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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 60 |
Nov 25 |
Comment |
Karen,
The sky you selected to add was a good choice, adding interest but not distracting the eye from the landscape below. The fall coloring certainly adds appeal: I suspect the same shot in summer would look very different and less dramatic.
Is there another spot where the road would curve to the right and help draw the eye diagonally through the photo and out the right side? As the lightest element, my eye in this version tends to follow it to the left and out of the left side of photo fairly quickly. |
Nov 11th |
| 60 |
Nov 25 |
Comment |
Dean,
Your cropping in highlights the main subject that caught your eye, and the masking to darken the background also has been effective in foregrounding the animal. Lightening the whiskers, arm hairs, claws, body fur, the texture of the tree being climbed, and enhancing the light capture in the eyes have all helped make the raccoon stand out.
The background mask seems not to have been applied evenly. There are areas where it has not been toned down adequately: along the edge of the left side of tree being climbed near the bottom and also above the raccoon`s head and then
on the right side of the tree above the hand in a green leafy area and the green leaf near the bottom on the right. The area of the fur that you lightened also somehow was smoothed at the same time, which would have been fine except there are some of the original silhouetted hairs that now look like spikes sticking into the fur.
Did you edit directly in your phone or did you export the file to work on in LR or PS or both?
I did not know you could add pixels: is this a photoshop feature? |
Nov 11th |
| 60 |
Nov 25 |
Comment |
Rita,
This is an interesting photo in that it juxtaposes a beautiful sunset complete with god-rays through the clouds with a rather dreary scene of what looks to be a wind-operated pump on an oil shaft fenced off with barbed wire. While I think you were drawn primarily by the sunset, what you captured offers a commentary on humanity vs. nature. At the time, did you consider or was it possible for you to change your position so that the windmill would have been in the right third of the picture, with the open land to the left? It is almost in the center, which in this case, does not seem warranted. |
Nov 11th |
| 60 |
Nov 25 |
Comment |
Erin,
The composition works well with the intersecting diagonals. The B&W has a good range of grays, with some black and some white as well, as is desired. The subject is interesting, and the entire photo is in focus, thanks to the tripod. The element with the threads tells me it is some sort of machine: like Dean, I wonder what cranking the lever does. I can see it is important and well used, due to the worn area on the outside of the lever's casing. So it does hold the interest of the viewer as (s)he tries to work out what 9S)he is looking at.
Your original photo has a merge, where the corner of the piece holding the lever and its casing abuts the upper edge of the photo. You needed more space there to avoid the merge. Your current cropping has eliminated the problem, and since we are not allowed to use AI to expand a photo we enter in competition, your solution is the logical one. You have left the merge in the lower righthand corner intact and maybe need to rethink that. |
Nov 11th |
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