Activity for User 201 - Paul Hoffman - PHof929403@aol.com

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33 Jan 18 Reply I have no problem if anyone thinks my image needs to be turned or not. This is what discussion groups like this is about, a set of opinions on one image. If they were all the same all the time, life would be boring and we would never develop our skills.
As for U-Boats, surprising about a mile left of this image is a sunken U-Boat who was trying to get to the boats coming out of Liverpool.
The problem I have with turning an image like this is quite simple. I can turn it to make it in some peoples eyes better balanced and I can use that image in Europe and the rest of the world. But I would have to keep the format I have for all UK based endeavours, so you end up with the problem of managing multiple versions of the same image which can become dangerous.
But please keep the war going as there are some great suggestions coming out of dialogue. Thank you so far.		 Jan 21st
33 Jan 18 Reply The Welsh are going to invade in Feb with the Rugby team. Jan 21st
33 Jan 18 Comment It is a shame that you have to add false tones to help some people to see through an image that has for me a natural stepping stone effect to the lovely coloured rocks in the distance. I think you have seen and capture a nice natural seen. I agree some gentle toning to the landscape to emphasise the line you want them to follow. But I would not extend that toning to the sky. Nice picture. Jan 21st
33 Jan 18 Comment OK here is the argument. I don't think the tree is the problem. The tree and the tree of the far left make for a nice gap for the viewer to peer into to the cabin, but you have these weeds and that big post blocking your way, if you remove them the image changes brilliantly. Just aloows the viewer to flow the hut. Nice fog by the way. Jan 21st
33 Jan 18 Comment WOW now that is a barn just ready for a photographer to come along. Sitting in a nice green area with a balancing fields of orange/yellow fields behind to balance it up. Nice clouds. Jackpot. But I look at this and wonder did you miss a trick as I find that the shape of the far fields are breaking the image and I wonder if you had moved say six feet to the left that the flow of the land would of balance better with that great roof line. Otherwise a lovey image. Jan 21st
33 Jan 18 Comment Ok I have looked at this a couple of times and think that I need to comment on this more as a commercial picture than a landscape image. The idea of this image is very good and the placement of the bike on the rock is ok. But I think that you have done two things wrong for me that I would have to have corrected before publishing. 1) I think you put to much into the image and did not focus on the bike as tight as you could using the landscape around. See crop for a tighter crop. 2) You have made the ray the dominate part of the image and it for me overpowers the bike and its surrounds, the ray should be there to suggest the viewer to the bike not thump them there.
What I would say that the landscape looks nice and I hope you took some proper images of the landscape.		 Jan 21st
33 Jan 18 Comment A lovely classic composition of North Norway, the building is placed well in the frame and you have held all the detail well. You have held the light streak well in the background. For me it is a shame that your on a boat and your shooting a large landscape at 1/1000 F5.6. A larger DOF for me would have opened up the detail around the buildings more. But the colours and tones are very nice. Jan 21st
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39 Jan 18 Comment Why do I feel like I have done something wrong. I think I am in trouble when we get home.
So the image does what it is meant to do, provoke a reaction and that face does from being your grandmother to the feeling your in trouble. I would have like a touch more length in the image but that's just my taste. Invoking image well done.		 Jan 21st
39 Jan 18 Comment The old rose heads are nicely captured and has some lovely detail and texture in them. But with your tight crop it is making that bright vase more dominate in the image than it should be, I think this image needs more room to develop. Jan 21st
39 Jan 18 Comment If you were one pace to the left or the right this image would not work as well as this sits. The way the buildings sits to the uprights of the glass struts is the main thing that hits me first. Then the great dramatic angles and lines. Phenomenal detail and wonderful tones and not a converging vertical in site. This is one image I would be proud to own. Jan 21st
39 Jan 18 Comment Yes you have captured another moody dune shot with lots of light and shade, but I don't think this one works as well as the others you have shown. The main dune of interest with the footprints is lovely and flows across the left of the image well, but I find the right side a touch heavy and those highlights on the peaks of the dunes seem to be blown to me. I wonder if the saying less is more applies here as I find this very busy so a tighter crop maybe better. Here is an example. Jan 21st
39 Jan 18 Comment I am always on the lookout for tree's in the middle of fields as they can make for great images. This is a good example which has nice stark strength, great sky with the last light balance. But I do think that the lie of the land and placing the tree dead centre does not as presented, so I have flipped the image and allowed the plough lines to lead you to the tree and placed the tree more on the thirds, I have also removed those man made distractions that sit in the background. I personally find this a better balance. Jan 21st
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