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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 2 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
Consider joining us in monochrome group 32. I think we are a little low on members right now. I suppose you have to contact Barbara Miller to get assigned to a new group, no matter which one it is. |
Jun 15th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 2
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| 4 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
Someone in Group 8 also submitted a shot of this. Have a look. Suggest you comment to each other. |
Jun 4th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 4
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| 8 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
Nice shot considering your shooting situation, and a great subject.
The blue space is so small I don't think it needs to be broken up; in fact, I find the moon distrating. Scientific note--a full moon is only visible at night, so this doesn't fit in a realistic shot. |
Jun 4th |
| 8 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
Nice shot considering your shooting situation, and a great subject.
The blue space is so small I don't think it needs to be broken up; in fact, I find the moon distrating. Scientific note--a full moon is only visible at night, so this doesn't fit in a realistic shot. |
Jun 4th |
| 8 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
Looks great.
Please tell us about the place, and your technical details of shooting this image. I am particularly interested to know the focal length of the lens, and the location from which you shot. |
Jun 4th |
| 8 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
Someone in Group 4 also submitted a shot of this. Have a look. Suggest you comment to each other. |
Jun 4th |
4 comments - 0 replies for Group 8
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| 9 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
Nice shot of an old vehicle, with great colors resulting from the ageing. The saturation does not look excessive, so that's also very well done.
The viewpoint of your shot interests me--do you recall your lens focal length and how far you were from the vehicle? |
Jun 15th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 9
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| 13 |
Jun 18 |
Reply |
Oh, it is a treasure, much older than I expected. It must have been a house door, and the mosque doors tend to have the infinite patterns. Congratulations. |
Jun 15th |
| 13 |
Jun 18 |
Reply |
Oh, you got an entire door, no doubt with a traditional infinite design pattern! That's great. Show us all a shot of that. Remember to keep the parallel lines parallel or correct them in photoshop. |
Jun 15th |
| 13 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
I immediately recognized these fine art Pasabahce bottles, as my wife is Turkish and we shop there every summer. Your wife did well to choose these. The Pasabahce designs, both traditional like these and modern, are splendid.
Your light box work is very fine, and shows them off beautifully. How about trying a shot of the hand-painted ceramic plates, bowls, or vases--did your wife bring back any of those? |
Jun 4th |
1 comment - 2 replies for Group 13
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| 19 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
There is a Milky Way shot in Group 28 this month. Perhaps you can comment to each other.
Is a dark vantage point, a tripod, and ten seconds of exposure all one needs to do to get a nice Milky Way shot? |
Jun 4th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 19
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| 28 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
There is a Milky Way shot in Group 19 this month. Perhaps you can comment to each other.
Can you say a little more about "worked on the sky colors and levels a bit?" Sounds like that's where all the magic of this nice shot took place.
What is your shooting location? Where is the Little House? |
Jun 4th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 28
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| 31 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
Hello Ella,
This shows a lot of skill at transforming the original. Your group colleagues have already commented about your model's shoulders that need a bit of work to match the job you did on the skin of her face.
What I want to note here is that images can go in many interesting and valid directions. Your finished monochrome indeed shows a "Cool Gram," especially with the pretty much professional care you took of her skin, making her look about 30 years old.
On the other hand, there might have been the choice to portray an active but somewhat aging woman (around 60), whose facial lines have marked her with life's experiences.
Both possible. Both legitimate. Yea, creativity. |
Jun 15th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 31
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| 32 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
Nicely done, Tom, and Oliver's suggestion is quite interesting.
The last time we were in Lancaster, I looked out of the restaurant we were at and saw a spring field being ploughed. I think there were four large horses, and the plough blades cut the earth quite deeply. The driver was a young woman in a cotton dress, standing only on a miniscule platform behind her team. She flashed a winning smile at our family as she made a U-turn near us and headed away up the field. What command she had of her team! I had no camera at the time. |
Jun 13th |
| 32 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
I like everything about the original sepia shot. You have discussed the vignette and I agree it could be a bit less. About the clutter of other junk, I prefer the junk on the left to disappear from this shot. My reason is that the composition is formal, as if this were a grand vehicle posing for an important photo--very nice in that respect. So I would rather not see the junk on the left. |
Jun 13th |
| 32 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
I agree with Diana that the detail is over-done here. On the other hand, I like the original mono shot. I don't find the color variations in the original significant enough to make me prefer the color shot. |
Jun 13th |
| 32 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
I also prefer the mono image. But I don't think it's quite pin-point sharp, if you look at the mom's belly. |
Jun 13th |
| 32 |
Jun 18 |
Reply |
And thanks to everyone else who commented. |
Jun 13th |
| 32 |
Jun 18 |
Reply |
How interesting--together we figure out an image. Thanks for the suggestions, Tom.
