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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 36 |
Feb 20 |
Comment |
Thanks for the comments and modifications all. I agree this image needs a lot of work to survive. The advantage of study groups..... |
Feb 16th |
| 36 |
Feb 20 |
Comment |
It appears to me you got all the technical aspects of this correct - sharpness, exposure, color, cropping and didn't cut off the house on the right mid-garage. My major suggestion is to have taken this either early morning or later evening to give the homes and sky more character. I realize you were not there at those times, and it probably was not convenient. To me as is, this represents an excellent record shot. |
Feb 13th |
| 36 |
Feb 20 |
Reply |
I was first introduced by this in a Tim Cooper workshop when we were talking about water and ocean photographer. Tim made the statement about 1/60 of a second but then demonstrated it by showing images ranging from 1/500 sec to 20 second exposures. The one taken at 1/60 sure did look natural. I have heard of this from other sources since. |
Feb 13th |
| 36 |
Feb 20 |
Comment |
My eyes actually started at the rock structure on the side, went to the waterfall and came back down because of the trees and darker exposure on the left so the composition worked well for me. I did think the amount of glare is too much, especially at the bottom of the image which tended to pull my eye out. Definitely a polarizer would have helped here. The image looked sharp, with a good DOF, and was well exposed. Since the human eye sees at about 1/60 sec, I try to either be at least 1/4 sec or even slower for water or really fast to cover spray. Just me. However you choice of shutter speed seems to have resulted in a pleasing image in this case. |
Feb 7th |
| 36 |
Feb 20 |
Comment |
As I looked at the image, the thoughts I was going to write were the same as Larry's. To me the white house with the red roof and the bright blue building are distractions, and the blue sky does not add to the image for me. I might even darken the foreground vegetation to force the eye to the city buildings. From what I can tell you did a good job on noise reduction. |
Feb 7th |
| 36 |
Feb 20 |
Comment |
I like the composition of this image with the placement of the monument and the visual interest in the clouds both from the threatening clouds overhead and the light breaking through in the distance. A whole lot to look at and appreciate in this image. I have been looking at some exhibition B/W award winners and recently heard someone who successfully competes talk about really pushing the histogram end points to create strong blacks and whites and adding contrast to the image. So having disclosed my recent experience, I might suggest you play with slightly lightening the monument to make it stand out more. I think the sky is ok and might look unnatural if tweaked too much. |
Feb 7th |
| 36 |
Feb 20 |
Comment |
I am heading to the Smokies Sunday so hope we are as fortunate as you in capturing the fog and light. The warm tones make the image for me. Capturing the trees mostly in silhouette keeps my eye going to the fog and mountains in the distance. The image looks appropriately sharp throughout. The downward slope of the trees adds energy to the image. It looks to me as if you had to wait until the sun was at this elevation to get the glow of the fog so well done. |
Feb 7th |
| 36 |
Feb 20 |
Comment |
This tells a story to me of an accumulation of electrical power from a nearby source. I thought the B/W brought out more texture in the cliffs and highlighted the cables which seemed to be easily lost in the color image. I do agree it is a bit flat so would consider making sure the white and black points are at the ends of the histogram and perhaps doing a slight "s" tweak to curves. To me the clouds complement the slope of the towers so nicely seen. You might try playing with the blue and orange sliders in the HSL panel in LR to see if that adds some pop. |
Feb 7th |
| 36 |
Feb 20 |
Reply |
Larry, I think you nailed why this was on the back burner so to speak. I had an issue with the sky. You just confirmed it. |
Feb 7th |
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