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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 4 |
Sep 22 |
Reply |
Thanks for the nice words Ian. It's good to jave a laugh. We mustn't let photography get too serious! |
Sep 19th |
| 4 |
Sep 22 |
Reply |
Thanks Erik. |
Sep 19th |
| 4 |
Sep 22 |
Reply |
Thank you for the condolences Erik. I've never met any of the royal family andI have only seen the Queen once. |
Sep 11th |
| 4 |
Sep 22 |
Reply |
Isaac, the HDR Effect filter in ON1 RAW is very good at pulling the detail out of dark shadows and I use it if I have very high contrast in an image. It saves a lot of masking and other work in PP. It probably would be better to do a 3-shot bracket and combine in a true HDR, but that's not too easy shooting hand held in a busy environment. There was certainly no room to put a tripod down at that location. |
Sep 10th |
| 4 |
Sep 22 |
Reply |
Gary, I do have a couple of prints made from pictures tken on a previous visit. They have been used in talks we have given to other camera clubs. At home we have run out of wall space for any more pictures, most of which are from our photographic friends. |
Sep 10th |
| 4 |
Sep 22 |
Reply |
Thanks for the condolences, Bill. It is a sad time here as most people have known no other monarch. It feels almost like we have lost a member of the family. Like you though, I am old enough to remember her coronation.
Thanks for the nice words about the image. That notice really caught my sense of humour and I just had to record it. |
Sep 9th |
| 4 |
Sep 22 |
Reply |
Gary, thanks for the comments. I too am in two minds about the asymmetry of the roof, but that building is so well known over here that I could not get away with making it symmetrical. Might work in an international, but I've stopped doing those - it got to be too much of a treadmill. |
Sep 9th |
| 4 |
Sep 22 |
Comment |
After looking at Erik's bright red car image, this one is such a contrast. The fresh green growth against the old, patterned bark reminds us that nature is always trying to assert itself. The dead, brown bits of the fresh growth are all part of the story and complete the composition. Well framed! How many of us would have walked straight past this tree without even noticing the potential picture, I wonder? |
Sep 8th |
| 4 |
Sep 22 |
Comment |
Erik, the colours are so vivid the image almost jumps off the screen! These old vehicles are truly remarkable and remind us of the huge change in cars in design and manufacture over the years. The image is strong in colour and shape, and you are to be complimented on going for a detailed, close up composition. |
Sep 8th |
| 4 |
Sep 22 |
Comment |
Well done, Vella. Getting above the sea of clouds in the valley really creates an atmosphere of being out in the early morning before the heat of the day. Framing and cropping are just right for me. I do like that thin strip of grass at base of the image and that you cropped out a large part of the sky. My only suggestion would be to darken the sky a little and maybe bring back a little blue into it. I think that would push the eye back into the image to enjoy that sea of clouds in the valley. |
Sep 8th |
| 4 |
Sep 22 |
Comment |
Sme amazing colours there, Bill. I guess that early morning light was low enough to allow the full spectrum to show up. Nice leading line with that decayed tree in the foreground standing out against the vivid orange/red rock formations behind. The blue sky finishes the image nicely. |
Sep 8th |
| 4 |
Sep 22 |
Comment |
Isaac, it's good to see that some of these veteran pieces of military equipment are being preserved. They serve as memorials and an illustration of the technology of the time. It's a good shot showing the rotor hub which is where the flight control happens. That's an interesting point from Gary about the noise, but in 45 years in the aviation industry, I never heard of anyone making a quiet helicopter!
Pity about the rust patches on the skid. |
Sep 8th |
| 4 |
Sep 22 |
Comment |
Gary, he is a very bright looking young man. Congratulations.
I too am not a portrait photographer but have one or two comments. First let me say that you tackled the job well by choosing early morning light and using fill-in flash. I guess the sun was to your right, maybe over your right shoulder, and this has left a hard shadow of Kellan's nose on his right cheek. This could have been lightened with a white reflector, held by your daughter, to throw some soft light on to Kellan's face. A large white card or even a newspaper can be used as a reflector.
I have had a quick attempt at softening the nose shadow in ON1 RAW. I added a Blur Effect and used the Perfect Brush to select the shadow. Then I feathered the selection slightly and adjusted the blur amount so that the cheek was fairly uniform in tonal level. I copied the mask and added a Curves Effect and pasted in the mask. Then I pulled up the centre of the curve slightly to lighten the cheek. Finally, I painted black into the outer edge of the mask at low flow to bring back some shadow gradation into the cheek.
Also, I put some colour back into the hot spot in the ear using another Curves Effect layer. I was not able to work very accurately because of the small size of the file so please excuse any imperfect edges. |
Sep 8th |
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