Also thanks to Diana. |
Jun 13th |
4 comments - 2 replies for Group 32
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| 34 |
Jun 18 |
Reply |
Ohhh! Those are good titles. |
Jun 15th |
| 34 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
Very nicely proportioned and placed composition, as already noted by your group colleagues.
I am a very strong advocate of having good titles, so here goes:
1. "Rooms"
2. "Rooms, Rooms, Rooms" [This echos Hamlet, when he replied to Polonius about what he was reading: "Words, words, words." |
Jun 15th |
| 34 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
Symbolism gets interesting here. The pointing finger suggests that time always flows forward. The birds reinforce the "time flies" concept.
The musical text looks like a medieval Latin hymn. Perhaps a more modern tune appropriate to the subject matter, with discernible text, might work better. Of course, this text is OK too, since medieval Christianity stressed the temporary nature of our lives, eventually leading to death and decay.
Am I going too far? OK, just remember what Groucho Marx said, "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana." |
Jun 15th |
2 comments - 1 reply for Group 34
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| 35 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
I am not a Buddhist and not an expert, but I think this might be a monk turning a prayer wheel. The Buddha would probably have been in a classical position of teaching repose, and with classical hand gestures. Also the Buddha has a bulge on the top of his head, indicating great wisdom. |
Jun 15th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 35
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| 37 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
It's a little hard to deal with photographing statues. I personally think it's fine, since you have to deal with lighting, viewpoint, and composition. You hear different views on this.
You have not told us how you felt about the Parks and Recreation and Arts Council behavior, although I think that is suggested by your title. Nor if you are pursuing any action or dialog with them. That would be an interesting story for all of us concerned with "free speech" and its cousin concepts. |
Jun 15th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 37
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| 38 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
This is a very successful capture of the impressionist feeling. It teaches and encourages us that a fine shot can be obtained through a bus window on a rainy day.
Are you familiar with Gustave Caillebotte's Paris Street Rainy day? |
Jun 4th |
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1 comment - 0 replies for Group 38
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| 39 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
This is a very good capture of performers on stage. They look like Degas dancers. But this is a performance--yes? So is the performance representing dancers in preparation for dancing? Is the one with her back turned and hand raised pretending to be balancing at a barre? |
Jun 15th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 39
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| 40 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
Prakhar, this is a wonderful cultural capture. How I wish we had seen this when my wife and I visited Kerala some years ago. Please tell us more about it and how you came to be there to shoot it:
1. "Kathakali" sounds like it is made up of other words--what does it literally mean?
2. What brought you to Kerala, so far from your home in Lucknow? |
Jun 15th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 40
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| 45 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
This is nicely done, Ed, especially the placement of the two pieces of framed art in the upper corners of your composition.
Ray, about your comment on a subject focus, that's true in much of the work we all do in DD, but I think there is some room for "emptiness" to be the subject. I prefer to call it "peacefulness" or "tranquility." |
Jun 16th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 45
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| 46 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
Jeff, you have an image with so many possibilities, and Gary has taken a different approach from you. Both are interesting, and worthy.
