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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 33 |
Sep 21 |
Comment |
That's one for the archives, what a great spot to stop and have your lunch and watch the world fly by, wild mountain roses and the perfect glacier leading to a wonderful snowcapped mountain and not a whistling goat herder in sight. Perfect Bliss. In a way its a shame that dark cloud has rolled in to spoil the view. Can you hear the jealously. |
Sep 15th |
| 33 |
Sep 21 |
Comment |
Lovely tranquil image with delicate tones and light. Shame about the two bright spots, you can do some work on it is PS, but if you are not good at colour grade and split toning it can look worse than the original. Your camera has done well to get this some sharp at 1/60. Maybe shooting this at ISO800 would have given you room to tone down for the bright spots and bring back the darks later. Much easier. Nice image. |
Sep 15th |
| 33 |
Sep 21 |
Comment |
This is a nice IR image, well composed and nice tones for an IR, your black could be a touch deeper. I have read the other comments and I don't mind the truck, it is fading away in to foliage and I get that feeling from the image. But I do have two big problems. First the big white border, on a print it works a dream and sets the image off, on a digital image it fights the IR effect on the screen and is a bad choice. Second is the outstanding eyesore in the frame and that is those posts, they seem to block the image you want to see which is the hut and truck sitting in their surroundings and the posts have become the main focus of the image. So I had a quick go at taking them out. Remember it was quick. |
Sep 15th |
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| 33 |
Sep 21 |
Reply |
p.s. There is a YouTube video of a bloke climbing down onto that bit that sticks out in front of the main falls with his camera and tripod to get a better picture, he sets it all up and takes the picture, turns round to salute the people on top and as he did the camera and tripod tips into the water never to be seen again. |
Sep 15th |
| 33 |
Sep 21 |
Comment |
This is not my comment but I want to tell you what happen when a member put up a identical image of the falls in a club comp. The judge comments was; "If it was me taking this image I would have got down about twenty feet lower to get a better angle to the falls" (hysterical laughter from 60 member broke out). Some one yelled out, I would love to see you try. He took Umbridge at that and scored it 10 out of 20. Next round he re-entered it as you were allowed to use twice and we had a better judge and it score 19/20.
Knowing where this is and where you are standing this is very well captured and has amazing detail. I have seen a lot of image of this spot by some very good photographers and they are no way near as good as this. So that says enough.
Magic. |
Sep 15th |
| 33 |
Sep 21 |
Comment |
The camera is a funny thing, it is very good at catching those first movement of light and the first glimpse of the sun each morning, but as soon as the sun has got its hat on and come out to play the camera throws all its toys out of the pram and has a fit. Your eyes can struggle but your brain get this wonderful emotion from this fabulous sight, but how long did it take for the spots to go away and your eye to settle back to normal, well thick how your camera feels.
The only way to capture this correctly will need more work. You have done the right thing by stopping the image down with the filter, I may even have tried a polarizer as well. Then take two or three image, one for the sky, another for the sun and a third for the foreground and tone them together in PS. This way you control the glare and the contrast and not being controlled by the sun.
Well done on you for going for a PhD. Brave move and I wish you many successes. Its hard work but an enjoyable time.
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Sep 15th |
5 comments - 1 reply for Group 33
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| 39 |
Sep 21 |
Reply |
Alternative two |
Sep 15th |
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| 39 |
Sep 21 |
Comment |
You have captured a dramatic scene with all those clouds and that one main mountain top peaking through them. The tree tops just holding the base. So it works sort of.
The problem I have, the main peak is so dominate it is make the right side of the image a wasted space. So I think there may be two other image in here that also work as well if not better. See my crops. |
Sep 15th |
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| 39 |
Sep 21 |
Comment |
This is a nice image of the bench with your flag painted on it and would be good on its own but is ruined by the image behind it. You forget the bench as you are more fascinated with what is going on in there and what did they make. Then you have to ask, did you get inside as there is some wonderful pictures in there.
Please check you histogram as you are a touch lacking in the blacks. |
Sep 15th |
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| 39 |
Sep 21 |
Comment |
You have chosen a good view point and a great time of day to take the image with all the mist and early morning. You have done well pushing the image so far to get all the detail out of the buildings but I do get the feeling you have pushed it and I lose the atmosphere you were trying to capture. So I took your original and had a go in luminosity mask to see what I could get. I have not force ant detail out but I di give it a slight smart sharpen at the end. Hopefully it brings out some of the detail in the buildings but holds that mood the image had. |
Sep 15th |
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| 39 |
Sep 21 |
Comment |
Ok I think you have missed something here, stop looking at this as a picture and look at this as a piece of black and white art and have another go with the toning just to increase the detail and light control a touch because your on to a great piece.
First thing first, get rid of all that rubbish at the top, it does not add anything to the image and in a way reduces its appeal and concentrate on the field.
The detail in the bottom third of the field is very good and will hold the viewer and then the light will carry the to that one growth sticking up at the back in the middle.
This could be a monochrome master piece with delicate touches in PS. Will make a fantastic print.
Mine just shows you the crop I mean and I have uses a light grey surround.
p.s. Change title to "Moonlit Field" or "Field by Moonlight"
p.p.s. Will also make the most mind blowing Jigsaw. |
Sep 15th |
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| 39 |
Sep 21 |
Comment |
Dave! Dave! your house is sinking and aliens are attacking your house, RUN!.
Looks like you have had fun trying it out, needs some practice to master it. The night shot looks a good idea, could you use it in conjunction with paining with light. Di you notice in the night shot you even caught the alien's leaving.
I must say though what is different from putting a ten stop filter on the front of my camera, taking six picture from the same spot say with five min gap and pasting them together in PS? |
Sep 15th |
| 39 |
Sep 21 |
Reply |
Surprisingly they do use coal, they are all fully working steam engines and they all have little shovels and a small bunker of coal or small chunks of charcoal. They are beautiful little things to get up close to see all the work that has gone into them. The passion the owners have is quite catching. |
Sep 5th |
5 comments - 2 replies for Group 39
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10 comments - 3 replies Total
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