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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 41 |
Jan 24 |
Reply |
Tom, Thank you for your kind words which are much appreciated. I like your crop to portrait format which works well. It seems to make the image much more intimate and visually appealing. |
Jan 24th |
| 41 |
Jan 24 |
Reply |
Brad, Thank you for your kind words which are much appreciated. Glad you liked the image and that you found it worked at different levels; eg how the shapes and patterns were akin to a Rorschach Inkblot and morphed themselves into other forms and then faded seamlessly from view back into the mist and intrigue of the background. |
Jan 11th |
| 41 |
Jan 24 |
Reply |
Hazel, Glad you liked the Radial Blur which helped to diffuse some of the extra elements and to highlight the pumpkin.
I had many favourite images:
- over 300 elephants crossing the road in a line in front of our vehicle
- over 60 zebra doing the same
- cheetah resting on a branch of a tree
- lioness and two cubs walking past our vehicle
- crocodiles sunbathing
- giraffes, hippos, warthogs, flamingoes ... etc.. |
Jan 9th |
| 41 |
Jan 24 |
Reply |
Hazel, Thank you for your kind words which are much appreciated. Glad you liked the image and warmed to the dreamy visual story. During Covid, I got into Audio Visual and one of my first sequences was entitled 'Widow Woman' and featured this as the key image. I have long been a fan of the Cornish Shanty Group 'Fisherman's Friends' and I used their version of 'Widow Woman' recorded in the local church in Port Isaac as the accompanying soundtrack. It has done well for me in Local and International AV Competitions which was great as I am a new boy to AV. It was rather frustrating to have problems with the lenses in Kenya. Would you believe it; when I got back home, my Canon EOS 50D attached to the 17-55mm lens worked fine without any error messages. Perhaps the dust cleared all by itself with a change from Kenyan to UK temperature. I have asked for a quote to repair the 100-400mm lens from a repair shop in Wotton-under-Edge and I await the outcome with interest. |
Jan 9th |
| 41 |
Jan 24 |
Comment |
Hazel, As a second iteration, I have used the Elliptical Marquee Tool with Feathered Edge to select the background, then to remove the colour with the Hue/Saturation slider and let the monochrome seep through. I am not suggesting for a moment that either of these versions is better than yours but just to illustrate that there are many ways to look at things. |
Jan 8th |
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| 41 |
Jan 24 |
Comment |
Hazel, You have certainly achieved your primary objective to create an image to celebrate Autumn colours. Your palette of russet colours is a pleasure to behold. I like the way that you have used a white mounting board not only as a platform on which to rest the exhibits but also as a plain background onto which you painted the brown (land) and blue (sky). Compositionally, I like the way that you have arranged the various elements within the frame but I wondered whether there were too many of them. In an attempt to retain the integrity of the image yet add a sense of mystery, I have added some Radial Blur centred on the pumpkin to show a sense of what I mean. |
Jan 8th |
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| 41 |
Jan 24 |
Comment |
Lisa, You have used your digital skills well to create an image that is full of shapes, patterns and textures. I like the visual way in which these all interact with one another. Changing from landscape to portrait format was a good move; it enhances the story line and creates a different aesthetic. The increased saturation of the colours works well. Compositionally, the three elements (ie crab blue, crab red, sand) combine to create a good visual triangle of interest. As a matter of interest, I quite like your original image which is compositionally strong and has an compelling, albeit overt, sense of movement. |
Jan 4th |
| 41 |
Jan 24 |
Comment |
Tom, This is a strange thing to say but when I first saw your image I was reminded of the iconic picture of the straight stretch of railway track leading into the Auschwitz concentration camp. That said, I like your choice of low viewpoint which creates a different and much stronger perspective on things. It is a symmetrical image, the visual story of which has been enhanced by the inclusion of your good self as a silhouette 'Third Man' figure set against that wonderful, glowing, sunlit sky. I like the way you have applied the brown colour cast to the railway track as a reflection of the setting sun. Inclusion of the line of birds is not obvious at first view but once seen, they add a further feeling of depth and perspective to the scene. I get a sense that the stone chippings between the railway sleepers in the foreground are tumbling out of the lower right hand corner of the frame which adds a further dynamic to the picture. This creates the notion that there is a visual tension in the picture which is pulling in two different directions; towards the setting sun top middle and out of the picture bottom right. |
Jan 4th |
| 41 |
Jan 24 |
Comment |
Marta, Welcome to Study Group 41 and I hope you enjoy your time with us. I am a fan of ICM, soft-focus and movement in images as it puts the onus on the viewer to interpret what they are looking at without the benefit of any obvious cues. I find it more interesting if your use of ICM results in an image that is not obviously recognizable. You will realize that I am an advocate of painterly, creative and abstract. Your choice of camera setting are similar to those I have used in my ICM images. It is worth remembering that images do not have to be presented in the same orientation in which they were taken. Sometimes they work as well if not better when flipped. Although I like the current orientation of your image as it creates a unique visual story, I also like the iteration when flipped horizontally as below which creates a slightly different, and for me a stronger, visual story. |
Jan 4th |
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| 41 |
Jan 24 |
Comment |
Brad, I like the way that you have seen the potential of Stonehenge with the sheep as foreground interest. You have used your digital imaging skills to play around with the filters and change the sky to obtain the result you wanted. Your choice of one vice four lightning bolts was correct and to place it in the top left corner creates a good focal point. Aesthetically, I like the impact of the image when flipped horizontally per below as we are drawn through the image left-to-right to the brightest part of the image which is the lightning bolt in the top right corner. |
Jan 4th |
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| 41 |
Jan 24 |
Comment |
I hope you had an enjoyable Christmas and I wish you all a Happy and Prosperous New Year. We had a wonderful holiday in Kenya and our body clocks are still trying to re-adjust to UK time. There was so much to see, not only the wildlife but also the countryside, the architecture and the people. For example, I was really impressed with the National Railway Museum in Nairobi and the general free-spirited style of Kenyan driving across the country was something to behold. One of the places we stayed was adjacent to a lake and we had hippo, giraffe, warthogs munching their way across the lawn at night. It is an absolutely fascinating country although we did find the temperature/humidity a bit of a challenge on occasions. Photographically, Kenya is a magnate especially for wildlife photographers. However, in the second week, my equipment let me down due to the dry dusty environments we travelled through in our LWB 4x4 L/R. Dust got into my 17-55mm lens and despite attempts to clean it, the camera/lens sensors wouldn't talk to each other. Then, the auto-focus on my 100-400mm lens failed. This meant that I was left with a 100mm prime lens and a 10-20mm wide-angle lens, both of which were unsuitable for the wildlife photography I wanted to do. |
Jan 4th |
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