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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 56 |
Mar 23 |
Comment |
This portraiture was superb to begin with and your enhancements put it over the top, Cindy! Your background complements your painting so very well. Can't think of a thing you could have improved. It looks fantastic. |
Mar 29th |
| 56 |
Mar 23 |
Comment |
I vote for the "facing toward right" version, as well, although both look fantastic from your use of mixer brush. Agree that the background somehow looks silky and smooth. Interesting that you could attain that effect after so few months using the Mixer Brush tool. My only suggestion is to make its eye slightly more oval, like the original, as it turned out to look tear-dropped in the painting. While I love the look of red berries, I think they would not add anything now that you have your smooth background. |
Mar 29th |
| 56 |
Mar 23 |
Comment |
This is such a nice closeup, Gerhard. It has all the elements one needs to see, to tell the story you aptly phrase with your title. For some reason, I couldn't open the image Nancy posted, so I can't comment on that, but I like the enhancement you have in painting the closeup animals in brighter colors. I can almost feel the fur and feathers. |
Mar 29th |
| 56 |
Mar 23 |
Comment |
Your back-story is as interesting as your painted image, Nancy. Your background does give an ancient look to the final, but I had not thought about "blood splotches" until I read the comment from Trey, so now I am ambivalent. Maybe if the background and splotches were, say, yellowish, then it would look old, block the distractions in background--and NOT resemble blood. Just a thought. I like very much the other aspects of how you handled your original shot to create the painting. |
Mar 29th |
| 56 |
Mar 23 |
Comment |
Thanks for letting us do some fall color "leaf peeping" almost in your backyard. The Y shaped tree in the original that distracted my eye in the original was cropped out in your final. Good thinking. While Cindy has a good point about that righthand tree, I think the other would have been more of an eye-grabber. You managed to get the colors brighter, but still subtle enough for a pleasing effect, through your Topaz/LR/PS workflow. |
Mar 29th |
5 comments - 0 replies for Group 56
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| 86 |
Mar 23 |
Reply |
The cat was a little statue also. I'm pretty sure it didn't move. |
Mar 28th |
| 86 |
Mar 23 |
Reply |
After all this time, I do wonder why I shot it vertically instead of horizontally. Maybe I would have been standing too close to the front subject to see the barn in the background. I don't recall. iPhones are great, but limited when it comes to deciding what lens to use, as a regular camera would have. |
Mar 28th |
| 86 |
Mar 23 |
Reply |
Good eyes you have, Kieu-Hanh. Yes, that pale white circular object annoyed me, but I didn't have a way to clone it away in the tools I chose to use. Had I been in Photoshop, it would have been gone. And you're right about the dark transition on top, too. I was just trying out ImageSize and afraid to lose the edits, as I didn't see any tool to fix that. Plus, it would show me an advertisement after each thing I changed! I decided to quit while I was ahead this time. |
Mar 28th |
| 86 |
Mar 23 |
Reply |
It sure was thoughful of you to visit our group and offer your nice wishes, Marge. I really appreciate it. Come by anytime. |
Mar 28th |
| 86 |
Mar 23 |
Comment |
I noticed right away the painterly strokes on the bark, then on the flowers before I read the description. It looks like you did an actual painting. What a lovely branch of blossoms for spring. The only distraction for me was the partial tree trunk on the left side. If you could clone that out somehow and let its blossoms just belong to the trunk on the right, I'd prefer to see that. (Now I'm just being picky. Otherwise, I LOVE your photo and the resulting painting, Kieu Hanh.) |
Mar 28th |
| 86 |
Mar 23 |
Comment |
Now we've had the privilege of seeing so many interesting aspects of a vineyard as insiders, Jack. I'm glad we got to see how it looks under snow. By the way, I grew up in Michigan, so the blueish tone seems entirely normal to me, in its conveying the coldness. So glad to hear your vineyards will survive. I like the angle that shows so much of the lines, curves, and snow-laden trees. I think it well displays the scene. Kudos. |
Mar 28th |
| 86 |
Mar 23 |
Comment |
Sometimes all the artwork is not hanging in the museum. You certainly proved that. I agree with others about the effectiveness of those full curves. The only thing that spoils it for me a little, is the light on the left side. I think I would clone that one out, now that it has brightened up that area. When I first read the title, I thought "Nice" was your impression of the staircase, but of course, it's an apt place-name. May I add "NICE" job, Gene?! |
Mar 28th |
| 86 |
Mar 23 |
Comment |
Quang, this is certainly a way to add interest to an otherwise darker, flatter, monotone image. I would not have guessed this was a smaller subject, as it looks like something that commands ones' attention after the SIF and other filters you used on it. The resulting "skin tones" look like an attractive stone statue. |
Mar 28th |
| 86 |
Mar 23 |
Comment |
This image with its complex geometric shapes was stunning in the simplicity of viewing a limited section, closer up! I enjoy the slight tilt you conveyed and I am thankful that the Epcot location was identified at last, as I was wracking my brain about whether I had seen such a subject in all of Florida. (We always see shots of Epcot from outside and the full, rounded image.) SilverEfex--and you--made the most of this shot with its multiple tones. Like Jack, I always like to see an original color version for comparison, though. |
Mar 28th |
5 comments - 4 replies for Group 86
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10 comments - 4 replies Total
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