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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 4 |
May 21 |
Comment |
Erik, I had a problem at first trying to work it out. The heron has taken a quite a remarkable pose which, combined with the dead branch and the upright post, along with the complete reflections makes an amazing geometrical pattern. I think everything else has already been said. Outstanding! |
May 12th |
| 4 |
May 21 |
Reply |
Easily done in the excitement of the moment! |
May 10th |
| 4 |
May 21 |
Reply |
Hi Gary. Yes I'm happy to have a Zoom chat with you. I don't use Photoshop anymore as I now use ON1 RAW for all my new images from the camera, but I still have an old version of PS for doing these comments as it is still quite convenient and I am still learning on ON1. You are quite right that the sky does have some blue in it. It looks like I uploaded the wrong version. I would normally make sure that there was an overall b/w adjustment layer to eliminate all colour. I did do this but was switching it on and off to see what the effect was, and it looks like I forgot to switch it on before uploading. My apologies. I certainly would not risk it as a mono imge as it appears here. |
May 10th |
| 4 |
May 21 |
Comment |
Nice image, vella. The flip makes the cat move from left to right which is the way that western minds work (we read from left to right) so it seems more natural. I like what you have done to make the animal stand out. Good sharpness and crop. |
May 10th |
| 4 |
May 21 |
Comment |
Excellent detail and depth of field. One advantage of mobile phone cameras is the huge depth of field from the tiny sensors and focal lengths. I don't know much about the Distressed app but you have got a very satisfying image here. |
May 10th |
| 4 |
May 21 |
Comment |
Well I have never even heard of this sort of rodeo, let alone see an image of it! Exposure and contrast look good in spite of the strong overhead light. I think that it would have helped to have had a bit more sharpness in the dirt behind the subject, but I guess that this is one of those situations where you have to go with the settings you have because there is no second chance. Well done for holding this in the frame and in focus with fast action and a long lens. |
May 10th |
| 4 |
May 21 |
Comment |
Gary, I really enjoy this sort of architecture. If I had been there you would have had to drag me away! I like your viewpoint which adds drama to the composition. I also think that Isaac's amount of sky and your further crop off the right impreove the composition. My great temptation with this type of image is to make it into a dramatic black & white. I took it into photoshop and applied a b/w adjustment layer. I pulled the cyan slider all the way to the left, and the blue slider most of the way. I also took the red and yellow sliders a long way to the right. This gave me the dramatic sky and building but took the detail out of the staircase so I did Select Color Range on the underside of the staircase (on the colour layer) and filled the selection with black on the b/w layer mask. This took the b/w conversion off the staircase. Then I applied a b/w layer overall, pulling up the blue and cyan sliders to lighten the staircase and railings and hold the detail. Obviously, this had no effect on the rest of the image. |
May 10th |
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| 4 |
May 21 |
Reply |
Isaac, the reason why there there were not 5 sets of the buoys and the posts is that they were in the foreground and therefore at the bottom of the frame. When I cropped the image from the bottom to eliminate some other distraction, some of these elements got cropped out too. There are only four inflatable boats (lower right) in the image for the same reason. |
May 10th |
| 4 |
May 21 |
Reply |
Gary, I really like what you have done here. Those foreground posts on the left annoyed me too. I don't know why I didn't think of cloning them out. You did a great job with that, and the icing on the cake was adding more buoys to create nice leading lines into the image. |
May 10th |
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