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

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41 Mar 23 Reply oh my, now that I see them I can't unsee them, lol -- makes it sinister Mar 24th
41 Mar 23 Comment Quite impactful, sad and yet humorous at the same time.

It also reminds me of the pulp fiction "little shop of horrors" movie and also of the quote "Imagine if trees gave off wifi signals we would be planting so many trees and we'd probably save the planet too. Too bad they only produce the oxygen we breathe"

In my opinion the pizza box is too bright and distracting. Until reading it a second time I did not realize that is what it was, the red also confused me.

This is creative, though provoking, and impactful, well done!! 		Mar 21st
41 Mar 23 Comment What a great composition, one of my favorites of your Tom images.

It is well done, although I do prefer Brian's flipped version. I also like his as it is darkened where the foliage is. 		Mar 21st
41 Mar 23 Reply I enjoy it flipped, has more story telling and interaction of Tom with the deer this way. Mar 21st
41 Mar 23 Comment The plugin adds a lot of impact, the way the flowers dance from one to the other is fabulous and dynamic, like acrobats.

Perhaps take out the stray white lines on the left, as you have a wonderful leading line from the bottom up to the first flower and then the second without that there.

Thank you for inspiring me to re-visit fractalius. I used to use Fractalius, before Creative Cloud, but I migrated over to Topaz Glow. With so many changes at Topaz it may be time to go back to Fractalius. 		Mar 21st
41 Mar 23 Comment Good to see that you are having so much fun with the filters! You did not submit a before/sooc version so I wasn't sure that it was a flower, it appeared more abstract to me. While the colors are vibrant, I tend to lean towards Brian's versions with something to settle my eye on. Keep exploring! Mar 21st
41 Mar 23 Comment I love the 'patchwork quilt' look even without the flowers! The colors and impact are wonderful!

personally, the stems going out of the frame and the little shadows on the bottom are distracting 		Mar 21st
41 Mar 23 Comment Cool merger, very thought-provoking and ethereral

but the bright lights are distracting to me...		 Mar 21st
41 Mar 23 Reply One orchid plant was photographed on a black background. Then the layer was duplicated, transformed and the layer blend mode changed to screen, over and over, getting to 13, then canvas was added and a mirror image was added. Mar 21st
41 Mar 23 Reply Thank you Brian, your words are as poetic as your images are, you are a true Renaissance man.

Thank you,
Lisa

PS. I would view this as 26 rather than 13, lol.
but I had to google why is 13 so unlucky, finding that ion other cultures it is 4 or 9...
https://www.sc.edu/uofsc/posts/2022/10/conversation_thirteen.php#.ZBoeq3bMJWE		 Mar 21st
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44 Mar 23 Comment oh, so envious Jane, what a wonderful everyday view!

The image must make your heart sing, and to have a variation of this every night is just amazing. Have you thought about leaving a tripod/camera up and taking the same exact focal length for like 30 days, would be wonderful to see.

I am seeing significant haloing where the sky meets the landscape. Current software Tone mapping doesn't typically give those, but you can bring it into PS and add a darken blen mode layer and reduce it.





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44 Mar 23 Comment Beautiful interior, interesting repeats and angle off center.
This is a nice solid interior with good tone mapping.

to improve -- perhaps try a version without the far left window? 		Mar 21st
44 Mar 23 Comment Good to see some inspired images came out of the NECCC photo walks. It was a lot to orchestrate, so glad to see that you got something out of it. Photography is slowing down and noticing and you did just that. Then you used all of the tools in your toolbox (camera and computer) to bring the image alive. The grunge HDR reminds me of the vintage HDR that was done at the onset. Mar 21st
44 Mar 23 Comment Thank you Rick, it was wonderful to present in person and see faces and expressions and hear laughter.

This image was just HDR (the windows were tough) (and Nik), no light painting on this one, but I only took a few wide-angle images, most of my images from that day were light painted: https://www.photographybylisaandtom.com/Locations/Steam-pumping-engine-venue/		 Mar 7th
44 Mar 23 Comment wow, what a scene. I love the floor! The shadows are still there, which adds (sometimes HDR removes too much shadow).

The one thing I would do to enhance is clone on darken blend mode those two left tiles and adjust the blue color casts, leer left and the rail in the middle.		 Mar 7th
44 Mar 23 Comment Oh how I love this -- the bottles, the composition and the tone mapping/post-processing. One day I need to come out and have you show me around some of these places, I would be in heaven!

The only thing I could see to improve is beyond your control, to ask the curator/docent to move the right most bottle second row over to the left a tad and move the right most bottle and the middle bottles to the left a little.		 Mar 7th
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