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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 56 |
Jun 24 |
Comment |
Cindy, another marvel of your painting talents! Very true to the original yet that mane and face brings it alive. A fantastic background especially from a lighting point of view. Well done all around! |
Jun 25th |
| 56 |
Jun 24 |
Comment |
Gerhard, as usual, you manage to get wonderful bird/flower shots and this image doesn't disappoint. As far as the background, Cindy offers one choice. My first impression was that you wanted to have a rock's surface, so more texture is a good thing in that case. What were your thoughts about the background you wanted? If it's the latter (rock), I'd round it off in a curve at the mid area of the wing down to the flower top. The colors are fantastic! |
Jun 25th |
| 56 |
Jun 24 |
Comment |
Pat, love the colors and the hill contours are wonderful. Cindy's idea as to the bottom is a good one, but yours gives a nice border to the bottom. I would suggest making the horizon line the dark roof life of the rectangular shed as buildings ought to be level. The yellowish-brown fields complement the blue sky and the building cluster sits perfectly at the thirds intersection. For my taste, I'd clone out the piles of white whatever between the shed and the red barn. Lovely landscape scene! |
Jun 25th |
| 56 |
Jun 24 |
Reply |
Thanks Gerhard, I left those things in because it is street art. |
Jun 24th |
| 56 |
Jun 24 |
Reply |
Very interesting ... I'll savor this for a spell.
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Jun 24th |
3 comments - 2 replies for Group 56
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| 76 |
Jun 24 |
Comment |
Sophie, what lens brand do you use? I have a Sigma 70x200 f 2.8 from my newspaper days that I still use for my grandkids' dancing recitals. As far as the mage, wonderful detail and angles - I would have appreciated seeing the original so there is something to compare your final to. Ditto about what Gordon said about the ghosting. I would ask why you left in the hand grip to the left in the image - is it a distraction? Does it add anything to the image? IMHO it is a distraction since the story is the one-hand stand. Very well done, kudos! |
Jun 25th |
| 76 |
Jun 24 |
Comment |
Henriette, like that you have a LensBay - what is the type and focal length? I agree with Gordon about the softening areas and his Gaussian Blur is perfect for these types of images - put that in your toolkit! The purple and gold are classic colors together - it is the 40th anniversary of Prince's Purple Haze on June 25 BTW! I look forward to seeing more of such images from you. |
Jun 25th |
| 76 |
Jun 24 |
Comment |
Holy crap Gordon, glad you were with your wife. What a stunningly beautiful woman. Very professionally done. My puritanical upbringing makes this type of shoot uncomfortable for me, so glad you have no such inhibitions! Now your challenge is what wall will your wife allow you to put this one haha? |
Jun 25th |
| 76 |
Jun 24 |
Comment |
Jay, ditto on what Gordon said. This is a fantastic b&w image with the silhouettes. Probably the best image I have seen from you! The only slight improvement would be to soften that horizon line with the water so the horizon appears as our eyes see it. Two big KUDOS!! |
Jun 25th |
| 76 |
Jun 24 |
Comment |
Jay, ditto on what Gordon said. This is a fantastic b&w image with the silhouettes. Probably the best image I have seen from you! The only slight improvement would be to soften that horizon line with the water so the horizon appears as our eyes see it. Two big KUDOS!! |
Jun 25th |
| 76 |
Jun 24 |
Comment |
Sanford, a nice capture and I like how you have brought out light to the head area and how the red of the cigarette was caught. The darkening of the sky was brilliant. Good definition yet you retained that sense of mystery so I wouldn't lighten any more of the face. The character of the man comes out strongly. Besides a sensor spot just to the right of the thumb, I wouldn't change a thing. As far as noise, yeah Topaz and Adobe can take care of that. Kudos! |
Jun 25th |
| 76 |
Jun 24 |
Reply |
I checked on that "ghosting". It is actually some leaves of the plant behind. But I can understand now why it appears as ghosting. |
Jun 25th |
| 76 |
Jun 24 |
Reply |
I checked on that "ghosting". It is actually some leaves of the plant behind. But I can understand now why it appears as ghosting. Thanks for your other kind comments. |
Jun 25th |
| 76 |
Jun 24 |
Reply |
Thank you for the suggestion of toning the bright lead down a tad! |
Jun 21st |
| 76 |
Jun 24 |
Reply |
Gordon, yes I did see the individual flower prospect and may use that for a second composition. The reason I favor this was because of the 3 flowers and the circular movement within the image: from left to right and the bark taking the eye back down to the first flower. I'll check out that ghosting - thanks for the tip! I manually focused though my camera allows for the automated, with the latter I just don't want to focus blend 20+ images! |
Jun 10th |
6 comments - 4 replies for Group 76
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| 88 |
Jun 24 |
Comment |
Sanat, my first impression was how well-balanced the photo is. My second is to clone out the people with the umbrella at the bottom left. Then, I realized that the sky replacement was wrong for the image with the haze in the background. I think a 16x9 crop would solve that issue by cutting off the sky. Again, I view this as a travel photo so the group of people with colors adds much to the image and they are on the left and bottom third intersection. The other challenge is that the waterfall just behind the people seems to lack definition, perhaps blown out highlights? I sure do appreciate these landscape shots from your country! |
Jun 25th |
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| 88 |
Jun 24 |
Comment |
Brian, fantastic colors and the leading line from the bottom right is well positioned. The only question I have is about the left side of the image: is the main focus the rocks or the sloping tree, and also the distractions of the small dark areas along the left edge. Good choice in the 16x9 size. For my taste, I would crop some of the left side off and make the horizon the top third. This would emphasize the rock area. In my crop I've also cutoff a portion of the right side so the sky mirrors the smoothness of the beach area - but that's my eye, not yours. Just giving you another point of view. All-in-all, you have a beautiful image! |
Jun 25th |
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| 88 |
Jun 24 |
Comment |
Brian, very cool image and the processing is well done. My only suggestion would depend on whether you could have moved in the cave to allow for some separation of the tree trunk from the bottom right rock touching it. Also, why did you decide to leave some of the rock apparent at the lower left? Make sure you go back in the fall to capture the same with foliage colors. Superb! |
Jun 25th |
| 88 |
Jun 24 |
Comment |
Mark, what a wonderful landscape scene you have captured! The farm house is level so kuds on that. The rock edges at left point towards the rock leading line on the right. IMHO I would lower the top to cutoff the sky, and that effectively put the top third of the image as everything above the river. The dark river contrasts nicely with the light grey of the stone. I don't know about the title of the image as the farmhouse is so small - but there is a LR/PS trick where you can enlarge that portion so the house is more dominant. Check out this vid on Warping https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp_qx-7aGcE
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Jun 25th |
4 comments - 0 replies for Group 88
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13 comments - 6 replies Total
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