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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 4 |
Nov 23 |
Comment |
I like this Ian. The faint touch of ICM adds just enough softness to be relaxing. I see a focal point in the image with the small patch of brown about a third up from the bottom and a third in from the left. Flipping was right too, because we in the west read a picture from left to right and from foreground (bottom) to background (top) - ie from bottom left to top right. and that is just the way the ICM takes you. And to answer your question, yes in my view it fits the bill just right. Your biggest problem is finding a club judge with enough imagination and insight.... |
Nov 14th |
| 4 |
Nov 23 |
Comment |
Erik, your image is well lit, well exposed and sharp. It has a perfect histogram. The lighthouse looks vertical but the house and the white outbuilding do look like they need a slight correction. Great image for a calendar. |
Nov 14th |
| 4 |
Nov 23 |
Comment |
Vella, this is a picture which will remind you of a wonderful vacation. Paula & I have that river cruise on the Danube on our list of things to do, but somehow not managed to do it yet. Covid 19 got in the way and then other things cropped up, so it's still on the list. Back to the image. I think the big problem here is that there is no light left in the sky so the bridge merges into it. Isaac has managed to find some separation and Erik has found a little more but if you try to lighten the sky too much it just breaks up into digital noise. I see from the info on the image that you had an EV compensation of -5 stops, presumably from the Auto setting on the camera trying to avoid burnout of the highlights. It would have been better to have had less or even no negative EV setting and accepted some highlight burnout. A good way of dealing with this kind of problem is to set up an auto-bracket of five shots at 1 EV interals well in advance and then just fire it in a continuous high speed burst. Most software will give you a good HDR result and compensate for the movement of the boat. Most cameras give you auto-bracketing which you can select by the flick of a switch or press of a button. |
Nov 14th |
| 4 |
Nov 23 |
Comment |
It's amazing what you can do on a phone now. This is an intriguing view of these man-made falls. They look architecturally designed as well as being functional to regulate the water flow. The water has been handled nicely in PP. I would like to see the tower at top right clear of the edge of the frame. As Vella suggests, this might be quite dramatic in b/w. |
Nov 14th |
| 4 |
Nov 23 |
Reply |
Isaac, thanks for the Catalan version! The highlight reflection gave me a lot of problems. It was very difficult to tone it down without it going muddy so in the end I think I lowered the whites slightly and then just left it. Cloning was difficult as the compound curvature means that there is nowhere else to clone from with the same curvature. |
Nov 13th |
| 4 |
Nov 23 |
Comment |
Nice re-creation of days gone by. There is nothing in the image to date it to the 21st Century. I bet you paid up-to-date prices for the meal though! I thought the waiter could do with brightening up so I took it into ON1 RAW 2024 and applied the new Brilliance adjustment followed by Curves to brighten the waiter and darken the background. |
Nov 12th |
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| 4 |
Nov 23 |
Comment |
Gary, that is a very good restoration although, as Ian says, you did have a very good quality image to start with. How did you decide on the colours? And presumably your Grandmother is the one in the red dress? |
Nov 12th |
| 4 |
Nov 23 |
Reply |
Thanks for you comments Erik. Here is the original. |
Nov 7th |
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