Activity for User 598 - Albert Zabin - ajzabin@gmail.com

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47 Jun 22 Comment This is a fascinating photograph. The gentleman seems to think he is an emperor. The woman sitting before him, by her body posture is less than over impressed with him. For ignorant viewers, the photo needs a description.

The clutter bvehindand around him seem to be part of the story, but they are somewhat distracting for me.. I would try darkening and slightly blurring the clutter to drawy the viewer to the people in the photograph

Thank you for sharing this photo with us.		 Jun 14th
47 Jun 22 Comment EDd:
A very good edit		 Jun 13th
47 Jun 22 Comment The best answer is it should have the tone that you like bestwith the rest of the photo. You arfe experienced enpugh to have an opinion. I actually tried several tones before I selected this grey. You can try editingmy photo by changing the tone of the sky and show the group what you liked best Jun 12th
47 Jun 22 Reply The toning did help. What I liked about the scene was the light. I played with the black and mid-tone sliders. I relied on sharpeining rather than contrast. The challenge now is print it, keeping the same feel. Thank you. I am pleased you like it. Jun 12th
47 Jun 22 Comment I like Kirst's analysis. I would crop most of what is on the left of trhe door and lightene the 0zone blacks and let the bike into the story. Jun 12th
47 Jun 22 Comment I can't add much to Kirsti's comments. Iwouldcrop out the sign on the left and lighten, just a little, theinstructor's face. Jun 12th
47 Jun 22 Comment A good photograph can tell many stories. I see this about the dog. It appears alert and very much giving attention to something or someones or is hopeful that something good is coming, Nose up (Im a dog person), legs straight, almost at attention and the tail appears to be wagging and is on the left swing. I would try cropping the bottom to where the wall is in shadow. I would arken the white leaves enough to bringout some detail.

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47 Jun 22 Comment I am sorry. the blunder was mine-unassisted. There is a lot of going on in this picture. The receding lines should carry the viewer into something of real interest. I would love to see some of the other shots you made. The composition challenge is the light at the end of the tunnel that I feel dominates the whole scene and almost blnds me from appreciating the details you describe that interested you. I recently had a similar problem photographing an ice cave in Iceland. I could not resolve the problem, except by photographing the details and excluding the entrance. Even HDR processing did not solve the problem.
The ice is really nice. Try cropping a side to exclude the entrance or replacing the entrance with a wall. The walls look so rough and if they are wetll shooting a detail and bringing out the roughness and glistening water.

Another approach might be to work with the original composition. lighten the walls and brighten the ice. There is much here to work with. 		Jun 12th
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53 Jun 22 Comment Wow! I think the compositon is just terrific; the diagonals,curves and the outward pointing black specs, and pistles appear to be floating give this image tremendous strength and movement. At the same time the muted tones give a ephemeral lightness to the image. My personanl feeling is that I would not increase the contrast. I hope you print and frame this one. Try a velvet or soft gloss Epson Exhibition fiber, or Canson prestige, baryta would look really good Jun 20th
53 Jun 22 Comment The colors are raelly nicely done. The idea is good. I would play with the composition: try cropping more,The four trees on the left seem to me to be a distraction. You can erase them in PS. You can do the sme with the trees on the right side Jun 20th
53 Jun 22 Comment Unfortunately the image appears slightly blurred. Generally speaking, unintentional soft focus does not work well for animals birds etc. Sometimes you can fake it, by super sharpening just the eyes. When shooting hand held, I boost the ISO and shutter speed Jun 20th
53 Jun 22 Comment I thinbk both of To,'s suggestd edits increase the poer of the inage. A w onderfully captured image Jun 20th
53 Jun 22 Comment I agree that the eye needs more importance. I would crop out the fenced andthe bottom to the outer edge of the eye lid. Jun 20th
53 Jun 22 Comment The technical skills of all of you is really impressive. I personally would have darkened and blurred the background. The petals of the flower are so beautiful. I like to show them, bu manipulating the (usually) distracting surroundings Jun 20th
53 Jun 22 Comment I've played with it also. I either way is right side up. It is abstrct enough that it also works 90% rotation either way, but not as well as either of the vertical presentation/, in my opinion. I am using 2022.5 Jun 20th
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