time to get some really low shots! It is actually an an amazing place for Rhino photography. |
Jan 15th |
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| 32 |
Jan 26 |
Reply |
Thank You, Steven |
Jan 15th |
| 32 |
Jan 26 |
Reply |
Thanks Diana, I wasn't really thinking of PSA exhibitions, as for ND, there is no nature story the judges can see; Open Monochrome is very competitive with all sorts of fancy composites and studio work; in an exhibition where there is a category "animal portraits", it may have a chance. But as a print for the wall, it will probably look fine!
I was very fascinated with the history of the place and how they had imported and nurtured the southern white rhino's, which I didn't know about, till I got there! I had gone there, as a friend who is travelling to Africa all the time, told me it is the bext place to photograph rhinos! |
Jan 15th |
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