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11/19/2007 01:58:16 AM · #1 |
| Hi everyone. I'm just putting out a simple request for everyone to go look at my photos and critique them. I know art to an artist is in his own mind, but I'm looking to see what everybody else thinks. The only thing I truly demand of your critique is to be brutally honest on what you would do, what you think is wrong or right with the photo. I know the gum drop one sucks. It was last minute and for a minute I thought the extreme was good, until I look at it now. |
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11/19/2007 08:53:05 AM · #2 |
I see I ripped you up on the last free study. (Actually, we had a good exchange on resampling methods, I hope it was useful.)
I'll keep your portfolio open in a tab and have look at a few of them today. |
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11/20/2007 02:08:12 AM · #3 |
| Yes you did and I appreciate it. I'm still working it trying to see how it all works, but I think I'm getting the hang of it. Haven't had much time to take much lately, but I promise I'm practicing. |
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11/20/2007 03:08:59 AM · #4 |
Regarding post processing, consider this image:
This is excellent backlighting, the halo of hair is lovely, but the overall effect is otherwise pretty dull and down-key. A little work, mostly with shadow/highlight tool, in CS2 gives us this:
Processing details in comments section.
R.
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11/20/2007 02:59:32 PM · #5 |
I have to admit, this photo was the first to jump off the screen. Like everyone else I said "ooo pretty pink." (I hate pink, mind you)
1) I cropped out the blacker bit of sky in your top left corner. To me this image is about the pink water. Sure, the firework is pretty, but we've all seen fireworks, and they themselves don't have a "wow" factor. With that in mind, it doesn't hurt to chop a little bit of it out.
2) I used the Sharpen Tool on your foreground boat.
3) I Dodged Highlights and Burned Shadows. I find that this helps sharpen images without actually using any of the sharpening tools. It also helps with fog/haze. I used it to bring out your city a bit. I also used it on the main boat to clear it up.
4) If I could I would move your foremost boat, but I can't, heh. Composition wise, it needs to be at least 1/2 inch to the left.
Your Original
My Edit
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11/20/2007 03:15:01 PM · #6 |
Well, Club Kill Yourself, I gave you some comments - hope that helps and remember.... who cares.
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11/20/2007 03:25:31 PM · #7 |
I dug a bit deeper...
1)Your original isn't balanced. By putting the fountain as the center focal point, the photo seems less cluttered. To me making the fountain the focal point, actually focuses the viewer on the children more. Cropping also chopped out the tree that was coming in from the left. I did crop out a small bit of empty blue sky, but I left most of it, because it shows the height of the fountain. As a bonus with the tighter crop, I noticed the bicyclist behind the fountain. Ooo, depth!
2) Your original really was over sharpened. I tried correcting this by blurring the youngest one's face a tad and dodging/burning it at the pixel level. (Meaning, I zoomed WAY in, heh) The best way to fix this is to not over sharpen. It's easy to get carried away trying to sharpen water drops from fountains, but don't forget to look at what it's doing to the image as a whole. You lost nearly all detail in the faces of the children, and they were your subject, not the fountain. I also ran the image through Neat Image in attempts to soften it.
3) I cloned out the wire that other people were talking about. It really was distracting, heh.
4) I Dodged and Burned the bricks a little.
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11/20/2007 06:56:16 PM · #8 |
| Again I thank you so much everybody for your help. |
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