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64 Jul 17 Comment Yes, the skin is great in my view too. I like the sharpness and tonal range. Composition-wise, I like the placement of the elephant horizontally ... maybe a tiny bit more above it would be better, if you have any? The strong sunshine is making life hard for you and the camera, but I think you've got a great balance overall. Stan's comments on dodging sound good to me.

As for the tail, I hadn't noticed until I read your narrative! But if you'd like to, pinch one from your other images and paste it in!		 Jul 11th
64 Jul 17 Comment Yes, it's quite a dramatic image to me. I like the unusual composition and dream-like feel. I see a good range of tones, and the featureless background emphasises the fog.

I'm puzzled about the sharpness though. With this focal length and shutter speed, there should be no camera shake. But it doesn't seem sharp at all to me. The background might be the atmosphere as you say, so I can only conclude the foreground is out of focus, but at f18....?? Still puzzled!

Given the benefit of hindsight I'd have suggested a slight shift in viewpoint would have separated the two clumps of grass and made that part of the image look less confused to me.		 Jul 11th
64 Jul 17 Comment Stan, you do find some great foregounds! The contrast between this and the rectilinear buildings make me feel motion sickness! Great sharpness and tonality, it has a painterly type of feeling to me in the buildings. The sky, building, pavement balance is fine in my opinion, and I wouldn't pull in a "more interesting" sky as I think it would make it overpowering. There's enough in the sky to be interesting without being distracting - the stars of the show are the buildings and pavement to me.

To me, the only issue is the pesky statue. Cloning it all out would be a big call I think, although not impossible, and simply cropping it out would lose the nice receding buildings behind it. Maybe half and half - cut if off along the right edge of the plinth then clone out the girl and the remaining bit of base?		 Jul 11th
64 Jul 17 Comment Great, I love it. Almost an infra-red feel to me. Actually I don't really like real infra-reds, but I do like this as if feels high key and natural to me. It looks sharp and pleasingly composed to me. I agree with Stan's comments about reducing the tone of the grass, it would make the tree stand out more.

In terms of composition, you mention cropping.....did you crop any off the top? If so, I think putting more space above the tree would improve the composition and would emphasis the tree's connection with the sky. If not you could clone some in with Elements or similar, but I suspect not with Lightroom although I've only had fleeting experience of it.		 Jul 11th
64 Jul 17 Comment An interesting image, I like it too. The sky adds lots of drama. There seems to me to be good sharpness and overall, a nice range of tones. The leading lines bring my eye towards the focus of attention which to me is the front part of the building, so it gives me a nice punchline and stereoscopic effect. I agree with Stan, the building does seem to grow a little to the top - have you corrected converging verticals to get them bang parallel? Although personally I like the result, it pushes my eye to the dramatic sky.

I find the rolling stock on the left edge rather distracting, I'd definitely crop it out. The modern sculptures seem out of place to me, I'd have had a bash at cloning them out. I can't figure why I can't see more detail in the roof, it should be well lit by the sky and showing some detail. Can you recover any detail there?		 Jul 11th
64 Jul 17 Comment Yes, I like the water as well as it's not all gone to "milk" like many similar images, there's texture still there despite the flow.

As you know, I like high contrast in my monos sometimes, and there's little grey here as far as I can see, so like my "splashes" last month, I suspect you now must have a bath-tub histogram. I felt I'd removed too much grey then, but all you guys seemed to like it, and this one is similar in that respect. So, what impact does it present to me? I love the diagonal flow and the feel of the torrent, and the contrast with the texture of the marks on the foreground rocks. But the right hand side does seem to me to be too dark as Stan suggests. Is there any detail in the original to resurrect there? Putting a bit of grey back there might balance the image more and make for of that area.		 Jul 11th
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