For my part, I do not care for images whose colors are enhanced quite this much, however lovely they may be--I find them a bit unnatural. I would suggest enhancing the colors maybe about half to 2/3 of what you have done, so to speak. I prefer that an image does not announce "I am post-processed." |
Jun 4th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 46
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| 48 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
I like the off-center composition. It feels to me like you have left room for the sun to be present in the frame. |
Jun 16th |
| 48 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
I particularly like the original cropping with extensive black all around, because I am in love with shots that are 50% total black--seriously. I suggest you remove the traces of three lines on the left side that are probably a door, and other similar light traces, so the only lit areas in the interior are the ceiling and side walls near the lights. I have learned from others in the DD groups that a white stroke around the frame might be useful. |
Jun 16th |
| 48 |
Jun 18 |
Reply |
It is called the New Mosque because it is younger than many of the others. Of course it is old, but the name stuck. |
Jun 16th |
| 48 |
Jun 18 |
Reply |
Oh, the Yeni Cami, I have visited it with my wife, who is Turkish, and so many others. But they all blend together for me. Thanks for the identification. |
Jun 16th |
| 48 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
Hi Beverly, this is not the Hagia Sophia, as it lacks the extremely heavy buttresses that were added later. I can't say which other one it might be, but they are all very grand.
Your enhancement is interesting and appropriate, but I doubt that a straight front shot of a Mosque is competition material. |
Jun 5th |
3 comments - 2 replies for Group 48
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| 50 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
I also been in situations where light has penetrated in moody ways, and always found the resulting image less memorable than the experience. I prefer that you had left the side window in the composition, as I think it adds interest, and you might consider straightening out the converging lines in PS. I see that you brightened the light shining in, but did not overdo it--good choice. |
Jun 5th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 50
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| 51 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
Walking around in Seattle, where two of our children live, my wife and I have come across such arrangements in the gardens in front of apartment buildings, arranged at first by the tenants, but contributed to by the general public walking by. Some of these are very extensive. People will also rearrange them on whims so the displays may vary from day to day. A most interesting community activity. I will have to follow your idea and shoot some of them next time we are there. Great idea you had. |
Jun 5th |
| 51 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
Dave has a very good point about triangles. You have them throughout the composition--especially in the bridge structure. Also, you did very well to include so much foreground, so this is not just a simple shot of a distant bridge. |
Jun 5th |
2 comments - 0 replies for Group 51
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| 53 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
Dan, I did a farrier shot in my monochrome group 32 in May this year. If you go to group 32, you can select a prior month. |
Jun 16th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 53
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| 54 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
Phillipa, I have seen a number of composite shots in the last few years using sheet music, but yours is the first that integrated the musical text with the image. Mostly, people just put some sheet music in the background for effect without thinking which music it is and how that fits in. You have made the musical text the main subject--well done. |
Jun 16th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 54
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| 55 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
Please tell us if this was the image as taken, or post-processed--if so, with what software and what enhancement? Thanks. |
Jun 16th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 55
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| 57 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
I like this better than your monochrome version in the other group, as it has very interesting color variation from item to item--not apparent in the monochrome. |
Jun 5th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 57
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| 62 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
I'm a big admirer of images with as much as 50% pure black. It's great to see this image with so much dark area. It emphasizes the empty space and contributes to the composition and mood. Well done. |
Jun 17th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 62
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| 71 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
It is a matter of taste and what you are trying to achieve; you can consider cutting out a tiny bit of sky and half of the water to make this more panoramic. No--cancel that--I tried it and I like it the way you have it. |
Jun 5th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 71
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| 72 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
You have to mention that this black bird with red wings is a Red-Winged Blackbird (no kidding, that's its name). And according to the internet, these are male breeding colors, so he is REALLY singing for love.
Great shot. |
Jun 5th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 72
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| 76 |
Jun 18 |
Reply |
Alper, I just read your bio, seeing that you like shooting the Milky Way. Groups 19 and 28 this month both have Milky Way shots.
My wife has a life motto in the same sentiment as yours--it must be the Turkish spirit. In English, she say, "Live it up! Live it up!" The Latin of course is "Carpe Diem." |
Jun 6th |
| 76 |
Jun 18 |
Comment |
Merhaba, Alper. Nasil siniz?
My wife is Turkish, but I don't speak much Turkish. We will be at our summer home in Cesme soon.
Welcome to you and your colleagues to your new group. Some of us visit around to other groups than our own. I am in Monochrome Group 32.
Trey has an excellent point about showing the size of the Maiden Tower, as most shots of it make it look very small. Good job. |
Jun 3rd |
1 comment - 1 reply for Group 76
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