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03/06/2010 - 6:24 PM

View from a station

View from a stationYes - a great sky and a good composition. The only thing that distracts me is the fact that the upright poles are leaning toward each other.I think I would put this into ps and go to Image>transform>skew and pull the top corners sideways until they are vertical. I like it very much. A
30/05/2010 - 10:56 AM

Thai Toddler

Thai ToddlerThis is a nice portrait. I don't think you can be too fussy. You should be as fussy as you need, in order to be happy with your work. The halo is just noticeable - I would select the subject then Right click inside the selection and click 'select inverse'. Then blur and maybe darken the background then go to 'refine edge' and feather to one or two pixels and 'expand' by two or three pixels to remove the halo. I am unable to view large to be more accurate but if you play with this you will find and answer to suit this shot. Good luck. A
03/05/2010 - 8:03 AM

Blue Skies

Blue SkiesGood composition and lead in lines - only problem is the confusion of having the horizon dead centre. You have lots of spare foreground and a great sky - I think I would crop the bottom up to just in front of the biggest stone in the middle (with a nice shadow). I would then dodge (gently) the foreground stones or increase foreground brightness and contrast in levels. A
Male Reed Bunting( Emberiza schoeniclus)Good captures and great posture in V2. Looks like the lost feet in v1 are a dof problem due to a wide aperture. Although a smaller aperture slows speed and risks blur due to movement I usually manage to get a couple of usable pics by just banging away and binning the baddies. One of the great advantages of digital. A
14/12/2009 - 1:45 PM

Beacon Tarn - Take 2

Beacon Tarn - Take 2You have and excellent portfolio. In some of your landscapes the sky is either a bit pale or has too much cyan ( pale blue-green eggshell colour) and this cast has shifted the tones of your other colours particularly reds which are quite hard. Perhaps you could try dealing with the sky and foreground separately in your software.
I often isolate the pale sky with a lasso tool with a wide feather of around 120 to 150 pixels and then adjust in levels, first to darken using the left slider and then adjusting tone with RGB drop downs to adjust colour tone using the midtone (centre ) slider. Then select inverse with the lasso and do the same for the foreground but lighten it. I then try to balance overall foreground tone by using similar midtone shifts on the foreground as I did for the sky.
Hope this helps but you don't need much! If you have a problem send me a message. A
Chatting under the traffic lightI like the picture and am not even too fussed by the clutter of the extra person or the motor cycle - but what a pity you cut off their feet. There is plenty of spare wall above and I think you could have moved your composition down. A
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