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03/31/2004 11:18:04 PM |
Critique Club:
Beautiful spot and day for photography. You have all the elements needed for a great image. You have a dramatic sky, body of water, trees and rocks on a hill! This image has a lot of potential. What it is in need of is a dramatic feel. I see that you adjusted for shadows and hue, but I think you could have gone a little farther in your post processing. I think firstly, your horizon is slightly tilted to the left, this is a quick fix and help your viewer get the proper sense of perspective. I think you may have taken away too much shadow on the hill. You've left it kind of flat and lifeless. Shadows create drama, they draw the viewer in as they look at all the shapes and textures shadows bring out. Another tool to get familiar with is the burn tool. This tool is very effective on clouds. You can make these nice fluffy grey clouds to appear to almost be bursting with rain with some good burning. Burning will increase the dramatic feel and depth of these clouds. You can also do some light burning on the water too, again it increases the interest in the shot. A trick taught to me is to do some burning around the edges of the shot to help the viewer get drawn into the image, it helps take away the distractions often found at the edge and brings us right into the main focus of the image.
I would like to see this shot modified with burning and dodging, I think you'd have something that would look great hung on the wall.
-danny |
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03/26/2004 12:12:48 PM |
| A beautiful picture, but not a magazine cover. Magazines virtually all use a vertical format. |
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03/25/2004 01:30:05 PM |
| a very nice view, but just lacks something special to make it stand out as a great photograph. |
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03/24/2004 08:18:50 PM |
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03/24/2004 05:34:37 PM |
| I feel like the trees could have used a little more detail along with the rocks - espcially the ones up close. beautiful scenery though! good luck! |
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03/23/2004 10:47:06 AM |
| Too much lost detail in the shadows, or if you were going for a silohette, there is too much detail for my taste. |
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03/23/2004 05:08:47 AM |
(I'm writing this to everyone who submitted a landscape shot) The challenge was to produce a shot worthy of a magazine cover but to me a shot like this is not suitable to be put on a "portrait" format magazine.
Beautiful sky though
---ADDITIONAL---
Due to forum discussions and accusations that marking landscapes down is nitpicking, I'm going through them and remarking. I still think some of the landscapes would not make good covers because of their orientation but I am no longer marking down because of that.
I still think landscape is inapropriate for the majority of magazines but I'll give the benefit of the doubt to the photographers. |
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03/23/2004 12:51:29 AM |
| LOL is that a real magazine name?? |
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03/22/2004 11:00:32 PM |
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03/22/2004 08:43:22 AM |
| Very beautiful. The clouds are great. A good range of colors. |
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03/22/2004 07:26:26 AM |
| Nice idea, but how many magazine covers use the landscape format? Great color, very dramatic. |
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03/22/2004 12:19:55 AM |
| Wow! This is an awesome shot. This is top quality and pitch perfect. I'm going to give you a high mark; however, you may find others will mark you down for having a horizontally cropped image instead of a vertically cropped image. IT seemed to be an issue in the last magazine challenge. |
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