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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 33 |
Apr 21 |
Comment |
You have found a lovely composition with the S-bend path and the single tree at the top of the image. There is a nice sky coming in from the right and I know this is early morning looking at the light but the tone is coming across very flat over the grasses and I wonder if you could lift this a touch in Lightroom. |
Apr 13th |
| 33 |
Apr 21 |
Comment |
Considering this was taken on a smart phone is is quite brilliant, the depth of detail and colour is very good, you say that you cropped the image, how much of that was from the land as it may have been good to leave some of it in to show more how the valley has been developed by people.
People, that is what hits me when I view this image, you have the beautiful lake valley with lovely hills all around it and there is hardly a spot not managed or develop or farmed by man. It makes you think that before man arrived this would have been all trees and wildlife. Does show off the effect of man.
As for the crops, I agree about the piece at the bottom, either crop it away of don't crop so hard so we know what it is. The phone has handled the sky well as this is normally the phones fall down, but i would try and do something about the brightness of the bright cloud in the V of the two hills. Good image that shows a lot. |
Apr 13th |
| 33 |
Apr 21 |
Comment |
Keep up the great work, I love doing this type of photography, but does not go down well over hear. Been going to a lot of grave yards looking up my family tree and taking pictures but never show them.
I love your composition and how you have placed that one headstone, your toning could be a touch better as i think you could get the detail on the headstone to stand out more, but that is just my taste. But please keep this important work up as our younger generation is not being taught about our past anymore and it is important to remember. |
Apr 13th |
| 33 |
Apr 21 |
Comment |
I am going to star off with the club judges comment first. I know that you would have fallen 2000 feet to your death but I wish you had taken one or two steps to the right. Just so you are giving the edge of that bend a touch more room on the left. Promise I would call the air ambulance.
Other than that this is one of the best I have seen of this place, you have the horseshoe bend perfectly and the colour and detail is spot on. You could do a touch of toning but that is down to taste. But one I wish I had taken. So well done. |
Apr 13th |
| 33 |
Apr 21 |
Comment |
This is a good historic shot showing off the scene, I do agree that the image has to much in it for a viewer to view in one, the eye is being drawn by the object on the right edge. I do think the crop by Arief is to harsh as the bridge is the main part of the image. So I have gone for a smaller crop that concentrate the viewer on the three main elements and leaves that wonderful backdrop dead centre. |
Apr 13th |
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5 comments - 0 replies for Group 33
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| 39 |
Apr 21 |
Comment |
This is an image of two senses. With the colour version you get this dazzling imapct of all the lights and the stalls and how it must have felt walking down between them.
Then the monochrome you stop and look at the people that are there and you stop noticing the stalls.
I would have to lean towards the colour if worked on and got better tones and pulled back the glare a touch as the impact just hits you. The monochrome loses it as the people are walking away, if they were walking at you then winner.
Both strong travel pictures and great to view just lock your wallet way. |
Apr 13th |
| 39 |
Apr 21 |
Comment |
This is a lovely shot for the albumn of your granddaughter with great eye contact and lovely feel to it. You lose the feeling a touch of the dirty face in monochrome but I do prefer in it in monochrome. Nice image. |
Apr 13th |
| 39 |
Apr 21 |
Comment |
I love the idea of this image and your model is dress well for the scene she is sitting in, we are losing both hands witch is a shame and would have adding to the image if they were viewable. Looking at your positioning I do think that if you had move the camera and I take it the tripod and foot to the right your would have got an even better angle for the girl.
Bracketing using ISO is not the wisest thing to do as this will change to many settings in your camera, the best to use is your aperture. I would have shot this at F8 and taken 4 images, three in the range you have used and one another full stop minus for the window pains. I may have duplicated the first image with a fill flash pointing up and behind the girl to see what it does and you then may be stunned at the detail that would come out. Keep practicing as you have a great eye for an image. |
Apr 13th |
| 39 |
Apr 21 |
Comment |
With the landscape in Group 33 and this image here I do wonder why we all walk around with these expensive and heavy pieces of equipment. I have just bought myself a new up-to-date phone and when the government allows us out again I will try it out.
The tones and texture are spot on and I love the shadow work, the vignetting does work well but for my taste I would like the leaf a touch higher in the image. Cracking image. |
Apr 13th |
| 39 |
Apr 21 |
Comment |
As most of you have said you can see this image from many ways, so I am going to say what has just happened. I do hope I don't offend anyone.
While sitting and viewing this image, someone else came up behind me and said "Who has been taking naughty pictures on the beach". When asking what they meant they pointed out that the dark area with the ladies bikini bottoms and the legs were coming out to the right. When you get that image in your head it is hard not to see it.
But still another lovely dune image with strong lines and good texture and as you said sensual lines. |
Apr 13th |
| 39 |
Apr 21 |
Comment |
There is always one in the pack and its going to be me.
You have got yourself into a great position to capture the images of the cars and you have captured the car well. You have all the detail and advertising and importantly the race number. Monochrome conversion suits the image very well.
Lets start with the minor niggle, the back wheel and front left have hard white lines that need removing. Having spent twenty years shooting cars you always have to problem with blur, the camera will stop it dead in its track, you can slow to camera down to say 1/60 and shot at that to get some blur but you have to be spot on with your focusing. So you apply the focus afterwards. What you have applied does look dramatic at first sight, but you then realise that the car is going right to left and the blur is going left to right and behind the car looks like a vortex trying to suck the car back in. I have tried to do the right directional blur but I don't have your tonal work as I don't have topaz. |
Apr 13th |
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6 comments - 0 replies for Group 39
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