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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 52 |
Oct 18 |
Reply |
Thank you! I am not great at photo books, but I am definitely working on more of them. As for the vignette, I added it, and can back it off. I am not keen on dark vignettes; I find them very distracting. But when I leave them off, then I think maybe I should have added them!
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Oct 16th |
| 52 |
Oct 18 |
Comment |
Hi John, I did understand what the message was; I don't think I was very clear in what I said. I was thinking that you could crop it to a small subsection and still have the decay surrounding the mushroom....so the same message, but with the mushroom more center-stage. The background has the two diagonal pieces in a volume that would allow that. Just personal preference. |
Oct 13th |
| 52 |
Oct 18 |
Comment |
The things that work best for me in this image are the colors, creating contrast between the deer and the foliage, as well as the direct look from the deer. Compositionally, I could see less foliage, moving the deer more toward 2/3 of the frame. I also feel some softness in the deer-I felt the sharpest focus was on a part of the foliage. |
Oct 12th |
| 52 |
Oct 18 |
Comment |
Your mushroom is beautiful, and I feel I'd like to see it be center-stage. With such a wide depth of field, the surrounding forest overwhelms it. Have you tried eliminating most of that background? Your diagonal lines really work well, so maybe cropping so it retains some of those diagonal lines? I think your mushroom is teeeific just as you've captured it. |
Oct 12th |
| 52 |
Oct 18 |
Comment |
Another incredible image, Sharon!! The image has beautiful impact for its composition, sharpness, clarity and color balance. I must be a woman of a certain age, too, because it looks perfect to me. |
Oct 12th |
4 comments - 1 reply for Group 52
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| 60 |
Oct 18 |
Comment |
Will, that is an amazing shot! I love everything about it, from the strong color, to the lighting and contrast. That face is terrific! I can see the cross-hatching on its eyes!!!! Lovely, soft complimentary background. This is one I would urge you to enter into a competition. How do you like the focusing rail? |
Oct 6th |
| 60 |
Oct 18 |
Comment |
Try luminescence, too. You can target just the gold on the bee, and maybe try it with the red of the flower, too. You can use the target tool to be very specific about which gold and which red to add luminescence to. |
Oct 6th |
| 60 |
Oct 18 |
Comment |
Your bee on the flower is appropriately sharp, with nice lighting and a pleasant level of contrast between bee and flower. HDR would have been difficult with a bee, I think. Have you tried a ring light for your macro work? I think that is one way to overcome that lighting issue. In LR, you might be able to put a masked area around the bee and bring up the shadows ever-so-slightly, along with a gentle nudge to the exposure? The bee is still rather dark and hard to discern against the flower for me as a viewer. It's worth working it some more as you did such a great job on capturing the bee! |
Oct 6th |
| 60 |
Oct 18 |
Comment |
I really like your capture of the water: it's clear, it's captured at a speed that feels calming to me as a viewer, and you have captured good balance of the highlights and shadows as well as the depth of focus. There is great detail even in the shadows. My only thought is that I wonder what would have happened had you included just a bit more on the top of the fountain? It feels tight at the top edge. But I do like this image! |
Oct 6th |
| 60 |
Oct 18 |
Comment |
Great job, Nadia! The dewdrops and the striations on the rose make me want to lean in and smell it! My only suggestion would be that it seems to be pushed out on the right side, with some negative space on the left that makes it feel unbalanced to me. I would love to see the same space on the right side, along with the missing petal pieces. But in lieu of this, I don't know that cropping the left side would be the way to go, either. Anyway, beautiful job of focus stacking, and a lovely capture of the rose's center!! |
Oct 6th |
| 60 |
Oct 18 |
Comment |
Hi Bill, let me just say that I'm on a laptop and can't be sure that it isn't my laptop that is fighting with the image. What works best in this image is the complementary color combination. The grass frames your main subject nicely and your main subject fills the frame well. Unfortunately, some of the green grass blur directly in front of the mushroom is so out of focus as to seem like your mushroom has some dull stripes across it. Overall, the image looks foggy and a bit dark. However, I see that you sharpened it and tweaked the brightness according to what you wrote. My view looks very flat and not bright at all; maybe try increasing contrast and clarity instead?
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Oct 6th |
| 60 |
Oct 18 |
Comment |
Thanks, Bill! The PSA Conference was really a great opportunity to meet people and learn some new photography techniques and lots of tips! Hope to see you at one! |
Oct 6th |
7 comments - 0 replies for Group 60
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11 comments - 1 reply Total
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