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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 19 |
Aug 17 |
Reply |
See you in Pittsburgh. I hope we can get together for a lunch or something. Also anyone else in G19 |
Aug 26th |
| 19 |
Aug 17 |
Comment |
I think you did a good job of taking it out. I looked at it once but left it in. I am interested in the thoughts of others. |
Aug 21st |
| 19 |
Aug 17 |
Reply |
I like it! |
Aug 16th |
| 19 |
Aug 17 |
Comment |
Carroll, I think this is a very nice capture. Knowing the story makes it even better. I think we tend to be overly concerned with white skies. Getting a good exposure on what is important pretty much dictated that the sky would be white. I think I would try to use dehaze or something similar to bring up the colors in the flags and the dress of the person. I hadn't thought about it until I read Norm's comment about cropping the foreground. I am not a fan of out of focus foregrounds and would consider taking out the most soft focus part of the foreground. Only a very small crop to keep almost all of the papers that have fallen to the ground. |
Aug 15th |
| 19 |
Aug 17 |
Reply |
and knowing what to do with the camera to capture the image. You did well on this!! |
Aug 15th |
| 19 |
Aug 17 |
Reply |
While I do a great deal of touching up tones selectively, I seldom even think of touching up colors selectively like you suggest. Thanks for the suggestion. I find it is seldom that I place an image in a study group that I don't get some comments for improvement that help my work. |
Aug 15th |
| 19 |
Aug 17 |
Comment |
A great crop out of an ordinary image. I think the filter you picked is excellent for this image. The right feel! The bowl of apples and the candle set it off just right. If I was going to consider doing anything different with this, it would be to try to change the color balance of the skull on the left to match the others better. |
Aug 9th |
| 19 |
Aug 17 |
Comment |
The light is awesome and while the sky is light, it retains detail. I personally like to exaggerate the textures of the stones in images like this, but you would not want to let this do anything to the sky or the amazing lighted areas. Nice image. |
Aug 9th |
| 19 |
Aug 17 |
Comment |
I like the image, but I think it would be fun to play with this a bit. Perhaps some creative effect on the image, but protect the mouse on a layer so it stays just the way it is. I like the idea of cropping in a bit, but I really like the hub of the wheel and would not want to loose much of it. There is a light spot on the spoke in the upper right that I would remove. A little content aware fill should do the job. Image well worth the playing with to try a few things. |
Aug 9th |
| 19 |
Aug 17 |
Comment |
If you want to see a mono this it is on Group 64 |
Aug 9th |
6 comments - 4 replies for Group 19
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| 64 |
Aug 17 |
Reply |
I like this crop. The outflow of water, the rock on the right and the falls on the left seem to work together. |
Aug 26th |
| 64 |
Aug 17 |
Reply |
It didn't work all that well. Thanks for trying. |
Aug 18th |
| 64 |
Aug 17 |
Reply |
One thing I did not mention in my epistle above is something I say to new competitors often. Judging is normally a panel of 3 judges. If one of them does not like or understand your work, you are probably dead. Violating "rules" can be a problem with some judges. Showing them what they don't expect to see can be a problem. These few second decisions can be a problem for some good images. I don't like to seriously violate the rule of thirds as an example unless it is clear why I did it. You can still enjoy all your good images. |
Aug 17th |
| 64 |
Aug 17 |
Reply |
My experience in competition is that judges tend to look for what they expect and not appreciate what you like in the image. I have images that I like very much but don't enter them in competitions after perhaps once or twice not being accepted. This may very well be one of those. I didn't mean that you should take away the feel that you have captured. Perhaps just make the runway in the background stand out a bit more. If you use Lightroom or Adobe Camera Raw, just a little dehaze might do the job. You could even do it selectively and not touch the rest of the background. |
Aug 17th |
| 64 |
Aug 17 |
Comment |
I don't have the new 100-400 and with my version of the lens I have been advised to not go closed more than f/7.1 to keep it sharp. You don't seem to have a problem. You are using a pretty modern and good camera and I think you could go past ISO 400 to get more shutter speed or allow closing down a stop or so. I think since you could not get the entire truck, you might consider cropping in even further. Remove the top of the head to get rid of the white sky. Perhaps crop in both sides to really concentrate to the face. Perhaps the eye on the top 1/3 and the tusk near the bottom 1/3. Make a portrait out of it. You can tell from my work that I like to concentrate on bringing out textures as much as I can. Elephants have textured skin. You might try working on combinations of contrast and structure or whatever it is called with your software. Try to end up with a "true black", probably in his mouth and a near white, perhaps on his tusk. In most images you want all the zones represented. I like to have some small areas of zone 1, (black) and just a small touch of white, (zone 9 or 10) depending on software. Understand these are just things to try. The image is well worth playing with for options. |
Aug 16th |
| 64 |
Aug 17 |
Comment |
Looks risky, like texting on takeoff, but I suspect both of you were capable of controlling the plane. I don't know if this is an exhibition image, but it is a pretty amazing one to be proud of. The small sensor cameras are great for good depth of field even at f/4. I might try to select all of the background and try to darken it or add more contrast or both, but I don't think is has to have the detail of the cockpit, that is where the picture is. |
Aug 16th |
| 64 |
Aug 17 |
Comment |
There is some good detail in most of the water, so the 10 second exposure worked. I generally don't like to go too slow for concern about loosing all detail in the water. This one is fine. This seems to be another image with the concern of two centers of interest even though they are not similar at all. The falls on the left and a cave like landscape on the right. You might want to consider a crop to remove most of the right of the image, like through the large rock. You might end up with the falls excessively centered, but I think it is worth trying working on defining a crop that works as another version of a nice image. |
Aug 16th |
| 64 |
Aug 17 |
Comment |
Generally with most mono conversion software you can control the tone that various colors convert to. I don't know if you had green leaves and blue sky, but you might be able to obtain more contrast between the two. I understand Don's comment about two centers of interest but with one a bit behind the other and the interest of the trees, I don't know if this is a serious issue. To prevent it from being an issue, if you take it at an angle to the line between them, you would get one more behind the other and it would be even less of an issue. I like the image. |
Aug 16th |
| 64 |
Aug 17 |
Comment |
I really like the Stearman. I built a stick model of one with my son about 35 years ago. The shiny prop has a great positive impact on this image. The detail of the air cooled engine is very nice. Very nice. |
Aug 9th |
| 64 |
Aug 17 |
Comment |
Are we the only ones that heard the assignment. I am glad your clouds are different or it would look like we were working together on the assignment. My shot is the canyon on the left. Your monochrome conversion is excellent. Great detail and contrast in tones. All tones from near white to true black. I suspect you selectively lightened the canyon and it is just right. I see no boats or "hand of man" so this might not only be a good monochrome, it might work in nature also. |
Aug 9th |
6 comments - 4 replies for Group 64
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12 comments - 8 replies Total
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