Activity for User 212 - Carol Sheppard - carolsheppardphotography@gmail.com

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95 Jul 23 Reply Thanks, Keith! There's a wealth of info online. But I have to keep reminding myself that only putting it into practice will tell me if I'm getting it… Jul 22nd
95 Jul 23 Reply Thanks! I have been learning a lot from a PSA course called Image Evaluation. Jennifer Fawkes is a wonderful instructor. All of my PSA instructors have been amazing (and amazingly patient)! Jul 22nd
95 Jul 23 Reply I usually try to avoid flash when shooting. This was just ambient light, filtered by the many plant leaves. Glad you like it! Jul 22nd
95 Jul 23 Reply This is much better!! Good re-do! I agree about the steep price tag. I have to say I don't feel it was worth the outlay. Jul 16th
95 Jul 23 Reply Yes, exactly! I might move the radial filter up just a tad so less highlights on those bottom petals and more light on that top area of petals just over the center. But how do YOU feel about it? Did that work for you? Jul 14th
95 Jul 23 Reply Yes, your sharpening did the trick! I'm going to check out that link. Jul 14th
95 Jul 23 Reply I am having trouble seeing the red patch, but I have been having more and more trouble editing on my monitor. I will go back to the drawing board on this with a frame and removing that red patch hopefully. Thanks! Jul 11th
95 Jul 23 Comment Haha, Keith, I love these intimate moment captures! They are rare, and you did well with such a close lens as a 105mm. You could have easily bumped that ISO up to enable you to keep the shutter speed up and increase your DOF. But when you are trying to capture quickly, you don't always have the luxury of thinking this through. Bring up the shadows selectively and maybe see if you can sharpen selectively on the facial components? In PS, you can sometimes do a Control J, Filter>High Pass, Blend=Overlay, and adjust the Opacity slider on the blend mode. Then use a black mask to hide it all and just paint in the parts you want sharpened. You need to work at 100% to really see what it is doing, so you don't introduce artifacts in. Hope you see this couple again in your garden travels! Jul 11th
95 Jul 23 Comment Great capture, Tom! Other than adjusting the deep shadows/blacks and the minor bit of lights, I think it's terrific! Sharp where it counts! I would love to see you apply a radial filter to the green center...all that lovely texture and lines waiting to show its face! Nicely done! Jul 11th
95 Jul 23 Comment I would agree with you on the focus; the soft focus on the front left corner troubles my view. Interesting subject choice, though! I congratulate you on the sharp detail and textures on the in-focus slice through the middle. I personally am never comfortable when the out-of-focus extends toward me, but that's a personal thing with me. Jul 11th
95 Jul 23 Comment Since it's a test, my input would be that it does well on the detail but I have also found on that lens that at f5. or f8.0 it could be a better DOF than it is. I also found that at full macro, you still have to get so darned close to the subject--I thought that with 90mm on a 4:3 sensor, it would be equivalent to my Tamron 180mm macro, but it isn't. Kudos to you on being able to manually focus because I have to do the rock-back-and-forth method on most shots before I feel I'm really in focus. Obviously a steeper learning curve for me. Jul 11th
95 Jul 23 Comment This is a difficult flower to photograph. I think a tighter crop would have worked better, since on the lower right, there is a washed out area right in the corner. This, combined with the two slices of white, pull my eye off of the yellow center. For myself, I find that when such a large out of focus area is down front and center, it isn't as comfortable for me to view. Since you've captured the center so sharply, I'd love to see you crop in and focus there?
Jul 11th
95 Jul 23 Comment I like this image, particularly the very clear water drop on the right. Although some of the flower is out of focus, the foremost part is in focus, so it still works well for placing the viewer's eye right on the beautiful morning dewdrops. Be careful with those really bright drops, as they can be distracting. The colors work beautifully together, and my eye was drawn quickly to the beautiful curve of the petal covered in dew around the edges. Jul 11th
95 Jul 23 Reply Haha, I'm envious. I have had a very minimal yield from what looks to be lots of healthy leaves!! Were you suggesting that I add a frame? I would consider it at some point, but for purposes here, I leave it off so that there are no distractions. Thanks for the link...I will check it out!
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