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Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
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| 15 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Jeri,
Your orange flower is quite beautiful and sharp front to back. I wold love to see the stem as the floating feeling doesn't quite anchor the flower to its background. Looking more closely, I see what might be a stem. I would suggest you strengthen its impact. The background itself cold be more out of focus as those brown objects tend to take away my concentration on the flower. I see that you have that planned for the future. Our cell phones do make quite excellent cameras. |
Jun 18th |
| 15 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Rick,
I love the warmth, colors and distortion of your final image. The filters you used worked really well. One of the things I like is the way the bottles pull away from each other as with key stoning. The filters made the bottles look more glassy, which is interesting and positive for the image. Although the background is busy, it gives a lot more color to the entire frame and it works for me. It gave me a Wow impression right from the start. Nice work. |
Jun 18th |
| 15 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Bob,
This could be two photos, one more oriented toward pictorial (the cropping suggested by Kristi) and the other the entire photo as you took it The latter fives more of a feeling for the caretaker with the cheap blue chair and the addition of the lobster traps. The chair and lobster traps emphasize the complementary colors more, the blues and yellows. The photo as a whole gives me a much stronger feeling for the place, although pictorially, the square format is more pleasurable. You can user both. |
Jun 18th |
| 15 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Linda,
This is a wonderful travel image. w with a lot of interesting things going on. First of all I love the fruit display. Catching the two men walking by in their white garb is perfect. Well placed. I have to disagree with Kristi a bit because I think the carcasses show another aspect of the market, which is totally different. The only thing I would change is to darken the image somewhat; as it is, it's little overexposed. Otherwise, a great photo depicting a land. |
Jun 18th |
| 15 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Kirsti,
You have made this image from a hum-drum one into something much more exciting. The colors are wonderful. I did have one thought about it. The tower which is in the title is so small especially against all of that grass. I suggest that you change it into a vertical to bring out the center of the image more as, for me, the large swatch of golden grass on the left captures my eye and takes it away from the interesting tower, sky and birds in the center. I am putting in the suggested change for your consideration. |
Jun 15th |
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5 comments - 0 replies for Group 15
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| 21 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Barrie,
I remember when the old mylar usage was in vogue. This works well for piano keys and I have to agree with Brian that just showing the distorted keyboard is stronger as a creative image. Than we are left with wondering what the original looks like, which could be posted separately. This reminds me of the time Pre-PS, when we had to do the things ourselves to make creative images. How much more difficult was that?! As such, you have a great composition and an old favorite technique that almost never failed to please. |
Jun 26th |
| 21 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Phil,
This is a wonderful concept for this time of crisis. Sorry, we're not allowed to put more than three original images into your file. Maybe I could talk ate tom Pickering abut that for future images, especially those that use a lot of layers such as in composites. Seeing the world through rose- colored glasses is such a good idea. I'm thinking that having the glasses a bit larger wo that one lens overs maybe half the picture and the other half is off screen so that you see a bigger difference between the pink rosy world and the ordinary crass one might be more impactful. I admire the work you did for this and for such a wonderful idea.
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Jun 26th |
| 21 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Steve,
Your use of conversion filters so that the buildings look like a black and white drawing works very well. The result: a much stronger image. Your process makes the colored parts of the image stand out so much more. There is a nice sense of depth which great leading lines. The sky idea from a marble is certainly creative and directs our attention there immediately. Perhaps you could have filled up the entire sky area with the pretty colors using the clone tool to help you. The other suggestion I have is that there seems to be a little lean to the left, so rotating slightly to the right to get the spires of the building in background straight would be a really easy thing to do. I'm not familiar with Gimp, though a lot of you seem to use it, so great. |
Jun 26th |
| 21 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Peter,
Sorry to be so slow. I' m very glad you posted the correct images for this month. Don't know where I got the one I posted. Anyway, and, fortunately. your posted images can be blown up to full size, which works just fine. I like both of them. The work you did to make the tulips more artistic may be a little over the top for me. I think that a little less painterly quality might work better. This is a matter of preference. The colors are great and I like that you got rid of the bright area on the original image. I sounds like you went to a lot of work., Painter is not an easy program to use, so I commend your knowledge of it. |
Jun 26th |
| 21 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Where did you get those lines in-between the subway columns that became the track? I like both versions, yours and Brian's. The concept of using the subway walls, rather than the tracks to make the tracks is so creative. The neon and fractals look work so sell here. I think you should name it "The Railroad Car," however. Altogether it took a lot of imagination to come up with this and you did a great job! |
Jun 18th |
| 21 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Brian, I love the way you use these old masks that you find in your creations. You interpretation of how a mask works as anthropomorphic is quite fascinating. I think of the elderflower, not as hair, but rather the pain of the migraine headache. It's strength is necessary, in my opinion, because the torment of a migraine is so strong. You are always so creative; we love having you as a very long-term member. |
Jun 18th |
| 21 |
Jun 20 |
Reply |
Wow, do you really remember this? It must be at least 20 years ago. Anyway, thanks for the comments. My eyes are getting bad fast due to macular degeneration, so it is hard for me to see the bands of which you speak. Yes, I agree, a stem would have added to this positively. Unfortunately, unless I created it now our of whole earth, I no longer have it, if I ever did. Thanks for your kind words. Interestingly, your comments to eveeryone who has commented on your images have been picked up by my other DD group, #15. They are now doing it also. Thanks again.
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Jun 15th |
6 comments - 1 reply for Group 21
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11 comments - 1 reply Total
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