Activity for User 992 - Emil Davidzuk - drzuk@sbcglobal.net

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62 Aug 25 Comment Mark,

Your travels bring you to such lovely old world venues. Timeless places it seems. I always enjoy what you share with us.

I did 16x9 crop to retain the wide vista but trim a little from top and bottom of the frame. I reduced the highlights since the Sun was a little hot and reduced exposure just a smidge.

Emil		 Aug 12th
62 Aug 25 Comment Mike,

Gorgeous design. In BW i feel that shadows can add to the composition. There many BW options.

I went down the path of enhancing the shadows. I lowered the image exposure. I brushed (Lightroom) the top right window and the areas where light would fall on the top 3 panels and increased the exposure to indicate the lightfall pattern. I placed a linear gradient over the bottom out of sun panel and reduced the exposure to make its secondary object. Not a perfect job but a valid rendering approach.

Emil		 Aug 12th
62 Aug 25 Comment Chris

I echo the thoughts of Pete, Michael and Mark. Beautiful structure with perfect placement of windows and doors.

I offer a slight mod to change the toning slightly. I added a fairly large radial gradient in the center of the image, small feather, inverted it and reduced the exposure slightly which darkens the outside structures. I duplicated and inverted this gradient and placed its center over the door and darkened it a smidge so the central structure is still the brightest part of image

Regards

Emil		 Aug 12th
62 Aug 25 Comment Pete

I like your camera position here. I was bothered by something in the image and I realized the horizon is off as seen by the stone wall - sorry it is the engineer in me

I leveled it, lightened the sky a bit and added a dash of contrast.

Emil		 Aug 12th
62 Aug 25 Comment Mandy

I like your transformation here - your original shot is now art.

The interesting thing is the gymnast has let go of the ribbon handle as you took the shot...

Well done

Emil		 Aug 12th
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66 Aug 25 Comment Gary,

You have a great knack for creative processing now AI generative fill doubled the size of your tool box.

Scale and cropping go together

Regards

Emil		 Aug 12th
66 Aug 25 Comment Steve

The layered scene you created is top notch.

You could consider bringing up the white in the clouds just a bit to add some pop up top

Emil		 Aug 12th
66 Aug 25 Comment Henry

Love your IR view of Spider Rock. I think the foreground exposure including the rock features could be brought down just a smidge.

Regards

Emil		 Aug 12th
66 Aug 25 Comment Arik

Look up you say.

The branches look like veins against the white foliage. Your eye traces their pathways.

An interesting outcome from your fisheye lens is the tree trunk looks board flat.

Regards

Emil 		Aug 12th
66 Aug 25 Comment Melanie

I think your finished image is spot on.

I sense the desert heat, the Sun beating down over my shoulder, the camels taking their sweat time getting the move on. I need a cold drink

Regards

Emil		 Aug 12th
66 Aug 25 Comment Charles,

This is an image you must photograph and happily you dd just that.

I echo Arik's comments regarding modern vs old. Sadly she is more focused on her iPhone than you but that is the social climate now.

Top marks

Regards

Emil		 Aug 1st
66 Aug 25 Comment Arik,

Thanks for your thoughts. Concur about stray grass strand in upper left. I missed it

Regards

Emil		 Aug 1st
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