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John Retallack -- The expression on George's face is wonderful, and the
lighting works out pretty well (all natural I think?). I'm not so happy
about the foot cropping -- not that we really need the feet, but it
looks sloppy rather than planned. And Tess looks like a real sweetie
(the retired racers I've met have all been very fine dogs).
Dan Mitchell -- The Great Clock -- nice angle, and I like the
juxtaposition with the statue. Bright side of the clock face is
overexposed for my taste. I would have straightened it, I think; or
else gone a little the OTHER way.
Howard Leigh -- Brighton Pier -- Clouds were being cooperative that day!
Interesting that it first reads as a silhouette, but then when I look
closely there's lots of details there. Quite a dramatic composition!
John Palcewski -- Summer's End, Still Green -- Mmmm, backlit leaves.
There's an awful lot of noise in the dark areas, though.
Walter Mayes -- Lots of nice things about this, good range of textures
and such. I think I agree about clipping the leg; looks accidental,
doesn't work too well. For artistic purposes I might edit out some of
the background you said you cropped, so as to preserve the leg (though I
believe that's right out for many other uses, which may be your primary
use for this photo).
David Dyer-Bennet -- Around Lake Calhoun -- This is me. Yes, I'm
counting on reading a lot of detail in the dark. There's grass texture
and such down there too. This is adjusted for my calibrated monitor,
not for hardcopy, so it uses quite a lot of brightness range.
Rand, I haven't done anything to the people's faces; and I'm not really
happy with the way the man's rendered either. There's actually a lot of
pedestrian and bicycle traffic on the three paths in the picture, and
this was the best composition I could get with the traffic in various
places (in the time I spent). It doesn't look like the people should be
outside the focus zone, and 1/500 sec should have been good enough to
stop their motion (they're walking holding hands, not running), so I'm
not sure what the problem is. We're getting quite sharp detail in that
lit tree-trunk at very close to the same distance. (I could, obviously,
blame the camera; not ready to resort to that yet though.) Zoom was at
7.4mm (actual), which is not even all the way to the wide end (if I'm
reading the photo right this camera has a 5.1 - 12.8 mm zoom on it).
And thanks for the comments!
Christopher Strevens -- Dunnington Castle -- It's interesting comparing
your modern photo to the old etchings and such that turned when I
searched for info on the castle. And I don't think it's one I've been to
(I try to go to castles when I'm in the neighborhood, since we don't
have them at home). Your border works out fairly well, and doesn't
strike me as nearly as artificial as the stock ones often do.
Trevor Cunningham -- frangipani with death stain -- I love getting
direct light and back light on the same leaf, completely honestly, in
one shot. It illuminates, so to speak, the structure of the leaf in
many interesting ways.
Thanks to everybody participating in the gallery this week! (And
apologies for sending my contribution to the list rather than directly
to Andy! Glad it got sorted out.)
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