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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 78 |
Jan 22 |
Reply |
Thanks Brenda. Please see my latest update with some of the suggested edits.
There are a couple breeds of Belgian Shepherd and they are all really smart and capable working dogs. Sounds like a much needed but heart breaking job for your friend and his pups.
I was talking to someone who volunteered in Haiti with his cadaver dogs after the earthquake. He said despite all their training they could only work in short shifts as it was very difficult and traumatic going through the rubble for both dog and human. |
Jan 14th |
| 78 |
Jan 22 |
Reply |
Thanks Jim, please see my latest update.
I cropped the arm tighter to the elbow thinking at least it is more definitive than at the wrist where it was previous. I also was thinking it draws the eye more to the boys body and the dogs beyond. |
Jan 14th |
| 78 |
Jan 22 |
Reply |
Thanks Mitch |
Jan 14th |
| 78 |
Jan 22 |
Reply |
I do sense a "release the hounds" moment here!
Thanks for the other suggestions, please see my latest update. |
Jan 14th |
| 78 |
Jan 22 |
Comment |
Based on the feedback so far, here is a new version where I brightened the dogs faces, darkened the pavement and cropped a bit off the right so that it is a more definitive body crop (vs on the wrist) and brings us more from the boy into the center of the frame with the dogs. |
Jan 14th |
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| 78 |
Jan 22 |
Reply |
Thanks Sunil |
Jan 14th |
| 78 |
Jan 22 |
Comment |
A festive end of year photo and a great blue hour sky.
I kind of like the kid in red as a counter to the man in the circle but agree with Terry that the white sign on the left is not adding much.
Best wishes to you for 2022! |
Jan 14th |
| 78 |
Jan 22 |
Comment |
This is a great scene and the volunteer really pulls it all together. That old safe in the wall is pretty cool. Excellent portrait.
One nitpick if you were to reshoot this or something like it in the future, it seems if you had rotated your perspective in either direction, you could have positioned him in front of the safe door or book case fully vs being halfway between. As it is, the edge of the safe door is coming up out of his head. You can still probably minimize this somewhat by darkening the background or the metal parts of the safe door a little. |
Jan 14th |
| 78 |
Jan 22 |
Comment |
That sounds like a successful birding trip Brenda with a surprise visitor. I do like what you did with the eye (which was a little out of focus or soft previous).
The consensus so far seems to be to bring down the colors / saturation on everything but the gator and I would agree.
Another idea on cropping, since the general advice for wildlife is to give them room to gaze out of the frame, you might create a little bit more photo to the right and use Content Aware Fill. Then you can crop tighter on the left side and give room to the right to "gaze out". I've attached a quick version to give a visual. |
Jan 14th |
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| 78 |
Jan 22 |
Comment |
Very fun and creative Terry with an excellent result. You inspire me to do more fun photo creations.
The decorative "F holes" and tail piece add a little pareidolia to the mix, with a "scream" like mouth near the bottom.
Some title ideas:
Melodies of Nature
Nature's Strings
Nature's Instrument
The Fern and the Fiddle (ok no ferns here but sounds a bit like an English pub no?)
Fronds of Fiddles
The Bard of Branches
The Trees Are Alive with the Sound of Music
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Jan 14th |
| 78 |
Jan 22 |
Comment |
I like this one Helen. The "thinker" pose of your subject adds to the feel and narrative of the image.
I originally didn't give the color much thought as the B&W looks really good to me, but then going back to it after the other comments, I do think color is stronger as a pure travel image maybe even with a slight retro film treatment.
On the B&W, this is still great as a fine art photo or for mono category. I tried to emulate the effect in Lightroom but fell short. It looks like is a lot of sharpening / clarity / texture going on - but also seems like it did some kind of selective dodge/burning as well.
I like Jim's idea to balance out the highlight area, though for a pure travel image, it is part of the scene. |
Jan 14th |
| 78 |
Jan 22 |
Comment |
Great that you were able to get out and see the lights on this trip! My wife has been sending me the "Lights over Lapland" mailings for the last few years and is up there on our bucket list as well.
I was curious about your settings in terms of high ISO / wide aperture vs using a longer shutter to get more DoF and lower noise. Though I suspect even at f/16 or 22 you wouldn't get them both in focus.
Brenda's idea of compositing two images is a good one for any kind of foreground / background photo like this where there is a lot of distance between the two. |
Jan 14th |
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