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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 18 |
Mar 18 |
Comment |
Simplicity which makes for a great creative, and social, comment. Given the excellent cut - paste of the head, I suspect that the flattened image could be placed into another environment, losing the background window. A blurred hairdresser salon, perhaps.
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Mar 26th |
| 18 |
Mar 18 |
Comment |
Its a very striking creation with the strong colours, and soft mottled background. I think both cropped and uncropped versions work. I might be inclined to reduce the light lines of the eyes so the subject does not stare. |
Mar 26th |
| 18 |
Mar 18 |
Comment |
A white balance adjustment to the rocks, followed by a saturation with softening (negative clarity / gaussian) lens a warm morning effect. |
Mar 26th |
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| 18 |
Mar 18 |
Comment |
The filter has introduced a pseudo-HDR effect that works well. A little colour vibrance and shadow lifting might further improve the drama. Further processing allow these lines might lend increases in the creative area.
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Mar 26th |
| 18 |
Mar 18 |
Reply |
my thoughts exactly. |
Mar 26th |
| 18 |
Mar 18 |
Comment |
The concept and execution work well. The reflected portrait in the eye needs to be sharp, lighter, and contrasting. Perhaps a little more circular.
With the actual eys and facial features, either sharpen a bit, or apply a soft focus filter to help bring out the face within the eye. |
Mar 26th |
| 18 |
Mar 18 |
Reply |
I certainly slips well towards the abstract, like sprkling light on water, yet leaves enough to interpret the subject. Maybe it loses a little of the faceless officer feel of the original.
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Mar 26th |
| 18 |
Mar 18 |
Reply |
The original is better. That shape looks too architectural to represent a face, especially in the same field of view as the other two. |
Mar 26th |
| 18 |
Mar 18 |
Comment |
The transformation of the subject works well for me, producing as it does a sense of anonymity of authority. The caps and tunics define well the officer class, while the monochrome and lack of facial details supply the anonymity. I am in two minds about highlights. If the highlights, then shadows also. Reducing contrast to the midtones would add to the feeling of mindless anonymity. |
Mar 26th |
| 18 |
Mar 18 |
Comment |
The filter brings out the best of the roof shapes and colours, while reducing to the darkness an excess of detail. The sharp light lines throw the reds forwards. Vignetting removes the final competing elements of sky and foreground. |
Mar 26th |
7 comments - 3 replies for Group 18
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7 comments - 3 replies Total
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