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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 25 |
Nov 19 |
Reply |
Yes! It really does "take a village" but in the end I think we've come up with just what attracted me to the scene and eliminated all the extraneous elements. This last version removes that boat in the lower left that I really didn't think had a place in the photo, and also removes the bigger bluff which was hogging the whole left side and, now that it's gone, I realize how much it distracted from the sunset. Thank you all for such careful creative input. |
Nov 26th |
| 25 |
Nov 19 |
Comment |
What do you think? Here's the cropped version. |
Nov 21st |
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| 25 |
Nov 19 |
Comment |
Thanks to all the comments I think we keep improving this image. I find I settle for a "great photo" all too often without taking the time to really pick it apart. I liked the results of the improvements so much that I took them into Photoshop and added a few of my own. I removed the shadows on the water from the structures that Abe took out. Then I looked down the right side where Eric had taken out the overexposed sky and found another distraction in the lower right corner. Made a few other tiny adjustments to the water where I had done some cloning, and now think I'm starting to do the sunset justice. I would rather it not be so nearly square, but I haven't figured out any way to change that except to crop down from the top, but then I'd lose those very interesting pink-edged clouds. Would that be better? Thanks for all the inputs. |
Nov 21st |
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| 25 |
Nov 19 |
Reply |
Thanks for the comment, and hello. June seems a long way off, but I know it would be a fun class. |
Nov 11th |
| 25 |
Nov 19 |
Comment |
Abe, thanks for noticing those. I was so focused on the sunset colors that I actually never really looked at the figures on the pier. I just assumed they were all people. Now that I look at those two structures, I realize they would have had to be giants! When I read your comment I worried that removing them would make a problem with their reflections, but there is really no noticeable effect. I really appreciate comments that catch things I miss. That's what's so great about a study group. |
Nov 11th |
| 25 |
Nov 19 |
Comment |
I love the intensity of the look on his face and the sense of motion you caught in this photo. I liked Stephen's idea of removing the chair on the left so much that I took the photo into Photoshop and cropped and cloned until I had what I thought would work. What do you think? The crop also has the benefit of putting the subject in the thirds position instead of the center. |
Nov 11th |
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| 25 |
Nov 19 |
Comment |
I agree that the inclusion of the wildflowers in the foreground give the viewer a "place to stand" and definitely enhances the feeling of being there. I also wanted to see more of the details of the mountainside, so I used a curves layer to select that area and increase the contrast. I also wanted to focus on just the mountain itself in the foreground, so I cropped a bit from the right side. I have to applaud you on making anything in Alaska seem close to the viewer. It may be just and equipment thing, but when we were there in 1972, we came home with distant views of spectacular mountains. It was hard to realize how the vastness of Alaska would dwarf things, and of course by the time we got the film developed we were already home. |
Nov 11th |
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| 25 |
Nov 19 |
Comment |
I'm really enjoying how your photos of your travels take me to places I will likely never see. I appreciate the colors and detail you have captured in this photo. I'm a stickler for symmetry and balance. So for me, the fact that the distance from the bottom of the curve of the border at the bottom of the photo was a tiny bit wider than that at the top gave me the impression that it was possibly a wall hanging. So I took it into Photoshop and, using transform/distort, and crop, I made them even. Probably in the "difference that makes no difference" category, but it was fun. |
Nov 11th |
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| 25 |
Nov 19 |
Comment |
I am really enjoying your Living Yard Art photos. I spent my early years in the south, and am all too familiar with hordes of critters of all sorts appearing out of nowhere - here, there, and everywhere. These little fellows give the appearance of parading up to some fantastic destination in the sky. I think the group of three in the lower left corner adds to the feeling of joining the party. But for me the ones on the other corners are a distraction, so I cloned them out. See what you think. |
Nov 11th |
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| 25 |
Nov 19 |
Comment |
I really like the severe angles in this photo. I especially like your idea for the lighter window on the left. For me it created an attention circle where I keep going around in the photo noticing things: the office window towards the left with what looks like a conference table; three windows in the center gray windows with what appear to be cloud reflections; one window with the blinds rotated open; and so on. If I were being totally picky as I circle around the photo, I would clone out the tiny white spot in the corner of the window about halfway up the right side -- when I am drawn to such close interest in a photo, even that tiny distraction jumps out. You didn't say whether you converted this from a color image. I think monochrome is perfect for the image. |
Nov 11th |
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