Activity for User 763 - Joan Funk - joanfunk7@gmail.com

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16 May 20 Comment The autumn colors you captured in the foliage are beautiful, and I like the autumn sky that goes with it, if cropped lower. I would definitely make this a panorama, cropping off some of the top and bottom.

My other suggestion is to darken the green grass in the lower half. It doesn't look natural to me. Maybe select it in Photoshop and de-saturate (or try luminosity) the greens and yellows just a bit.		 May 23rd
16 May 20 Comment I encourage you to go back to your camera and save the iphone for snapshots. You photographed a beautiful bobcat, but your equipment was working against you. May 23rd
16 May 20 Comment These are trying times in America where, as Bogdan wrote, we have a President who doesn't care. It's tragic, the number of people who are dying because of him. Given that it's unsafe to go beyond our immediate area, you have found nice plantings to photograph.

I'm wondering why you chose f/22 for your f-stop. If you had used something wider than f/8, you could have gotten sharper flowers after cropping drastically, with a lower ISO and higher shutter speed to make up for the slight camera shake with your telephoto lens.
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16 May 20 Comment You saw the possibilities in the less-than-compelling photo you took, and processed it into a quite compelling image. Gone is the dark, drab foreground and flat, lifeless background. You breathed life into both with your editing. The foreground colors and lighting are terrific. For the mountains in the background I would take down the whites a bit. They look unnatural to me.

Walter's suggestion to use the perspective crop tool in Photoshop to straighten out the cart is a good one. I had to look it up, and it's just what I need too for straightening large objects in some of my photos. Thank you, Walter.		 May 23rd
16 May 20 Comment Terry, your image of the flower is beautiful, and I love the sharp green leaves that cradle it.

I would, however, clone out all the blurred leaves and then crop off the left side, so the flower isn't in the center with nothing to the left. I think the blurred leaves distract from the most important element, the flower and the leaves cradling it.

And just to give credit where it's due, you wrote "Joan" to the comment from Bunny.		 May 18th
16 May 20 Comment Wow, Bunny, that is quite a mask. And what a transformation you made with your more recent Photoshop skills. The original was a good shot but not "Wow."

You handled the background well, and the hair, sharpening, and lightening of the dark areas. I'm glad you made the decision to center the image.		 May 1st
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