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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 2 |
Jul 25 |
Reply |
Thanks for your helpful discussion and edits and for putting the concept into words. I agree with bringing out the head and breast while mostly leaving the background birds. |
Jul 13th |
| 2 |
Jul 25 |
Comment |
Thanks - seems there is room for interpretation of the rules. Our club emphasizes representing what you "see". But it's tough to see detail during such fast action. I was not aware that changing hue and saturation could be allowed, and have redone the image by using the quick selection tool to deselect for the background before editing with a hue and saturation mask. I included the mud in the beak to match the mud on the ground. Then I brushed in some selective darkening. |
Jul 7th |
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| 2 |
Jul 25 |
Reply |
Maybe, but Stanley's idea is better. |
Jul 7th |
| 2 |
Jul 25 |
Comment |
Congratulations on your thoughtfulness, planning and selection choice for this image - The seven dancers combine and coordinate within the surrounding blurred blue spheres also numbering about seven - amazing! |
Jul 7th |
| 2 |
Jul 25 |
Comment |
Interesting idea - but we would probably need input from the Murrays to reconstruct the scene as it was! Although AI apparently has limitations I think it's impressive what it can do.
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Jul 5th |
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| 2 |
Jul 25 |
Reply |
Yes. I imagine that the front patio with pillars is where they would have pulled up with a horse and carriage, making a case for removing the hedge as well. |
Jul 4th |
| 2 |
Jul 25 |
Comment |
For some reason looking at your original has more impact for me. I think it must be the combination of contrast and perspective contributing to a human story that is missing from your presented version. A possible way to get around it is to pick one or two of the two-windowed apartments or flats and paint them. My choice would be yellow or light blue. |
Jul 3rd |
| 2 |
Jul 25 |
Comment |
Congratulations on your instructional and creative lesson. On looking at the original my first thought was high key and then perhaps to question whether it would be a good idea to have retained the thematic concept by putting the vase on a white table and perhaps a whiter wall to contrast and bring out the purple to orange shades? The third image with the petals is great in itself. |
Jul 3rd |
| 2 |
Jul 25 |
Comment |
The building is interesting and quite like one in Oklahoma City called the Overholser Mansion with similar pillars and an upstairs attic. When I complained about creaking floors in the attic, the caretaker lady explained that the place was haunted - could your reflections be supernatural? The design is intriguing and the pillars on the right especially attractive, but in my opinion concealed in part by an ugly palm tree and compositionally offset by the background building. So I felt challenged to compete with OnOne and try some removals using Photoshop's AI-generated generative fill. |
Jul 3rd |
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| 2 |
Jul 25 |
Comment |
You have a nice wide view of the scene with an impressive foreground anchor as the boat so I would clip off some of the grass in the front to bring the boat out more and consider a flip to get a left-to-right diagonal. You could remove the number because it's backwards anyway. Your treatment of the grass and trees is superb with an interesting person walking along the tree-line for scale. However, I agree with Shirley that the sky is "overcooked" - I have been looking at my sky collection and find I have been doing the same and consequently have been desaturating and reducing clarity a bit. The center part of the sun is slightly gray, so it could be best to leave it as blown-out white or paint in some yellowish white. |
Jul 3rd |
| 2 |
Jul 25 |
Reply |
Thanks - in this image I have tried some tonal adjusting to contrast the bird's head from the background but without going beyond standard PSA rules for nature. I'm not sure how to separate the background birds other than to mask and blur them slightly. I would like to keep them in to portray the intense collaborative activity. I do have other images of one bird alone as in the expanded supplemental image but not as sharp. |
Jul 3rd |
| 2 |
Jul 25 |
Reply |
Thanks that's helpful. I will think about it. |
Jul 3rd |
7 comments - 5 replies for Group 2
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7 comments - 5 replies Total
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