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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 5 |
Oct 19 |
Comment |
Mark, to my eye you have done an excellent job with the location and lighting of the house and the balancing placement of the clouds. I feel that the lighting of the sky and on the solitary house adds to the quality of the image. In my opinion you have balanced the image well. From my experience too many people create images of Palouse that are too similar and you have captured something unique. |
Oct 5th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 5
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| 13 |
Oct 19 |
Comment |
For me this picture evokes memories of my time living in China and my many trips for R&R to Hong Kong. It is truly an area of a wide variety of visual delights. I think that you have used a creative eye to get a truly unique image. In my opinion the patina colors, the sharpness and the bits hanging on the door add to the quality of the shot. Nice work. |
Oct 7th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 13
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| 88 |
Oct 19 |
Reply |
Charles, see my note to Trey. This was shot at 11:30 PM so there was very little people traffic in the station. Didn't have to remove anything. I was braced both horizontally and vertically by the structure of the overpass. Original would only (noticeably) show the uncorrected perspective. |
Oct 13th |
| 88 |
Oct 19 |
Reply |
Neither cleaned off or lucky? These stations have very little people traffic at 11:30 PM. Choose that time for that reason. And you are correct about the ISO. My sister was with me. She shot at 1600 and her's is sharp. |
Oct 12th |
| 88 |
Oct 19 |
Comment |
For me this image is very "soothing" and it is easy to imagine being there. I believe that you have chosen an f/stop and shutter speed that yield good sharpness in the rocks and sky while yielding a nice smooth blur to the water. I think that the cloud trails in the sky and the shape of the blurred foam in the water work to balance the rocks on the left. To my eye the foam and center rock serve to draw in and hold the viewer's eye.
I feel that the balance could have been improved IF you could have gotten the camera to a point where the rocks were closer to center - if that was at all possible.
For me it would be great to learn more about your post-processing so that all of us can benefit the work that you did to achieve this final image. |
Oct 7th |
| 88 |
Oct 19 |
Comment |
To my eye the visual distribution of the rocks the water and the Milky way bring good balance to this image. I feel that the final color balance also brings good color harmony to the image.
I feel that some vertical transformation may be required yet as the lighthouse seems to be leaning. To my eye the Highlights of the Milky Way may be too bright as they rival the brightness of the search beam from the lighthouse in the final image. I feel that you may have gotten more brightness from the MW if you had shot for the full 35 seconds (500/focal length) that the 14mm lens would have permitted. |
Oct 7th |
| 88 |
Oct 19 |
Comment |
To my eye the setup that you chose for this handheld shot resulted in excellent sharpness, depth of field and color. I believe that the placement of the building with roughly equal water and sky yields good balance to the image. I feel that the color contrast of the black sky against the gold of the building creates good harmony of the colors.
For me, to improve my own image taking capability, I would like to know more about your thought process in setting this up and in post-processing. From my experience it would seem the lens distortion might have been a factor at f/2.5 at night - did you have to deal with that? Was straightening of the image required in post-process given the 9+mm focal length? For me, at these wide open f/stops I have had to worry about depth of field. Your sharpness from closest water to peaks of the building is exceptional. Did you have to do any post work to get that sharpness? Thanks in advance for any additional tips you can share. |
Oct 7th |
| 88 |
Oct 19 |
Comment |
For me this image creates meaning. Rochester NY is a city of summer festivals - tents like these and the crowds are seen all summer long. I feel that the balance of colors works well for this image. I believe that the exposure and depth of field are spot on.
To me the subject of the image is the festival, yet the trees and the sky dominate the image. In my opinion the cropped VF focuses more on the festival and the crowds that are attending. To my eye the highlights were overblown - as you acknowledged - and I pulled them back as well. |
Oct 5th |
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| 88 |
Oct 19 |
Comment |
To my eye you have done an excellent job of creating lines that lead the viewer's eye into the Basilica and hold it there - there are no distractions. I feel that the exposure, the Depth of Field and the Color of this image are well done. The highlights and Shadows are well done. All-in-all I think you have created an image that makes the city "come alive." |
Oct 5th |
| 88 |
Oct 19 |
Comment |
Charles, I wouldn't meter off of the brightest but, in this case meter for a peak to the right of center on your histogram. This should give you the most captured information. You can then, post capture, create a dupe and reduce the exposure on the dupe as necessary. That should provide the detail in the shadows you need. Also don't be afraid of higher ISO's. My October picture was at ISO 800. My sister shot the same picture at the same time at ISO 1600 and her picture is better than my own. |
Oct 2nd |
| 88 |
Oct 19 |
Comment |
I think that you have chosen a magnificent subject and an unusual time of day. From my experience most people try to capture this in the daylight. As I remember this view I feel you have laid out the fixation points so that they draw the viewer's eye in from each side and hold the eye on the castle.
To my eye the exposure on this image, as presented here, is underexposed - I have tried to lighten and pull out details from the river bank but there seems to me to be no "data" there to reprocess. In my opinion an exposure with the histogram to the right, that is darkened in selected spots, might yield better shadows and highlights overall. |
Oct 2nd |
| 88 |
Oct 19 |
Reply |
You are correct - I forgot that one. Yes I did use Vertical Perspective adjustment on this. |
Oct 2nd |
7 comments - 3 replies for Group 88
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9 comments - 3 replies Total
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