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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 11 |
Oct 17 |
Comment |
Hi Jim,
I am visiting from monochrome group 32. I like your image. Nice drama with the pipeline running out to the upper right corner. I suggest a slight additional crop to run the support cable exactly to the upper left corner, and an extremely slight leveling of the image to make the tower a bit more vertical. |
Oct 6th |
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1 comment - 0 replies for Group 11
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| 31 |
Oct 17 |
Reply |
Sounds like a good reason for how you framed your image. It also sounds like you gave a lot of thought to taking the shot and making it. |
Oct 18th |
| 31 |
Oct 17 |
Comment |
Hello Ella, I am visiting from Group 32, also monochrome. I like the curved railing lines of this composition. I don't do much post-processing myself, but this sure looks good. As to composition, I have one suggestion. I like the way the railing on the right ends exactly at the bottom right corner of the frame. Did you have enough in the original image to run the other railing exactly to the bottom left corner of the frame? Have a look at Jim Hagan's image in Group 11 this month, which I commented on much to this effect, and suggested a crop to him. Please let me know what you think. |
Oct 10th |
1 comment - 1 reply for Group 31
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| 32 |
Oct 17 |
Reply |
I think Wes's suggestion to make the trapezoid a triangle is a good one. I very much like diagonal lines that run exactly to the corner of a frame. |
Oct 15th |
| 32 |
Oct 17 |
Reply |
Yes, you are right, when I saw that scaffolding, that was when I said, I am going to make this as bad as possible. |
Oct 9th |
| 32 |
Oct 17 |
Reply |
I come from the Northeast, and live now in the mid-Atlantic, where the natural land is covered with forests. Your view of trees is completely fresh to me, and informs my understanding of how they can be viewed and photographed. Thanks for the thoughts. |
Oct 9th |
| 32 |
Oct 17 |
Comment |
My wife and I took the kids a long time ago to Canyon de Chelley, and yes we visited the canyon floor area. I recall learning that the human population of this area abandoned it very abruptly about 600 years ago, perhaps due to advancing drought, like the subject of your photo.
Your image is very satisfying. Congrats on the Hon Mention. I find it interesting that both your and Diana's image had visual "blockers" this month (at least to my eye). These coincidences are fun. |
Oct 4th |
| 32 |
Oct 17 |
Comment |
I am fine with all this interesting experimentation. I realize that the result is NOT realism.
I just find the finished product a bit inconsistent in skin tones. They have gone to pure white in the forefingers and much of the face, but very gray in the wrists and forearms. I would suggest making those areas also pure white. Even if you don't do that, I would really like to see that smudge of shadow to the right of the model's nose gone. |
Oct 4th |
| 32 |
Oct 17 |
Comment |
Yes, I think is is fine to stand on its own.
But I have talked in this group at length, favoring the importance of pairing a good title with an image, so I would favor just a simple title, like "9/11 Memorial Exterior," and no further story about the architecture. |
Oct 4th |
| 32 |
Oct 17 |
Comment |
I am fine with the composition. I think most viewers understand the grain elevators are immense structures, and you do not lose that here. I would only suggest darkening those deep shadows--somehow, my eye wants them darker. |
Oct 3rd |
| 32 |
Oct 17 |
Comment |
I find your framing very instructive. I am learning how you arranged the rectangle of the window inside the photographic frame to bring the subjects into the center of the frame. It is a very dynamic composition. I will try to remember this compositional technique as I go about my travels. Very fine composition. |
Oct 3rd |
| 32 |
Oct 17 |
Comment |
I would not crop off the darker grassy area on the near side of the stream--it keeps my eye from drifting out the bottom of the frame.
I think the work you have done is sooo much better than the original color shot--you have converted the haze to an advantageous aerial perspective, and brought out contrasts that used to be overwhelmed by the generosity of green. Very pleasing, but I have no sense of how it would do in Internationals--I know it would look great in my living room. |
Oct 3rd |
6 comments - 3 replies for Group 32
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| 47 |
Oct 17 |
Comment |
Hello Ed, I am visiting from Group 32, also monochrome. This is a wonderful and fortunate image, with the jet crossing. I am writing because I want to sort of quote from one of Rachael Carson's letters: "[my husband] and I sat out on the porch [of their Maine summer house] watching the full moon last night. You know, if you are patient and wait long enough, you can see a goose fly across the face of the full moon." |
Oct 10th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 47
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9 comments - 4 replies Total
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