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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 18 |
Dec 21 |
Comment |
Andrew, this is awesome! |
Dec 5th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 18
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| 40 |
Dec 21 |
Reply |
Alison, thanks for your suggestions. |
Dec 27th |
| 40 |
Dec 21 |
Reply |
Julie, thanks for your suggestions. |
Dec 27th |
| 40 |
Dec 21 |
Reply |
Alison, I do like your crop. |
Dec 27th |
| 40 |
Dec 21 |
Reply |
Yes, about a hundred shots. |
Dec 23rd |
| 40 |
Dec 21 |
Comment |
Alison, you as always, have lots of good suggestions. Let me say to begin with that I wanted to present in the image the feeling a participant in the live show would have.
1) It was a complicated show bombarding observers with sound, live videos, and mirrored images.
2) Cropping the top I agree with you.
3) The boy or the bench couple would be the most important figures but I made the decision to include all the figures to present what the venue was like.
4) I would agree with some color correction.
As to the Van Gogh immersive show, I have friend, a docent of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, who will not go to the show and I have other friends that loved it. Certainly, being a viewer of Van Gogh looking over his shoulder as he paints is not how one feels in the show. On the other hand, the immersive show is emblematic of one direction that modern day art is taking. Go to the show and tell me what you think! |
Dec 23rd |
| 40 |
Dec 21 |
Reply |
Andrew, your points are well taken. You remind me to keep thinking and reviewing my images at the time I am taking them to see how I can improve them. The keystoning I should have corrected and the left figure should be cropped/cloned out. |
Dec 17th |
| 40 |
Dec 21 |
Reply |
Thanks Catherine.
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Dec 17th |
| 40 |
Dec 21 |
Comment |
Catherine, this is a beautiful painterly image, a work of art to be enlarged and placed on your living room wall. Monet would be happy!
As a slight variation I would suggest cropping off some of the bottom but retaining the two or three yellow individual leaves. That would make the cluster of leaves more of a center of interest to capture the viewer's eye.
Great work! You have an eye for reflections as this and your past submittals show. |
Dec 12th |
| 40 |
Dec 21 |
Comment |
Alison, your grandson must have had a fun time and you did too! You captured the feeling of a night event with small children reveling in bubbles and fog. I think the mother on the right is an essential part of the story. Great image!
Suggestions? Well, I would include a little more of top fog but that is just a personal preference.
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Dec 12th |
| 40 |
Dec 21 |
Comment |
Don, I like the way you cropped in and made something different from the original image. I would suggest reducing or eliminating the puddy lines in the upper left.
I like the repetitive curves of the sculpture so I did a cropping which emphasized the curves and used the spot healing brush to eliminate the puddy lines. It is fun that we all see subjects differently. |
Dec 12th |
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| 40 |
Dec 21 |
Comment |
Julie, I think this works to get across the idea of what goes into making cookies and what the Christmas result is. I also know that if I had been working on this still life in my garage, the mice that occasionally slip in would have had a great Christmas dinner.
Great still life! |
Dec 12th |
| 40 |
Dec 21 |
Comment |
I like what you have done and I like the whimsical name. Don has some good comments.
I tried your slider adjustments but couldn't get your results nor could I get clouds in the sky. So you are way ahead of me.
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Dec 12th |
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6 comments - 6 replies for Group 40
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| 41 |
Dec 21 |
Reply |
Thanks Kathy |
Dec 27th |
| 41 |
Dec 21 |
Reply |
Thanks Lisa.
Happy holidays! |
Dec 24th |
| 41 |
Dec 21 |
Reply |
Brad, I don't take your suggestions as criticism and I know they are your personal preferences. Please keep your suggestions coming just as I will keep posting suggestions and personal preferences. You always challenge me to do better which is why I participate.
Happy holidays in "Bagdad by the Bay" as Herb Cain used to say in the San Francisco Chronicle if my memory from the early 1970s is correct. |
Dec 24th |
| 41 |
Dec 21 |
Reply |
Lisa, you are so artistically talented! I really like what you have done. I will have to try it myself. Thanks for the suggestion. |
Dec 23rd |
| 41 |
Dec 21 |
Reply |
Tom, I agree with you that I should keep the stem as one. |
Dec 23rd |
| 41 |
Dec 21 |
Reply |
Brad, as always your thoughtful comment sets me to thinking. What was my message. Well, I like color, I like to manipulate reality into something artistic, I like abstraction with a touch of reality, I like curves better than static rectangles. In this image this was what I was trying to do with the liquify filter. Honestly, I wasn't trying to do more. But now you have challenged me. What am I trying to say. It may be as simple as this is a pleasing design and color. Let's see in the coming months.
Happy holidays to all! |
Dec 23rd |
| 41 |
Dec 21 |
Comment |
Susan, great image of the horse you took posted in Member Showcase as Brad mentioned in an email. |
Dec 17th |
| 41 |
Dec 21 |
Comment |
Lisa, your technical expertise shines through starting with the lime green of a luna moth and finishing with a creative, whimsical face. Those piercing eyes and puckered mouth grab my attention!
I'm sorry there is not a description of how you did this for it must have been fun and involved. I would like to try it. |
Dec 9th |
| 41 |
Dec 21 |
Comment |
Tom, nice concept of waiting for global warming to mow you over. As always, your technical expertise of putting together composites shines through. I like the circling birds, perhaps turkey vultures, gathering overhead in anticipation of your demise by the train of global warming.
How about changing your stance to one of fearful waiting to be run over with the train closer to you? |
Dec 9th |
| 41 |
Dec 21 |
Comment |
Susan, you have put together a composite that the cat says this is my place to haunt! Flipping the cat was a good idea as was placing the cat on the left side so that the viewers eye travels up the path to the archway.
I wish the cat had been looking more towards the archway but that wasn't possible with the cat picture you had. Would placing the cat out a little distance from the brick pile make the image more striking?
Nice work! |
Dec 9th |
| 41 |
Dec 21 |
Comment |
Kathy, your whimsy is something that continues to grow and grow! Don't ever stop because it is so much fun to see.
The figure I would make slightly larger as I would also the frog but that is your call.
Really a nice, nice creative touch!
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Dec 9th |
| 41 |
Dec 21 |
Comment |
Brad, the journey is another one of your talented creations putting together composites. I like the egret in the foreground, the figure hiking in the background. Now, from an ornithological point of view, an egret is more a bird of pond and ocean settings, not a mountain forest but I suspect the bird was what you had in your files, not some species more indigenous to a forest setting. As to the hiker, he could be the size you have portrayed him or for my preference, slightly larger. But as always, it is one of your great creative composites. |
Dec 9th |
6 comments - 6 replies for Group 41
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13 comments - 12 replies Total
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