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| 1 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
cool composite!
I am visiting from another group. I teach blend modes with a full moon image and a bird silhouette image. You could try a levels adjustment on the birds and get a "lighter sky and darker birds) and then put that layer on top of the moon and change the blend mode to multiply and the sky drops out |
Mar 10th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 1
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| 5 |
Mar 19 |
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yes, I remember you now, small world!
Woody Walters is giving an all day class in Maine next week (18th) |
Mar 10th |
| 5 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
wow, well done! and no green fringing either.
I am visiting from another group.
You should check out Ben Shirk and Woody Walters both are great for these types of sports composites and brushes! |
Mar 10th |
1 comment - 1 reply for Group 5
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| 41 |
Mar 19 |
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like your edit! except for the pink shirt, I liked it white, but seeing this I realized that the man/bike would look more pronounced against the sky w/o trees.
cannot wait to see her next invisible man! |
Mar 9th |
| 41 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
what fun to have the creative juices to put this together!
Your extractions look good (except for the shorts -- perhaps you needed to use a harder brush?). Next work on shadowing (DxO Viveza to shade and change lighting) and drop shadows (matt kloskowski has some good tutorials on shadowing)
For a stronger composition you could try flipping it. we read left to right and in this image we come in at the dinosaur and bird and house and then go to the bike and leave at the rear tire -- flipping it makes it stronger.
The hand might be a bit too much, perhaps a little simpler would be stronger, and the dolphins seem to fit better in the water.
I cannot wait to see more from you! |
Mar 9th |
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| 41 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
I too love to play with things like in the long cold winters. Harold Davis can indeed be a source of inspiration. Have you seen photos by Padma Inguva -- she is great with the light box too!
I like the colors and the color of the stroke
I love the whimsey of the liquify effect here!
The grasses add a lot, although the bottom one is too close to the edge for my taste, it needs a little breathing room like the rest of the sides have.
The O1 looks like the flowers are sharp, but the final flowers are soft and like a kind of Orton effect. Personally, I would like a little less softness and a little more detail. |
Mar 9th |
| 41 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
perhaps clone out the right spot in the night scene before merging the two.
I like these kind of blended images and your final result has cool impact. I also like how you desaturated the head first. |
Mar 9th |
| 41 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
I love the blend of the two images. It adds a playfulness to the scene
I kinda wish the birds were either higher up or the blank space on top was cropped out.
You do not say which blend mode -- I assume multiply? |
Mar 5th |
| 41 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
I love the idea, the background, his hair, the ghoulish lighting!
The edges of the desk could be blended better, perhaps add a soft light blend mode layer -- or use a hard brush and use the shift key to keep the lines tight and straight |
Mar 5th |
| 41 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
I love the concept!!
Darken blend mode?
Can you select just the front "face" and only use that portion -- would be stronger with the OOF brighter pieces in the back and right.
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Mar 5th |
6 comments - 1 reply for Group 41
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| 44 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
Topaz Star Effects added to enhance the starburst in the lights in the version marked original here, but that is actually the finished version. I like that crop much better too, less on left and less on top |
Mar 12th |
| 44 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
The school is abandoned and the vines are growing up the windows and the whole auditorium takes on that green tone
I could creatively edit it in PS to make it blue, but the scene was green to my eyes when I captured it. |
Mar 12th |
| 44 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
The original and the finished version were mixed up. Ther filename ver 2 was the finished version.
so just imagine them swapped. |
Mar 12th |
| 44 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
This makes for a good subject. The yellow and greens pop out against the snow and blue sky. The composition helps put some perspective as to the height. I hope that you also tried getting down very low and having it against the blue sky too,
The sky has some sensor dust and some noise. You can map and remove sensor dust from the sky easily in Lightroom (and PS ACR).
The snow it too grey and grainy for my taste. |
Mar 9th |
| 44 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
I love old cars, this is a beauty! I have never been and my bucket list is too long and my bank account too lean, but I can drool. To sightsee in this car would be a dream.
The HDR is tone mapped well. I love the effect on the chrome and grill and horn
Not much can be done about the reflections.
