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

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41 Dec 21 Reply I rotated 90 degrees, made a duplicate copy, flipped the copy and changed the blend mode to darken on the copy... Dec 23rd
41 Dec 21 Comment The building looks great in black and white, good subject. Adding the cat makes the image have more of a story. I like the placement of the cat and it looking into the frame.

As has been mentioned, the bricks showing through the cat don't make sense.

How about another cat (I warped the tail to make it come down the building) in one of the windows? 		Dec 23rd
41 Dec 21 Comment I love the top part and how the filter makes the flower petals looks, very cool! I like the impressionistic feel.

You could duplicate it and mirror it for one more effect.		 Dec 23rd
41 Dec 21 Comment wow, what fun! The hat shows that you have taken a creation from the start, rather than thinking of something to composite as an afterthought. The frog looking at the "elf" is wonderful.

I am not personally a fan of digital noise/grain, but that is just my taste. 		Dec 22nd
41 Dec 21 Comment Another interesting composite. I like the attention to detail, like the mushrooms added on the right. The black and white adds drama, like the egret is stalking the hiker

I like the man in blue, as otherwise he might be lost in the woods.

Suggestions...

the water near the left seems not well masked, kinda mushy near the top of the water mask, but that whole water area might not be needed as it is a bright areas against the left side. The water near the snowy egret is well masked in.

As Henry pointed out, snowy egrets are not as typically found in a mountainous area, perhaps a more versatile cattle egret?
Dec 22nd
41 Dec 21 Comment love the symbolism and the message. the vultures circling overhead and the hat dissolving into the acid rain water are wonderful. The black and white effect really adds to the drama. This is just wonderful1 I do hope that this series is being sent in to the copyright office! This is my favorite (so far) in this series!

Improvement... remove the power lines in the top right as they look like they are going into his ear/head. 		Dec 9th
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44 Dec 21 Comment I hope that you are feeling better soon.

Great sky! I hope that you took one just of the sky to add to the sky replacement tool so you can use this in the future on a bald sky.

I like the sky, perhaps placing the camera on the ground (or on a Platypod) would have left the sky and the bushes and eliminated almost all of the cars.		 Dec 24th
44 Dec 21 Comment Welcome to the group!

I love subjects like this and have been to OCC dozens of times and we have led workshops there too.

I love the composition and subject matter.

I like the grunge, but the blue color cast does bother me.

I would love to see the histograms for the nine exposures used. Seems like this scene would not need more than 3, 5 tops. I can send you a link that accepts large files and you could send me the 9 exposures if you like. Dynamic range is such that we take as many exposures as we need to before one image exposure doesn't touch the left side and then one doesn't touch the right side. With today's RAW processors you can actually open a RAW file from years ago and pull out the shadows and highlights without even needing multiple exposures sometimes. 		Dec 24th
44 Dec 21 Comment wow, love the colors and texture and the layers. I would definitely love to go there. Nice and crisp for f16. Since RAW processors have gotten better and better I am curious is a one exposure RAW file edited in ACR or similar would yield similar results to a 3 exposure image. I find where I previously had to do 7 exposures 5 are more than enough, where I previously had to do 5 exposures 3 are more than enough, and where I previously had to do 3 exposures 1 is enough with a RAW file processor.

The top seems a tad washed out, a grad filter or a little more contrast in the top might make the top pop like the bottom does		 Dec 24th
44 Dec 21 Comment had to try a sky replacement, lol Dec 23rd
44 Dec 21 Comment I love the rays of the sun and the way that the one tree is spotlighted. The rays reaching all the way towards us is wonderful
It is hard to HDR at sunset, you did a good job and this blending looks good.

Dec 23rd
44 Dec 21 Comment with the halo removed... Dec 23rd
44 Dec 21 Reply I added a blank layer, changed the blend mode to darken and clones around the stack Dec 23rd
44 Dec 21 Comment love this! wow, such a stunning scene and you have captured it wonderfully!

I see a little haloing around the stack		 Dec 23rd
44 Dec 21 Reply You are welcome. Yes, We have a full in-person jammed-packed lineup already in place for July 2022 -- with three keynote speakers, Scott Kelby, Tim Grey, Frans Lanting, Cory Rich, and many others. Dec 20th
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