Activity for User 434 - Pamela Hoaglund - pamhoag46@gmail.com

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52 Jan 22 Comment First Mike, I want to congratulate you on your wonderful article on the Grand Canyon in the January issue of PSA magazine. I really enjoyed reading it. Now to your image: If I had not read your description I would not know that your main subject was the water drop. I'm having difficulty finding anything in focus except a small part of the dragon flies thorax. For me the out of focus dragon fly dominates the image and my eye keeps searching for something sharp. Jan 16th
52 Jan 22 Comment Judith, I am loving your abstracts. I would walk right by this and you are showing me to look for the intimate images in the garden. I love the pastel colors and agree with Sharon that a vertical crop might be a good try as you really want the focus to be on the seed pod. Well done. Jan 16th
52 Jan 22 Comment I agree with what the others have said regarding the fence. I would drastically crop to put the focus on the heron and his catch as that is your subject. For me there is too much fence and it adds nothing to the image. I agree with Sharon that a portrait crop for the heron with the reflection would make a stronger image. Jan 16th
52 Jan 22 Comment Lilac breasted rollers are on the of most beautiful birds in Africa in my opinion. I have an image of one framed on my living room wall. I think cropping it into a panorama would help put more focus on the birds. Others have some interesting suggestions and yes it would require some work to take out a section or add another bird. For me that is just not the time and effort I want to put into an image. I just did a simple crop in Topaz Studio. Jan 16th
52 Jan 22 Comment Congratulations on tackling focus stacking. It can be a real challenge and I think you did a good job with the flower. To me this probably was not the ideal situation or setting to do focus stacking because of the very busy distracting background. I would encourage you to try a single flower against a simple background such as a cut flower in the house with a simple background. I have done that with great success. For me it would be a monumental effort to mask out the background. Just for fun I put your image in Topaz Studio and put an abstract filter on it. You may not want to do this but it does decrease the distracting background. I also cropped it tighter. Jan 16th
52 Jan 22 Comment I have found the comments interesting and that many of you liked the original better. For me the original image does not give me the intimate feeling of the forest that I was going for. I never noticed the black hole but that can be easily fixed. Jan 16th
52 Jan 22 Comment I have been to this area and I think you have done a wonderful job of bringing out the colors in the mounds. I don't feel they are over saturated. I rather like the dark sky in your original edit but also like your second sky edit. I like drama in the sky when a storm has just passed. I like that you cropped out the greenery in the bottom right corner as it added nothing to the image and was distracting. A beautiful image. Jan 16th
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