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03/14/2005 09:56:30 AM |
The picture as done in the link is much better. I don't dislike the first, but I must agree that it's out of focus and the sky was detractive (it took me a second to figure out what that grey thing was). The idea, bringing out detail, contrast, and texure, was very Ansel Adams, and I would have allowed a few points for that, and a few because I overall like the picture, minus the obvious flaws. I probably would have marked you a four on the first, and a seven on the second.
I'm surprised at so many 1s and 2s. I always reserved those for shots that make me say to myself, "Now what in the dickens was that photographer THINKING when hitting the shutter on this one?" This includes irrepairably technically horrendous stuff, 'what the heck does that have to do with anything' subjects (not simply 'well, it's a strech, but I see it'), or any other things that make 'One One One' or 'Two Two Two' flash in my head. Yours didn't. I could clearly see your aim, what you were thinking, and I feel it hit the theme right on the nose. Yes, there were some major technical flaws, and points needed subtracted for that, but was it a terrible picture? No. Brown Ribbon? I wouldn't have thought so.
-Annette |
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03/14/2005 01:41:38 AM |
to those of you that commented, you're all right. There's something wrong with the way I'm reducing and editing images, either in the workflow and/or the software. I'm looking into learning a better workflow.
Fullsize better crop
Above link goes to the crop and detail that I wanted to see in the image, hopefully this would have scored better than the brown. It's twice the pixels, and the only thing that's been done with it is a slight curves, and convert to greyscale, then 1:1 cropped to 1280x1280.
Message edited by author 2005-03-14 02:23:25. |
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03/14/2005 01:02:46 AM |
| I just dont see a need in voting anymore .... I tell ya I didnt but it if I had I wouldnt of gave it anyless then a 5. In fact thinking about Adams work and his history in photography this would of been one of those test images that noone would of seen for the comparison between b&W... I guess not everyone thinks like that. Better luck next time. |
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03/13/2005 10:50:27 PM |
| Good texture but sharper would have been better. 6 |
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03/13/2005 09:34:47 PM |
| Sorry, just don't like the composition. It's blury, and not particularly interesting. |
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03/13/2005 06:35:47 PM |
| This absolutely had to be well focused to be successful and, unfortunately it isn't. You had a powerful, well defined subject here, so it's a shame that you weren't able to improve on the result here - unless you've cropped into a very large shot? |
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03/13/2005 09:07:00 AM |
| To me, this does not look to be in sharp focus. |
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03/13/2005 01:19:22 AM |
| This was a great idea but suffers in this challenge from lack of focus and DOF. |
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03/12/2005 06:15:18 PM |
| out of focus, grainy, and too much contrast. |
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03/11/2005 04:10:09 PM |
| Can't get much closer than that! Seems a little out of focus and there is no one place to draw your attention except the flat grey on the side. I can tell the texture isn't flat but the picture appears kind of flat. |
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03/11/2005 02:14:14 PM |
| well, it is not sharp for a closer look |
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03/10/2005 12:29:12 PM |
| Neat subject. Nice contrast, but picture is fuzzy. |
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03/10/2005 06:28:41 AM |
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03/09/2005 05:00:02 PM |
| Sorry, out of focus. Nice close study though. |
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03/09/2005 02:54:30 PM |
| Sorry, this is out of focus. |
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03/08/2005 06:21:38 PM |
| this image has nice highlights but focus is too soft to appreciate the detail. |
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03/08/2005 04:07:41 PM |
| This has really soft focus, Adams was know for very shrap focus. |
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03/08/2005 12:11:52 PM |
Revisiting and explaining my lower scores - I hope to be helpful, not insulting.
I only rated this a 4 because it is very out of focus on my monitor, and I can find no evidence that Ansel EVER allowed OOF areas in his photos. Sorry :) |
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03/08/2005 11:17:43 AM |
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03/08/2005 09:32:37 AM |
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03/08/2005 02:28:43 AM |
| not as clear as it could of been |
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03/07/2005 08:54:35 PM |
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03/07/2005 08:14:41 PM |
| Good idea for an abstract. However, focus seems totally off and the grey strip on the lefthand side is a major distraction, in my opinion. |
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03/07/2005 05:29:40 PM |
| The focus hear is very distracting and removes almost all interest in the patterns I think you were working to capture. Sorry, but good luck. |
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03/07/2005 04:10:18 PM |
| Got the proper adams style high contrast image. The picture is not in good focus and there appears to be some strange type of noise on the left of the tree. |
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03/07/2005 11:33:58 AM |
| I really like the shadows and highlights you captured. However, there doens't appear to be any point in the image that has a strong focus. Also, the extra negative space is distracting because it isn't large enough. I find (and this is just a rule of thumb) that you should either have your subject take the whole frame, or allow your negative and positive space to take up thirds on the page. The negative space should take up at least 1/3 of the space. Sometimes it can take up 2/3 if it really enhances the subject. Here, it takes up 1/8 of the space or so. |
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03/07/2005 10:36:11 AM |
| to me this looks out of focus, but very good in tones. |
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03/07/2005 07:05:01 AM |
| At first glance I liked this, but with closer inspection, my eyes seem to go blurry looking at this. I'm trying very hard to find a part of this image that is in clear focus. There is a great deal of loss of detail in the highlights as well. <4> |
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03/07/2005 05:59:37 AM |
| This may be intentional to make the image look old but I would have prefer a litle more sharpness. Represents the texture well but I can´t say I find the image very original or interestin. |
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