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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 63 |
Nov 22 |
Comment |
Hi Priscilla: Bet you had a good time looking around your yard or neighborhood gathering all of these leaves in all sizes and shapes and colors. Then the artistic manner in which you arranged the leaves into an interesting leaf mosaic. The color and design of the scrapbook paper made just the right background for your very artistic presentation.
Great Work !! |
Nov 9th |
| 63 |
Nov 22 |
Comment |
Hi Barbara: This image is really high impact with the orange flower and black background with red border, the picture really comes on strong. Using a flash to the side produces a high contrast picture with dark shadows within the flower. This same picture photographed with available light would look much different, not the same picture at all. It is fun to experiment and try new ideas !! |
Nov 9th |
| 63 |
Nov 22 |
Comment |
Hi Charles: Adding the very interesting base and background really enhanced this picture over the original. Amazing colors in the decanter which I think is picking up the colors in the base; am not at all certain how you managed to add some golden tones, however the colors blend perfectly.
The top part of the decanter is not as tack sharp as the bottom part, as you mentioned you may want to try to focus stack this as an experiment and see what happens. You seem to like challenges !! |
Nov 9th |
| 63 |
Nov 22 |
Comment |
Hi Alane: a very nice blending of colors in an autumn theme. Interesting composition with the corn cobs all facing the same way with husks at the top of the frame to add another point of interest. A really nice autumn mood.
Depth of field in not quite adequate for a "still life" type of picture as the top husks are not really in sharp focus. I did notice you had your ISO set at 125 and F stop aperture at f/5.6 Your new Nikon Z 50 is capable of shooting at a much higher ISO perhaps to even 800 or so, this would allow you to set the lens aperture to perhaps f/11 which would provide you with much better depth of field than f/5.6 does. In a still life picture like this all of the picture should be in tack sharp focus. |
Nov 9th |
| 63 |
Nov 22 |
Comment |
Hi Charles: You certainly have more interesting "bugs" in the Medford area than we have 500 miles to the north, have never seen this one.
Your stacking technique most always produces very sharply detailed images on your subject; however the out of focus area at the bottom left as Charles has mentioned does catch my eye. With some careful cloning gathering sharp information from the adjacent dark soil this situation would be easy to correct.
Seems a bit odd the left two feet are not in contact with the leaf, the bug seems kind of perched on its knees. |
Nov 9th |
5 comments - 0 replies for Group 63
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| 75 |
Nov 22 |
Reply |
Hi Charles: Thanks for your insightful comments, especially regarding the cropping of the image. As you mention I could have left a little more room at the left side of the picture and not cropped it so tight to give the flower petals more room. Thanks for pointing this out. |
Nov 14th |
| 75 |
Nov 22 |
Comment |
Hi Charles: A really good story telling nature image that shows the flower bud stage and then the flower in the stage of going to seed. The very high level of sharpness adds to the overall impact of the subject.
Regarding the background: even though the original background is out of focus it is still distracting with light colored blobs in the background, you have achieved excellent post processing work to clean up the distraction into a very pleasing background that compliments your flowers very well.
Excellent work all around. |
Nov 9th |
| 75 |
Nov 22 |
Reply |
Hi Judy: I do not have a picture without the reflectors. I use reflectors a lot as they broadcast light into the plant and even out lighting. You have to be very careful as you can over do it by having the reflectors too close to the flower and then the side of the plant is over lit. I use reflectors manufactured by Photoflex in soft-gold coloration which is a herringbone zig-zag pattern of silver and gold. I have various sizes of reflectors from 12" to 20" in diameter and they fold up so you can put them in your camera back-pac. You can find these reflectors in higher end camera stores and also on line at various outlets. If you Google Photoflex reflectors you will find pictures of all sizes and shapes. Hope this info. helps. |
Nov 8th |
| 75 |
Nov 22 |
Comment |
Hi Allen: The central yellow part of the daffodil is quite sharp and exposed well, the less sharp outer white petals support the yellow central part. Am uneasy regarding the two yellow parts of surrounding daffodils at the edges of the frame, as presented somehow they do not seem to fit in the scene well. You mention photographing multi blossom compositions, would like to see those renditions. |
Nov 6th |
| 75 |
Nov 22 |
Comment |
Hi Judy: The rose flower carries a lot of impact due to the side lighting from the left which seems to be full sun, then you have attained good detail in the shadow areas. Very sharp detail on the rose flower. The little yellow-white flowers are a nice contrast to the large rose. Am not certain if the burlap is quite the right background for your arrangement, would think something more plant based may be a better fit. Very interesting the green leaves have the same texture as the burlap. Overall an interesting arrangement and the light gray stroke adds a nice touch. |
Nov 4th |
| 75 |
Nov 22 |
Comment |
Hi Marge: Very interesting flower unlike any I have seen. Using f/5.6 lens aperture will not provide a lot of depth of field, The dominate top flower is fairly sharp, the bottom flower is soft focus. This image could almost be classified as selective focus in some ways.
This situation you were faced with is just one of the dilemmas flower photographers face; if your camera was tripod mounted you could set the lens aperture to f/16 to provide more depth of field and perhaps the lower flower would be in sharper focus. In doing this however the nice out of focus leaves in the background would perhaps become sharp to the point of being a distraction. Seems like there is always some kind of a trade off to be made in regards to how the photographer wants the finished picture to appear. |
Nov 3rd |
| 75 |
Nov 22 |
Comment |
Hi Dan: Very well photographed image of the Lace Cap Hydrangea flower. The 37 stacked images allowed you to have very good sharpness on the central portion of the flower and also the little flowers radiating out from the central flower hub. You have done a lot of post processing work thus far on this flower, however I would take it one step further and darken the green foliage in the background a small amount, it would concentrate the viewers attention more on the beautiful flower. Just my humble opinion. |
Nov 2nd |
| 75 |
Nov 22 |
Comment |
Hi Vincent: Nicely done image with a pleasant mood; and yes I think the flying insect is some kind of a bee. The coloration is different than the variety of honey bee in our area. The aperture of f/3.5 allowed you to have both the red poppy and bee in reasonably sharp focus with the light green background well out of focus without distractions; it supports your subjects well. If you wanted to experiment with sharpening you could select out just the red poppy flower and bee and sharpen both a small amount, kind of tedious post processing work however possible to do. |
Nov 2nd |
6 comments - 2 replies for Group 75
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11 comments - 2 replies Total
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