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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 3 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
visiting (I love really like the new ability to see ALL of the monthly DD images).
I love the texture in this. Your composition of three p-lus the pencil is wonderful!
I would love to lightpaint this! |
Jul 25th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 3
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| 8 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
I very much enjoy pareidolia. And I am happy that we can see all of the monthly DD images in one place so I got to enjoy this.
I even have a facebook group weseefaces for posting pareidolia with any capture device |
Jul 25th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 8
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| 17 |
Jul 20 |
Reply |
visiting. The image has impact.
You mention background artifacts. One trick is to add a level adjustment layer and make the image brighter to detect and eliminate those pesky things on a layer underneath, then delete the levels layer (kind of like the High ISO test shot at night) |
Jul 25th |
0 comments - 1 reply for Group 17
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| 31 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
wow, I love this. This stood out in the large number of thumbnails in the current images with a lot of impact. Absolutely love it.
It is almost timeless. Personally I would content aware remove the power lines and the pole! |
Jul 28th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 31
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| 34 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
visiting...
this is great! love it!
my only suggestion is that I did not know that the white things were sheep until I saw the originals. Do you compete in PPA? They have an artistry category that you would do well in! |
Jul 25th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 34
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| 35 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
wow! love this!
I have a full spectrum and use a 590nm as well, but mine do not look like this, how are you post-processing?
visiting from group 91 |
Jul 25th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 35
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| 41 |
Jul 20 |
Reply |
Funny! Thanks for finding it and sharing it |
Jul 21st |
| 41 |
Jul 20 |
Reply |
I agree with Kathy. Very bold and bright and cheery, but perhaps simplifying it somewhat would enhance it. |
Jul 10th |
| 41 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
I like how the four outer sunflowers are paying homage to the center one. Good extractions and I like the center one going out of the frame. Good distortion to make the four unique.
How did you extract?
Two possible improvements, the leaves are contrasty, seems like a polarizer would have helped, perhaps Nik/DxO color efex and polarizer would help? Or a blend mode and ton them down a tad.
The background is very artistic, perhaps add that as a layer on top, with a blend mode and reduced opacity to tie it all together |
Jul 10th |
| 41 |
Jul 20 |
Reply |
pez family photo -- gotta share this Brad, would love to see it |
Jul 10th |
| 41 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
What a fun image! Made me laugh. The dog is so cute and I love the expression and the tones work well. perhaps tone down the front of the pants? |
Jul 10th |
| 41 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
what a fun image! I like it, exactly as is, love thee tail sticking up out of the background too, wonderful! |
Jul 10th |
| 41 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
Wow, Kathy, this is stunning! I love the house on the edge like that and the muted colors and the clouds and the birds, wow!
The only thing I can think to do to improve is get rid of some of dark area lower left |
Jul 8th |
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| 41 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
what is the texture? a car window? love it!
What blend mode? Full opacity?
I like the use of the texture and the three images are merged well. The texture completely changes the feel on the image. I love the placement of #3 and the diagonal line of #1
I miss the bud in #2.
You could lasso that area and apply a Gaussian blur to reveal the bud
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Jul 8th |
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| 41 |
Jul 20 |
Reply |
Focus bracketing started off (historically) being difficult and tedious. It was hard to move the focusing rail with consistent and small increments. Then you needed to bring the images into Helicon Focus, Zyrene stacker, Photoshop, etc. to align and mask for the actual focus stacking.
Then expensive but effective gear (like Cognissy) came along which would move the camera on an automated rail, which helped capture the images more smoothly. Software was still needed for the actual stacking.
Today there are several cameras that have this focus bracketing built in. That is the camera moves the focus point further and further at regular increments. The Nikon D850, Nikon Z, Fuji XT4 (XT3 with firmware), Panasonic and Olympus can do focus bracketing. Software is still needed -- the focus bracketed images still need to be focus stacked.
Olympus is unique in that it stacks in camera. For me it is liberating, as much as I like post-processing there are just not enough hours in the day. I can do this handheld, with a tripod, or with a flash (The Olympus flashes sync and will recycle in sync with the exposures, non-olympus flashes have a lag and you can set the recycle lag time but it would be hard to do handheld).
