Activity for User 426 - Jack Florence Jr - jflorencejr@mac.com

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47 May 20 Reply I agree your crop improves the image, thanks Adrian! May 24th
47 May 20 Reply Thanks Larry I agree about true blacks and whites, but find sand particularly difficult due to it being so monochromatic usually. Here, at least the bush is white, and the edge of the mud formations is black, but I hesitate to add too much contrast to the image overall. Maybe a bit though. May 24th
47 May 20 Comment I love the idea here, Jen, and no it's not too noisy to my taste. The X formed by the escalator in the center makes this, and having a person there was necessary to completing this, I think.

Unfortunately, you've got the "say cheese!" moment, instead of a natural pose. But given this is a stranger, you get points just for getting her to take the shot. Also, the 8 right at the right edge is distracting, and I think could be cropped out.		 May 9th
47 May 20 Comment You've certainly presented an eery and other-worldly scene here, Albert, it's impressive. I like the rich, contrasty blacks, which keep the land from being over taken for attention by the dramatic sky. I'm not sure you've got the best crop, to my liking however. My eye goes toward the pass beyond the mountains to the right, but also to the foreground lakes and clouds in a ravine on the left border. I think a crop better guiding the eye might have been preferable. May 9th
47 May 20 Comment What makes this unique among falls images, Don, is the way the falls go behind the rocks, then continue again; makes for a very nice effect, and the way the falls blend into the water at the bottom is also a very nice touch. Someone is probably going to ask you to flip it, as it flows from right to left, but I have no problem with that, and find it very enjoyable overall. May 9th
47 May 20 Comment What a great subject for black and white, Adrian. The only challenge is how to present it, and I think you've done a great job, by keeping the right side vertical, and just letting the rest fall into place. You've got multiple patterns among patterns, and I especially like the way the sandal straps render different tones in the black and white conversion. It's lots of fun, a truly enjoyable image. May 9th
47 May 20 Comment Great sky and mood created here, Edward. I'm finding myself wanting to get closer in, to appreciate the detail you've described in your summary. If you could have positioned just a bit to the left, and zoomed in a little, that might have worked better for me. Still, an interesting image with a nice sense of mood. May 9th
47 May 20 Comment I love the effect of the IR here, John. It's said that it gives people a mannequin - like appearance, reminds me of a subject in a wax museum in this case, very nice. Also, a good example of nearly perfect portrait lighting. May 9th
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66 May 20 Reply Thank you Charles I appreciate the thoughtful comment. May 10th
66 May 20 Comment I think black and white images really shine with repeating patterns and shapes, as this lovely image illustrates, Emil. It would have been an easy mistake to line up perpendicular to the center row of trees, but just offsetting, as you have done, creates a 3D image, with the trees fading into the distance, where the eye encounters more trees.

Although I agree with Gary that the edge burning feels a little heavy handed, I do like the black foreground. The high contrast approach, which is unusual for you, makes the whites stand out more, and the image pops. Very nice!		 May 9th
66 May 20 Comment On first seeing the Palli, I thought, wow, stream reflections are so unusual, because the water is usually moving, so what a treat. It's too bad the stream doesn't lead the eye to some object of interest, etc, but barring that, I think the other comments from the group about a closer crop do improve the image, which is very nicely rendered. May 9th
66 May 20 Comment I had to ponder the vignette for a few minutes, and feel I have a different take than Charles. While I see what you are after, and the vignette definitely brings that lovely tree branch frame into view, it just feels too heavy for such an understated image. You could take the approach that Melanie gives, or you could try just cropping the image a little so there's less of the vignette, or I suppose one could take it the other direction and make it more other-worldly. But I do like the subject of the image, and can see you've already taken it a long way from the original. May 9th
66 May 20 Comment Nice winter wonderland feel to this, and I agree with the other excellent comments, specifically regarding the blue patch in the sky. If there were more blue, I think it would work, but having just a little, makes it feel like an imperfection. As Melanie says, the cold tone overall is lovely. May 9th
66 May 20 Comment I can only echo the others' comments here Ernie, including Gary's edit.
Great use of lens flare and achieving the other-worldly feel overall; very well done.		 May 5th
66 May 20 Comment I remember when I had an IR camera that gave me those red raw files, I was sometimes tempted to leave them in red, because of the mood that gave. So I like how that works here, with the sunset.
I think the shadow areas work better in the original, kind of along the lines that Emil said, so I might re-work the processing a little bit, but very nice even so.		 May 5th
66 May 20 Reply I think I agree with you on this one, Gary, after seeing Palli's edit, I could have taken it a little further I think. May 4th
66 May 20 Reply Thanks for your edit, Palli. I agree, I should have gone just a bit further on the contrast. I often find that not until see a more contrasty version, do I find mine is just a little too soft still. May 4th
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