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05/08/2005 11:07:25 PM |
| Good idea. I think the dodging is too obvious and unnatural looking though. |
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05/08/2005 09:17:29 PM |
| I'd feel a lot better about this if you lost the halo, which mars an otherwise very nice, dreamy shot IMO |
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05/08/2005 04:48:08 PM |
| Nice job on the Dodging and Burning. |
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05/08/2005 05:18:31 AM |
This by itself is a nice photo, but I personally think you've got a little over the top with the dodge&burn...
Possibly some curves work, and using a flash to fill in the shadows in front of the boy would have worked better? |
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05/08/2005 03:31:41 AM |
| I think that the original shot may have been good, but I dislike the editing that was done to it. I find the Photoshopped halo particularly distracting. |
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05/05/2005 10:46:05 PM |
| Very effective dodging and burning on a not so effective picture. Maybe it's just too overprocessed, it just seems very low quality |
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05/05/2005 09:55:06 PM |
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05/05/2005 09:03:34 PM |
| should have dodged budda's head too ... he must feel spiritually left out |
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05/05/2005 02:34:06 PM |
| Great use of D&B-ing a clever shot, very serene |
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05/04/2005 08:24:39 PM |
| nice shot ... watch the halo caused by dodging around your subjects head.. I did the same thing to my candid entry.. Good luck with this challenge |
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05/04/2005 08:44:12 AM |
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05/03/2005 08:37:59 PM |
| Nice composition, I'm assuming the halo around the head is deliberate, an aura or something? |
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05/03/2005 05:32:11 PM |
Although I suspect the dodge/burn job you've done here was entirely intentional, I feel the need to tell you that I personally find it far too strong. The halo around the head is inventive, and I kind of like that.. but the rest of it seems arbitrary and unnecessary. With a little more forethought into levels work, time of day lighting, and bracketing, you could have achieved a much more ethereally natural effect. Still, it's always good to experiment, and you never learn by not doing.
Post-processing aside, I really like the composition of this piece, and your subject does seem very serene and meditative. |
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05/03/2005 04:57:46 PM |
| Too posed & superficial... Sorry (5). |
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05/03/2005 10:45:04 AM |
| i dont really like the effect you applied to the image. And I dont think the composition is strong. |
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05/03/2005 10:21:36 AM |
| Too much dodging and burning around the boy, which is a shame as it's otherwise a great picture. Good use of wide angle. Very imaginatve and well composed. Not sure about plant growing out of the head of the buddha. |
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05/02/2005 06:45:11 PM |
| Not a big fan of the dodging around the head (illuminated yes..just overkill for me), otherwise a nice shot. |
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05/02/2005 06:00:13 PM |
| I like the effect with the lighting. maybe a bit over done, but still nice. |
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05/02/2005 02:13:39 PM |
| Unsure about the bottom of this picture ...Plants could be cropped off... Looks like an over excessive use of the dodge tool .. can see a very obvious halo where its been dodged |
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05/02/2005 12:12:04 PM |
| Nice composition, including the apparent curving trail of lightness just above and behind the head, and the halo around the head itself. But I'm reckoning the scene would be more effective were it more "serene" and perhaps less details would work here, ie the branch behind the statue, the foreground plant, the bit of a light reflection on the water near the plant. Still, I'll happily rate a 7, and would like to reinforce that imho this composition is very nice and has a lot of potential. |
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05/02/2005 06:44:05 AM |
| good idea, the evident post-processing around his head ruins it for me |
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05/02/2005 05:13:22 AM |
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05/02/2005 04:57:05 AM |
| Post-processing is good, but a bit heavy--if you did it on an adjustment layer, I'd say reduce the opacity 50% for starters, and adjust from there. (6) |
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05/02/2005 03:14:30 AM |
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05/02/2005 02:09:35 AM |
| Great shot, love the halo around the boy's head, just like in a lot of buddhist art. Love to know how you processed this shot. |
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05/02/2005 01:51:29 AM |
| Nice capture. The surrounding is very nice. I do not know if meditative, but the outcome of it is the emotion, artistically speaking. The leaves of the furn seem over saturated with light ( a good thing ;-)?) The subject being more in focus may have yielded better punch, for the photo. Buddha, is a nice touch, as well as the rock. The rest of the shot seems to make things cluttered. 6 |
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05/02/2005 01:08:49 AM |
| halo around head and grainy effect..oversharpened? gl |
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