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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 41 |
Jan 18 |
Comment |
I like the stars added and the two seem like they are interacting. Buzzsim was used effectively. Kudos for seeing something and making something creative out of these.
I wish that there was a little more light on the girl on the right, her face, and that it did not look like we were looking up her nose. |
Jan 13th |
| 41 |
Jan 18 |
Comment |
very creative! I love the color superimposed on the knife fine art!
My only nit pick is that the edge of the knife top left is too close to the edge.
Well done |
Jan 13th |
| 41 |
Jan 18 |
Comment |
You saw something interesting and cropped and edited it to make it into something, kudos! We are all believers of getting it right straight of out camera, but sometimes I think that philosophy becomes too strong and we forget how wonderful and miraculous life is.
I like the cropping and the use of Topaz Simplify here. Yes, the image quality could have been better but I am impressed with what you have done here. |
Jan 13th |
| 41 |
Jan 18 |
Comment |
Love the use of the Akvis (I thought that it was Topaz Glow, don't use Akvis much, not sure why not)
The BW beforehand really makes it POP and I love the diagonal of the whiskers.
The ear touching the border and the whiskers going out of the frame bother me just a bit, but I know some people like that, i am a little OCD when it comes to not touching the borders. |
Jan 13th |
4 comments - 0 replies for Group 41
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| 44 |
Jan 18 |
Reply |
The people are amazing and VERY friendly. They are very welcoming to Americans, some even gave us a hug after finding out where we were from. Most people have us the thumbs up when they saw we had a camera. Some families actually came up to us asking us to take their photograph. It was easy to get comfortable taking photographs of the people because they were so friendly.
Unless you take a Cruise where all the money goes to the government, then you are actually doing good by going there, supporting the Cuban people. Don't confuse the government with the people. We the people are not Trump, they the people are affected by communism, the people are not communists. And things have relaxed after Fidal died. The people had lots of decorations up for Christmas and were celebrating in the streets, something that did not happen five years ago. Same with Wifi, mobile phones are everywhere!
The trip supports the Cuban people because (finally) people are allowed to have a restaurant or a "casa" (BnB). We did not stay in Cuban Hotels run by the government, we stayed in Casas, where people basically fix up a room/rooms and rent them out. In Vinales the people can make more money in one week renting out the Casa than a Doctor receives as a stipend from the Cuban government makes in one month. Everything we did was intimate and with and for the people.
Our local guide said that the people there are not poor they just do not have anything. I never thought about that difference before. No one goes hungry, unlike American where 1 in 5 kids go hungry. They have a house or apartment, so not like Haiti where so many people truly have nothing, tin cans as a house and no way of knowing where the next meal is coming from. But the Cuban people do not have anything as far as material things.
We are going back in March and then we are bringing a small group with us in December. |
Jan 13th |
| 44 |
Jan 18 |
Comment |
looks like an alien planet, so many contours and features. This must be where they faked some of those movies, lol.
Hard to capture something this grand in one image -- The main diagonal leads my eye to the pays and allows me to wander around the scene. There are a lot of color tones in the image, hard to tell if the blues in the back should be that blue. |
Jan 13th |
| 44 |
Jan 18 |
Comment |
wow, what a labor of love and respect! The more you look at it the more reverent you get.
The placement of the flag is very touching. and adds a lot to the image.
What is the green box on the left, at this resolution I could not tell what it was or if there was significance to it. I assumed that it did not have significance so I cloned it out.
I am also not sure about the purple (at least on my monitor, which is color calibrated but who knows) tones of the flag, seems like it needs to be bluer. |
Jan 13th |
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| 44 |
Jan 18 |
Comment |
Good composition, the snow and the clouds really complete the photos.
The HDR looks natural and the tones look good.
The only thing I can think of is clone just a tad off the bottom to get rid of the snowbank line.
If more people consulted photographers and Fen Shui guidance which also looks at windows and E/W placement many of our buildings would be even more photogenic! |
Jan 13th |
| 44 |
Jan 18 |
Comment |
The clouds are great, especially the ones on the lower left.
The edited version looks very nature, no tell tale HDR, but HDr sometimes washes out the contrast so adding a little contrast back.
I added -14 black and +14 white using ACR to make the blacks black and the whites white. I also did a little perspective correction as the barn and silo seemed to be receding a little. |
Jan 13th |
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| 44 |
Jan 18 |
Comment |
wow, lots of effort to capture and create this one!
The perspective and table masking are excellent - kudos!
I would darken the top ceiling a tad because it is bright and keep my eye up there rather than the bottom third of the image which has a lot of interest.
The half man at the bottom does not bother me too much, but you could flip the right side and mask him out if you wanted |
Jan 13th |
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| 44 |
Jan 18 |
Comment |
I love the composition and the colors reflecting in the water. The way that the colors in the clouds mimic the colors of the fall foliage. wonderful
For the clouds, either replace the sky with one exposure, try increasing the deghosting -- or for more fun, do a blur, motion blur, zoom on the clouds |
Jan 13th |
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| 44 |
Jan 18 |
Reply |
We got up early, before breakfast and the tour, not many people around, around 7::45 there would be a few people out mainly people walking their kids to school |
Jan 13th |
6 comments - 2 replies for Group 44
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| 63 |
Jan 18 |
Comment |
PS You use of Nik detail worked very well here! |
Jan 9th |
| 63 |
Jan 18 |
Comment |
awes, so cute, love it so close up!
The eye on our left doesn't seem as sharp, I applied further sharpening to it
I enhanced the catchlights... |
Jan 9th |
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| 63 |
Jan 18 |
Comment |
That 100mm macro lens rocks and you have crafted it use well. I love the off center pistles/stamen and the colors are vibrant
I would flip it, seems like it wants to be read left to right
I flipped it and added some dehaze |
Jan 9th |
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| 63 |
Jan 18 |
Comment |
I love designs in nature like this and this image does a great job at being full of detail and having a 3D quality.
The image has sharpness and color and interest, perhaps add a slight vignette? |
Jan 9th |
| 63 |
Jan 18 |
Comment |
Yes, my first thought was sea anemone! very cool!
I love the colors and the lines are strong so that prevents it from merely being all about being an abstract photo. perhaps darken the yellow at the top left or add a vignette so it doesn't pull your eye away, otherwise it pops well to me
you say used to own, why don't you own the MPE65 anymore? It has been on my wishlist, so curious... |
Jan 9th |
| 63 |
Jan 18 |
Comment |
love the dew and the big drop and the end effect with the Flood water
normally I prefer flowers tack sharp, but this has a wonderful dreamy feel to it that with the flood and the water drop works very well
The dark patches in the top left are the only thing that detracts for me. |
Jan 9th |
| 63 |
Jan 18 |
Comment |
love this, the positioning of the camera sensor to the wings made all the difference!
I would flip it so that it reads left to tight to make it stronger, otherwise love it! |
Jan 9th |
7 comments - 0 replies for Group 63
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