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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 4 |
Jul 22 |
Reply |
Ian, thanks for your thoughts. Yes most of my dad's raids were daylight raids. My uncle was in the Seventh army Air Corps flying out of England. My father was in the 15th Army Air Corps flying out of Foggia, Italy. Fortunately at least half of his flights were in the B-17F and the B-17G which both had escape hatches into the fuselage from the ball turret. |
Jul 12th |
| 4 |
Jul 22 |
Comment |
Thanks for sharing that image. In my mind the Spitfire and the P 51 Mustang are two of the most important fighter aircraft in aviation history. I think it's great for people to be able to see the aircraft that kept them free! BTW My father flew 59 missions in the ball turret of a B-17. |
Jul 11th |
| 4 |
Jul 22 |
Comment |
Thanks for sharing that image. In my mind the Spitfire and the P 51 Mustang are two of the most important fighter aircraft in aviation history. I think it's great for people to be able to see the aircraft that kept them free! BTW My father flew 59 missions in the ball turret of a B-17. |
Jul 11th |
| 4 |
Jul 22 |
Comment |
Ian, I love the story and the image that resulted. One of the best stories I have read on DD inputs. I believe that you used your photographic experience and the camera capabilities to the fullest preparing for his return. To my eye you got a sharp image of a "quick" bird with a soft background that created an interesting image. Well done. While you cannot enter it in Nature you might try a crop and submitting it to Color Open because of its uniqueness. |
Jul 11th |
| 4 |
Jul 22 |
Comment |
Guy, your choice of camera setup conditions for the capture really made the image great from the start. The 1/1000 sec shutter speed ensured a razor-sharp image of the birds and the 4.5 f/stop sufficiently blurred the background to make the birds standout. From my experience the way you have done this leads the viewer's eye directly to the subject and holds it there. The "fixation point" is right where you wanted it to be. I also like the crop suggestion.
I am glad to see another On1 user. I use it for a variety of things including sharpening, dynamic contrast (but all use DxO Color Efex Tonal Contrast as an alternative), Luminosity masks when needed and Vignettes. Would be interested to learn more on your thoughts - what you use most and why - perhaps in a separate email. If you have the time.
Thanks for sharing the details. |
Jul 11th |
| 4 |
Jul 22 |
Comment |
Vella, earlier this year I made the transition from thee Canon 5D Mark IV to the R5. My first attempt with the R5 I used exactly what you have chosen, the 100-400 EF lens and the Gen 3 1.4X extender. I was not happy with the results and began talking to the people at BH and Bedford.
To my eye, for a 1/2500 second shot, the sharpness of the eagle isn't what it should be. The technical experts advised me that the EF lens, while not up to RF quality is still good, but the extender glass quality is not capable of utilizing the pixel density of the R5 to get the image sharpness you will want.
I found that I got better results first by using just the 100-400 EF lens and cropping more. I have since gone to the RF 100-500 lens which yields incredibly better sharpness. I also have the RF extender but some of the best bird photographers say that even the RF extenders degrade the image sharpness of images from the R5 camera. |
Jul 10th |
| 4 |
Jul 22 |
Comment |
Isaac, sorry for not getting the name in - I have corrected that now.
For me the highlights of this images are the shape of the wave and the detail you were able to achieve through a combination of good capture and post-processing decisions. I believe that the whitecaps and the "angry ocean" in the background do enough to satisfy that layer requirement.
To my eye, whether color or BW, the image needs a foreground to complete it. I think that the wave alone is not enough to allow the viewer to ponder the image and determine what story you are trying to tell. |
Jul 9th |
| 4 |
Jul 22 |
Comment |
Erik, for me this is an intriguing image. I feel that it is highly creative which makes it stand apart from the bulk of the images that we all see month after month. You had a good eye to see this and capture it. To my eye the solid blacks, bright whites and saturated blues work well together. To me the lines of the ice flow are sharp and the detail in the ice makes it stand apart from the sky and mountain reflections.
From my experience the one area to give thought to is the left vs right imbalance. I've read that the human brain can accept top to bottom imbalance in an image but has more difficulty with left to right imbalance. What are your thoughts/experiences?
Thanks for sharing this unique image. |
Jul 7th |
| 4 |
Jul 22 |
Comment |
Thanks for those comments Bill. |
Jul 6th |
| 4 |
Jul 22 |
Comment |
Bill, I feel that Isaac's comments have covered the key feedback quite well. I do not know if you use On1 Photo Raw but it does a good job with skies behind tress.
The smart mask tool and the detailed "Chisel" tool can get into all of these areas and remove the unwanted halos. The newest version 2022.5 also has a "sky replacement" that I have not tried yet and may work. |
Jul 6th |
| 4 |
Jul 22 |
Reply |
Yes, the average photographer would not notice. But the purpose of the feedback in these groups, I believe, to give our input from our experience to help the members of the group improve their imaging. |
Jul 5th |
| 4 |
Jul 22 |
Comment |
Bill, I feel that Isaac's comments have covered the key feedback quite well. I do not know if you use On1 Photo Raw but it does a good job with skies behind tress.
The smart mask tool and the detailed "Chisel" tool can get into all of these areas and remove the unwanted halos. The newest version 2022.5 also has a "sky replacement" that I have not tried yet and may work. |
Jul 5th |
| 4 |
Jul 22 |
Reply |
Isaac, thanks for the comments. Based on your comment on the color image I went back one more time to Color Efex and used the White Neutralization applied only to the two side walls. I used about 60% strength for two reasons. First. looking at the RAW originals there is some difference in tint to the two walls. The Chapel is being sunlit from the right which is striking the left wall but not the right one. Second, when I went above 60%, even though "Control pointed" to the sides it seemed the effect the areas lit by Tungsten light. So this is what I have now. Thanks for pushing me. |
Jul 5th |
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