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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 14 |
Jun 17 |
Comment |
oops, I am sure I commented but where did it go? I recall admiring the wild "hair" on the bird's back and the precise chevrons below that. I recall observing that the bird's legs seemed sort of odd, maybe oversaturated? I did not remark on the idea that just came to me, namely that the pea soup in the lower part seems almost in focus and I think it is duckweed--tiny round green bodies floating on the water and really are this color! No matter, I agree they would look better a bit darker. |
Jun 26th |
| 14 |
Jun 17 |
Reply |
oops, the out of focus fungi are in the upper left, not the upper right! Sorry. |
Jun 26th |
| 14 |
Jun 17 |
Comment |
Thanks for helpful comments. However I did use the Levels histogram exactly as you describe. I initially thought of the right hand tree as a framing device but there is not enough of it to really accomplish that so I should eliminate it. I did ride our retirement community bus past this scene the next day at 50 mph, but enough that I could see the right hand vertical was vertical for real, not slanting as in my photo. Larry was right--I held the camera at approximately an 8 degree angle, thus inadvertently greatly enhancing the scene of decay and the impression the whole thing would collapse very soon. Thanks Larry and others for your blessing! BTW it also looked less haunted because vines and shrubs concealed the house much more in June vs. January when I took the photo |
Jun 23rd |
| 14 |
Jun 17 |
Comment |
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Jun 23rd |
| 14 |
Jun 17 |
Comment |
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Jun 23rd |
| 14 |
Jun 17 |
Comment |
I agree that the nest is sharper than the birds but I prefer having the coy lady looking down on her would-be mate, reading left to right, Tell me about old eyes. I can not manually focus and am entirely dependent on autofocus--Canon's red dot and chirp (macular degeneration). Good job! |
Jun 23rd |
| 14 |
Jun 17 |
Comment |
I find none of the three versions of the sky look natural to me but I really like Stuart's version of the clouds. I like the composition of the two islands with contrasting objectson them (flag pole vs. lighthouse. Does the Detail program work with Photoshop? If so, is there a particular version of PS that is required? |
Jun 23rd |
| 14 |
Jun 17 |
Comment |
*I think you achieved your goal of an abstraction of a recognizable subject and produced a beautiful image besides! I would not change a thing! |
Jun 23rd |
| 14 |
Jun 17 |
Comment |
A fine Nature image, which of course you could not change much if entering a Nature competition. Most of the fungi are really sharp. But a small clump in the upper right is out of focus & that is what bothers me! I would clone them out by copying the green grass (maybe a smidge darker!). I would crop a bit tighter on the top and tight to get rid of some of the out of focus grass |
Jun 23rd |
| 14 |
Jun 17 |
Comment |
I am with Arun--jealous of your setting. I Look out on an expanse of grass, hints of a road and path, a sliver of pond with nonde trees behind--but better than than looking at my neighbors siding--I think I entered a snow view. But I am with others in observing that the bare ground in lower right is too bright and takes the eye away from the beauty of the rest of your image. Adding more trees is o.k.,but I think if it were mine, I would have just darkened it. And what is wrong with "pattern" photos? You may have observed I am very fond of them, especially when the pattern is made up of recognizable elements (e.g. my grapevines of a year or so ago. |
Jun 23rd |
| 14 |
Jun 17 |
Comment |
I am with Arun--jealous of your setting. I Look out on an expanse of grass, hints of a road and path, a sliver of pond with nonde trees behind--but better than than looking at my neighbors siding--I think I entered a snow view. But I am with others in observing that the bare ground in lower right is too bright and takes the eye away from the beauty of the rest of your image. Adding more trees is o.k.,but I think if it were mine, I would have just darkened it. And what is wrong with "pattern" photos? You may have observed I am very fond of them, especially when the pattern is made up of recognizable elements (e.g. my grapevines of a year or so ago. |
Jun 23rd |
| 14 |
Jun 17 |
Comment |
That is exactly what I did and do routinely. As I said the monitor shows windows that look black to me and sky and missing shingles that look white to me. So maybe it's my monitor? If so what do I do now?
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Jun 14th |
| 14 |
Jun 17 |
Comment |
Thanks Larry and Stuart for your comments. Funny thing, the empty windows and door look pretty black to me when setting the black point with Levels (i use CS3). I set the white point similarly. I will try going back to the original to see if I can get any texture in the sky but my best recall was it was pretty uniformly gray--as so many days are up here on the North Coast (I live about 10 miles south of Lake Erie). Tomorrow it it is forecast to be sunny & clear. I will be taking our retirement community bus the road past this wreck and will check out the house's verticals and angles of the trees, although at 50 mph. (When I went in January my daughter was driving). |
Jun 13th |
12 comments - 1 reply for Group 14
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12 comments - 1 reply Total
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