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Rocco Penny

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« on: November 14, 2009, 09:53:03 am »

I have a long way to go, there isn't a focused pixel in this mess, but I just love the colors printed to canvas.
USM 120%/1px/lev3,   +10 saturation in master level, and everyone comments how nice.
I'd like to hear the honest opinion about this piece from you folks
Thank you
Rocco
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« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2009, 10:12:56 am »

To be honest it looks really bad to me.
Maybe it could have a more abstract feeling without the bird in the middle, my eyes try to focus in the bird and everything is not right, colors, textures, focus.
Sorry.

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« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2009, 10:20:49 am »

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To be honest it looks really bad to me.
Maybe it could have a more abstract feeling without the bird in the middle, my eyes try to focus in the bird and everything is not right, colors, textures, focus.
Sorry.
No not at all!
The bird just caught my eye, and really frankly, the colors are over the top.
I was surprised by how everyone else has been reacting to it.
Maybe because the scene is familiar and they realize the colors and textures aren't so far off.
Thank you for the reply.
Rocco
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« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2009, 10:32:57 am »

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I have a long way to go, there isn't a focused pixel in this mess, but I just love the colors printed to canvas.
USM 120%/1px/lev3,   +10 saturation in master level, and everyone comments how nice.
I'd like to hear the honest opinion about this piece from you folks
Thank you
Rocco

I can see why you like the layers of colors with the bird in the center. There's some good stuff hidden in there. But I find the out of focus shrub in the foreground very distracting, and the tilted horizon just drives me crazy; that's a personal fetish of mine, probably because it took me a while to stop doing that in my own photos. The background also becomes uninteresting or distracting toward the top. I'd probably crop it to a pano-format image to get rid of the dull or distracting stuff, and straighten out that horizon. Like so.
You might also want to burn (darken) those distracting dead white plants in the distance; they draw the viewer's eye away from the bird, only to discover the other white areas aren't interesting.
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« Reply #4 on: November 14, 2009, 10:35:05 am »

I think this shot could have been improved by getting closer to the heron in the middle of the pond and just focusing on that rather than trying to capture the whole scene.  Simplifying the scene could help.  Maybe something like this...

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« Reply #5 on: November 14, 2009, 06:06:02 pm »

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I have a long way to go, there isn't a focused pixel in this mess, but I just love the colors printed to canvas.
USM 120%/1px/lev3,   +10 saturation in master level, and everyone comments how nice.
I'd like to hear the honest opinion about this piece from you folks
Thank you
Rocco
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There are indeed some very nice colors here. My first thought is to crop off the top 40% of the photos, those distant hills andflats are not really too interesting. I might also crop off a little at the bottom to get rid of those distracting branches. THen I think you would have a long horizontal photos with a much stronger composition:

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« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2009, 06:27:47 pm »

What about commenting the image?
It seems you had some sort of assertion attack!

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I have never ever - had a paying customer complain to me about an horizon line not being straight in any of my photographs.!!

My photos generate  6 figures every year - for  close to 30 years !!

THE MAIN problem here for the original poster of this image.  you are much too far away !!  

Great photographs have the subject (fill the viewfinder ) The subject matters !!

When you put your images in front of the public for sale - then you will find out what people are willing to pay money to purchase.

When you put your images in front of people on forums -   you acquire a lot of different opinions !

You need to practice  - FILLING the viewfinder with textured detail !!    

Something that far away, does not provide the necessary detail to make it interesting to (stay) looking at !!

Keep practicing - keep notes - study professional photographers images and learn the Art of composition !!

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Let me provide you a link       now study these images -  What do you notice in each and every image ??

The focus point of interest is at or near the center in every PHOTOGRAPH.

Study the composition of each image !  NOTICE HOW  -  EACH IMAGE - FILLS THE VIEWFINDER !!

 Practice practice until YOU can do this consistently !!!

Ansel Adams said:  There are NO RULES for good photographs.    There are only - GOOD PHOTOGRAPHS !!!!

Sometimes you can learn SO MUCH - from reading a simple sentence - go to photoquotes dot com and read what Ansel Adams had to say as well as many other notable photographers.!!!

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« Reply #7 on: November 14, 2009, 07:00:55 pm »

Thank you all for your replies.
I thought it was a throwaway due to the jumbliness and OOF.
A few different people have commented on the color and how much is happening in the exposure.
Not that it is art, but the understandable criticism you folks may have seems legitimate.
I have taken much clearer and more detailed landscapes.  In nice light and all.
Sunrise and sunset colors ablazing.
None have made people comment the way this particular image has.
I like the crops you have rendered.  I am always afraid of throwing away good material
OK anyway thank you again for the interest and direction.
I'll work on getting better focus and enjoy myself as greatly as ever!
Thank you again,
Rocco
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« Reply #8 on: November 27, 2009, 11:28:08 pm »

Quote from: Rocco Penny
Thank you all for your replies.
I thought it was a throwaway due to the jumbliness and OOF.
A few different people have commented on the color and how much is happening in the exposure.
Not that it is art, but the understandable criticism you folks may have seems legitimate.
I have taken much clearer and more detailed landscapes.  In nice light and all.
Sunrise and sunset colors ablazing.
None have made people comment the way this particular image has.
I like the crops you have rendered.  I am always afraid of throwing away good material
OK anyway thank you again for the interest and direction.
I'll work on getting better focus and enjoy myself as greatly as ever!
Thank you again,
Rocco

The slightly angled perspective is a little distracting. Its one of those pics that needs to be much sharper or go the other way and toss some post proccessing at it for a more artsy look
That looks like it was taken in Pescadero, Ca

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« Reply #9 on: November 28, 2009, 09:56:42 am »

Thank you!
Yes,
the horizon is off kilter,
the focus is poor,
the colors and textures are wrong,
I've kept too much of the foreground and background,
there are distracting white plumes in the background,
I haven't filled the frame with what seems the primary subject (the bird)
Overall a truly amateurish rendering of what the last poster correctly identified as Pescadero.
I want a clear and focused panorama using the above image as the center.
I'm going to shoot more exposures using a tripod, etc.
The above image was handheld and hurried.
Thank you again,
Rocco
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« Reply #10 on: November 29, 2009, 07:38:51 am »

Thank you for the space, I saw some of the images others here have posted.

Particularly bill t. and Wayne Fox have made pieces that just kill me.

I have been looking and looking to see what I find compelling in other people's photography.

I want to get better and have benefited from the interest and postings directed toward me in this thread.

Thank you all again and I hope to come back here in some time with at least a beginner's good try of that swamp.

Rocco
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