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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 41 |
Jul 24 |
Comment |
I like the texture of the sink bottom a lot! The texture and colors and tones are wonderful. The water definitely adds to the image. The tans at the bottom and bluer areas a thte top work both as colors at opposite ends of the color wheel and as fileds and sky.
I present my Wabi Sabi program quite a bit and I would love to come to your sink! |
Jul 22nd |
| 41 |
Jul 24 |
Comment |
Great way of taking an everyday subject and making it into something creative.
I love your description of "I suppose I was trying to create the experience of seeing so many beautiful earrings laid out before me. Where do I look? which do I like? which shall I buy?" and wish that you (and me and all of us) added what we were trying to achieve like you did in your reply, in the image description.
Do tell, how, what blend modes, etc
"One was a deliberate out of focus one which formed a background layer and one was more of a closeup which provided some detail."
I appreciate the busy-ness of the earrings, albeit more so after reading your reply, but the one area of posteruziation just does not appeal to me and seems to detract. |
Jul 22nd |
| 41 |
Jul 24 |
Comment |
This has a surreal feel, like close encounters.
I love Brian's flip of the image for reading and story. |
Jul 22nd |
| 41 |
Jul 24 |
Comment |
I love the symmetry (and moon breaking it) and the liens and curves. Well done!
I would like to see the clouds not just mirrored, as that part alone, seems incongruous. |
Jul 19th |
| 41 |
Jul 24 |
Comment |
Realistic and yet the duck adds whimsy
This composite looks natural and believable, you have done a marvelous job, it makes us all wonder what the main Roo is hiding, lol
To improve:
I added a new blank layer, changed the blend mode to darken and went around the plaer kangaroos face. There was also a telltale edit ine on the far right so I cloned on 50% overe.
I do find it a tad cool and textured. I added a color lookup table layer to warm it up and then ran it thru Nik Color Efex. |
Jul 19th |
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| 41 |
Jul 24 |
Reply |
The image itself was taken at night using live composite where I was using a flashlight to light the trees. It is SOOC. Live composite captures one frame to freeze the pixels and then only new light is added, like using a hundred plus layers on lighten blend mode in PS, only doen in camera.
Not sure what other subjects I have photographed that would fit there. I do love frogs, lol.
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Jul 18th |
| 41 |
Jul 24 |
Reply |
All toads are frogs, but frogs are not toads ;-)
This is an Australian Tree frog, and it is turquiose.
I wil go back and look for one of my barking frogs, the green might fit better since that species is more of a woodland green. |
Jul 18th |
| 41 |
Jul 24 |
Reply |
Thank you Brian, your comments and artistic suggestions are always so well thought and detailed.
I do like the image flipped, the path micely leads the viewer down into the scene that way. Great suggestion!
This is an Australian Tree frog, and it is turquiose. I guess I could have used a hundred different species that I have owned and photographed, but this one is large and sits nicely so it seemed easier to add to the mushroom. I have owned orange frogs and red frogs and purple frogs and other color frogs, but this one has always been one of my favorites and I see the piece as whimsical but not fantasy so the red coloration doesn't work with me. Alas I do see what you mean about the turquise against the fall colors, so I might have to try again with a different frog.
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The Frog Whisperer: Portraits & Stories Paperback by Lisa Cuchara and Tom Cuchara |
Jul 18th |
5 comments - 3 replies for Group 41
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| 44 |
Jul 24 |
Comment |
Welcome to the group Mo!
"I've really fallen in love with rusted and decaying object. I live ten miles from Steamtown National Historic park, which has a lot of old rusting rail car. I've spent a lot of time there. Sometimes I will plant myself in front of a section of the cars and may not move more than five feet in either direction capturing macro HDR photos of peeling and rusting metal."
My main HDR is rusy/old/abandonded and I too have spent hours in front of rusty old cars and trains. Max finds some great rusty and old things too. And you will find this grroves barns and interiors too.
I love the composition and colors and the pop. The colors really work well.
The clipping of the riverts on the bottom does bother me, seems like they should be in or out...
