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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 66 |
Aug 18 |
Reply |
Thanks Melanie...you and Palli agree on the foreground spots in the water. Read my reply to Palli, and you'll see I do too now that I've removed them.
As to the border...borders I've found in exhibitions to be one of the most controversial subjects about a post-processed image. It's a love/hate relationship with them for most of us. I think in any digital image competition, your suggestion must be followed...trim it back to just a stroke edge. |
Aug 7th |
| 66 |
Aug 18 |
Reply |
Palli...I just took them out before submitting this one to a digital exhibition. It makes a great difference as you suggested. I'm afraid in this digital world, and in IR, the true living material would indeed be taken for dirt spots or poor post processing as Melanie suggests. They were authentic, but they are now GONE from the master image file! Thank you for the feedback. |
Aug 7th |
| 66 |
Aug 18 |
Comment |
Welcome Emil! So very, very good to have you with us. What a strong initial submission to us! Forgive me, but my peers will attest to the fact that I really like boldness, contrast, white whites and black blacks in my processed IR images. Jack can tell you it's sometimes overdone...and I'd agree. I just thought this scene, to my eye, was wonderfully captured but needed some more grit, some boldness, some impact coming from those blacks and whites. I offer you just one of many, many possible alternatives to how you could process it. Personally, I find the power pole just fine where it is, but I did take out the other one hiding in the foliage. Tell me what you think...by the way, the smoothness comes from adding Topaz DeNoise to the scene at the end. |
Aug 7th |
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| 66 |
Aug 18 |
Comment |
Heh Melanie...BRILLIANT. I have no words of critique beyond that. A perfect IR scene so expertly captured and processed. |
Aug 7th |
| 66 |
Aug 18 |
Comment |
Greetings Palli!
I will be perfectly honest...I'm not getting it with this image. While it has classic foreground, mid-ground and background, the large mass of water is overpowering to me and is void of interest. There is nothing in it that contains IR-sensitive elements, and therefore it just becomes a large mass.
A lower camera angle perhaps? A wider perspective plus a lower camera angle? Definitely a location worth revisiting. |
Aug 7th |
| 66 |
Aug 18 |
Comment |
Greetings Jack,
I know what you'll think...Gary has added blacks and contrast and boldness that Jack doesn't particularly like! It's just another view of the world of IR, isn't it. Here's my adjusted image, see what you think. I DO think the sky, however you care to do it, demands to be darkened somewhat. The composition and the disappearing set of leading lines are just fantastic, as is the large collection of trees on the right. Add in the shadows, and this image is a winner in my book. |
Aug 7th |
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| 66 |
Aug 18 |
Comment |
Greetings Ernie,
This is one of the strongest images I've seen of yours, and I feel it's got all the ingredients of a very strong IR image. The one thing I believe is essential is to get the foliage much, much more white. I used the Lasso tool to select each clump of the bushes one by one, feathered the edges of my selection, and then used the eye dropper too in Levels to click with the white dropper on the lightest piece of foliage I could find. Look at the difference when the living materials come to life with a bright white. |
Aug 7th |
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