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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 34 |
Aug 24 |
Comment |
Hi Mike. I agree with all good words from our friends here. I have similar images of your original 1 and original 2. I never use Topaz Studio 2 Expressionism Filter. I want to experiment how it looks if the filter is applied only to the background (original 1). But keep the other elements (original 2) as sharp as it is. As always. You inspired me Mike. You make my brain works. :) |
Aug 26th |
| 34 |
Aug 24 |
Comment |
Hi Jan. What a wonderful creation. How you make this La Hoja Cove Tree - Coast Teatree (Leptospermum laevigatum) to this creation. I love how you partially expose the tree textures and bring it into a misty mood creation. I know the tree (original 2) is not far away from your home? How about the flower garden? It almost look like Keukenhof Tulip Garden in Holland. |
Aug 26th |
| 34 |
Aug 24 |
Comment |
Hi Steve. I can see how you enjoy psychedelic journey. Honestly, I am expecting to see your creation beyond psychedelic like your post Jan 2024. Believe me. I save that image into my inspiring creatives folder. |
Aug 26th |
| 34 |
Aug 24 |
Comment |
Hi Gunter. Your post this month really attract my attention. How you change 'rubbish' into a stunning image. You really inspired me. I will chase my self to check out the Topaz Studio Acrylic filter. Good job Gunter! |
Aug 26th |
| 34 |
Aug 24 |
Comment |
Hi Candy. I love this sweet and simple creative. I would not change a thing. I captured your aim for soft mood. That's a great job to me. |
Aug 26th |
| 34 |
Aug 24 |
Comment |
Hi Steve. I love your steampunk photo collections. In fact, I learn the word steampunk from you. Nice pictures. You are strong incapturing people expressions. I hope you will like to see my next month post (Sept 2024). |
Aug 26th |
| 34 |
Aug 24 |
Reply |
Hi Candy. Thanks for your good words. |
Aug 26th |
| 34 |
Aug 24 |
Reply |
Hi Steve, thanks for your comments and opinions. |
Aug 25th |
| 34 |
Aug 24 |
Comment |
Hi Steve. You have a good eye. Indeed. It took me a while to clone my granddaughter's arm and place it as her friend arms. AI did not work well for this case. Do you think you would notice it if I did not include the originals? :) |
Aug 25th |
| 34 |
Aug 24 |
Reply |
Hi Mike. Thanks for your comments and suggestion. I puppet warp in PS to set my granddaughter arms in harmony to her friends. That's also my reason to dim out some of my granddaughter arms. |
Aug 25th |
| 34 |
Aug 24 |
Reply |
Hi Gunter. Thanks for your comments and suggestions. You are right. Many dance recitals or competitions will not allow audience taking pictures. Proffesional photographers are there selling pictures and videos. In this case. I know the dance school owner. She allowed me to take pictures as long no flash light. I shot it with high ISO and denoise it in LR or Topaz AI. |
Aug 25th |
| 34 |
Aug 24 |
Reply |
Hi Jan. This was my original crop. I purposely include the second dancer to get our group opinions. I dimmed out the hands in order to get the sense of movement. Your suggestion to keep the same light intensity to all arms is well appreciated. Thanks for your comments and suggestions. |
Aug 25th |
| 34 |
Aug 24 |
Reply |
Hi Stephen. Thanks for checking out my image. I appreciate your comments. |
Aug 25th |
7 comments - 6 replies for Group 34
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| 70 |
Aug 24 |
Comment |
Hi Kirk. I appreciate your Geoff feedback about the image horizon. I sometimes too excited with my own image and forget about a small thing. You asked if this image deserve for a competition piece. To me. Yes. it does. I guess the judge would request you to submitt your RAW file. To ensure it's original sky and the standing guy. It's awfully perfect to me. Too good to be true :). My only suggestion would be to reduce the whole saturation a bit. Some judges are very sensitive to overly saturated or HDR looked images. Good luck Kirk! |
Aug 26th |
| 70 |
Aug 24 |
Reply |
Hi Stefaan. Earlier, you said English is your second language. But, you express (in English) your self much better than me. As we both. English is our second language. I really apprecite your detail observation to our friend images. In my experience. This is a really awesome wat for auto deduct in learning phtography. Believe me. Your courage to analyze really inspired me! |
Aug 26th |
| 70 |
Aug 24 |
Comment |
Hi Kathryn. It's a nice home town! Normally, we were not too excited capturing our home town. My suggestion is to desaturate bulding area espescially the bright yellow wall. I would make the ship on the right more obvious as this would be my subject. |
Aug 26th |
| 70 |
Aug 24 |
Comment |
Hi Geoff. I always carry a silicon lens hood in my camera back. Like you. I like taking pictures from window of my Hotels. Some times, I just feel like to capture using my Iphone. HI have LR mobile in my home. I wonder if you have made any post adjustment to this image?
