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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 19 |
Apr 23 |
Reply |
Those people were luckily there and were kind enough to dress the part. |
Apr 25th |
| 19 |
Apr 23 |
Comment |
His colors, detail and sharpness seems right on to me. You have a good catch light in his eye. I am assuming he is entering a nesting box and the image is taken with flash. I might suggest that you try to reduce the brightness of the inside back of the box if I am correct, then I think the image would look more natural. |
Apr 20th |
| 19 |
Apr 23 |
Comment |
I don't think this image needs to be any different than your presentation, and I find the comments of others about the building to be interesting and add to the significance of your capture. I like to play a bit with good images and see if I like something better. Perhaps a minor crop of the left and another thing to play with would be brightening or increasing the contrast on the building might make the image even better. I like the lower right corner dark with no detail just the way you have it. |
Apr 20th |
| 19 |
Apr 23 |
Comment |
Your conversion of Rudolf to High Key worked very well. As has been said, I wish he had some highlights in his eyes. Perhaps if he had been positioned with some sun or some light on his face the highlights would be there. I like you high key treatment and the frame except I think the dark corner in the upper right is a bit distracting. |
Apr 20th |
| 19 |
Apr 23 |
Comment |
I like seeing the rigging at both the bottom and top of the mast. Unusual and probably difficult. I agree with Harriet, I would ike to see a little space around the top of the mast, but would not want to loose any of the blocks at the bottom of the mast to get it. |
Apr 18th |
| 19 |
Apr 23 |
Reply |
Actually it is Arizona along the Bush Highway on the way to Saguaro Lake just east of the Pheonix metro area. It was the only place we found profuss poppies on our tour around the valley and surrounding mountains. Saguaro lake is a reservoir on the Salt River which is dry much of the year. This year all the reservoirs in the system are basically at 100% and the river is running down into the valley and flowing over the dams that create Tempe Town Lake. |
Apr 10th |
| 19 |
Apr 23 |
Comment |
Difficult cold night, but the result was well worth it. Beautiful color and texture in the rocks, and beautiful color in the sky. A very well executed image. |
Apr 8th |
5 comments - 2 replies for Group 19
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| 64 |
Apr 23 |
Reply |
These are camea settings selected by the iPhone 14 Pro Max that I obtained a month or so ago. I don't recall which lens I was using but the focal lengths and f-stops look pretty strange to a DSLR shooter. These cameras and lenses are very small by comparison.
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Apr 20th |
| 64 |
Apr 23 |
Comment |
I am late to the discussion, but I think I would crop out the lighter tones of the bank at the top of the image, the rest cqn stqy, but I personally would take out some on the left. As always, we are all talking from our own personal opinion. The bird itself seems very sharp with good detail, I suspect this image can take loosing some pixels to a crop and stand up well. |
Apr 20th |
| 64 |
Apr 23 |
Comment |
There is a story here. A lot of tropheys and a golf bag. The story might be a sad one, or just a life moving on. Comments of others reminded me of something in our daughters neighborhood. They don't put the stuff out by the curb, they have a "buy nothing group" and have computerized it. They post stuff they want to get rid of and shop for things they want on the buy nothing webpage. Re-using is even better than recycling. I like the image, but would suggest removing the dark line in the grass in the upper right and the dark spots in the lower right. I might consider the story stronger if you put the golf bag in your truck before you took the picture to simplify the story and put the bag to use yourself. |
Apr 20th |
| 64 |
Apr 23 |
Comment |
I believe pictures like this benefit from eliminating some of the "realism". How we react to that might not be what we expect and as has been said it might change with looking at it for some time. My first reaction was not positive, but it didn't last for more than a few seconds. I like what you have done with it. This might really grow on people hung on a wall instead of looking at it briefly on a computer screen. |
Apr 20th |
| 64 |
Apr 23 |
Comment |
I like the image the way you shot it. The bland sky is actually a good thing not competing with the more important picture elements and it is what it is. The only thing you can do is use very little of it as you did. I personally think you have the water line above the center enough. The detail is concentrated above the center line. The reflection in the water provides leading lines across the image to the city skyline. Lacking a level if you setup your camera pointing at something at camera level on the other side of the water there should not be a perspective problem, but you might have a lens distortion problem with the buildings near the sidees of the image. |
Apr 20th |
| 64 |
Apr 23 |
Comment |
The detail in the bird, the strength of the eye tones and the moment of capture are impressive. I agree that perhaps trying to improve the detail of the the legs and feet is worth considering. I was wondering if you had the advantage of what Olympus calls "Pro-Capture" to get the timing perfect. This can work so well to take a bird about to takeoff. You press the shutter half way down and wait for the bird to takeoff before pressing all the way down. When he does takeoff the camera saves some number of seconds of the past and some number of seconds just after the full press down. You can get the timing most of the time without trouble. While you are half way down, the images are going into a rotating buffer. |
Apr 20th |
| 64 |
Apr 23 |
Comment |
I would not worry one bit about the "someone else's" art comment. This is obviously a valid comment if you take a picture of a paining on a wall. We take pictures of other people's art all the time with shots of sculptures and architecture, but it is the point of view, crop, foreground and backgrounds we pick and a lot of things that set it apart. You have created a wonderful symetric view of the station roof and no one can take that away from you. This is one of those rare monochromes that actually takes a lot of its quality from not having very much of a full range of tones. It is mostly the darkest and near lightest tones and it works exceptionally well. The only way to improve it is print it and frame it. |
Apr 20th |
6 comments - 1 reply for Group 64
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11 comments - 3 replies Total
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