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Round |
C/R |
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Date |
Image |
| 32 |
Sep 20 |
Reply |
I grew up on the plains, which was amazing at night with the stars and the lights for miles. Yet, it generally wasn't as interesting during the day unless it was stormy. I do have a particular love of the mountains as a result, so I often am drawn to them as a subject. |
Sep 26th |
| 32 |
Sep 20 |
Comment |
Although I think this works with the stark background, I actually like the water drops that are to the left of the feather to help balance the image, and they are lost when the background goes completely dark. I find many of my macro photography efforts frustrating, especially since one must be so precise with the focus. What do you use to do your focus stacking? |
Sep 26th |
| 32 |
Sep 20 |
Comment |
Welcome to Group 32, Russ! I very much doubt it would have occurred to me to photograph something like this, but I think it actually makes for an interesting subject. I agree that flipping the right pepper to have the stem facing into the image helps redirect my attention to the subject, and I like how the monochrome conversion makes the image into a study in textures rather than color. |
Sep 26th |
| 32 |
Sep 20 |
Reply |
That might have resulted in more bull fighting than planned! |
Sep 26th |
| 32 |
Sep 20 |
Comment |
I'm jealous of your clouds. I never seem to find skies like that when I'm looking for them, and of course I can't add a sky if I'm using the image for nature or travel competition. I think I actually prefer the second image with the tighter crop, although I agree with Diana that I'm tempted to turn the bull to face the other way. I tried flipping the image horizontally, but I think the barn itself is better in the direction you have it originally. |
Sep 26th |
| 32 |
Sep 20 |
Reply |
What happens if you brighten the bridge but leave the background dark? I tried it, but didn't do a good job with my selection, so my image just looked silly. However, I do think this would be interesting with the bridge brighter. I generally do pretty well on narrow mountain roads, but your description of driving on this bridge sounds downright scary! |
Sep 26th |
| 32 |
Sep 20 |
Comment |
Like Russ, even though this is a photo, I feel like I can almost hear the canon blasting. I felt like the image was a little bit dark on my monitor, so I tried brightening it some. Did that help or hurt? You may have been going for a gloomier look. I also cropped a little bit since the upper left corner being so bright kept drawing my attention there. I agree this image lends itself well to the sepia toning. .... In reviewing this, it looks like I've come up with something very similar to what Asbjørn recommended. Forgive the redundancy. |
Sep 26th |
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| 32 |
Sep 20 |
Comment |
Like Tom, I believe the colors work well in your color version of this image. However, the color image does make the broken trees on the right side more noticeable. I think I would be tempted to crop those out. In the monochrome image, the white part of the house seems very bright on my monitor. I don't know how challenging it would be to adjust, as it doesn't seem to have a lot of texture there. Of course, if you do use it pictorially, you could clone some from the right side. This photo looks very tranquil. I'm wishing I were there right now. |
Sep 26th |
| 32 |
Sep 20 |
Reply |
This does seem to work better as you have presented it in the panorama/letterbox format. The foreground certainly isn't very photogenic, I agree. Perhaps Stephen is correct that I should have moved in closer if I was telling the story of fire. Otherwise, it seems the consensus is that I should concentrate on the mountains/sky as the subject, and get ride of as much as possible of the foreground. I fear it will look far worse when it does become safe for me to return to this location to make another photo attempt, though. Unfortunately, the Creek Fire is still less than 20% contained. |
Sep 16th |
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