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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 34 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
I like this Helen! Your title is very appropriate and the image gives a sense of busting out of a jail cell or breaking free from monotony. Your use of black and white for the outer area was a great idea. I do love Original 2, so I hope you will use it in a sunrise or something in the future -- the colors and shapes are wonderful in it. I too would like to see a bit of sky above the tree. I think the proportions between the monochrome area and the color area are perfect for the feeling you were aiming for. If the color area was larger, I don't think it would give the viewer as great a sense of escape. Very well imagined and executed! |
Jun 16th |
| 34 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Very nice Georgianne. It looks like a lovely place to visit. Your treatment accomplished your goal of taking a documentary shot and turning it into something more. Using a green color cast rather than sepia worked with this particular shot because so much of the subject is naturally green. I really like the border you used, and it adds a lot to the vintage feel. My only nit-pick suggestion would be to maybe clone out the white buoy or post near center/left. I didn't really notice it that much in your final, but once I saw it in your original, I couldn't forget it was there. But just a very minor detail. I do like Steve's version too. You've worked your image well and I love the mood of it. |
Jun 16th |
| 34 |
Jun 20 |
Reply |
What kind words. Thank you Helen. |
Jun 16th |
| 34 |
Jun 20 |
Reply |
Touche Alan! ;) I should have known better than to take issue with the 2-dimension horse, knowing your desire to make your viewers disoriented. However, I must respectfully disagree with your shadow theory. I can perhaps concede your point about the stairs and table (I was more heavy handed than needed there but I wanted you to be able to see what I did). But the boot looks like it's being held in mid-air, which isn't realistic. And the legs of the chair that fall within the shadow the cowboy is casting also look "off" because they're in front of the shadow. Even though the light is falling on the bottom of the boot, it would still cast some shadow where it's not directly touching the ground. I took a photo of a shoe with the light shining directly on the sole just to make sure I wasn't "off" myself. Perhaps if there was a spotlight directly on the sole of the boot, and there wasn't any other ambient light, there would be no shadow, but that's not the case with your scene. I don't mean to be making a mountain out of a mole hill here, but I always learn something myself in the process of figuring out this kind of stuff. |
Jun 14th |
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| 34 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Wow, you did an amazing job of extracting the cowboy out of all those strong colors in your original, Alan. I really like the color tone you used here. The combination of elements is cool. Thanks for your explanation of your process in making the outline. Realizing when it happened by accident that it had a practical application for other things is a testament to your creativity. To my eye, since the horse is just an outline, it seems a bit too two-dimensional when everything else has more depth. So I played around with him a bit. I made a new layer of just the horse and applied a Ripple filter. It kind of seemed to give him a mirage look. While I was there I toyed with the shadow concept that Steve brought up, but ended up just putting shadows where his feet would be touching the ground. Once I did that, I decided the bottom of the stairs, the cowboy's boot, and the bottom of the table maybe could also use shadows where they touched the ground. Your dreamscape idea is great and your imagination always impresses me. |
Jun 13th |
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| 34 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Like Georgianne, I didn't notice the face until I read your description. The mood that you've created is lovely and I can almost feel the fog and mist on my face as I walk through it. You did an excellent job of creating the face and it's very cool that you used both a statue and some elements from the original scene to integrate it into the final image. The bright spots on the tree just to right of center are a bit distracting to my eye and perhaps kept me from noticing the face. Your hard work with this image really paid off -- well done! |
Jun 13th |
| 34 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Very lovely and calming image Steve! As you say, there are some positive outcomes from staying close to home. Your treatment of the flowers in the forefront is very nice and really helps to tie them into the background since you used the same pencil sketch treatment there too. I especially like the way the details are enhanced. My only suggestion would be to use two different groupings of bluebells on the left and right, rather than symmetrical, to give it a more "came upon this scene on a walk" feel. I'm very much enjoying your garden and flora images recently. Nicely done and well processed! |
Jun 13th |
| 34 |
Jun 20 |
Reply |
Good suggestion Georgianne. Thanks for your enhancement! |
Jun 13th |
| 34 |
Jun 20 |
Reply |
Thanks for your observations Alan. Frequently the Steampunk ladies don a small hat on the side of their head (but way too small to fit over their head) and secure it with a headband or hairpins. That was the look I was going for, but I obviously didn't do a very good job. As for the top knot on the bird, I didn't really intend for it to look realistic. That's why I used a decorative typeface letter rather than a real feather. I think my intended effect might have been more obvious if I had added several more unrealistic (quirky) elements throughout the image. Oh well, back to the drawing board. |
Jun 5th |
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