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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 54 |
Jan 26 |
Reply |
Thanks so much, Angela! |
Jan 24th |
| 54 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
This is such a joyous image, Maria! I love the colors and the swirl. I have the feeling that something very magical and wonderful is happening, and that the serene peacock is making it all happen. I am always impressed with how you can take an inanimate object and bring it to life in your images, as you have done here.
I really think this is a lovely image.
My only suggestion is that the white house the peacock is sitting on is so much brighter than the peacock that I might consider adjusting brightness on both. |
Jan 18th |
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| 54 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
This is such an evocative image, Kirsti. I love the flower in the bottle. The red contrasts wonderfully with the cyan bottle, and the flower's softness enhances its beauty as well as being a realistic result of being viewed through glass. The woman's expression adds a real poignancy to the image for me.
You might consider changing some of the color on the woman's face to match the bottle in order to create a connection between them. I also was curious about how it would look with a levels correction layer in soft light mode, masking out the bottle and table. It lightened up her face. What do you think?
I also like Maria's version. |
Jan 17th |
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| 54 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
What a fun and exciting image, Brad! The waterfall looks very natural in your setting - it's entirely believable. It makes the daredevil surfer all the more credible. The waterfall is incredibly beautiful, and for me, anyway, the surfer embodies a fantasy of riding that glossy water all the way down.
The desaturated landscape works really well both because of the fog as well as how it enhances the story without distracting from it.
My only suggestion is lightening the shadows on the surfer a tad and doing a levels correction to the image so the soft light is applied across the image.
I like Maria's version as well. |
Jan 17th |
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| 54 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
I really love this image, Alan! There are subtle things that feel surreal to me because they look realistic until I examine them more closely - the perfect grey gradient sky going to black while the foreground is well lit, and the grain of the landscape changing less in the distance than perspective would suggest. I love your representation of AI as a soulless grey statue. (Obviously, I have a prejudice against AI, though I too admit it's now a matter of how it is used rather than if it is used). I especially like how the artist's stool and the flower stools are positioned in a 3D manner so that all the legs are shown whereas the AI portrait and easel directly face the viewer and so appear 2D. Your colors and composition really work well together, in my opinion.
For what it's worth, I got the concept as soon as I read the title.
One extremely minor thing I noticed is that the black spots in the landscape (grains of sand or rocks, perhaps) line up in a straight line to the left of the flowers. Maybe it's just a coincidence, but it led my eye to look for a rectangle around the flowers as if that was the shape of the selection layer. I didn't really see evidence of that, so it's probably my imagination. |
Jan 17th |
| 54 |
Jan 26 |
Reply |
Thanks very much, Maria! |
Jan 17th |
| 54 |
Jan 26 |
Reply |
Thanks, Brad!
I was trying to figure out what bothered me about the owl, too. I think you nailed it.
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Jan 17th |
| 54 |
Jan 26 |
Reply |
Thanks very much, Alan! |
Jan 17th |
| 54 |
Jan 26 |
Reply |
Thanks, Kirsti!
It's interesting that you see it as the woman escaping from the bottle; I was thinking that she was going into it.
In either case, it probably makes more sense to not have her arm distorted since the rest of her torso is not warped. Thanks! |
Jan 17th |
| 54 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
I found an alternative. Comments? Preferences? |
Jan 1st |
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5 comments - 5 replies for Group 54
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| 81 |
Jan 26 |
Comment |
What a stunning image! I love the colors, and the smoke formations make such an interesting pattern in your mandala.
It was very clever of you to have the smoke coming out of bottle to focus it. I've never seen that before, but I'm going to remember it. ;0) |
Jan 24th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 81
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6 comments - 5 replies Total
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