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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 19 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
Just goes to show all any of can provide is a personal opinion. There are no rights or wrongs, but there are things that appeal to a significant part of an audience. I personally like the hostas, they are part of the story and they are a nice break from the busy texture of the grass. Speaking of that I think I would crop the grass down from the top just into the top hosta. You certainly could crop some off the left, but leave that bunny to contemplate where to start on a meal that he found. |
Jul 19th |
| 19 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
Carroll, I am sorry you are leaving the group, we have been friends involved with photography since well before you joined this group, but I understand from your pictures how much you travel and spend time in Asia. I am always amazed at how happy people in 3rd world countries are with the little they have to make them comfortable. I think we all have something to learn from them. I recall in Myanmar our guide saying that in Buddhism, "everyone suffers, but everyone is responsible for being happy" or some words to that affect. These people seem to live this. A wonderful image and others have captured what should be said about its excellent composition and quality. |
Jul 19th |
| 19 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
You started with a wonderful picture of a bluebird and a difficult busy background. I like what you did with the background and I like the somewhat unusual light background. The processing appears to have left some artifact around some of the light areas. I don't know if you can prevent or fix this. I would crop the left side just a bit to remove that orange leave near the bottom. |
Jul 19th |
| 19 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
This is an excellent flower portrait. You were blessed with a single flower so you could move the camera wherever you wanted to get the entrance to the flower and the background you were looking for. I agree that despite the ISO 6400, noise appears to be minimal. With the distance to the background, you could experiment with a variety of f-stops to get the detail as you wanted it in the background, but in any case, you made a good choice. |
Jul 19th |
| 19 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
You have a lot of interesting images of your animals, but I think this is my favorite. Her hair is beautiful in this light and the image begs the question which you have answered, "How does she see?", and this ads a lot of interest. My first thought was that you cropped a little close to her nose, but from the original I can see why. You still might try giving her a little more room under her nose. |
Jul 19th |
| 19 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
These replacement sky filters seem to encourage using the supplied skies that come with them. This is a wonderful sky which ends up sort of dominating the image. I think we all should be finding and storing a supply of our own interesting skies. For me, the building seems to of lost detail. I believe these sky replacement filters can actually impact the rest of the image and perhaps this one did that. |
Jul 19th |
6 comments - 0 replies for Group 19
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| 64 |
Jul 21 |
Reply |
I like the horizontal curve of the building. That worked very well. |
Jul 19th |
| 64 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
The wispy little waterfall allows us to enjoy the layers and textures of the rock wall. We need a strong foreground object, but that one light rook with little texture may not be the best choice. There are a lot of rocks and I think a crop from the bottom to remove most of this rock might improve the image. Just darkening it is not likely to solve it, unless you can also bring out more texture in it. |
Jul 19th |
| 64 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
The result is an awesome image. The pano merge seemed to bend the building back on the right, but I like that, it is like it shows the left side of the building at a very favorable angle and opens up the view of the door and extension of the building on the right. It feels to me that the right end of the building leans right a bit, but the very right end of the building seems vertical. I am not sure I understand, but perhaps some clever use of transforms would improve it. |
Jul 19th |
| 64 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
Wonderful use of shadows to increase the lines in the image. You apparently had the light source directly behind you which preserved the symmetry of the chair in the shadow. Well done. The texture, but no additional tonal variation of the background was a very good choice. |
Jul 19th |
| 64 |
Jul 21 |
Reply |
Perhaps the image is not tipped, but this is taken from on a hill with the camera tilted down, so there certainly is a perspective issue. Perhaps I should do some correction. When it is not clear that their should be perspective shown, it is best to have it not show at all. |
Jul 19th |
| 64 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
I am sorry for being so late for the party. You are all having fun with this. Jerry finds all these wonderful images with lines and patterns that are relatively abstract and this is a good one. I like the darker tones top and bottom and the lighter tones in the middle. The textures and contrasts seem stronger in the middle also. A well done mono conversion. I hope you are doing well Jerry. |
Jul 19th |
| 64 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
Don, this is a wonderful imager, one that is made for mono, particularly B&W. Your choice of camera position and resulting angle leading the eye from left to right up to the window is very pleasing. It is very nice to know a bit about the history of the place and thanks for sharing. |
Jul 19th |
| 64 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
I agree with all the comments above, which I know I probably should not say, but why repeat. Frankly, to me all that vegetation is very busy looking and takes a lot of attention away from the lighthouse. Perhaps a crop of the left to remove the very busy texture of that brush would help. You would be left with the lighthouse and the palm trees which I think are more attractive. Yes, I think a slight rotation CCW would make the lighthouse more vertical. |
Jul 19th |
| 64 |
Jul 21 |
Reply |
I think Don is correct but it is very slight. The camera is tipped down as we were above the bridge so it probably needs perspective correction also. |
Jul 12th |
6 comments - 3 replies for Group 64
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12 comments - 3 replies Total
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