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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 52 |
Sep 17 |
Reply |
Sharon, I am off to Maine Oct. 4th with a group of photographers (our 17th Fall Annual Photography Adventure Trip through Nikonians.org) with stops to and from in Northern NJ and Boston area to see a couple of image making friends. I return to Richmond October 17th. Maine will offer Lighthouses, Acadia NP and rugged coast line. Safe travels! |
Sep 28th |
| 52 |
Sep 17 |
Comment |
Sharon, thanks for the comments...agree about the sky. I think I have found a place near home here in the Richmond to frequently visit like the lagoon near my home in Milwaukee. I also am enrolled at the University of Richmond in OSHER Life Long Learning Programs which include a photography program among many programs and will be over time auditing classes (yah! I don't have to take the test). Anyway, there is a wonderful lake in the middle of the this beautiful campus that will get a lot of my attention. When you come this way, let me know and perhaps we can meet up. I have joined a wonderful PSA affiliated camera club; Camera Club of Richmond. It has been in existence since 1932 and seems to have some very fine talent. |
Sep 17th |
| 52 |
Sep 17 |
Comment |
Judith, I like your image given the limitation for capture of the frog image. I think, if the image can withstand cropping, would be to remove some of the distracting upper part of the image. That would help to draw our eye's focus to frog. I agree, getting low would be nice, but that might not have been possible. |
Sep 14th |
| 52 |
Sep 17 |
Comment |
Mike, you created a well balanced compositionally and very impactful story with this image. Well done. That had to be exciting. Thanks for sharing. The eyes are sharp as is the fur also and all color elements work with wonderful separation between the foxes and the background. I can not suggest anything that would improve the image. |
Sep 14th |
| 52 |
Sep 17 |
Comment |
Mike and Carol...good suggestions, thanks. |
Sep 14th |
| 52 |
Sep 17 |
Comment |
Carol, you have wonderful image here with much impact and story. I like everything about your image except I think you could tone down the upper right a little and even vignette slightly to bring focus cleanly on the animal's interaction. Nicely done. |
Sep 14th |
| 52 |
Sep 17 |
Comment |
Sharon, splendid capture. I think your image makes wonderful impact with a great story. The original as you have posted it on the right seems different from the the actual submission. Am I missing something? Frankly, I like the original image physical orientation of animals compared to the presented image just because both horses are so dynamic in it. The presented one and the second cropped version is really nice, but misses the tense motion of the foreground horse slightly.
The focus is right where it needs to be on the horses and while I like the presented version, I see that the revised crop gives even more emphasis on the expression of the horse in the rear as well as the second cropped version. Nicely tone in terms of color, tone, depth of field and visual impact. Well done. |
Sep 14th |
6 comments - 1 reply for Group 52
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| 64 |
Sep 17 |
Reply |
His course is great on image analysis, Stuart. There are many ways of seeing an image. I have been recommending this to the study groups I facilitate for some time now and I am glad you are taking it. |
Sep 22nd |
| 64 |
Sep 17 |
Reply |
Abhijeet, the color version is wonderful! It has a lot of wow factor. I took it into Lightroom as well as Nik Silver Efex and felt that while there were some artistic possibilities, the tonality in monochrome just didn't give this scene justice. It could well be, as I have discovered, that sometimes color gives us the story and feeling that we seek while monochrome might not work as much as we desire it to. |
Sep 17th |
| 64 |
Sep 17 |
Comment |
Jerry, wow...that is one busy spider. What a great find. I think you did a fine job. I like how the web glows. I wonder if a little selective sharpening of the bottom elements of the web might enhance it as well as perhaps toning down slightly the dark perimeter on the right and left. I would like to see the dark area open up a little so that it is not competing for my eye's attention when the web is clearly our subject and I should not be tugged right or left to find more detail in those dark trees. |
Sep 14th |
| 64 |
Sep 17 |
Comment |
Stuart, I like the story and it is nice grab shot. I think the wet pavement and wall background if darkened some would work better and the girls could be a lot sharper. Compositionally, I think if the girls were a more off center, it would enhance the appeal. |
Sep 14th |
| 64 |
Sep 17 |
Comment |
Abhijeet, I would love to see the original for somehow, I think the wonderful landscape lost something in monochrome conversion. I want to see it sharper from front to back with more clarity in details (both blacks and whites compete for my eyes attention) so that my eye can flow cleaning through the layers of the image. For me, during the conversion, I suspect the dust and light mix got muddied. |
Sep 14th |
| 64 |
Sep 17 |
Comment |
Stan, the image is very dramatic and captures my interest greatly. I like how much detail you got within the image although I think the sharpness faded some at the right side of the image due to depth of field selected. My eye moves very nicely through the entire image from left to right. My eye would like to see more of the arch (it was cut off at the top slightly) as well as the slight cut off of the closest column decorative element at the left. Beautiful image and just the kind of scene I love to see when traveling in the old world. Nicely done. |
Sep 14th |
| 64 |
Sep 17 |
Comment |
Don, for me, the emotional impact and story are the clouds. I think they are quite nice. I am troubled some by the water in the left foreground...it seems blotchy. Also, my eye wants to find detail in the black areas because in the foreground area and in the background horizon, my eye stops and doesn't know where to go from layer to layer in the image. This image has great potential given the what appears to me to be 5 layers which are are so great in a landscape, but the dark areas are hard to get past. My eye can't smoothly move through the image. |
Sep 14th |
5 comments - 2 replies for Group 64
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11 comments - 3 replies Total
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