I would tilt the image slightly, it looks like it is sliding down hill.
I am surprised that at f5.6 the foreground and trees and people/car are so blurred.
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Mar 9th |
| 44 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
wow, very dramatic. Very detailed description, a lot went into your image, not many people would take it that many steps, they would use one program and say "good enough"
The chandelier lights look good. Verticals look good.
The people add perspective and let you realize how tall this is.
ten stops inside and the top window light reflections are
still a tad hot
Were the steps that blue? perhaps a color blend mode and warm them up?
sharp for handheld too, yes, slight pano would have been nice LOL. |
Mar 9th |
6 comments - 0 replies for Group 44
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| 63 |
Mar 19 |
Reply |
I am not disagreeing, but in this case physics is disagreeing as my camera does not go above 6400 ISO and I prefer to not go above 3200 for non-milky way photos.
I was at ISO 2000, so to stop down to f16 I would have needed to go to ISO 16,000 (1/250, f.6, ISO 2000 = 1/250, f8, ISO 4000 = 1/250, f11, ISO 8000 = 1/250, f16, ISO 16,000). |
Mar 11th |
| 63 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
macro�photography noun "photography producing photographs of small items larger than life size."
not many people, myself included, actually DO macro photography. I occasionally do 1:1 but rarely larger than that.
some of the PSA macro group members wanted these groups to be strictly "macro", which would technically be better for learning macro photography, but there are just too few people actually doing true macro work that went the email went out asking the groups if they should be strict no one voted to enforce the definition.
"Officially, macro photography only happens when you take pictures of small subjects with a magnification of "life size" or greater. Essentially it means that you must take pictures where your subject is the same size as your camera sensor or smaller, and it fills the frame. (So, if your camera sensor is one inch wide, you would be photographing something 1 inch or smaller.)" photographylife.com/macro-photography-tutorial |
Mar 10th |
| 63 |
Mar 19 |
Reply |
welcome, that is why these groups are all so good, so much sharing and experimenting and inspiration.
I am going to go back to doing more focus stacking |
Mar 10th |
| 63 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
I agree -- winter is a great time for Macro and close-ups and still life inside images!
The monochromatic these works well here. The flowers have lots of great color and texture.
I like the loose petals on the bottom.
The lighting looks a tad flat. You mentioned window lighting, Was the window on the left? Right? or was your back to the window and the window straight on to the flowers? I cannot tell.
This looks like one of those flower praying mantis!
The top background and wall angle could be a bit more blurred.
For a macro image I would like to see more, well macro, this seems more like a still life than closeup or macro. |
Mar 9th |
| 63 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
Focus stacked, good job. The lighting and texture and details are good
to impeove...
Perhaps a little more contrast, has a bit of a flat feel to it. And perhaps some more room, cropped a little tight.
I love the fringe on the top! |
Mar 9th |
| 63 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
I love the colors for sure. And the fact you "worked it" even before bringing the subject home! I just gave a program called working the subject, and did not have time to get into that fact, that I too spend a lot of time picking the subject. Kudos!
I like the lighting and tones and overall feel of the image (post-bringing out the blacks). Well done!!
There are two things that perhaps would improve the image
darken the one green leaf (lower right front)
-- and since these were yours to cut and compose as you saw fit, you could have make sure that the left and right flower petals did not escape the frame (composition or even removing a few petals)
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Mar 9th |
| 63 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
what a cool subject! wow! the colors and patterns and textures in this little snail are awesome.
I love the Godox flashes, and thank you for so much detail about the image and capture.
Tell us more about the DIY diffuser, please...
I think just a touch of selective sharpening and selective contrast on the shell would make this POP...
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Mar 9th |
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| 63 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
"I decided to again try to get a better image"
To go back and try and improve and learn is what we all can hope for, so I commend you!!
You have a great eye for beauty, and now I know that you have determination and perseverance too! |
Mar 9th |
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| 63 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
I commented a lot of plusses above, there are a few items to improve...
lower left
petal too close to stroke and edge of frame, plus there are some "smudger marks" perhaps from helicon that you could mask these areas in |
Mar 9th |
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| 63 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
I commented a lot of plusses above, there are a few items to improve...
some whites have no detail
you do not mention lighting, perhaps a diffuser would help, whites are so hard to keep detail in! |
Mar 9th |
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| 63 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
I commented a lot of plusses above, there are a few items to improve...
