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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 63 |
Sep 23 |
Reply |
As you know there are "Jumbles" that have impact and there are "Jumbles" that are flat and lifeless. The trick is seeing (or creating) the former and avoiding the later. That become the challenge and art of it. |
Sep 18th |
| 63 |
Sep 23 |
Reply |
Understandable. It was worth the attempt though, try different things with our editing. |
Sep 18th |
| 63 |
Sep 23 |
Comment |
This is an impressive shot of these Iris (I think) blooms. The exposure, composition and lighting are all very effective wonderful. One of your best shots. There is such a variety of shapes and layers within the blooms themselves, and your presentation displays these attributes nicely. This can work against you though, as there are so many interesting yet overlapping layers, that one looses a perspective of dimension here. As a result, the image appears a bit flat. If one were to darken selected arears, especially areas that are farther away or are slightly shadowed, this might restore a greater sense of depth to the blooms. The shading does not need to be overly dark, just sufficient to provide separation. I also feel that the bright white border here is competing with the bloom, and I might darken it some. In doing so it still provides its border function, but allows the blooms to come forward, and aids in adding depth. Finally, I feel that the top border is too close to the bloom, and that adding more space between the bloom and the top border, would serve to highlight your blooms even more. Here I have included an example to demonstrate these ideas. See what you think … |
Sep 17th |
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| 63 |
Sep 23 |
Comment |
What a fun display of these "blooms" (if one can call them that). I like how you got level with the blooms and captured them from the side view. To me this gives them equal prominence with the viewer, and enhances their presentation. The rim lighting setts these guys off nicely against the clean unintrusive background. The composition is especially effective in that there is little overlap between the subjects and each bloom has its own space horizontally speaking (i.e., they are not evenly space horizontally). The cleanliness of this presentation really set off the unique structure of each of these guys, something that is not fully captured within. There is so much detail that I wish I could enjoy more than what is shown here, but it might be difficult this give the distance required to capture these five blooms. I am not suggesting that I could have done better, but I do find myself wishing that a bit more detail was apparent within the head of each bloom. A small point and the overall image is quite impressive. |
Sep 17th |
| 63 |
Sep 23 |
Comment |
This is an interesting shot and I appreciate your only showing us the center, which "focus" (if you pardon the pun) or interest. The central stamens are nicely presented against an interesting backdrop of the flower's petals. Using a macro lens does allow one to get up-close and personal, but it does introduce it's on challenges as well. I find that it more difficult to get the entire image is focus when I use my macro lens. In this image I would like to have the petals be clearer and sharper. Here you also had the challenge of dappled lighting as well with the lower half of the central area in bright sunlight. This situation is always a challenge, and here I might have tried to darken the brighter parts of the central stamens or perhaps repositioning myself during the image capture. I do like the bright splotch and shadows below the central area though. This later suggestion assumes that you actually saw the bright area as you were shooting, something that I only get right 50 % of the time. |
Sep 17th |
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