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33 Mar 17 Reply I did another version and it was nearly identical to this, but the group did not like it and said it would look better like this. Just comes down to taste. I think they both have there own merit. Mar 13th
33 Mar 17 Reply Yes was shot at 3.48p.m. in November. Mar 13th
33 Mar 17 Comment Hello Sherryl and welcome to are little Landscape group of the PSA, looking forward to seeing your New Zealand landscapes. I live in England.
This image is very attractive image to view and is well spotted, the shape of the two women works well around the child, the parasol adds well to that shape. Slight more room would have helped so you did not break the edge of the frame.
Little technical note watch your horizons and what breaks its, if you were about two to three inches lower the images would be so much stronger as the parasol would not break the horizon. But great image to start.		 Mar 13th
33 Mar 17 Comment Sorry I won't be able to make the house warming, but fabulous news. Great image by the way but I think your a tease. I look at this image with that nice mountain range in the distance and the nice foreground and then you get to those trees on the right and you see the peak of that large mountain and wander what it is. Oh what a tease. Great picture. Mar 13th
33 Mar 17 Comment Great memory shot for you from your road trip home. How could you sell the bike. I agree that you need a touch of contrast and tone down the sky. I do have to ask, what is that red drum thing on the far grave? Mar 13th
33 Mar 17 Comment The words that come to mind when I first see this.
Green, Envy, Jealousy.

Every time I go to are dark sky areas I get some nice stars but never get images like this. This is amazing.

You are not going to do much better with the sky than you have shown us here, this is magic and shows us the milky way off to its best. HDR is fun but you have to work out the movement between to alien the right stars.

As for the foreground, that is easy. When you get there and you are set up and ready to shot, the first shots you do is your base shot for the foreground that will be used for the shots. Do HDR for them as they are not moving and then drop them into you sky images.		 Mar 13th
33 Mar 17 Comment This is very stark and 9 times out of 10 you would past this by, but this does have something. I like the forms of layers that is being formed in the image and the stark tones and the glimpses of the white trees. Does sort of work. Mar 13th
33 Mar 17 Comment You have chosen and preformed a lovely composition of layers of mountain ridges that each give different levels of light. This must have been wonderful to see. The colours and tones are spot on and this is a joy to view. That little area bottom right corner is so important to hold and base the image. Brilliant. Mar 13th
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39 Mar 17 Reply Luminosity masks allows me to make mask to effect only the tones/colours I want to effect. For example I was able to make mask very easily with the Tony Kyper V5 panel that would separate the tree from the background so I could tone each separately.

The other advantage with LM is feathering and flow of pixels, to many times I see images where the pixels have been damaged by over processing or from hard lines on hard edges ect. With LM you cannot get this as the pixels you are working with flow into each other and are not a selection of a specific area.		 Mar 13th
39 Mar 17 Comment This is wonderful and is a delight to view. The lines and shape of the building has been caught to its best effect and to me the sky complements the building and any toning of the sky would spoil the image. I bet you this would look amazing as a print on some fine art paper.
The only little minor alteration I may do and it is little is that really bright cloud at the build gap, could be toned down just a touch to match the other bright clouds.
Really Magic.		 Mar 13th
39 Mar 17 Comment What a great texture shot and well spotted as most of us would have walked past it. I do think that all that front rim is acting as a touch of a blocker for the viewer the travel to the nuts. The front nuts are great and full of texture and are great to view. In a way I agree with both comments about the background and really all the viewer needs is the idea of it being there. So I would tone it down with a big vignette to stop it from effecting the front nuts. Mar 13th
39 Mar 17 Comment This is a lovely macro shot of all the old pocket watches. I do find it a shame that these wonderful pieces of art/engineering have fallen out of favour and don't raise the money they should be worth. You do spend a lot of time looking through this image at the different parts as there is no dominate area. I like the placement of the full watch. My one niggle is the slight glass light reflection just slightly spoils a great macro picture. Mar 13th
39 Mar 17 Comment You really do have some great clouds and they are very dramatic, then you have this great dramatic structure of the Yucca and the layers reaching up into the sky, but I do slightly feel that the two dramatic items are slightly fighting each other for supremacy. I just wonder if you hand more room, maybe a square format and the two items had their own room the image would be better balanced as there are both great to view. Mar 13th
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