There are some limitations to in-camera focus stacking, like the actual stacking does not work well outside on a windy day and, currently, you can only stack 15 focus bracketed images (you can choose to stack 3-15 frames). 3 is often enough for landscape, etc. while I used 4-15 for flowers and insects. The camera can focus bracket up to 999 focus points, but even when challenged no one has been able to find a subject that would require more than a few hundred. When I am photographing a subject under magnification that is very small and very detailed, like some insects, I can need more than 15, so then I change to focus bracketing and need software to stack. You might also need to use software if you take a series and it is very windy and the camera processor cannot stack the frames. When you focus stack you get the end stacked image as well as the individual frames, so it you want to stack yourself you can. I focus stack in-camera 98% of the time and it is liberating!
What I love about focus stacking is that you get wonderful clean backgrounds using more wide open apertures and still have all of the subject sharp.
What I love about in-camera focus stacking is that I am done when it finishes and don't need to take the time to focus stack using software. it is Fun and more productive and I love the backgrounds.
I did start a gallery with focus stacked images...https://www.photographybylisaandtom.com/Olympus/Olympus-Focus-Stacking/ |
Jul 8th |
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5 comments - 4 replies for Group 41
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| 44 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
I love the sky and the RR ties in the foreground. The poles and wires not so much, perhaps getting down low you could have eliminated these. With my flipout LCD I find myself getting more lower angle images than ever. |
Jul 25th |
| 44 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
I love the tree on the left and show it complements the rocks. The sky seems a little gray, perhaps a little more blue?
Personally I would content ware fill the people out, but that is a personal preference... |
Jul 21st |
| 44 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
cool street scene, love the stone road
The tone mapping handled the moving people quite well.
perhaps tweak the sky to lessen the telltale HDR black could on a sunnry day.
and as noted the foot on the right |
Jul 21st |
| 44 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
flipped and masked the right side... |
Jul 21st |
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| 44 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
BW would look great with this too
I wish I lived closer to this -- I miss traveling and photographing cool things like this! |
Jul 21st |
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| 44 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
I love this old truck, the colors, the windows, etc
I would tone down the grass on the right and the foreground and the truck bed.
This would also look great with a texture... |
Jul 21st |
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| 44 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
wow, beautiful!
Great sky swap, no halos or telltales.
The scene is peaceful and yet demanding due to the red door.
Good composition keeping the cross in the mountains.
perhaps mask out the picnic tables on the right
The trees in the left are a tad neony on my screen, but I love thee yellow flowers |
Jul 10th |
| 44 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
you were laying on the floor at Versailles, cool
I like the ceiling especially and the colors and tone mapping are well done.
I like how you can see so much of the room, but it gives me a kind of Escher feeling |
Jul 10th |
8 comments - 0 replies for Group 44
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| 63 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
very neat image and wonderfully sharp and lots of DOF for f13 and handholding camera and subject! wow |
Jul 25th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 63
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| 91 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
I love the colors and feel of this Judy. Everything from the little pool of water to the framing on the left that keeps the viewer in the image and not going out of the frame.
To improve -- I would try taking maybe 1/4 off the bottom and that would place the horizon on a power ling in the rule of thirds rather than in the center |
Jul 25th |
| 91 |
Jul 20 |
Reply |
Judy -- I agree "Your choice of shutter speed has made a nice effect on the water ripples" |
Jul 14th |
| 91 |
Jul 20 |
Reply |
Thank you for pointing that out -- I zoomed in on the original and it is a tree limb that was chainsawed and has a sharp edge, it is not manmade, but I am going to remove it. |
Jul 14th |
| 91 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
I love the leading lines and the curves. The repeating patterns lead and parallel the line on the right to the end with the foliage color. I like that you kept the sky in.
It is fun to be at a place like this and find some whimsy in the scene around you. |
Jul 8th |
| 91 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
Welcome Henry!
I love old trucks and this is masterfully done! I love the IR trees and the feeling of the image. You cropped it and corrected the distortion well.
As far as constructive editing...perhaps darken the cloud in the upper left, I want the viewer's eyes to stay on the truck and perhaps darken the grass on the left some
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Jul 8th |
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| 91 |
Jul 20 |
Comment |
I love the dynamic range woth the blacks and whites in this image! The ripples in the water add to the image. I enjoy how the white foliage brings me right around the image.
Thank you for the details of how you processed the image -- helps us all make stronger images.
What was the mood that you were trying to convey when you captured the image? Was it hot out? cold? windy? |
Jul 7th |
4 comments - 2 replies for Group 91
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23 comments - 7 replies Total
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