Activity for User 419 - Dr Isaac Vaisman - ivaisman@bellsouth.net

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4	Feb 21	Reply	Guy, very interesting and intense rendition.	Feb 10th
4	Feb 21	Comment	Ian, interesting set up, but as you mentioned in your description; not completely realistic. The café in the background should show broken glass and the door and windows should be partially covered by the same sand (how am I doing about creating the set up ??). Nonetheless, it is impressive how a scene can be created. Otherwise, it is sharp, and the colors are somehow dull, obviously it is a cloudy day (no shadows...). I just wonder if you have images from a different vantage point.	Feb 7th
4	Feb 21	Comment	Vella, great fall colors image. The foreground colors are bright and saturated, but the background looks washout and with a strong blue hue. I took your original image and did a slight different crop more in a Panoramic fashion, keeping a little of the green to give more depth to the image, and did work on the background to remove the blue hue and added some saturation and structure to the vegetation with a combination of sliders in adobe camera raw, specially the dehaze, and then with Viveza 2 and using adjustment point gave a little more structure to the clouds	Feb 6th
4	Feb 21	Comment	Erik, good street photography example (or photojournalistic). The image tells the sad story of this man's life. The time of the day shows a harsh light hitting him directly creating a strong shadow, which gives tridimensionality to the image. Interesting to note the way the two wagon wood wheels were used as ornament and windows on the wall. I think that the white area on the right of the man is empty space not adding but distracting for being pure white so I cropped the image as a portrait with a 4:5 (8:10) proportion. It is sharp and the colors are very bright.	Feb 6th
4	Feb 21	Comment	Guy, beautiful red poppy indeed. Very sharp considering you created it with a 300 mm lens on a cropped sensor camera D7100 which is equivalent to 450 mm in full frame, and at f/5.6 you were able to obtain focus throughout the flower. Red is one of the most difficult colors to handle in digital photography, and here with the exceptions of a few light areas (probably overexposed). due to the light conditions which looks harsh By the same token you were able to blur the background which is uniformly green with some patches of red, which complement the image and frame the poppy. I do find the two poppy buds (or pods ?) distracting. In this image less is more. I cropped in portrait mode and added a vignette.	Feb 6th
4	Feb 21	Reply	Guy, great rendition and a very graphic arts example. Thank you. I did debate on whether or not remove the blemishes (black spots) which I did remove some but not all.	Feb 6th
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33	Feb 21	Reply	Randy, I like your second iteration better than the first. You removed most of the blue hue present in the wood and the background, and perhaps could benefit from additional desaturation. I like the framing.	Feb 22nd
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58	Feb 21	Reply	Great information Gloria. Thanks	Feb 25th
58	Feb 21	Comment	Dan, this image shows what has been and now even worse, the attitude of adults holding an intelligent controlling device in their hands, and the kids minding their own business. Here they are sitting on a bench at the Zoo given by your title, but not obvious on the image. There is a very large and colorful glass sculpture in the back which is overpowering the human component, aggravated by the clear vignette that you added, all being distracting, and to make things worse, the presence of the date and count label on the image. As we discussed by email, this has to be turn off at the camera. It can not be removed using photoshop without leaving signs of doing so. I see that Bruce intended to reverse the vignette adding a dark one, but the resolution of the image is so low, that we have very few pixels to work with. I cropped the image to remove some of the real state that is distracting, but I could not remove the labels using different techniques.	Feb 21st
58	Feb 21	Comment	Hassan, this is a busy street and crossing point. People is waiting, and others are moving in different directions, so it creates an interesting image with lots going on. It is sharp except the intentional low shutter speed (1/25) that creates some degree of blur to denote movement. The red signs of the bookstore also makes you look that way and appreciate the architecture as well. Good timing.	Feb 9th
58	Feb 21	Comment	Daniel, The man is looking towards the direction that the riders are supposed to come, and from his face he looks very alert, however the rest of the bystanders are looking into the opposite direction. The time of the day creates long shadows including the face of the man caused by his hat. The other side of the street is pretty dark for the same reason and is not providing any additional interest in the image. The standing street signs behind the man, also create some degree of distraction.	Feb 9th
