Activity for User 217 - Dennis Hirning - dchirning@msn.com

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1 Oct 24 Comment Great image. I also like the activity you show with the ants. I wonder if you might have lost some fine details in the ants when the noise was removed. I like the look you achieved but it does seem like they look sort of plastic. Could this have been done by negative Clarity? Oct 14th
1 Oct 24 Comment The weed does draw the eye. If you wanted to show the animal in it's habitat, leave it in. If you wanted to hang a print on the wall, I would get rid of it. I might like to see a little more of the scene at the top and left for a more pleasing composition. Oct 14th
1 Oct 24 Comment That is a very interesting formation. I can see the shadow area being a dolphin jumping out of the water. OK. So I really am weird. This was well handled. Oct 14th
1 Oct 24 Comment That spot of color really draws the eye. I like the cropping you did on this. You don't mention this but it appears that you might have selected the image and added it to a layer while you did some blurring of the background. It might be what give the halo around your subject. I have recently been trying to enlarge the sharp portion a little to cover the halo. I would crop off the partial border treatment. Oct 14th
1 Oct 24 Comment I really like how the eagle contrast with the darker vegetation around it. The branches frame the eagle nicely. I might try a square format with the cropping without removing too much of the branch in the upper left. A slight vignette might also help keep the eye on the eagle. You do some selecting burning on, especially, the top branch. I don't know what was happening Zodiac but a little slower shutter speed could have helped to make the rain look less like Neal's stars. :)
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1 Oct 24 Comment I think this is a great idea. I like Gordy's suggestions. I might add a little more to them. The stars seem to be showing throughout the image, even on top of the moon. I am assuming that you might have been working with 3 layers. I don't know the order on the stack but I would suggest having the foreground as the top layer. You might make all the adjustments on this layer before you work on the moon and the stars below it. I do see a line between the moon and the right border that could be feathered a bit more. Maybe using a feathered circular mask for the moon above the stars. I'm not sure but I think that multiplying the foreground layer before you flatten your image could keep everything in the right position. It might take some more masking and blending to finish it off. Oct 14th
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