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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 32 |
Jan 20 |
Reply |
True, I had not thought about that. It may be too large an area and too much in the foreground for blurring to avoid creating an additional distraction. Maybe I just need to try changing the tone of the straw in the color image, as I think Tom and I did with another image a few months ago, and see if that helps make the straw less obtrusive. |
Jan 28th |
| 32 |
Jan 20 |
Comment |
To my immense frustration, I, too, sometimes have issues with halos occurring when I sharpen my images. What order did you follow in your editing workflow? For example, do you sharpen before adding creative treatment(s) or after? I usually find it best to sharpen first. Also, do you edit/convert with Photoshop or something else? I know there are some reasonably short tutorials online about removing halos, but don't know which one(s) would be most useful to you since I'm not sure what program(s) you prefer. I also sometimes just remove them with the cloning tool, but that can be very tedious.
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Jan 28th |
| 32 |
Jan 20 |
Comment |
A nice capture of this old tractor, and as others mentioned, a good choice to convert to eliminate the distraction of the bright red in the background. You may want to try selecting and darkening the white awning some if possible, too. I like that you captured the driver's face in this image.
My husband and I were just in the Texas Panhandle in August for the centennial celebrations of moving the towns there to the railroad when it arrived. Several of these steam tractors were used in 1919 to move entire buildings. After seeing a steam tractor sputtering down Main Street in the parade, I understood better why it took nearly a week to pull my great-grandfather's set of wagons 45 miles from Liberal, Kansas to the Texas farm. You're right, they certainly don't move fast, but they are a neat part of history. |
Jan 27th |
| 32 |
Jan 20 |
Comment |
Not sure I can add anything new here, but I do very much like Tom's idea to leave just the small amount of color in the featured bottle, and agree that the increased contrast benefits the image. |
Jan 27th |
| 32 |
Jan 20 |
Comment |
The car looks great, and your low perspective in photographing it works well. As others already mentioned, the couple palm trees in the center and on the right are a bit distracting. You might be able to just clone over them, if you're not using the image somewhere that such alterations are prohibited, of course. I love your description .... it sounds like this car travels better than I do! |
Jan 27th |
| 32 |
Jan 20 |
Reply |
Just realized after looking at the set of images from the group on my laptop that all of them are very bright. Thus, my comments about the lighting may be off base. |
Jan 27th |
| 32 |
Jan 20 |
Reply |
A good thought about the straw. When I resolve my computer issues, I'll see if I can blur it some and tone it down that way. Thanks. |
Jan 27th |
| 32 |
Jan 20 |
Comment |
I like your black and white conversion of this elegant mum. One option to resolve the issue with the top of the second mum being a bit distracting possibly would be to make a selection from near the bottom of the main subject mum upward, and then darken the selected background (perhaps even all the way black). Sorry my usual computer is not working, or I'd try it to show you what I'm thinking. Darkening the background also would eliminate the bright spot in the upper left corner. As others already commented, I, too, like the beautiful textures in the petals. So pretty! |
Jan 27th |
| 32 |
Jan 20 |
Comment |
I have almost no knowledge of portrait photography. However, I don't find any fault in the pose here, particularly when taking into account you had to shoot around other people and deal with numerous issues over which you had little to no control. I also think you made a wise decision to convert this image from color to monochrome. It seems to me, though, that the lighting continues to be a challenge, particularly in that the model's left arm and leg, nose, and some other areas of her face seem very bright on my monitor. If you do decide to work on this image some more, is it possible to make those darker? (Unfortunately, my home desktop computer crashed, and I don't have my photo editing software on my laptop, so I can't experiment with that, and it may be that trying to adjust the highlights in those areas creates more problems than it solves.) To me, there is some potential here, but if it is not especially inspiring you, then you may prefer to find other images instead of this one. |
Jan 27th |
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