58	Feb 21	Comment	Gloria, this image has a surreal feeling with the old man and his white beard are fussy and soft giving the ghostly gardener presence. The tomatoes vine is sharp and with intense color, and the tomatoes are in different stages of ripeness. I think that the string and the amputated tomatoes become an important distraction, as well as the empty space with the dry branch opposite to the man, so I cropped the image to a portrait orientation 8 x 10.	Feb 9th
58	Feb 21	Comment	Bruce, I visited Pena Castle in Sintra a long time ago. I was more interested in the outside architecture, windows and doors. I think you cropped too much information. The presence of the girls, each on a pillar, adds interest and equilibrium to the image. I took a different approach than you, I cropped so three (odd number) are present in the frame, each one doing something different. Using the geometry correction sliders in ACR I made the pillars straight, then did a few adjustments in Lightroom for light and contrast. Added a stroke to keep the same presentation.	Feb 9th
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69	Feb 21	Comment	Pierre, this is the result after a little cleaning and a slight cropping. It makes the Deer stand out on the white background.	Feb 9th
69	Feb 21	Comment	Geoffrey, good timing. The Brolga's have a resemblance to the sandhill cranes. Agree with Dean that the background is too bright. Doing selective adjustments and inverse selection adjustments, with the cloning brush I worked the background and added some light to the dark areas on the bird.	Feb 9th
69	Feb 21	Comment	Brenda, I like this sunset a lot, and as you mentioned in your description, you wanted to emphasize the cypress stumps in the foreground, but I find them a little dark and with no details. Also I personally prefer the sun to be off center with the nice starburst effect. I also added some light to the foreground and cropped the image.	Feb 9th
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72	Feb 21	Comment	Adrian, very interesting and multicolor/multilayer structure, and I think that the whole area is worth to appreciate. I second Walt and Marie's observation about a panoramic crop rather that the tight crop you selected. I used your original and in ACR and using the adjustment brush I added light and texture to some areas, then on Viveza 2 and using adjustment points did some more enhancements in the reddish rock area, then flipped it. The reflections complement the image.	Feb 7th
72	Feb 21	Comment	Marie, you created a great winter panorama image by eliminating the dark areas and the shadows/reflections which were not adding any improvement to the landscape. The image is sharp and the whites are not overexposed and the snow is really white (no pun intended). Nice blue reflection of the ski in the water, and the combination of the snow with the sand create a pattern.	Feb 7th
72	Feb 21	Comment	Walt, great macro shot. The colors are outstanding and the water droplets complement the image. The crop isolated the main flower containing the water droplet with your reflection on it. The other flowers in the frame are out of focus, and somewhat distracting because they are too bright. Using the elliptical marquee tool and expanding (smoothing) the selection by 10 pixels and the inverting it, I lowered the brightness of the rest of the frame making the main Lupin flower stand out. Also cropped the image to a square elimination a considerable amount of empty space.	Feb 7th
72	Feb 21	Comment	Bruce, I went to Yellowstone a few years ago during the PSA meeting. We did have a chance to see several Bull Elk's with their harem (a large number of females). This image is very sharp, and the temperature condition allowed for the steam of his breath to show up very well. I found those blue rays shooting down from the edge of the frame towards the mouth of the Elk, so using the patch tool was able to make them disappear. Also was able to darken the background and the grass. Good composition.	Feb 7th
72	Feb 21	Comment	Randy, I just saw the February issue of the PSA journal, and I second Bruce and Walt in congratulating you for the honor to have the cover, not to mention the extensive collection of bear images illustrating the very extensive and complete article. The image is sharp, and your PP brought out color and detail. I can sense that you were not very far away from the beast on the basis how much is the bear filling the frame on a 500 mm shot. Great job.	Feb 3rd
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93	Feb 21	Reply	Flipping is always good.	Feb 22nd
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