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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 47 |
Jun 23 |
Reply |
As a follow up - please see my reply to Albert. Was that the crop you had in mind? |
Jun 18th |
| 47 |
Jun 23 |
Reply |
I too like the un-cropped version with Jeff's adjustment. Please see my answer to Al and I would be interested in your thoughts comparing one to the other.
Thank you for your input. |
Jun 18th |
| 47 |
Jun 23 |
Reply |
I too like the un-cropped version with Jeff's adjustment. Please see my answer to Al and I would be interested in your thoughts comparing one to the other.
Thank you for your input. |
Jun 18th |
| 47 |
Jun 23 |
Reply |
Your thought about the crop gave me an idea. I did that crop (and in the process learned about masks in LRC) and also lightened the area under the ladder, and just slightly darkened the observers face - please see the attached image. It does work form me though I also liked the un-cropped version. Interested in your follow up thoughts.
Thanks again for the suggestion. |
Jun 18th |
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| 47 |
Jun 23 |
Reply |
You are welcome. Never underestimate the power of a horizontal flip sometimes :-).
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Jun 18th |
| 47 |
Jun 23 |
Comment |
Good evening Trung,
First, to be honest, I am not particularly in love with rodeo shots, I guess because I have seen so very many of them - all variations on a theme.
Having said that I think you captured the action wonderfully. The sense of timing for the actors in the image to get what you did was spot on. I particularly like how you got the stirrups flying as the cowboy left his horse to grab the steer. I also like the depth of field you achieved, with the back ground people being slightly out of focus keep my eye from wandering away from the action.
To my eye a very well done image. Thank you for sharing it with us Trung. |
Jun 16th |
| 47 |
Jun 23 |
Comment |
Good evening Albert,
Good work on resurrecting an old image done in film. The first thing that came to my mind was either Old Man Willow from the Lord of the Rings (true there is no stream, at least not that can be seen) or perhaps (if you are familiar with the story) "Tree beard" the Ent.
I can make no suggestions for improvement. The detail, tonality, contrast and exposure are all, to my eye, spot on.
A lovely image that allows me to build a story or myth around it. Great catch and thank you for sharing it with us. |
Jun 16th |
| 47 |
Jun 23 |
Comment |
Good evening Kristi,
I like the image. It speaks to me of solitude - a time of peace enhanced by the opening of the sky to let the sun shine through. I think you did a good job of developing your concept. However since you asked I tried playing with it in PS.
I cropped the image to make the windmill and sky the central objects in the image. Like Jeff I added a vignette but chose white and chose to keep it very faint - just enough to focus my eye on the sky and windmill. I also chose to flip the image horizontally so it appears to be looking at the viewer rather than away. A few minor adjustments of exposure and contrast finished the image.
I would be very interested in whether or not this provides an answer to your request. |
Jun 16th |
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| 47 |
Jun 23 |
Comment |
Hi Jeff,
I really like this image for its stark simplicity. I could see this hanging on the wall of a living room. While it does not convey a story to me, it does convey a sense of peace on a foggy morning.
I also like the crop, the balance of the image which draws my eye into it as though I wished to see through the fog or mist as what else I could find in front of the camera.
To my eye a really nice image, well framed and processed. Thank you very much for sharing it with us. |
Jun 16th |
| 47 |
Jun 23 |
Comment |
Hi Robert,
I like this image for the content and the story it tells of a painter imaging on canvas the Cathedral. To my eye the crop works well as does the composition.
I do think that the image lacks to much of the detail which is, to my eye, lost in the high key presentation. The artist, canvas and area have more "to say" which does not, at least to me come out. I took it into PS and did a little work in Camera Raw and this is what I found.
I would be interested in your thoughts.
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Jun 16th |
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| 47 |
Jun 23 |
Comment |
To my eye a great catch Dom. I very much like the way you used the trees to frame the bench and effectively turned the bench and the trees into silhouettes - the lighting and contrast. It tells me a story of peaceful contemplation without the business of the world - a refuge or retreat.
A friend of mine several years back, a good photographer in his own right might have commented about the tree "growing through the Bech". Perhaps others did as I did not read the other comments prior to submitting mine. To my eye (again) that is a none issues in this case. I say that because there was no way I can see to have captured the scene without that - or without hours of work in Photoshop to remove it.
A really nice image Dom - thanks for sharing it with us. |
Jun 16th |
| 47 |
Jun 23 |
Reply |
Thanks for the suggestion and the feedback Jeff. To be honest it had not occurred to me to darken the light areas as I was very focused on the story in the image. I do like your version a great deal - better than my own. I will modify mine in the future if I choose to take the image further.
Thanks again. |
Jun 16th |
| 47 |
Jun 23 |
Reply |
Thank you Kristi,
I had tried a tighter crop similar to yours. To my eye it took too much away from the on looker, losing some of the atmosphere I wanted to create.
Having said that, your version is good and the image does work with your crop - as you said the triangle of the actors.
Thank you for the suggestion and the effort. |
Jun 16th |
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