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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 41 |
May 24 |
Comment |
I visit the creative groups every month. When I saw your current image, a composite even more surrealistic than yours popped into my head. I envisioned a landscape scene with the bird that included the scuba diver complete with air bubbles floating above the land. I imagine it would be difficult to capture and isolate air bubbles, but your composite spoke to the surrealist in me. |
May 4th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 41
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| 54 |
May 24 |
Reply |
"Compelling" and "despair" are words that describe what I had in mind when I tone mapped everything. I didn't want this to be "grounded in 'reality'." To me, this image looks like reality smoothed over with sandpaper. The sky is 1/4 of the total composite but has generated a lot of comments. I did have a stormy sky in the original, but it drew the eye away from the central idea: war is, after all, hell--full of unintended consequences and collateral damage. Thank you for your observations. |
May 14th |
| 54 |
May 24 |
Reply |
I'm happy you find the image "sad and powerful." I'm also happy that you find the sky appropriate for this composite. We're alone in this. I did try a stormy sky, but I felt it detracted from the overall feel. |
May 14th |
| 54 |
May 24 |
Reply |
Thank you for your positive comments. I used several skies in this composite, and a stormy sky was my second choice. As the sky is only 1/4 of the image, I chose a sky that would not overpower the tone mapping which is the dominant aspect of the emotional response I wanted to achieve, and it seems to have worked. :) |
May 14th |
| 54 |
May 24 |
Reply |
Thank you for your positive feedback. I used several skies in this composite, and a stormy sky was my second choice. The sky is only 1/4 of the image. The tone mapping is the dominant aspect of the emotional response I wanted to achieve, and it seems to have worked. :) |
May 14th |
| 54 |
May 24 |
Comment |
I agree with Kirsti and Peggy. I would love to simply walk into this image, feel the damp grass under my feet, and embrace the cool, moist fog on my face. Furthermore, I would explore the ramshackle building near the sheep and take some HDR pictures of the interior. I'm only upset that I can't do any of those things. |
May 9th |
| 54 |
May 24 |
Comment |
The muted, clear colors in your composite struck me first. Then I realized where the men were and that they had a fire going. As I was raised in a wooded area of South Carolina, woods always catch my attention. I finally saw the moon. All of the elements work so well. Thank your friends for taking such an important role in this composite. I hope you shared this image with them. |
May 4th |
| 54 |
May 24 |
Comment |
You have an image that makes one think of early morning at sunrise in the haze. It's a beautiful type of day that should not be missed. I feel that the title and the story you have in mind does not fit the flying cranes. If the queen crane is calling, why are the flying cranes in front of her? You mention in your reply to Peggy that you tried to match the birds more to the story. You have good material to work with here. Make the best composite with these good parts and let the story come from that. I took the liberty of cropping your image so that "less is more." If you keep the same title, the flying bird is the queen beseeching the bird on the hill to follow into a beautiful morning. |
May 4th |
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| 54 |
May 24 |
Comment |
Your pastel colors, here, are very soothing, and the gull in flight is soothing in its own way and also draws the eye to the pastel colors. The favorite word of the judges who critique my camera club's competition is "crop." I'm afraid it has been ingrained in me. I've taken the liberty of cropping your image so that the eye falls more on the gull and the beautiful pastel sky. To my taste, the dark water overpowers the soothing upper part of your composition which deserves to be more dominating. |
May 4th |
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| 54 |
May 24 |
Comment |
Welcome to Group 54, Bruce. This is a very good introductory image. The innocence of the woman, the evil glance of the man, the knife in his hand, and the misty light in the night combine to create a portentous scene. Your subtle touches of adding the shadow of the woman and of straightening out the shadows of the railing, while subtle, are the icing on the cake. I have one very minor suggestion. Photoshop out the cane in the man's left hand. It's not needed, and the hand would be more expressive without it. Nice work. |
May 4th |
5 comments - 4 replies for Group 54
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6 comments - 4 replies Total
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