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Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 4 |
May 20 |
Comment |
What a great result! Looks like you and I were both making our photos into abstracts using the wonders fo PS. Thanks for the tutorial. |
May 12th |
1 comment - 0 replies for Group 4
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| 77 |
May 20 |
Comment |
Nice to have that extra space -- works well. |
May 23rd |
| 77 |
May 20 |
Reply |
Denise, you might be interested in my reply to Connie below... |
May 20th |
| 77 |
May 20 |
Reply |
Georgianne, note my reply to Connie below. |
May 20th |
| 77 |
May 20 |
Reply |
Connie, you raise an interesting question. If I were in the business of making money from my art, I might happily accommodate anyone who wants to buy it (especially at the right price.) Moreover, if a friend of mine wanted to have a print in a different color, I likely would also happily accommodate them, since it speaks to the fact that they clearly love the composition and uniqueness of the image, as well as the feelings it produced in them.
I guess to answer your question more directly, I am not so committed to my work "as shown or initially produced", that I would not be willing to consider modifying it -- at least in some ways. Although I create my art for me, I also am excited when people like it enough to buy it. |
May 20th |
| 77 |
May 20 |
Reply |
Guy thanks for the visit. Polar coordinates is indeed addictive. That's why I needed to create some PS actions all those years ago. |
May 11th |
| 77 |
May 20 |
Reply |
Denise, see my recent reply down below. |
May 6th |
| 77 |
May 20 |
Reply |
Cecelia, see my recent reply down below. |
May 6th |
| 77 |
May 20 |
Reply |
Georgianne, see my recent reply down below. |
May 6th |
| 77 |
May 20 |
Comment |
Connie, I'm definitely an experimenter. (Indeed, I have a PH.D. in chemistry to prove it!) I often create composites based on photos I take on the same day or in the same week. They come together in my imagination as they flicker in front of me in my Lightroom catalogue. I also enjoy playing with different software tools, trying out several iterations, perhaps reversing some steps until I get an image that speaks to me. That's how this one came together. To me this image relates to CV-19, in the way it invokes the shapes and colors of our internal organs, especially since our fears and life situation are currently so tied to CV-19. Thoughts of this disease are coursing through my psyche all the time, so connecting to them is to be expected.
Still, I thought I'd try this image with a different color scheme, done with partly with Topaz Restyle. Let me know which you prefer. |
May 6th |
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| 77 |
May 20 |
Comment |
Welcome Denise!!!
What a lovely image. It has all the qualities I look for in good photo -- stunning color, excellent composition, lots of interest and a bit of wow! I like the blue color and texture that you have added. I also like the unfurling story, but I think it could definitely be further emphasized with some local sharpening at that location. As for improvements, the tip of the tulip got muddled during the conversion to the blue background, and the original green reflection on the tulip's right side could be made a bit bluer to match the new background. A simple baby blue brush stroke on a new layer at low opacity might do the trick. |
May 5th |
| 77 |
May 20 |
Comment |
How cool to have this house on your property! I love the tree coming out of the roof and you have done a good job emphasizing that.
I like Georgianne's version where the house is brighter, and would further suggest darkening the foreground hill, as it pulls away from the subject. Well done!
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May 5th |
| 77 |
May 20 |
Comment |
Cecilia -This is a difficult photo for me. I find the "hand of man" -- all the non-nature bits - distracting and not particularly pleasing, though the flamingo colors and all the water reflections are nice. You clearly liked including the vulture (though I'm thinking it looks like a large crow to me) and the story of him muscling in adds to the image. I feel there's just too much happening in this photo, so I tried making it into two photos, each with a cluster of three feeding stands. Mostly I straightened the photos, cropped and vignetted. If the flamingos are sharp (I can't tell) and there's a catch-light in some eyes that's a plus.
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May 5th |
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| 77 |
May 20 |
Comment |
What great opportunity to photograph someone at the top of their game. You've captured a wonderfully sharp action shot to work with. The colors were definitely distracting, so I like your conversion to monochrome; it's the way to go. Moreover, modifying the color sliders in the B&W adj layer can easily help to keep the emphasis on the skin tones. I gave your photo a little redo with a bit of sepia, also keeping a little spot color on only the skin portions -- it might be a plus? Also I worked her hair a bit so there was separation with the background. I like the haze/light idea, but I would want less of it on her face and arm. I've also added light beams from the the lower left as well as from above, so as to avoid clouding the face.
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May 5th |
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| 77 |
May 20 |
Comment |
Connie,
It's fun to try to put together a still life and then make it painterly. I'm impressed with how well you've done with the flowers and the background. I love the tendril s; they add interest. As for the bird, I don't think it is a plus, though of course three is a magic number. Perhaps a different bird or another flower?
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May 5th |
| 77 |
May 20 |
Comment |
Georgianne, I loved your comment about "A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband. I couldn't think of a better name for a piece of junk!" It does however photograph well.
I like your thought of resurrecting bell, book and candle, and I think the fog at the bottom looks right.
In my opinion the added texture you chose does not work. It seems to be a blob that fills the gap in a weird way, which is confusing. I tried flipping the texture so the bright cloud line is parallel to the candle angle edge; I thought that worked OK, though perhaps a different texture would be stronger. As for the original composition, it has a number of places where one item JUST overlaps another; I wonder if there would be a photographic point of view that would prevent that.
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May 5th |
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8 comments - 7 replies for Group 77
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9 comments - 7 replies Total
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