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

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19 Feb 23 Reply Agree, I almost did that but had some comment that someone liked them. I don't and should have done it. Feb 22nd
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64 Feb 23 Comment You visualized an interesting composition and captured it. I say that because I don't think I would of seen it. Well done. You almost have the tops of the trees, but you don't need them, you might consider cropping a little more from the top to concentrate attention to the light colored bark. Stuart mentioned cropping the left to get the trunk of that light toned tree out. That was my first thought but he beat me to it. There is another alternative and that would be to simply darken or reduce contrast in that part of of the image. While you are at it you could do the same to the light part of that diagonal tree trunk in the bottom left. Feb 17th
64 Feb 23 Comment With training as a mechanical engineer that hasn't been one for a long time, I shoud be able to answer the question, but I think Stuart already did it, or at least provided a reasonable hypothesis. I think is it or very close to it. My first reaction was this was "noisy" but you explained it and it is not. You have captured an interesting process under way. It is also an interesting composition. The T shape of the most prominent two paving stones seems to create a "center of interest" and they are well placed in the composition. I think your choice of making the stong lines diagonal was the right thing to do. Feb 17th
64 Feb 23 Comment You fooled me with the title, I thought it was a butterfly wing. Your creating the symetric image with it was an excellent idea, I really like it. Interesting the comment about it being blurry at the bottom is true, but I had not even noticed yet. The image composition concentrates my attention on the top half and middle and I had not even noticed the blur. Frankly I don't think it is much of an issue, but from the shutter speed you could probably have gone up even two stops to f/11 at about 1/320 or so to have better depth of field and more than adequate shutter speed. As it is some of the sharpening software is amazing now, if concerend you could probably improve it. Feb 17th
64 Feb 23 Comment He is really banked into this curve. My first reaction was how did you get above him, but you aren't above him, he is banked steeply. I agree more contrast between picture elements might improve the image, but it is not always clear where to position sliders to achieve that. Some of the water near the board is almost blown out and that would improve darkened some. It might be just a highlights slider or something similar. Pulling the image up and down on my screen, I think it improves a bit with a minor crop of the bottom. Feb 17th
64 Feb 23 Comment The "Aligator Farm" what a wonderful place. This time of year and a bit later it is a bird photography paridise with the nests in the trees above the walkways. The gators lay below the walk almost like logs laying next to each other although you seem to have managed to get only one gator in this picture. I think I would prefer more contrast between the subject and its surroundings. I suspect the color version may also not have a lot of contrast in color making it hard to get good contrast in monochrome. If there are significant difference in color tones, the color sliders should be able to create more contrast in the monochromeversion. Feb 17th
64 Feb 23 Reply I have created an alternative rendition with a "not PTD" added to the file name. Yes, the cloning worked well enough, my first try at "Content Aware Fill" did not. The trouble with that is you have very little control of where it fills from. Feb 17th
64 Feb 23 Reply Yes, but it is no longer a Photo Travel Picture in PSA. I need to start creating two derivaties of some of my images, I have done it before, but I usually do not. Feb 16th
64 Feb 23 Comment An amazing capture with perfect or almost perfect timing. I don't know if you all are aware of a feature on some cameras that Olympus calls Pro-Capture, but I suspect others have the same thing. In this mode if you hold the shutter button down half way and press it the rest of the way when you want to take a picture it captures a burst of the imaages with some number of seconds being in the past because it takes them out of a rotating buffer. This has been done with ambulatory heart monitors for decades but is now in some cameras. Feb 16th
64 Feb 23 Reply I fully agree with you, but if I crop out that transition in the pavement I either loose more on the left than I wanted to, or more of the other pavement. I wonder if I selected that and did a content aware fill or something, but I wanted this image to be able to be in PTD exhibitions. Perhaps on looking again a little more of each. Feb 16th
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