Activity for User 267 - Stan Bormann - snbormann@gmail.com

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62 Mar 22 Comment I like your posted image and the processing. I don't think it needs a darker background. I might consider trying to simplify the background a bit. Perhaps selecting it and pushing some sliders to reduce contrast, blur it or something. I often just play with sliders until I like it. The drops stand out very well, are sharp as a tack and beautiful. I think you did a great job. Mar 10th
62 Mar 22 Comment Welcome to Digital Dialogue. I just read your reply to my email and decided to look in on Group 62. My Monochrome group is 64. I wish I took more time to get this type of shot when I visit a city. We were in Montreal a few years ago and my favorite shot in the city was the inside of the cathedral. They charged $7 at the time to get in, but it was well worth it as they have the alter lit and they had someone playing the organ.

Your cityscape looks great. I tend to be a bit more contrasty with my monos, but that is a matter of choice. I generally use Nik Silver Efex, but find Lightroom works well also. In Lightroom, I like to process in color, convert with the B&W sliders and go back and process the mono again in the basic panel and perhaps the curve. There are many ways. 		Mar 10th
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64 Mar 22 Comment Good comments G64 team. I submitted this to a club judging and did darken the rocks around the horns. I don't know that this is any award winning image, but I do like it and appreciate the comments. Mar 26th
64 Mar 22 Comment The advantages of being last. I thought I had commented earlier in the month. I really liked Helen's comment about removing the top left foliage. I also liked Don's comment about removing the grasses over the silhouette of the buffalo. I might also try taking out the thinner grasses sticking up into the sky to get a cleaner look to the silhouette of the vegetation. I have mixed emotions about the dragonflies, my first reaction was negativee, but they grow on you and they definitely are part of a story. Mar 26th
64 Mar 22 Comment Your capture and monochrome conversion does a great job of showing the feeling of the metal with its curves and range of tones. The engraving on the instrument adds significantly to the interest. The music stand is a bit of an issue. Cropping it out ends up with a long narrow image which I am not all that fond of. I think I would try to do a selection and "content aware fill" or something to not end up with such a narrow image. This is a very nice image. The change to the hands was in my opinion a good one. Mar 26th
64 Mar 22 Comment You tend to have a lot less trouble with "banding" is a sky or low contrast area if you shoot in RAW with more than 8-bit pixels. With modern equipment and software, RAW shooting doesn't seem to have any downsides other than the need for larger disk drives that are cheap. I think you have composed your image well with just the right amount of sky and vegetation below the rocks. Mar 26th
64 Mar 22 Comment Beautiful mono. I like the near white wild grasses on the near black background. The apparent wind contributes well to the pleasing composition. They say these infrared converted cameras are wonderful to shoot in that mid-day sun and you seem to be demonstrating that. We are told we need all he tonal zones well represented, but I suspect this image has a lot of zones near one and ten and minimal representation for some zones in the middle. Perhaps contributing very nicely to a unique image. Mar 26th
64 Mar 22 Comment Interesting using a three shot HDR on moving water. I wonder if the pixels of the water all come from the shot where they are best exposed? It is hard getting a pleasing composition in these small gorge shots, but this seems to work well. The newer iPhones have a picture mode that will take one picture that does not have a slow shutter speed but it effectively places several images on top of each other. The rocks stay sharp and the water shows motion without slow shutter speeds, tripods and all the gear. I believe it called "long exposure", but I am not sure. Mar 26th
64 Mar 22 Reply Yes, that rock particularly above the horn is to close in tone to the horn. Good suggestion. I don't necessarily worry about our eyes being drawn to what is lighter. I personally think our eyes are drawn to what is different. Light is certainly a major one, but so is contrast. Since the horns are lighter than their background, the image improves by making the darker background even darker. Mar 15th
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