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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 54 |
Jan 23 |
Reply |
I think your original version accurately reflects your intent to make it about the landscape and the sky, with the hawk as an ornament.
Personally, I've found that when there is a person or animal in my image, viewers tend to assume that that's the subject. As in "this is a picture about a hawk descending to snap up some prey".
I think if you moved the hawk up over the mountain range background in your original version, you would have 3 elements (abstract cloud, detailed foreground rocks, and hawk) of equal importance arranged in a triangle, which I think would be very pleasing to my taste.
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Jan 23rd |
| 54 |
Jan 23 |
Reply |
Thanks, Christian. I left them there because I felt that they helped support the idea of motion, but I see what you mean. I think the softness of the focus is all I need here. I'll try taking them out and see how I like it. Thanks for your close scrutiny and suggestion! |
Jan 23rd |
| 54 |
Jan 23 |
Reply |
Thank you, Maria! |
Jan 23rd |
| 54 |
Jan 23 |
Reply |
Thanks for your honesty, Alan. I know blurry images are not everyone's cup of tea. No worries. |
Jan 14th |
| 54 |
Jan 23 |
Comment |
I've had to do a lot of thinking about this image, Alan. I think your composition is very effective, and that the background works well in tying the elements together.
I really like the way the painting's hands are coming out of the frame. It makes her feel even more real, not only for breaking that barrier, but also by giving a sense of motion that the artist and model don't have. The contrast is striking.
I really like Kirsti's comments. My take is somewhat different. This image makes me think about how an image takes on a life of its own, sometimes very different from what I think I see through the camera or in my mind's eye.
One small suggestion: personally, I find the color of the easel to be a little distracting. |
Jan 14th |
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| 54 |
Jan 23 |
Comment |
Christian, I think you have taken an exciting landscape and made it even more dramatic. You have so much great detail in the foreground rocks, and then they are so nice framed by the distant, softer hills. I really like how we can see light and shadow on the rocks, with lots of detail in the shadows.
The hawk is magnificent. I think the lighting on it looks consistent with the rest of the image - well done!
You did a great job blending the cloud into the sky. It looks very natural. It is also the brightest and largest thing in the image, so my eye keeps wanting to go there.
I like Alan's suggestion of putting the hawk higher in the sky- it's much more dramatic to have it stand out more clearly. However, I'd consider having a wispy cloud behind it (which you could do with a lowered opacity layer of your final sky put over the original sky, and then moving the hawk). |
Jan 14th |
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| 54 |
Jan 23 |
Comment |
This is a really beautiful image, Brad. It gives me the feeling that the bird is flying across the cosmos to another land. I love the way the Milky Way looks both like the trail of the bird as well as like a distant mountain range.
I really like it that the bird is not only flying out of the image, but also that it is facing left rather than right. It feels very intentional, that the bird has determined a path and is well on its way.
My only suggestion is that some of the detail is lost on my usual monitor setting. I know that most people have their monitors set brighter than I do, but your histogram is very much in the left third. I might consider a bit of a levels correction. |
Jan 14th |
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| 54 |
Jan 23 |
Comment |
I really like this image, Maria. The colors are lovely. The green of the tower plays nicely against the red wagon, and the blue at the top of the tower works well. I like your spacing between the elements - they feel close enough to be related but far enough to explain the effort the woman is putting into her trek along the sand. The soft painterly filter feels like a day at the beach to me - a bit of haze from the blowing sand, and maybe squinting my eyes against the sun.
I think both your original and Alan's crop work well - as Brad says, they tell different stories.
My first thought when I saw your image was that it might be interesting to have the woman with her cart a bit lower in the composition, to form a triangle. The thing is, it changes the feeling a bit, and loses the sense of large open spaces that your image has, so perhaps it doesn't work as well. |
Jan 14th |
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| 54 |
Jan 23 |
Comment |
Such a magical image, Kirsti! I love little Sunray's glowing oranges and yellows. I can feel her distress in her body language. The wispy glow surrounding her is just perfect, and the glow of the bokeh feels like it belongs to her.
I really like the depth of field on your trees. The branches and bokeh frame Sunray beautifully.
It's a little hard for me to tell that the crow is a bird, since there are no details and it's partly hidden by the branch. If you could bring out the details (or maybe use a different original with more detail), and maybe surround it with a glow so it doesn't get lost, I think it would be easier for the viewer to see that it is a crow. |
Jan 9th |
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| 54 |
Jan 23 |
Comment |
This is such a cool image, Aavo! I really like the way you placed the surfer just as he's surfing over the edge of the phone screen. I get a real feeling of the water going from a flat image to a 3D spillage. The way you've angled the phone and raised it a bit adds to the feeling of flow from the top of the waterfall down to the left bottom corner. The color of the desktop is a good complement to the image on the screen.
You did a great job on feathering the water's edges; I especially like the spray effect at the bottom.
I think the pixelation was a clever idea, but I personally think it doesn't add to the concept. |
Jan 9th |
| 54 |
Jan 23 |
Reply |
Thank you, Aavo! |
Jan 9th |
| 54 |
Jan 23 |
Reply |
Thank you, Brad! |
Jan 9th |
| 54 |
Jan 23 |
Reply |
Thank you, Kirsti! |
Jan 9th |
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