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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 65 |
Apr 24 |
Reply |
Thank you, Esther, for your comments they mean a lot to me. |
Apr 19th |
| 65 |
Apr 24 |
Reply |
Thank you, Maria, for your comments and suggestions. |
Apr 19th |
| 65 |
Apr 24 |
Comment |
Thank you, Shirley, for your comments and critique. Appreciate your comment about the composition. I love doing stacks. |
Apr 14th |
| 65 |
Apr 24 |
Reply |
The comments I made were based on the title of the image, "Spring Visitor". As much as you might want the flower to be the focal point of the image, as soon as you have the butterfly on the flower to my eye it is the focal point. Thats where your eye ends up in the image. If the intent was to have the flower the subject, then I would like to see maybe more of the main flower minus the butterfly. Sorry, I just felt a need to explain the reason for my comments. |
Apr 12th |
| 65 |
Apr 24 |
Reply |
Thanks Barbara, appreciate your comments. |
Apr 12th |
| 65 |
Apr 24 |
Reply |
Thankyou Diana for your feedback and suggestion. |
Apr 12th |
| 65 |
Apr 24 |
Comment |
Hi Esther, and welcome to group 65.
What a beautiful butterfly you found on a beautiful flower. I think you did good to capture this image of a butterfly. Insects such as bees and butterflies are hard subjects to photograph, seems they are always on the move or the wind is blowing. You have nice soft lighting which is important to this image.
To my eye you have too much of the flower included in the image. You need enough to tell the story but not too much. The subject is the butterfly so you could eliminate the bottom 1/3 of the image. I would like to see the butterfly fill the frame more, maybe 80%. Next, I would rotate the image 90 degrees counterclockwise. This puts the butterfly in a more pleasing position in the image and improves the composition. I would now crop tight and eliminate much of the background which to my eye is a bit of distraction. I would also eliminate much of the flower which is not needed. I have included these changes. Interested in what you and others think. The butterfly now creates a great diagonal which reads left to right.
Insects are not easy, keep up the great work, |
Apr 10th |
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| 65 |
Apr 24 |
Comment |
I agree with the comments by David. Love the hanging petal that adds interest to the image. Like the composition with the stem on a slight diagonal moving left to right. Like how you shot this at eye level. Did well with the background. Nice detail. Great shot! |
Apr 4th |
| 65 |
Apr 24 |
Comment |
Like David, I too thought this was backlit. Like the colors and detail in the petals. I especially like the suttle lighting on the leaves just enough to provide the base to the image. Love the black background. Not sure about that much dead space on the right.
Great image! |
Apr 4th |
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| 65 |
Apr 24 |
Reply |
Wow!!! what a difference! Nice work. I am not familiar with PS Generative Fill. |
Apr 4th |
| 65 |
Apr 24 |
Reply |
Thank you, David, for your comments. I agree with your suggestion to add a little room on the top. |
Apr 3rd |
| 65 |
Apr 24 |
Comment |
Thank you, David for your reply. I have shot at Longwood Gardens, and you have to respect their rules. I appreciate them allowing a photographer in with a tripod. I now understand why you could not get as close to the flower as you would like.
I have a pretty simple method to shot stacks. I take one Post-it notes sheet, I the cut three small wedges (about 1/4" long) from the sticky end. Then with camera and tripod all set up I manual focus on the near part of the subject I want to have sharp. I stick one wedge on the camera side of the lens then one on the lens side. The points are on both sides of where the lens rotates to focus almost touching each other. Next, I focus on the far end I want sharp and where to stop shooting. I place a sticky wedge at that point. Now I focus on the near point, shutter the eye piece and start shooting. Now I just shoot, refocus, shoot and keep doing this until I get to the far point where the stop wedge is. I move the focus the same amount between each shot. It's important to shoot enough shots so the focus overlaps a little. I don't know if you can understand my method. I'm sure you have your own method that works.
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Apr 3rd |
| 65 |
Apr 24 |
Comment |
Love the colors in this image a beautiful blue. There are not a lot of blue flowers. Nice composition with a great background.
For a focus-bracted image I feel the image is not as sharp as it could be. The near bottom petal is not sharp. I don't feel for the size of the flower, you took enough images to stack and have a sharp image throughout which is the reason for a focus stack.
You have a great lens. I notice you shot at f-1 which gives very little depth of field. Most lens are sharpest at two stops up from wide open, with your lens that would be f-2.
I also find it very hard to shoot in a greenhouse due to the never-ending air movement and get a sharp image. There are always fans in operation to move air to help prevent diseases on the plants.
Is you lens a macro? Not sure why the original then crop to get the close-up.
Having said all that, you image has good impact.
I have checked out your work in the other group. You have beautiful work and great images. Welcome to our group. |
Apr 3rd |
| 65 |
Apr 24 |
Comment |
Beautiful image with a great background. Nice soft lighting and great colors. Nice composition and sharpness. Very well done! |
Apr 3rd |
7 comments - 7 replies for Group 65
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