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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 4 |
Oct 18 |
Comment |
Thanks for all the helpful suggestions from everybody this month! I'll have to add the moon when I get a second. I'm processing Halloween zombie pictures still. As for borders, I don't really use them much at all. I understand that other people use them and that's fine for them...it's all a personal preference thing. However if borders appear on an image of mine then it's there for a purpose. Borders, in my mind, ruin the illusion of what a photo does for me. |
Oct 26th |
| 4 |
Oct 18 |
Reply |
I've never met a PSA person in real life before. I'd probably not know if I should salute or call them Sir or do a deep bow before them.
Seriously though it would be nice to meet a PSA person in real life just once. My problem of course is that I tend for reasons I won't go into here to stay pretty close around Lansing, Michigan. I will get an incentive to go outside of my immediate perimeter but it doesn't happen all that often. That last trip I took to Muskegon was the first time I had been REALLY outside of Lansing in a while. Well there was the Ionia Free Fair that I went to two nights to try to get light trails.
I mean it's not impossible for us to meet each other. They do make Skype. It's just hard for us to meet and take photos with each other is all :) |
Oct 22nd |
| 4 |
Oct 18 |
Comment |
This is kind of a quick process. I partially used Portrait Pro Standard for this one in addition to Photoshop just to help illustrate what I was saying
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Oct 9th |
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| 4 |
Oct 18 |
Comment |
I think this is a great shot Ian! The plane and the model are very colorful and the blue sky is great to look at as well. There is one minor thing that I would change and that is to give some color to the model's face and legs. I experimented with it a little bit in Raw mode in Photoshop but I was a bit heavy with the colors and I'm not sure that's what you would want. Anyway it's just a thought is all... |
Oct 9th |
| 4 |
Oct 18 |
Comment |
I really think your mirror selfie idea is fantastic Joe! When I first looked at this photo, I looked at the "house" in the back and thought, "Gee..I wonder where that castle is?" I kind of have a thing for castles. It's a very creative effect and it's very reminiscent of a reflection you might see in some water. Love it! |
Oct 9th |
| 4 |
Oct 18 |
Comment |
So I saw this photo and thought, "WOW..this is a really nice photo!" From the placement of the town to the placement of the truck and the mountains in the background, everything just flows well together. It's a very crisp detailed photo! I will say that I spent a while looking for the "ghost" in the photo since it was a "ghost town" but then I spied the ghost way in the window in the back building :)
Seriously it is an awesome photo! Since it's soon to be Halloween, I think this is a great photo to be sharing and very appropriate! You won't catch me going trick-or-treat in that town at night though! |
Oct 9th |
| 4 |
Oct 18 |
Reply |
That's a very interesting picture that Isaac posted and I am not familiar with the process however I have another photographer friend of mine (coincidentally his name is Bill also and he's in Lansing). He's from the darkroom days and if I mentioned this to him, I bet he would pick up on it in a heartbeat because he's been taking photos for a while.
Thanks for the compliment on the crosses. What happened with the crosses is when it came time to "paint in the crosses" to reveal them, I just gave up and got sloppy. I was like, "Oh whatever, I'm not taking the time to meticulously paint in the crosses." and so that's why they have a circular effect which was the size of the brush I was using to paint the mask back in.
You know, I have this perfect moon from a photo I took a while ago. I should take the moon from there and try to place it in this scene. It gives me some ideas to think about so thanks for that :) |
Oct 9th |
| 4 |
Oct 18 |
Comment |
I think this is a very intriguing photo. I would like to know how stilt houses stay up in the water :) and how do they get WI-FI out that far. It is a unique post-processing technique on the image. I'm really wondering what the original image looked like when the post looks like this. I really like the colors of the house very much! In my opinion, that gray sky in the background really needs some depth to it though.
I ended up taking your image into Topaz and did a little work on it and then did some work on the skies using the Camera Raw filter in Photoshop to give it some gradiation to see what I could do with the skies.
