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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 40 |
Apr 20 |
Reply |
Anne,
When you do come to Duluth, your 100-400 zoom lens will work nicely as sometimes the raptors are 100 feet out and sometimes a mile or two.
We live two miles from the prime viewing point. You can plan (or any of the group 40) to stay with us on the shore of Lake Superior. Check out https://www.hawkridge.org/ for details, including a daily spring migration live update of what is passing overhead. |
Apr 11th |
| 40 |
Apr 20 |
Comment |
I don't think there is any need to straighten the left side. But I think this is your creative spirit bursting forth and you should play with it until you are satisfied. Keep at it! This is a beautiful abstraction. Is this a photo of a stained glass window?
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Apr 10th |
| 40 |
Apr 20 |
Comment |
Alison, I like this but it becomes a little over exposed for me. I have not intentionally done hi-key photos so I don't have any useful suggestions. You might try some fabric backgrounds or do some composites on various backgrounds.
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Apr 10th |
| 40 |
Apr 20 |
Comment |
Jamie, great capture of Antelope Canyon. I have no suggestions. I too was in Antelope Canyon, years ago when there were no others to contend with. The whole Colorado Plateau is so beautiful and colorful. |
Apr 10th |
| 40 |
Apr 20 |
Comment |
Anne, magnificent image of puffins which are a really colorful bird to photograph! If you are a bird watcher, come to Duluth in September when we have more raptors migrating by than famed Hawk Mountain in Pennsylvania. Currently bald eagles are passing by in a diffuse return spring migration.
I have nothing further to add.
Now having read the comments of the others, Stuart Caine's use of Luminar 4 really makes the image pop. |
Apr 10th |
| 40 |
Apr 20 |
Reply |
Andrew, I will try a wider range bracket next time. I adjusted the verticals a bit but have trouble getting the tower straight. The orange of the buildings - well, I guess I go to the dramatic side of the spectrum. |
Apr 10th |
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| 40 |
Apr 20 |
Reply |
Hi Alison, your suggestion to crop some of the sky is good as you see below.
Best wishes to you and your family in dodging the caronavirus as it sweeps the country. Here in Duluth, Minnesota we are experiencing the virus but not in great numbers.
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Apr 10th |
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| 40 |
Apr 20 |
Reply |
Hi Anne, I burned the top corners to make more of a vignette as you suggested. Personally I am happy with the highlights and so did not bring them down. |
Apr 10th |
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| 40 |
Apr 20 |
Comment |
Julie, nice capture of a street scene! The young woman and kthe travel poster do go together. As another variation, I would be tempted to crop in on the right side. Well, I don't think this really does much.
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Apr 10th |
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| 40 |
Apr 20 |
Comment |
Andrew, I like the panorama that you have done. The distortion is not bothersome. It would be nice if you had backed up slightly and their had been an individual in the lower right foreground to add perspective.
The comments of the others are all interesting. At alison's suggestion, I went on line and agree that your image is by far the best.
I'm amazed that you did this hand held and came out with such a perfect merge result. Nice work! |
Apr 10th |
6 comments - 4 replies for Group 40
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| 41 |
Apr 20 |
Reply |
Yes Mark, the colors are strong. I was playing with turning a photo into a painting for one of the first times so it is rough. But I do basically like vibrant colors. |
Apr 12th |
| 41 |
Apr 20 |
Comment |
Ah Lisa, you have such wonderfully creative ideas that make beautiful images. Great work!
I went to the Olympus website and have printed out your article on how to do this so I can try it myself. I also checked out your website - what a fantastic variety of subjects you have photographed in your own creative way! |
Apr 12th |
| 41 |
Apr 20 |
Comment |
Well Jan, this is an image that, if hanging on our living room wall, I would spend hours looking at the detail and running through emotions. The foreground imparts the feeling of being in the country passing a sunlit pond populated with perhaps frogs and turtles. The bike rider has the feel of being out enjoying weekend solitude away from the city but now in the twilight of the day returning home to the city where the work week will begin again. You are becoming adept with Corel to turn a photograph into a painting. |
Apr 12th |
| 41 |
Apr 20 |
Comment |
Lisa, welcome to the group.
Your first entry is a very creative image taking a blah snapshot and turning it into an eye catching and emotional picture. The mirrored flamingo and the pink background work together along with the pink on the bills and around the eyes. This could be a valentine thought hanging on the wall of your home.
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Apr 12th |
| 41 |
Apr 20 |
Comment |
Maryellen, I love the color and the spring feeling of flowers comes through with great impact. Now here is my own personal bias - as I look at the needle points coming down I think of water droplets running on a window or ice cream melting on tilted glass or wet paint dripping down a wall.
Put that thought aside. I like the rotation, I like the ladybugs, I like the abstractness of the flowers but yet can see that this started with flowers. So great fun and imagination you used to create this. |
Apr 12th |
| 41 |
Apr 20 |
Comment |
The red danger of COVID-19 lurking out there to destroy our lungs! What a great composite to show how we feel and cringe as we pass through this pandemic! You could even add so fear by having your mouth open in a scream.
I agree with the others that this would make a great book cover or poster. |
Apr 12th |
| 41 |
Apr 20 |
Comment |
Brad, great composite picture of an egret flying in the entrance to San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate bridge. It works well in black and white to symbolize how we feel in the COVID-19 era. I have been on that beach but can't remember its name. Perhaps the feeling that something is missing is what we all are feeling as our lives shut down during the pandemic quarantine. |
Apr 12th |
6 comments - 1 reply for Group 41
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12 comments - 5 replies Total
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