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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 18 |
Dec 19 |
Reply |
Quite fun Mark! |
Dec 23rd |
0 comments - 1 reply for Group 18
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| 70 |
Dec 19 |
Reply |
Nice effect Todd! Thanks for working it to show me - especially on Christmas Eve! I think it was those cloud reflections that drew me to taking the shot; like your colors. Merry Merry! |
Dec 24th |
| 70 |
Dec 19 |
Reply |
Thanks Frans for your kind words. I agree the article you referenced had some good tips. Never stop learning or our work will never change and grow.
Follow the Master Photographers, visit museums, libraries, go to photo conferences, join a camera club and enter competition where the judge critiques and you learn & grow from it, take workshops from the greats, explore their web sites & blogs & articles & video's, follow your favorites on social media. Study the tools they used and learn how they caught the light, color, gesture of their images.
Go to your camera/lens/equipment manufacturers sites; their "ambassadors" have a lot of tips for you. PSA has a wealth of info, as does B&H Photo at their Landscape & Scenic Photography page; also their event space page for videos of presentations. Also check out Adorama, Creative Live, Scott Kelby. Luminous Landscape, Fred Miranda, Lewis Kemper, Joseph Meehan, Rick Sammon, DP Review.
A painter starts with a blank canvas. A photographer starts with a full canvas in front of his lens. It needs to simplified to just the essentials of what he's trying to express carry the image. Take control of your camera, be intentional with your choices (exposure, dof, iso) as it relates to your Vision.
Arrive at your place and have a walk about without your gear until you have a Vision of your image. Finally get & set up your gear and expose with Intent for that Vision you have for your photograph: The right focus, the right depth of field, the motion blur you want or don't want, the darkest shadows with detail & no blown out highlights, no distractions, no sensor dust, level horizon, perhaps a vignette. In post continue with your Vision to create depth; is the subject clear & tells a story allowing you to move our eye through the image without escaping?
Be observant, study the light, consider what will fall on your power points on your viewfinder grid for best composition, study leading lines, shapes, supporting elements, shadows, point of view.
Merry Christmas everyone! |
Dec 21st |
| 70 |
Dec 19 |
Reply |
You are correct Lamar. The building is stepped & jogs out. |
Dec 18th |
| 70 |
Dec 19 |
Reply |
Thanks Pierre. I'll revisit Transform again. |
Dec 18th |
| 70 |
Dec 19 |
Reply |
Thanks Glen. Yes I felt a change of scene was due this month. |
Dec 18th |
| 70 |
Dec 19 |
Comment |
Love the atmosphere upper left and the light in lower right. Upper right is a big hazy; was it edited? Could it be brought out more? Nice sense of depth, leading lines of the contour fields. Lovely. |
Dec 18th |
| 70 |
Dec 19 |
Comment |
Marvelous Symphony Kathryn!
The Lens is the Brush
The Sensor is the Canvas
The File is the Score
The Image is the Symphony |
Dec 18th |
| 70 |
Dec 19 |
Comment |
Wonderful atmospheric environmental portrait. In LR I pushed it's colors, clarity, texture and contrast as well as de-saturating the salty whites just to "see" the difference. |
Dec 18th |
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| 70 |
Dec 19 |
Comment |
I like this very intimate landscape with the 16:9 crop and edits reducing one from wanting to explore anything that's not the Homo Verde. I like way the light goes through the delicate foliage and illuminates the golden branches. It reminds me of bonsai; balanced and harmonious. |
Dec 18th |
| 70 |
Dec 19 |
Comment |
I feel the image is busy and difficult to focus on your stated goal: attraction to the calmness of this fall scenery; the frozen pond, blurred mirror image of the barren tree. So in an attempt to simplify the scene, I cropped to 16:9 pano.
The branch crowning the top assists with your eye movement around the image from the edge of the pond to the branch and back again. It also eliminates viewing the movement of the small branches. Consider it another view to consider.
I like Glen's suggestion of desating colors with exception of blue. |
Dec 18th |
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| 70 |
Dec 19 |
Comment |
Colorful leaves, fall walkers, and the diminishing perspective of the walkway seem to be the stated goal of the photographer. I feel there is more foreground than needed or that adds value so I cropped image. Am not sure if the iPhone file will support this much cropping however. It also adds more of a sense of the winding route through this wetland by bringing the yellow sign into more prominence. Nice moment seen and caught! |
Dec 18th |
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| 70 |
Dec 19 |
Reply |
Thanks for correcting the perspective Pierre. I had tried Transform in Lightroom to correct it but didn't really work. Could you share the tools you used in PS? Thanks. |
Dec 15th |
6 comments - 6 replies for Group 70
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| 91 |
Dec 19 |
Comment |
Thanks so very very much Jim. Will give it a go!
Merry Christmas Everyone! |
Dec 22nd |
| 91 |
Dec 19 |
Reply |
Nice move Jim. Can you share you you moved the stem? |
Dec 18th |
| 91 |
Dec 19 |
Comment |
In my opinion 100% Dehaze is too contrasty, too dark and doesn't match the lighting on the ground. Instead perhaps try a graduated filter on the sky reducing highlights and adjusting exposure and clarity to emphasize the atmosphere and wispy clouds. Jim's suggestions add value to the image. Nicely captured scene. |
Dec 18th |
| 91 |
Dec 19 |
Comment |
Your maple leaf in fall color and shot in IR created a rich deep monochromatic image of magenta colors.
The primary focus on the bi-color leaf is sharp and stands out and pulls it up above the other leaves helping make the image 3D.
To me the monocrhrome effect puts more emphasis on the tones, shapes, and texture of what I'm looking at. The vignette helps keep my eye in the scene, which I find quite busy.
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Dec 14th |
| 91 |
Dec 19 |
Comment |
Good call Jeff; thanks; I like it. The reason I took the lens cap off was to capture the sky as there was some weather coming in. I suspect I have others that are more sky oriented but this pano look is nice. |
Dec 14th |
| 91 |
Dec 19 |
Comment |
Nice tonal range, much detail and a terrific composition surveying the battlefield. Particularly like how you positioned his head over the sky but just between the clouds. B&W was a good choice for this. |
Dec 12th |
| 91 |
Dec 19 |
Comment |
Wonderful image, focus, detail, no hot spot, pleasing composition & post processing - love it! Congrats!
When you set white balance in NX-D were you able to get it below 2000? I find I'm often in the 800's.
I'll have to see if my a7r IR camera has a B&W mode; that's a neat trick! Am sure it help with focusing a lot. It was suggested to me when shooting IR to bracket - a lot - like 5-7 images! Which increased my success with exposure.
It sure is a drag learning and fumbling around with all the different software: for you NX-D, PS, L4; for me Capture 1, LR, and PS. Think I will look into Cl IR; it sounds like it might streamline the whole process.
Love the peachy stem/flower color! |
Dec 12th |
6 comments - 1 reply for Group 91
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12 comments - 8 replies Total
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