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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 33 |
Feb 20 |
Comment |
Hello Randy and welcome to our group, this is a very nice shot of this well shot beauty spot. Your DOF and focusing is spot on and the detail is great. You don't give us any camera and lens details with settings. But this looks like this is not an ultra wide angle lens, for my taste I find that the tree is very tight in the image and could do with a touch more room to breath. I am not going to say a step back or to the left as one you may fall 1000 feet to your death and I hate it when judges say that, but an even wider angled lenses may have been great. But what you have presented is well taken and spot on. |
Feb 18th |
| 33 |
Feb 20 |
Reply |
If you book in advance you can actually stay in the village for your holiday, which is very good in the height of summer as you get the place to yourself when the general public go home. There is also a very posh hotel on the harbour edge. Both options are very expensive, well they are for my purse. |
Feb 16th |
| 33 |
Feb 20 |
Reply |
Yes the sky was that colour, it was one of those rare days in the UK when the sun came out and we melted. It was in the 90's, the ques at the ice-cream stalls were very long. |
Feb 16th |
| 33 |
Feb 20 |
Comment |
Could this be our landscape of the future, when I looked at this without reading t=your notes I thought this could have been Tuscany, Italy in winter with the delicate rolling hills and the small grove of popular trees. But they would never put these in that landscape. But if you drive through the lowland of Scotland and Yorkshire this is the norm now.
You have captured a lovely image of the landscape with this delicate flowing hills and the beautiful light falling across the land. However I don't think that dark cloud at the top is needed and would crop to just about the next cloud level as the delicate colours hold their own. Nice landscape that shows the future. |
Feb 14th |
| 33 |
Feb 20 |
Comment |
This has impact the moment you open it, the Church is placed well in the frame and the tonality is good. Agree you need to sort the halo out around the building and the image does come over a touch over processed, so pull back the processing a touch and don't sharpen so much and then you may not get the halo. But really strong image. Ho yes that cloud above the house is magic and looks like it has just poured out of the chimney. |
Feb 14th |
| 33 |
Feb 20 |
Comment |
That is a great looking barn and if you it was over hear it would have been bought and turned into a four bedroom house and sold for a lot of money. I love the way the scale of the barn to the house, where a lot of the space in that barn is waisted, I like the compositing but I do agree that you could do some work on the tonal and colour balance. Using luminosity masks would give you greater control. |
Feb 14th |
| 33 |
Feb 20 |
Comment |
Do have to agree it is an amazing place and Iceland should be on every photographers bucket list. I do think your image shows off the scale of the place, but I have to agree with Bob here that you have the two images stitched together to make one. It could be a tad sharper but the conditions are the normally you get in Iceland. |
Feb 14th |
| 33 |
Feb 20 |
Comment |
Lovely render image of the glacier. colour detail and tone all spot on and must have been wonderful to be up there see this and the peace and quite.
Shame those are all endangered and disappearing fast.
Lovely tranquil image. |
Feb 14th |
6 comments - 2 replies for Group 33
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| 39 |
Feb 20 |
Comment |
To be honest most of the problems have been said, as a tree lover, my vote goes with the tree, but looking at the bottom of the image that may not be feasible so a larger aspect image of the wall and surrounds would help.
Just to say your tonality and detail is very good, but to add a touch more contrast may lift a touch. |
Feb 14th |
| 39 |
Feb 20 |
Comment |
I can see why you took this and there is some nice tones and shapes from the shadows. But I don't think the lighting is in the right place for the door, falling more on the door would have been better. Also where's a cat when you need one. |
Feb 14th |
| 39 |
Feb 20 |
Comment |
I think you have just hit on a great idea for photography, approaching groups to shoot rehearsals. She does have a lovely pose and the colour blue is great colour for monochrome conversion. Her right arm and right side of face are a touch to bright and it would be a nice to see if there is more in the raw file. Real shame she is not sharper around the head area would make this image pop. |
Feb 14th |
| 39 |
Feb 20 |
Comment |
Considering this is a portrait on an iPhone this is brilliant and see Santa does take time off.
That beard is brilliant and full of detail and I like how you have controlled the skin. I like that you have no glare or reflection on the glasses. I would like a touch more eye as they are a touch hidden. Your brightening of the glass and hand does lift the image.
Very nice portrait that Mrs Christmas (My Sister) will Love. |
Feb 14th |
| 39 |
Feb 20 |
Comment |
This is a very good architectural shot with a lovely angle to show off the far tower while holding the foreground interest. Normally I would say move a foot forward but that would spoil the foreground. I can believe this is hand held as a Sony user you get quite use to the ability of holding at low speeds.
What I would like to do is take this into luminosity mask and have a tweak at the shadows and highlights with the control that you can get with this technique. Love image and my type of picture. |
Feb 14th |
| 39 |
Feb 20 |
Comment |
I do think this is a great idea for a composition, firstly I think your orientation is better as the horses and tones lead you to the rider, where the flipped image the rider sort of works as a block.
I actually like the colour image as the hand and the gate bar holds better in the image, for the mono I wonder if you could crop it out. The other thing I would consider, on the two leading horses where you have those ridges from the overlay, I don't think I would have them on the horses. Otherwise this is a great image, shame about the modern sunglasses though. |
Feb 14th |
6 comments - 0 replies for Group 39
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12 comments - 2 replies Total
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