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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 33 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
Thanks to all for the ideas. I hope to get back there in 6-8 weeks to photograph this place again after the crop is growing. This location is over 100 miles from home. Getting up there to photograph isn't easy, or cheap, now days. My truck gets 20 miles per gallon. My gas price is $4.20 a gallon, today, (up from $2.65 last year, thanks to the Policies of the Biden Administration and our State Governor.)
Backing out the composition will show other (active) farm buildings in the distance.
The good subjects are visible from the "primitive roads", just dirt tracts. The dust penetrates everything, sometimes even the cameras. This is an arid environment. But, when it rains these dirt roads are just about impassible. Even with 4 wheel drive it is easy to get stuck when this ground is moist.
Due to vandalism, the farmers are demolishing old ruins more frequently, to protect themselves from liability issues. This place survives due to its remoteness. Sorry I cant get close and work this place during late afternoon. |
Jul 17th |
| 33 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
Colors are great. Brightness, and contrast spot on. I played with the idea of cropping off 40% of the rock in the foreground, but it changes the feel of the image. As is, the image has impact. |
Jul 17th |
| 33 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
Powerful image, as is, but burn in the sky a little bit and see what you think. |
Jul 17th |
| 33 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
I like the original composition, just fine. I wonder if it would serve to bolden the rocks with additional color saturation. It is a nice image as is. |
Jul 17th |
| 33 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
Great shot. The modified image is easier on my eyes. Sorry I can't be there. |
Jul 17th |
| 33 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
This is a great start. Here's my finish on it, since the statue is the main subject. I tried to keep him in context. I dodged the statue to get more detail in the man's features. Cropped out the excess sky, upper portion of the building, some of the junk in the background. Burned in some color, and enhanced the brightness of the scene a bit. Just one interpretation. This picture has lots of options for editorial work. Nice shot. |
Jul 15th |
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6 comments - 0 replies for Group 33
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| 44 |
Jul 21 |
Reply |
The foreground grass and front side of a shared berm are ours. The background is land being purchased by a neighbor. The plan is to board and pasture horses. I am ok with that. I can (maybe) sell a horse photo, better than more suburban sprawl. The Aspen tree on the left took a beating from a windstorm, last week. It's not quite so pretty anymore. |
Jul 19th |
| 44 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
Really nice image. The only thing I would suggest is maybe burn in the horizon line a tad. |
Jul 17th |
| 44 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
Great shot. I converted a Fuji X100V to 830 nm B&W. The rationale was to have larger file sizes for printing. 830 nm, so far, has been very limited in what it compliments. |
Jul 17th |
2 comments - 1 reply for Group 44
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| 85 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
I like the composition, save for the white building in the upper right.
Re: the altitude reading, did you descend from the launch point 239 feet prior to photographing? My drone shows me the altitude above and below the launch point. |
Jul 9th |
| 85 |
Jul 21 |
Reply |
I am not always lucky with flying out of direct sight. There's a reason this machine is named Drone 7. However, the losses, save one, were much closer to home and in weird conditions. This day, the flying weather was decent. I don't use "return to mama" as a rule. The programming does it, in spite of what I want. I was lucky to get any usable video at all, having only 20% of the battery available for the mission. I didn't start out on half a battery by choice. There was a pucker factor in this flight.
Unfortunately, the politics against drones is heating up to the point where us amateurs are being worked over. At the same time more commercial applications of drones are growing. I read recently that Archeologists in Kansas are using drones with Infrared and Thermal cameras to search for ancient villages in the prairie with success.
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Jul 9th |
| 85 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
Great composition. Can you play with brightness, contrast, and maybe burn in the highlights?
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Jul 6th |
| 85 |
Jul 21 |
Comment |
I enjoy the colors, the perspective (your signature) and the fact that having the pier slice through the middle successfully breaks the rules. Nice. |
Jul 6th |
3 comments - 1 reply for Group 85
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11 comments - 2 replies Total
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