Interesting image nad I love hearing the story behind the photo! I still wonder how they get WI-FI :) |
Oct 9th |
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| 4 |
Oct 18 |
Comment |
Really such an interesting and colorful image Guy! I think the photo works well with the bridge leading the viewer's eyes into the photograph. I also think you captured the lighting on Big Ben and the water perfectly! I like all the detail you can make out in the windows in the buildings in the background so the post-processing works quite well in my eyes.
If it were me then I would have gone less bright to increase the "dramatic shadows" and emphasize the night elements but that's minor. So I want to make it clear that I think the image is perfect as it is but I'm wondering if somebody else might recommend that you flip the picture horizontally.
It's a very impressive photo! |
Oct 9th |
| 4 |
Oct 18 |
Comment |
I really love this image a lot! I like the lighting and the shadows being displayed in this scene. Further I like the look on the woman wistfully looking out the window towards something which we are left to wonder about in our mind. You have created a very dramatic looking shot Isaac telling an interesting story and I congratulate you on it! |
Oct 8th |
| 4 |
Oct 18 |
Comment |
Just for the record, those holes just above the trees in the church wall shouldn't be there. It's just that I was a little sloppy in my post-processing and didn't notice it until after I posted it out in the digital study group. oh well! |
Oct 1st |
9 comments - 2 replies for Group 4
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| 20 |
Oct 18 |
Comment |
Amazing work Nellie! I'm very stunned at the beauty that you managed to pull out of this simple sepia-toned image! It's a very interesting technique and I'm really excited that you took the time to share that with all the other people in your group! Great work! |
Oct 9th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 20
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| 74 |
Oct 18 |
Comment |
Great photo with the small monkey's expression! The textures really work in enhancing this black and white photo. I might have lightened the adult's face a bit with some dodging especially around the cheek. I might have also considred a light vignette at the corners to focus the attention inwards. |
Oct 22nd |
| 74 |
Oct 18 |
Reply |
Thanks Isaac very much for your assistance and your comments on my photo! I appreciate them very much! Thanks for dropping by and visiting :) |
Oct 14th |
| 74 |
Oct 18 |
Comment |
I like the stark contrasting design of the building light and shadows in this picture. It is quite nicely done as an architectural portrait. I agree that the letters seem a bit distracting somewhat and might also consider experimenting with making the front building almost a silhouette to focus the attention on the buildings behind. Nice photo! |
Oct 14th |
| 74 |
Oct 18 |
Reply |
Okay then I have to ask something else because I did light trails long exposure at the fair a few months back but I used one of the automated modes (either shutter priority or aperture priority but I can't remember which currently).
So if you were using manual and the sun was just coming up and you started in almost complete dark then how did you go about figuring out how to meter for the scene out of curiosity if you'd be willing to share of is it partially guesswork? I mean you can start with some "values" but then you have to tweak them to get to where you want to be. I'm curious what your method is. |
Oct 9th |
| 74 |
Oct 18 |
Comment |
This is a very FUN image! I like how you used the filter in the manner of a "zoom blur" effect to focus the viewer's attention on the focus of the portrait. The portraying of "movement" around the photo is very key to the success of this photo I feel. The whole image works well together and I think you deserve extra points for the creativity that you put into it! |
Oct 9th |
| 74 |
Oct 18 |
Comment |
I think that this image works very well! I love the street nature of the photo and how you captured this moment between these people. I agree that some of the detail may be lost but the image is black and white and is photographed in shadows so it works well for street photography. I was a little disconcerted that the man sitting there seems to have no neck as well as his pants are black and fade into the background.
Interesting way to get a street photo using a 27mm prime lens from across the street :) |
Oct 9th |
| 74 |
Oct 18 |
Comment |
Arne, I like this image very much.It reminds me of a Serge Ramelli portrait. How interesting it is that you went to Iceland to attend a workshop! It must have been quite interesting indeed! I was wondering if you used luminosity masking on this at all to do the lightening portion of it or how you did the lightening portion of it. The sunrise (I think) that you captured seems to be very well done and the picture is composed very well. I'm a bit curious if you captured this in manual mode or something else as well. Thanks for sharing this interesting image. |
Oct 9th |
5 comments - 2 replies for Group 74
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15 comments - 4 replies Total
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