"A slight vignette was added" Seems too much, espeically on the top two corners.
The details you provided are interesting, as I capture HDR less and less as both mirrorless cameras and image editing have better dynamic range. How would this 0.7, 0, 0.7 compare to shadow and highlight adjustments in ACR?? |
Jul 23rd |
| 44 |
Jul 24 |
Comment |
Love the pano look of this.
The composition is sweet, but the bottom seems too dark, especially for a HDR. The buildings need more pop
I prefer Rick's version with the brightened buildings. |
Jul 23rd |
| 44 |
Jul 24 |
Comment |
love the story and the building and your image. The warm juxtaposed against eh cool relaly makes it pop.
I do like Rick's version |
Jul 23rd |
| 44 |
Jul 24 |
Comment |
I like the barn a lot, the texture of the wood and the composition and wonderful.
I would think that you could easily make the sky pop more and tone down the neon grass. |
Jul 23rd |
| 44 |
Jul 24 |
Comment |
The river leads the viewer thru the scene pastorally and wonderfully.
To improve:"
perhaps a polarizer to enhance the water?
perhaps Nik to take some of the harshness off |
Jul 22nd |
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5 comments - 0 replies for Group 44
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| 46 |
Jul 24 |
Comment |
Wonderful image of an underappreciated bird. The crop and positioning are well done and you have masterfully brought out the colors of the bird.
The only thing I can think of to improve would be to add a new layer, change the blend mode to darken and darken some of the branhes and the one tree in the background a tad. |
Jul 22nd |
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| 46 |
Jul 24 |
Reply |
Great suggestion Maria. that would make the bird appear sharper and remove those as distractions and add to the story. |
Jul 22nd |
| 46 |
Jul 24 |
Comment |
I like you you cropped and flipped the image -- adds a lot to the story, especially the bird large against the shells
To improve: try to wait for the bird to be perpendicular to you rather than facing away from you. |
Jul 22nd |
| 46 |
Jul 24 |
Reply |
Thank you Tom, good edit with the colors and crop |
Jul 22nd |
| 46 |
Jul 24 |
Comment |
Nice male mallard.
Two things:
(1) your edited crop has lost its rear end, try not to clip. Otherwise the placement is good and tells a story of the bird coming into the frame.
(2) The image is underexposed. Make sure to look at your histogram and make sure that the exposure is good. For birds, you rarely need anything other than wide open aperture, unless the bird is really very very close, like a rehab bird on someone's arm in front of you. |
Jul 22nd |
| 46 |
Jul 24 |
Reply |
Thank you!
Yes, Ted, you want the images send to be not too big but big enough to display the detail.
https://psadigital.org/resources/guidelines.php
The only requirement is that the file cannot excede 1Mb and be in the JPEG format. Whatever dimensions will fit within the maximum will be fine. Typically, around 1200-1400 pixels on the long side will be fine.
Use sharpening after you have resized your original image but before saving for the web.
File size should be in KB not MB. Using Save for Web at maximum or highest will give you an acceptable file size. DO NOT use any of the following characters in your file name: !@#$%^&*()+={}[]|<>?/,
If you are in more than one group, you may not enter the same image in both groups, even if one version is color and the other |
Jul 22nd |
| 46 |
Jul 24 |
Comment |
No one warns us about how much patience is needed for bird photography, LOL.
Your patience has paid off, great Great Egret coming at you
White birds are really hard and you often need to use exposure compensation and watch the histogram to make sure that whites are not overexposed.
Comments
-- There is no SOOC to compare to so we don't know how much you cropped
-- What mode were you on? P M A S?
-- What were your settings? aperture, ss, iso? exposure compensation?
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Jul 22nd |
| 46 |
Jul 24 |
Comment |
One of my favorite birds, and such doting parents!
Wonderful angle, great that you got down low. I love the interaction of the two and the one leg up and the detail in the wings.
To improve -- the images seems slightly going downhill and there seems to be a slight halo around them, perhaps oversharpened? |
Jul 22nd |
5 comments - 3 replies for Group 46
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15 comments - 6 replies Total
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