|
| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 21 |
Oct 18 |
Reply |
Peter, I quite like your guitarist image and what makes the picture for me is the clarity of the face relative to the rest of the image and particularly the shape of the mouth. |
Oct 25th |
| 21 |
Oct 18 |
Reply |
Peter, As a photographer who doesn't do sharp, and indeed as a judge, I always warm to images that are surreal, abstract, soft-focus etc. When presented with an image that I don't know what I am looking at, that has a positive reaction on my interpretation and scoring. |
Oct 25th |
| 21 |
Oct 18 |
Reply |
Peter, Thank you for sharing your technique with us. The double sunset image is stunning and the wrecked boat is perfectly positioned. |
Oct 17th |
| 21 |
Oct 18 |
Reply |
Peter, The more I look at the original image, the more I am drawn to its recession and depth. I particularly like the dark shadow bottom left and the highlight on the tree which is the brightest part of the picture and bang in the centre of the frame. Wherever my eye wanders within the image, all the subtle lines and changes in tone take my attention back to the tree which is the main focus of the image. Well done. |
Oct 17th |
| 21 |
Oct 18 |
Reply |
Susan, Interestingly, I originally saw this as a corner of a bathroom and the triangular slope as somewhere to sit. Your explanation is much more intriguing. |
Oct 17th |
| 21 |
Oct 18 |
Reply |
Joan, Now that you have said it, I too can see a rather stylized almost cartoon-like nose and mouth. As far as borders are concerned, I am sure that we can all create our own from the myriad of filter effects in Photoshop. I remember many years ago when I was starting out on digital imaging, I used an A4 sheet of white paper, a stiff brush and black paint to create my own custom backgrounds which were scanned into the computer and into which I could import anything. An example below of a rose with a crosshatch filter and a glass filter in the background. |
Oct 17th |
 |
| 21 |
Oct 18 |
Reply |
Peter, I totally agree. After all, 'What do Judges know?' |
Oct 17th |
| 21 |
Oct 18 |
Comment |
Barrie, The more I look at your image, the more I can see a dog's head hanging over the right hand mountain; two eyes, dark nose and upper lip. Perhaps there might be a case for making a Mount Rushmore type addition to the slopes? |
Oct 17th |
| 21 |
Oct 18 |
Reply |
Susan, Thank you for your comments which are much appreciated. I am always delighted when different people see different things in images. A good example is you seeing Halloween, Joan seeing a children's game and me seeing kryogenic suspension. Interestingly, I hadn't seen the human shape at the bottom and top centres of the composite, which, once seen, cannot be ignored and adds to the overall visual story. |
Oct 17th |
| 21 |
Oct 18 |
Reply |
Barrie, I agree that the white areas need toning down and I am pleased that Peter has done the work for me in his tweaked version above. At the end of my fiddling with this one, I stroked a one pixel white line around the image but it only recorded on the bottom and right hand side so I decided against it. Of course, you are quite correct in your comment that the darkness of the image bleeds into the background of the PSA webpage and needs further defining. |
Oct 17th |
| 21 |
Oct 18 |
Reply |
Joan, The striping was created as a result of Polar Coordinates. I quite like the idea of the heads appearing to be frozen in time almost in a state of kryogenic suspension. I like your analogy with the children's game, not unlike solitaire with marbles. I certainly enjoyed the process in constructing this one and I had to consciously force myself to stop. |
Oct 17th |
| 21 |
Oct 18 |
Reply |
Peter, I totally agree with you that the white spots in the centre and corners are distracting. I am surprised that I didn't notice them. Perhaps my mind was on other things at the time like my wife Angela in Spain walking the Camino de Santiago Pilgrim Way and/or my Volunteering with the Cheltenham Literature Festival. Thank you for your iteration which is a great improvement. |
Oct 17th |
| 21 |
Oct 18 |
Comment |
Peter, You have created a composite with hidden depth partly due to your 8-shot multiple exposure while walking round the tree (I have never seen that before) and your use of the Topaz Filter and Blending Options. The colours work well and the emboss effect draws me in to try to understand what I am looking at. Although I commend your digital imaging skills, on this occasion I prefer the original which for me has a greater mystery and romance which I quite like. |
Oct 13th |
| 21 |
Oct 18 |
Comment |
Susan, Your image is lovely and appeals to me very much. It has an artistic, painterly feeling which draws me in. I love the abstract shapes, patterns and textures, the distortion of the frame and the shadow background. The colours work a treat. As to the actual subject, I have no idea what it is and because of that, because I don't know what I am looking at, it visually engages with me. Congratulations and very well done. |
Oct 13th |
| 21 |
Oct 18 |
Comment |
Barrie, Your image is quite striking. I like the absence of detail in the white areas (giving the image a high key effect), the textural quality of the mid-tone grey areas and the visual blocker of the green pine trees bottom right. I see this as a theatre backdrop waiting for something to happen. Does it need another element in the picture? Perhaps Father Christmas on his sleigh pulled by his reindeer on the white slopes? |
Oct 13th |
| 21 |
Oct 18 |
Comment |
Joan, You have done very well to crystalize the idea in your mind's eye and then to use your digital imaging skills to put it into practice. The end result works a treat. I particularly like the dichotomy between monochrome on the nickel and colour in the background. My only slight reservation is the soft focus grass in the foreground which I find a little distracting. Otherwise, well done. |
Oct 13th |
| 21 |
Oct 18 |
Reply |
Well spotted! |
Oct 13th |
5 comments - 12 replies for Group 21
|
5 comments - 12 replies Total
|