There are areas of artifact, like where the pistel and stamen meet the background, easily fixed in post |
Mar 9th |
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| 63 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
Great subject matter and composition! The angle of the lily and camera sensor work well. The colors in the pinks are great.
and the depth of field is very good!
You mention Helicon focus, so this was focus stacked -- how many slices? what lens? aperture?
I like the color of the stroke, delineates the flower from the background, but try a little thinner so as not to draw the viewers's eye away from the stunning flower and your excellent stacking. |
Mar 9th |
| 63 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
perhaps a crop and rotate? |
Mar 9th |
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| 63 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
I love the yellow and the green colors. The pattern in the yellow "almost" calls for you to crop closer, but the green leaves provide scale, so it was good to include them. Good choice.
I can definitely see what attracted you to the scene!
You could play with lots of compositions with this array of colors and texture.
1/20 second handheld is very difficult-- since you were at ISO 100 it would have been better to go to 1/80 at ISO 400 or 1/160 at ISO 800. A tripod is not always practical when walking in the woods, but watch your shutter speed, especially since you were at iso 100 and had lots of room for change.
A polarizer would have helped remove the glare from the green leaves and brightness from the center most lichen.
BUT it would have also decreased the amount of light reaching the sensor, so it would be a trade-off.
That camera has a crop factor of ~5.5 so you were shooting at ~60mm (35mm equivalent)
Are you shooting RAW? It seems like the highlights could have been brought down in ACR.
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Mar 9th |
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| 63 |
Mar 19 |
Reply |
"Great focus on the eyes, although I, personally, would like to see the sharp focus carried out in the body and legs of the little creature."
It is amazingly difficult to achieve, especially without focus stacking.
At f16 one would have more DOF, but due to lens diffraction at that magnification, the image would likely be less sharp. See digital-photography-school.com/tips-for-depth-of-field-control-in-macro-photography
for DOF versus image detail and diffraction
photopills.com/calculators/diffraction-macro
Typically depth of field is dependent upon three factors: aperture value, focal length and subject distance.
When each of the other two variables are fixed
-- using a larger F-stop number (smaller aperture opening) will result in a larger DOF
--Using a longer focal length will result in a smaller DOF. -- and shooting at a closer subject distance means a smaller DOF.
But when considering macro photography, DOF also depends on magnification. At any given aperture value, the higher the magnification ratio, the smaller the DOF. This explains why DOF is so shallow in macro as the magnifications are simply much larger than in any other type of photography
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Mar 9th |
| 63 |
Mar 19 |
Reply |
I was trying to accentuate the eyes and chose 5.6 and focus on the eyes intentionally. I really did not want the finger tack sharp. I purposely put this image in because of the issue of depth of field (and noise and ISO and light and all that) to see what people thought. I
I was at ISO 2000, so to stop down to f16 I would have needed to go to ISO 16,000 (1/250, f.6, ISO 2000 = 1/250, f8, ISO 4000 = 1/250, f11, ISO 8000 = 1/250, f16, ISO 16,0000). I have never shot this camera (or my previous Canon above 6400 ISO). For night milky way I have used ISO 6400. but prefer not to go above 2000 or so for inside images.
Macro is especially difficult when it comes to depth of field. Without focus stacking you could not get the whole frog sharp. I do stack sometimes, but on a moving subject it is usually harder.
For this image, I was using three sets of Westcott Flexible LED lights. huntsphotoandvideo.com/detail_page.cfm?productid=7492&mfg=Westcott&show=yes
Not sure that I could get it much brighter (to lower the ISO) |
Mar 9th |
| 63 |
Mar 19 |
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Thank you Priscilla, We love presenting. This is actually the third time that we have been speakers at the annual Mike Moats Macro conference. We were at the 2015 and 2016 annual macro conferences. I love to share teach and inspire. |
Mar 9th |
12 comments - 5 replies for Group 63
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