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Study Group 26 Belinda Keller |
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| Bob Benson | I believe you saw great potential here. There are many choices. I like Jose's below because it uses the area with more contrast (and it still shows the fogginess). You could even take your top choice and flip it to emphasize the tree more, since it reads to the right. I also added some blue back to the sky, and cropped slightly to make it more panoramic, and reprocessed it in Photomatix so I could tonemap it (which would be similar to using highlights and shadows adjustments for shadow and detail).
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| Paul Allen | Reaction: Wouldn’t you have loved a horse running through that scene? :) I like how you cropped this, to bring the attention right to the part of the scene where the interest is. The color adjustment was a nice touch, too, in that it feels more mythical, like it would be appropriate for the cover of a fairy tale book. Suggestion: Really, I just agree with your own critique, and where you would like to see better shadow and detail. |
| Youmans Hsiong | I love the early morning misty farmland scene you captured, and I like the style you present here, including your previous couple of similar mode images. The cropped image is fine, you pulled tree, fences and long tails sunlight on greens makinh more drama. By the way, I know you want more detail on tree branches and you did sharpen to image, I did not quiet understand what you did in film grain. The mist often containd some water particles in the air and shows grains in film or digital, you don’t see in small print, but will shows up in large print. |
| Brian Duchin | The before and after images give a sense of how well your post processing paid off. While the original is very nice, your final image took it to the next level. It has a look and feel of a painting. The texture in the final image adds to the photo and gives it a richness. |
| Belinda Keller | Happy New Year to All! |
| Jose Maria Cartas | I like misty shots, and I like the play between sunrays and fog. Therefore, this image appeals to me. However, I am not so sure that you went in the right direction from your original shot. On it, I can see the tree and on the left of the picture a treeline and some sky. Have you tried cropping on that direction, which would put the bulky tree on the lower right corner of the photo? (see my attached image). From your selection, I find interesting that all the image is basically one hue (green), and that it does convey a mysterious feeling. The fence(?) on the right hand side provides an extra element, but in a way breaks the whole "nature" aspect of the photo, being it man-made. As you self explained, there are multiple ways of interpreting this image.
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Ed Gulesserian |
I like this photo a lot. The viewer gets a real sense of the scene. Morning mist and sunlight are mesmerizing but it’s hard for a camera to capture the qualities that our eyes see. You’ve done a wonderful job, given the situation. I like most everything you’ve done to process the image. Balancing the light in the sky makes a positive difference. The tighter crop makes a notably stronger image. The foreground grass tones and details are wonderful although, for me, the other areas in the image have a little too much green/yellow cast overall. Don’t know what the perspective possibilities were (private land?), but I wonder what would have happened if you lowered the camera to just above the grass, possibly giving the grass (and maybe the dew/frost) a bigger part of the story. Another possibility would be to move closer to the bridge, making it a strong foreground element and leading line, and give more emphasis to the shadow line. |
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Belinda Keller- Biography I’m from WV coal country and moved to DC in the early 70's where I worked and lived until five years ago. My husband retired and we moved to Swan Point, along the Potomac River in So. Maryland. We have a son in DC (Iraq war veteran) and a loveable mut, Cookie. |
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