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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 34 |
Jul 21 |
Reply |
Thank you. |
Jul 6th |
| 34 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
Jan, you turned a snapshot into a work of art. The light on the artichoke is stunning. The goldish tone of the image, and the darkness of the image give it a wow factor that was not in the original. The textured background helps to hold everything together. So beautiful! |
Jul 5th |
| 34 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
Gwen, I love your sweet "puppy" sleeping in the clouds. You have blended the images together so very well, and the blue tone to the image brings everything together. Love it. |
Jul 5th |
| 34 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
Great image, Fran. It should make everyone smile. I love your critter. It is so well put together. the spatter brush gave the exact look you needed to finish the image. |
Jul 5th |
| 34 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
Your editing did an excellent job of removing the distracting background. The painterly effect works well to give a softer look to the image. I do feel that the shadow/sunlight area from the original needs to be worked to soften the transition from bright sunlight area to dark shadows. I think making a softer flow from bright to dark or dark to light would give the overly bright center a more natural look-not so very bright as compared to the rest of the image. |
Jul 5th |
| 34 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
Alan, good job with taking the fish out of its aquarium home and bringing it to the beach. he little girl pushing it along the beach looks just as natural as pushing a truck. I might consider a different crop. It is a bit too centered for me. But a really good job of putting the fish and girl together on the beach. |
Jul 5th |
| 34 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
Good job with your image this month, Steve. The pink and reddish flowers create a perfect frame for the last flower, the young lady. And the white and green form the foreground needed to finish the framing. The texture and pencil effect bring the whole image together. In my opinion everything works well together. |
Jul 5th |
| 34 |
Jul 21 |
Reply |
Thank you for your encouraging comments, Gwen. I reduced the opacity of the brightness of the girl and dress. See image under Alan's reply. Do you feel that this is an improvement? |
Jul 5th |
| 34 |
Jul 21 |
Reply |
Thank you for your kind words Alan. I took your advice and reduced the opacity (brightness) of the dress and and reduced slightly the brightness of the young girl. Do you think it is still too bright? I had left the girl and crisp, new, white communion dress brighter to show the contrast of the oldness of the Abbey vs the fresh, new, young girl and her crisp, new, white communion dress. |
Jul 5th |
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| 34 |
Jul 21 |
Reply |
Thank you for your comments, Georgianne. I was trying to show the contrast of the oldness of the Abbey as opposed to the fresh, crisp, new white communion dress of the young girl. That is why I left the dress more white than the whites in the rest of the image. Maybe I left it too bright. So I took Alan's suggestion and reduced the opacity of the white dress. See revised image under reply to Alan. |
Jul 5th |
6 comments - 4 replies for Group 34
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| 69 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
Good, clean, crisp image of a bird in flight. Good job. |
Jul 11th |
| 69 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
Brenda, good choice with b&w. You selected a good crop to emphasize the cub. The background is better, however I feel that it needs more detail. I agree with Mervyn that more contrast would help. More texture would probably be an improvement too. |
Jul 11th |
| 69 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
Good image of the milkweed, Jacob. the very bright sky is somewhat distracting, though. A different angle of view might have eliminated the sky. |
Jul 11th |
| 69 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
Dean, I agree that the image should be about the young racoons. So a much tighter crop is in order. The halo from your post processing to lighten the image is distracting. Maybe go back and try another way that doesn't create a halo. |
Jul 11th |
| 69 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
Mervyn, excellent reflection giving a mirror image. The water contrasts nicely with the bird. |
Jul 11th |
| 69 |
Jul 21 |
Reply |
Brenda, I shoot with a mirrorless Olympus camera with a 4/3's system. This is a cropped sensor with a 2X crop factor. Thus to equal a 35 mm system the lens focal length is doubled. The focal length of the lens was 202.5 mm-doubled becomes 505 mm. The 1/250 sec shutter speed was used because I had a small flash on the camera with a reflective white card. The 1/250 is the shutter speed necessary for the flash on the camera that I used.
The impressionistic look for the water was added in Topaz Studio 2-Buzz Sim. The look was removed from the frog and bug.
I flipped the frog because the image read better to me. Here it reads light to dark rather than starting with an uninteresting dark area. I don't always follow the rules. |
Jul 6th |
| 69 |
Jul 21 |
Reply |
Geoff, the bug was there. I had nothing to do with it except to be there at the right time. |
Jul 6th |
5 comments - 2 replies for Group 69
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11 comments - 6 replies Total
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