Activity for User 460 - Lisa Cuchara - photographer67@comcast.net

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41 Dec 18 Comment love the title! I got the play on words right away! Funny!

The extraction on the birds is good, but you have a little white halo and some fringe around them, especially the one on the right. Matt Kloskowski has a trick with removing fringe from composites -- check out his tutorial

One thing to try with composite (and all images) is turn them upside down - where does your eye go. In this case it goes to the sun -- a large big bright thing -- and we want the viwer's eyes to go to the birds. so I content aware removed the sun. I understand why it was there and it is part of the story, but, alas, it makes us look at the sun and we should be concentrating on the birds		 Dec 17th
41 Dec 18 Comment you should do one of these a month and make a calendar! Dec 17th
41 Dec 18 Comment oooh, love this! the dogs outfit and expression and the tree, love it!

I would tone down the white coming in the window. You want the cute adorable white dog to be the brightest thing in the photo, not the light to draw out the viewer's eye.

You also have both dog paws, so when my dog grabs her toys etc she uses both hands so try having the ornament with two hands to make that portion more realistic looking.		 Dec 17th
41 Dec 18 Comment or Topaz impression van gogh Dec 17th
41 Dec 18 Comment I love the colors and the concept of putting the water as the background to the orchid. A heavenly duo. The warm and cool colors juxtaposed really make the image pop.

The noise/texture is a matter of taste, and noise does not appeal to me personally, I would have tried more of a water color type approach.		 Dec 17th
41 Dec 18 Comment I love seeing the creativity here!
Wow. Love the milky ways and light rays and the blue orb.

I wish that the three figures were larger. I saw them on the source images on the right and had to search for them in the creative composite.
Perhaps the light rays could emanate from or to the arch with the people to lead one's eye there. 		Dec 17th
41 Dec 18 Comment love the blend. What was your blend mode and opacities?
The star trails and waves and the person on the left are great.
Would like to see a version without the ghost on the right, my eye keeps going back and forth, rather than staying on the stronger left side person and wondering what they are thinking about as they gaze at the stars...		 Dec 17th
41 Dec 18 Reply I did duplicate the one side and flipped it. Same with the eyes, made after I mirrored the image. Once it was mirrored it looked like a face to me, so I added the eyes. Here is the original version Dec 17th
41 Dec 18 Reply I thought that the middle did kind of look like the bridge of a nose Dec 17th
41 Dec 18 Comment I did submit the SOOC version, that would have cleared up the "people" -- did not even realize that the bolts looked like people -- now I cannot unsee the people and I love it Dec 17th
41 Dec 18 Reply for the eyes I used part of the fan. For the iris I made a marquee around the center circle and then blurred the circle using zoom blur, twice. I added a stroke around the iris. Then I added a back pupil and then two white catchlights, one larger and softer and the other smaller and hard edge. Then I made a white oval using the marquee and shaped it using the liquify tool (sometimes I use transform warp). The eyelashes are from a brush I made. Once I had one eye I duplicated and flipped it.

Also -- the eyes are all inspired by Ella Carlson. She teaches in New England. She makes awesome aliens!		 Dec 17th
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44 Dec 18 Comment love the angle and the composition and subject. The blending is well done and really makes the mts and chapel stand out.


nit picky -- but some blue and shadow on the right post -- seems easily fixed and would not have shown up in your BW version.		 Dec 17th
44 Dec 18 Comment I love the scene and the way that you captured and processed the contrasty scene. The colors pop and composition works well.

There is a dust bunny in the sky and part of the sky looks a little wonky.

Thank for the insight too, tips like that help us plan our adventures. My bucket list is long and time is short...		 Dec 17th
44 Dec 18 Comment how nice to see a lighthouse added, so many are no longer acessible. the blend looks nice

The branch touches the tree, nit picky, but it bothers me. A little content aware fill goes a long way.

looks like you took out a few lamposts but left the bottom parts of the posts.

You can probably take out the last post.

nice use of AI clear
Dec 17th
44 Dec 18 Comment how about a square crop? Dec 17th
44 Dec 18 Comment Thanks for the explanation and settings -- we have all done the high iso oops and it is good to know what can be done too. From the end result we would not have guessed the problems and editing that you did.

The top of the dome seems to be leaning backwards
and I would darken the red bricks on both sides so you eye goes fountain and then dome and back

good job keeping the flags sharp too.
Dec 17th
44 Dec 18 Comment I just love this!! my favorite image you posted here in 2018! i love panos too

I was going to mention that piece of wood as the only thing I could think to improve it -- and then saw your re-edit.

love the creek and leading lines -- and you had awesome clouds that day. Everything just comes up awesome

I do agree with Rick, a tad more detail in the mts after AI clear. 		Dec 17th
44 Dec 18 Reply tilt -- it was worse, I was down on the floor with my camera just 1/2 off the small puddle. I was glad that I took the time in the mroning because the small puddle dried up by mid day. Dec 17th
44 Dec 18 Reply oooh, like the tail idea! Dec 17th
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