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Aug 26th |
| 70 |
Aug 24 |
Reply |
I just love this image. Good job Stefaan. |
Aug 26th |
| 70 |
Aug 24 |
Comment |
Hi Stefan. I don't feel like to 'copy paste' :) good words from our friends here. I agree with Geoff. I want to see wider scene. I can see your post processing objectives here. To me, the top part of the building is a bit overly dim out. |
Aug 26th |
| 70 |
Aug 24 |
Comment |
Hi Pierre. You used your Olympus. Sturdy Tripod, Bulb mode. You are well equipped for this image! Wow! The composition, the horizon is just perfect. The image subject, to me, is the bridge. I used level tool in PS to increase the whole brightness and apply local contrast just to the whole bridge and 'double contrast' towards end of the bridge. Apply partially less contrast to bridge reflection. IMHO, it just a matter of taste. It's great shot! |
Aug 26th |
 |
| 70 |
Aug 24 |
Comment |
Hi Tami. To me. The turtle and the water splash are the subjects here. I agree with Pierre. The turtle is a bit "lost" in the image. Applying strong contrast like what Pierre suggested does help. However, the whole image is a bit overly saturated in my monitor. I suggest to desaturate the background to make the turtle a bit more outstanding. Unfortunately, this would be more to a nature than a landscape photography! |
Aug 26th |
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| 70 |
Aug 24 |
Reply |
Hi Stefaan. Thanks for your good words. Your comments reflect your calibre in landscape photography. Again, thanks! |
Aug 26th |
| 70 |
Aug 24 |
Reply |
Hi Kathryn. I have run several generative fills in PS. But it did not fit my taste. So I used my own picture. But I need to re-scale and dit a lot of various transform adjustment in PS. Thanks for asking. |
Aug 26th |
| 70 |
Aug 24 |
Reply |
Hi Pieere. Thanks for your encouraging words: 'perfect blend'. It means a lot to me when the words came from a seasoned landscape photographer like you. I really appreciate it. |
Aug 26th |
| 70 |
Aug 24 |
Reply |
Hi Geoff. Thanks for your good words. |
Aug 26th |
6 comments - 6 replies for Group 70
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| 90 |
Aug 24 |
Reply |
Hi Barbara. Thanks for your encouraging words. |
Aug 26th |
| 90 |
Aug 24 |
Reply |
You have done a great job in general basic adjustment. The next step is to learn partial or selective adjustment. This is a good tutorial by Juliane Kost the LR guru. Enjoy your learning time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00ImVzIC_dc
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Aug 26th |
| 90 |
Aug 24 |
Reply |
Oh. You focus more on Nature Photography. Last week. I came back from Papua for Lembah Baliem Festival. It's about culture. If you have no objection to see their 'half naked' traditional outfits. This is my video link to celebreate 79th Indonesia Independence day. The captions is in Indonesian language. But the pictures tell more words that the caption.
https://youtu.be/_2bSqhke06Y
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Aug 26th |
| 90 |
Aug 24 |
Comment |
Wow. I only have one sentence. This is a five star image to me. The cute puffin. The dynamic actions. The finished quality. Indeed, you are so lucky. It's a gold medal image to me! Where is the best place to see Puffin in the USA? |
Aug 25th |
| 90 |
Aug 24 |
Comment |
Hi Minette. Welcome to the club. I used to play golf. I consider you were so lucky to get this image. To me, this would be an eye catching image for a golf magazine. I would crop it tighter just to show the golf ball and the bird. |
Aug 25th |
 |
| 90 |
Aug 24 |
Comment |
Hi Dan. You have a proper gadget with appropriate camera settings. The backlight really makes the bird look stunning. I agree with LC comments. The scene, looks a bit busy to me. I would consider removing the two birds to let my viewers eyes to see the calm mood of the two backlited birds. |
Aug 25th |
 |
| 90 |
Aug 24 |
Comment |
Hi LC. I like this image so much. You lead my eyes to the fish at the center. You have done a great job. |
Aug 25th |
| 90 |
Aug 24 |
Reply |
Hi LC. I am sad to see you go. I love to see your wild pictures in Stega.org. Do you mean Indo is Indonesia? I live in Indonesia. |
Aug 25th |
| 90 |
Aug 24 |
Comment |
Hi Ginny. I agree with Barbara and Dan. The ultimate animal pictures are their eyes. In his case. You need to partially brightened the bird eye and face. In certain case. I will even manually retouch the bird eye with my pen tools. |
Aug 25th |
| 90 |
Aug 24 |
Comment |
Hi LC. You have a good eye. This is not my quality image. The original quality of the mouth and eye was worst. I have improved it by using Topaz AI. It helps a bit. Only to a certain degree. I really appreciate your feedback. The mouth and eye should be sharp straight out of camera. |
Aug 25th |
| 90 |
Aug 24 |
Reply |
Thanks Barbara. |
Aug 25th |
| 90 |
Aug 24 |
Reply |
Thanks Dan. See my reply to Ginny. |
Aug 25th |
| 90 |
Aug 24 |
Reply |
Thanks Ginny. I did not raise this fish. I just rent them for taking pictures. :) |
Aug 25th |
6 comments - 7 replies for Group 90
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19 comments - 19 replies Total
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