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

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19 Nov 22 Comment Welcome to G19, as I think I am one of the oldest members it is always a pleaser to have new people in the group.

I think you did a good job of getting what should be in focus in focus. Examples, the stamin projecting toward the camera and the leaves just behind the flower are in focus. Leaves deeper into the flower are not, but I don't think they need to be. My only concern is that it looks to me like you have lost some detail in the whites of the flower. I am not familiar with this flower, but I suspect there was more detail that I can't see. Now that shots are free, when you are doing something as technical as this, I like to have shots with a variety of exposure settings and perhaps one would have more detail in the flower.		 Nov 28th
19 Nov 22 Comment Pictures like this are hard to compose. What is the center of inteest and where can I place it? Is the center of interest just the composite of all the fruits or vegetables. On this image, I think I would consider a crop from the bottom up to just where whatever is in the lower right corner is gone. Then if we think the pumpkin that you are shooting almost straight down on toward the upper right becomes very nearly on the crash point 1/3 down and 1/3 from the right where we might expect a center of interest to be placed. Nov 28th
19 Nov 22 Comment Taking the background to black worked very well. When we don't have the entire object, it seems to work best if we make it obvious we did not want it all. To me this is obvous, but I think it might be better to go even further to crop closer to the body of the inetrument. That is where the picture is, make it large. With a verticle shot projected the more you reduce the height, the more pixels you get on the screen because it gets wider. Nov 28th
19 Nov 22 Comment Great detail in both the grasshoppers and barley plants. Their activity makes the shot interesting. Nature at its work. I don't know that I would try to darken the background, but if you had held the phone just a little higher to not have the sky in the shot, I think it would be improved. It would be easy to darken the green, but the sky is blown to white and it would only turn grey which would not be pleasing. Nov 28th
19 Nov 22 Comment I like the twist. Good way to create an abstract and the colors are great. You didn't provide a shutter speed, but I think it was just right for what you were trying to do. Nov 28th
19 Nov 22 Reply I think your point is well taken. I think I could crop the grate out and it gets a little close, but it is probably better. If I want a similar aspect ratio I can probably crop the left side to get it back to about the same ratio. Nov 20th
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64 Nov 22 Comment For a totally black bird the detail is really pretty good and the eye stands out well. I like the tuffs of moss on the slate roof to add interest and the leaves with a variety of tones help add interest to a subject not inherently very interesting. The environment the bird is in makes the shot. Nov 28th
64 Nov 22 Comment We did the Oregon Coast a year ago and tried to shoot all the lighthouses. I must admit I missed getting a good shot of this one. I like the angle you decided to shoot from with the lighthouse behind the building. The tones and details are excellent. The forground is in reasonable focus and I like your capture of the streaks in the sky pointing to the light. Nov 28th
64 Nov 22 Comment I don't know how large these seedpods were but I was just at a Macro presentation by Amy Horn who wrote a book about macro with Bruce Taubert and she used an adjustment for sensor size from the 1 to 1 on a 35mm. In any case, you appear to have what you want in focus in focus or at least close which means that with f/6.3 you did a good job of getting the subject perpendicular to the shot. I think this is well done. You might consider a very narrow stroke to seperae it from the background. Nov 28th
64 Nov 22 Comment It seems like a rather ordinary scene, but that reflection makes the shot and it is beautiful. I don't like skies that steal the show from the landscape but I think this sky could use some more detail. Nov 28th
64 Nov 22 Comment What a beautiful scene. I think I like the color version better. It seems like the monochrome vesion is laking in detail, (texture perhaps) in the middle grey hillsides. Perhaps more detail could be brought up in these areas.

I suspect you learned the story about the Shakleton exhibition making it to this whaling station after approaching the other side of the island in a small what was a lifeboat off their sailing ship. Afraid of being swept past the other side of the island out to sea they made a miraculous journey over the mountain ridge to the whaling station.		 Nov 28th
64 Nov 22 Reply No distortion, the building really is that sharp. Nov 15th
64 Nov 22 Reply The sidewalks and street are polished stone. This is a first class square of a formerly "royal" city. The rest of the city is also interesting and seems to have a lot of residents out enjoying sidewalk cafes and just having fun in the city. Nov 15th
64 Nov 22 Reply No, I have not changed the perspective, at least not significantly. This building comes to a sharp corner. Nov 15th
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