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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 34 |
Aug 20 |
Comment |
Great job with the combination of images. You are extremely creative. Thanks for sharing your talents. |
Aug 8th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 34
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| 52 |
Aug 20 |
Comment |
Great shot - as I have commented before. I feel that this is one of the two to three best images that I have seen in looking at all group submissions this month. |
Aug 8th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 52
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| 88 |
Aug 20 |
Reply |
Good idea Trey. I may retry the straight curb option. I have a new idea on how to do it. I actually offered it for free to the Chamber and the town (via voice mail) and no one called me back. Oh well, their loss. |
Aug 15th |
| 88 |
Aug 20 |
Reply |
Charles, thanks for the suggestion. I actually made a version as you suggested. There ends up being too much uniform "dead space" in that corner of the image. I also tried making the curb run straight up the picture and didn't like that either. I will look at darkening the curb. |
Aug 13th |
| 88 |
Aug 20 |
Comment |
I like the effect you achieved. For me it would be great to know more about exactly how you processed in LR and PS to get the great rays from the sun. |
Aug 8th |
| 88 |
Aug 20 |
Reply |
Scott, it sounds very similar to Topaz Studio 2's AI Clear which I use a lot. Thanks. |
Aug 8th |
| 88 |
Aug 20 |
Comment |
Gary, thanks for sharing. I feel that the BW does have better impact as it - to my eye - fixes the viewer's eye on the comment and not on the colors in the lower sky. Depending on what mm focal length you are using you may have has more time (if < 125 mm) to shoot without blur.
It seems to me however that you traded noise in the sky for noise in the tree openings. The latter of course is less noticeable. If your Sony has 'long exposure noise reduction', did you have it turned off?
If you haven't read it, in their book "Night Sky" Jennifer Wu and James Martin give some very good and very detailed instructions for shooting all variations on night sky shots. |
Aug 7th |
| 88 |
Aug 20 |
Comment |
Trey, to me the composition of this simple image is well done. To my eye the path and the light thru the canopy both lead my eye toward the lake. From my experience the presets that you have used, softening the image somewhat, add to the image.
One suggestion, I feel that the water color is to light and could be a darker hue. The color of the water in the original looks right to me. |
Aug 6th |
| 88 |
Aug 20 |
Comment |
One of my favorite places in the west - too bad that it can now be so tourist crowded.
I feel the you have done an excellent job of adjusting the contrast - bringing down the highlights and opening up the shadows - in your post work. From my memory you have gotten the color of the walls spot on.
Can you tell me more about your individual adjustments in Luminar. I do not know that SW and would be interested to learn more about what it can do and how useful it is to you.
Thanks. |
Aug 6th |
| 88 |
Aug 20 |
Comment |
Lou, I like this picture and I liked the location - Bryce, Zion, et al have so much "eye candy" for the avid photographer. Brings back great memories. To my eye you have done a good job with the post-processing stitching, the sharpness and the color balance. From my experience the eye always wants to be distracted by bright spots so I might suggest locally darkening the rock on the left lower corner and even perhaps removing the partial pine tree.
You will be missed in DD88. Stay in touch |
Aug 5th |
| 88 |
Aug 20 |
Comment |
Charles, for all the pictures we have looked at as a group, this certainly is different and original. To my eye you have done excellent work in capture of getting the correct DoF - with the soft background. I feel that soft background enhances the elephants as the fixation point of the image. I believe that the exposure in the final and the sharpness are also right on.
For me the visual distribution leaves too little at the right of the image. The elephants seem to me to be walking out of your picture rather than into it. Bruce Barnbaum (The Art of Photography) from his experience, states that the viewer's eye will always go the the brightest spots on the image. Holding that as true, I like what you did to brighten the water spray from the first elephant. However, to my eye that blue water larger than the water spray, too bright and too florescent blue - drawing my eye ultimately away from the elephants
I am very interested to know if you applied some variation of a blue/yellow filter or preset? It seems that the shadows on the trailing elephants have gone blue and the back of the lead elephant is too brown. For me these do not seem natural. |
Aug 4th |
6 comments - 3 replies for Group 88
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8 comments - 3 replies Total
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