Activity for User 837 - Piers Blackett - piersblackett@att.net

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2 Aug 24 Comment Hers is my edited version? Aug 14th
2 Aug 24 Comment I like your image and hope you stayed safe. I found it a bit flat and somewhat resistant to edits but not sure what you had to work with. I tried cropping some sky and taking out more side-branches to minimize stuff at the edges. However I was left with excess noise. I apologize for some experimenting: to resolve this I used gigapixel AI, which I use for salvaging cell phone jpegs for friends, to restore the pixels to about 4800 on the long edge. This allowed noise reduction and smoothing of the water and better definition of the houses - then went back to your size. Aug 14th
2 Aug 24 Reply Like sidekicks not enough sidewalks here according to most from across the pond! Aug 14th
2 Aug 24 Comment Yes - I need to take an ND filter for the water. Piers Aug 5th
2 Aug 24 Comment Yes! Cape Town is known for the south-westers that blow in weather from the Atlantic, but they still have relatively slow trains. There are good photo ops. Aug 5th
2 Aug 24 Comment My first impression is impactful but based on the two beautiful research buildings; then follows the red, white and blue train that has made a successful bid for prominence with the blur for speed. The net effect is that compositional strengths outweigh the effect of the competing subjects. Not sure where the light is coming from but I would consider darkening the sky. Aug 3rd
2 Aug 24 Comment Minimalism at its best! Great cropping to attain optimal geometric shapes. You have slightly uneven sky with more darkness on the right that originates from the original. I would try partial a vignette for more balance perhaps? Aug 3rd
2 Aug 24 Comment Congrats on a strong image with intrigue, compositional balance and mostly orange shades. I think the lace cloth although attractive fails to jive, maybe because its white and doesn't provide much of a line. Aug 3rd
2 Aug 24 Comment This developing fern is most intriguing and I agree with Karen on her impressions. The way the diagonal leads the eye to the evolving tip with the ant is the strong point; so the tip could therefore be brighter, but contrasting with the background diagonals from another but obviously more adult/mature fern could be darker. Aug 3rd
2 Aug 24 Comment Thanks. How about the horizontal flip? Aug 3rd
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