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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: RobbieV on July 03, 2014, 05:23:26 pm

Title: Trillium
Post by: RobbieV on July 03, 2014, 05:23:26 pm
(http://ppcdn.500px.org/70647645/8533d8ab9c9d5010e4f403b9d41b43020dc4de31/2048.jpg)

Thanks very much for taking the time to look.

~Robbie
Title: Re: Trillium
Post by: RSL on July 03, 2014, 05:25:59 pm
That one probably could make it into a seed catalogue, Robbie.
Title: Re: Trillium
Post by: mal mcilwraith on July 04, 2014, 01:46:29 am
just beautiful..........

mal
Title: Re: Trillium
Post by: mjrichardson on July 04, 2014, 02:32:26 am
That's really nice Robbie, lovely colours and great light, the square crop also works really well, love it!

Mat
Title: Re: Trillium
Post by: sdwilsonsct on July 05, 2014, 11:30:11 am
Good work on capturing structure in the leaves and flowers.
Title: Re: Trillium
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on July 05, 2014, 12:09:44 pm
It's a lovely, heart-warming scene, well-exposed and composed, with just the right amount of vignetting.
 
I would, however, clone out that single stem of grass to the left of the flower. Also, not sure what to make of the streaks emanating from the top center toward the flower... natural or processing-induced?
Title: Re: Trillium
Post by: RSL on July 05, 2014, 12:22:39 pm
Yeah, if you don't crop you gotta clone.
Title: Re: Trillium
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on July 05, 2014, 12:54:40 pm
Yeah, if you don't crop you gotta clone.
I much prefer Internal Reconstructive Surgery (i.e., cloning) to Amputation (i.e., cropping.)
Title: Re: Trillium
Post by: mal mcilwraith on July 05, 2014, 04:05:30 pm
It's a lovely, heart-warming scene, well-exposed and composed, with just the right amount of vignetting.
 
I would, however, clone out that single stem of grass to the left of the flower. Also, not sure what to make of the streaks emanating from the top center toward the flower... natural or processing-induced?

Look I am crop and clone central and everything else in the book but on this occasion, I for one like it just as it is.

That blade of grass, were it blurry and distracting I would have cut it off at the ground before I took the photo, but I think it adds a spatial tension that works for me.


Mal
Title: Re: Trillium
Post by: luxborealis on July 06, 2014, 11:14:11 am
Look I am crop and clone central and everything else in the book but on this occasion, I for one like it just as it is.

That blade of grass, were it blurry and distracting I would have cut it off at the ground before I took the photo, but I think it adds a spatial tension that works for me.

Mal

"Cut it off at the ground" - Mal you should be ashamed of yourself for even thinking this in regards to a nature photo! Willful destruction of nature? Yikes!  :D
Title: Re: Trillium
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on July 06, 2014, 01:08:56 pm
"Cut it off at the ground" - Mal you should be ashamed of yourself for even thinking this in regards to a nature photo! Willful destruction of nature? Yikes!  :D
And if I must amputate, I prefer doing it in post processing rather than directly to the subject before shooting.  ;D

But I did have a photographer friend who kept a chain saw in his Land Rover...   ???
Title: Re: Trillium
Post by: mal mcilwraith on July 06, 2014, 04:46:09 pm
well the truth is out now.

And yes I do take a chain saw but rarely use it other than to cut fire wood.


Mal
Title: Re: Trillium
Post by: RSL on July 07, 2014, 11:40:17 am
We all know that a photograph isn't complete until it's been cropped or cloned. It's even more complete when it's been cropped and cloned. Ignore these guys, Robbie. The pictures just fine as it is.
Title: Re: Trillium
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on July 07, 2014, 01:06:54 pm
I just tried to make a "complete" photo using Russ's recipe, but once I cropped everything out there was nothing left to clone!    :(
Title: Re: Trillium
Post by: francois on July 08, 2014, 03:45:14 am
I just tried to make a "complete" photo using Russ's recipe, but once I cropped everything out there was nothing left to clone!    :(


I guess that the final 1 px by 1 px image is hard to crop again…  :)
Title: Re: Trillium
Post by: RSL on July 08, 2014, 08:25:03 am
You can't even clone it.
Title: Re: Trillium
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on July 08, 2014, 09:35:56 am
Maybe if I reverse the order: CLone everything first, and then crop out everything. This is what you get:





What? You don't see anything? I guess it worked!   ;D
Title: Re: Trillium
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on July 08, 2014, 09:54:05 am
Anti-croppers/cloners having an orgy?