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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 21 |
Apr 17 |
Reply |
Ojars, Your cat-like shape certainly fulfils that sentry-like function. However, for me your image is one of two halves; the dark, oppressive, overpowering foreground and the exciting, lightness and texture of the background. I found the latter much more interesting. Clearly, your raison d'etre was to create an image that was other-worldly and you have achieved that. |
Apr 22nd |
| 21 |
Apr 17 |
Reply |
Alan, Thank you for your explanation and giving me a new word (disequilibrium) for my lexicon. For me, the best part of your picture is the sloping doorway with doors open to reveal the planet in the emptiness behind. This is so powerful and continually draws my eye wherever else I look in the image. I am reminded of Jerry Uelsmann's image 'Landscape with a floating tree' which is equally strong. In doing my dissertation, I looked at 'Personal Identity' part of which embraced the concept of 'Body Fragments'. Therefore, I found it interesting that I did not warm to the fragmented bird breaking the edge of the frame. |
Apr 22nd |
| 21 |
Apr 17 |
Reply |
Barrie, I am quite happy with the placement of the parachutists in the top right hand quadrant. This increases the overall visual dynamic and leaves positive space in the rest of the frame into which they can visually descend. |
Apr 22nd |
| 21 |
Apr 17 |
Reply |
Ojars, Thank you for your comments. My original idea was to make the white lines so strong in the frame in order to dominate the underlying image. I wanted this to create the illusion of headache bordering on migraine. |
Apr 22nd |
| 21 |
Apr 17 |
Comment |
Ojars, I can appreciate how you were drawn to the outline shape of the rock that had cat-like resonance and how you tweaked it to create an overfed feline. Technically, you have done well to assemble the various elements to create an overall composite with a visual story. Compositionally, I like the way that the striations in the rock lead the eye towards and link with the structure in the background. Overall, I am more interested in the background and I have difficulty visually climbing over the dark areas in the foreground to get to it. |
Apr 21st |
| 21 |
Apr 17 |
Comment |
Nancy, Your image is lovely and the more I look at it the more I have fallen in love with it. The original image is an excellent example of outstanding Natural History photography to which you have added something of yourself. The bird is bitingly sharp and for me the colours work perfectly to reinforce the wonderful lighting. The ragged edges and the granularity of the background are a master stroke which raises the overall picture to something that is artistic and beyond a mere record. Congratulations and very well done. |
Apr 21st |
| 21 |
Apr 17 |
Comment |
Alan, This is a technically competent piece of work particularly in your selection of the panes in the windmill. However, I have difficulty in associating the disparate elements that you have introduced and for me this is an example where less would have been more. Scale is an issue for me and I wonder whether the windmills would do better to be much larger and butted up against the left hand edge of the frame. Not sure whether I need to see the heron(?) flying into the picture. Removal of the bird and making the windmills much larger would make for a much stronger picture compositionally with a visual triangle of interest created by your three main elements. |
Apr 21st |
| 21 |
Apr 17 |
Comment |
John, As a technical exercise, you have done well to insert the additional rider into the space as though he was part of the original peleton. Removal of the colour adds to the overall visual dynamic and isolates the inserted rider. Although this is quite a busy picture overall, interestingly my eyes are continually drawn to the lead rider in blue. I wondered whether the effect of your Ghost Rider would have been enhanced if you had given him a bit of motion blur and/or perhaps turned him into a negative? |
Apr 21st |
| 21 |
Apr 17 |
Comment |
Barrie, You have created a very graphic image that has immediate impact. I have always been interested in negative images and therefore I am drawn to your Floating Blue Ghosts. I quite like the coarseness of the image, the granularity and overall lack of fine detail, and the pink/blue abstract shapes in the bottom right hand corner which creates the illusion of a fading polaroid print. |
Apr 21st |
| 21 |
Apr 17 |
Comment |
Joan, You have created a wonderful sense of movement and excitement in your image. I love the subtle colours which provides a romantic overtone that I find quite appealing. Sufficient detail has been retained in the horses and jockeys to draw me in. Well done. I might have been inclined to take a sliver off the bottom of the picture. |
Apr 21st |
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