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Critique of the Week, April 23-29: Post any Photo for C&C

Designer Dale said:
I picked up my 7D on Saturday and this is one from my back yard. I neglected to increase the ISO to get a sharper image, but this is a feature I need to get used to. The full EXIF is included.
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EXIF Summary: 1/8s f/8.0 ISO100 100mm


Dale
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I find my eye drawn to the leaves in the bottom center. It is rather distracting but I'm not sure what you could do to resolve that. Overall I like the tones in the greens.
Perhaps a bit shallower depth of field to blur out the far background a bit more? That might help with my foreground issue.

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This is a stack of 720 exposures of 25 seconds each. It is made from the JPGs straight off the camera as I haven't had a chance to process the raw files. It was beautifully calm that night as you can see in the trees. They are lit by a campfire in about 100 of the images.

This was my first try at stacking. I'll also be making a time-lapse from the shots but only had iMovie in the field and it won't let me do individual frames less than .1 seconds in length.
 
Laird Knox said:
I find my eye drawn to the leaves in the bottom center. It is rather distracting but I'm not sure what you could do to resolve that. Overall I like the tones in the greens.
Perhaps a bit shallower depth of field to blur out the far background a bit more? That might help with my foreground issue.

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This is a stack of 720 exposures of 25 seconds each. It is made from the JPGs straight off the camera as I haven't had a chance to process the raw files. It was beautifully calm that night as you can see in the trees. They are lit by a campfire in about 100 of the images.

This was my first try at stacking. I'll also be making a time-lapse from the shots but only had iMovie in the field and it won't let me do individual frames less than .1 seconds in length.
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Stunning. Not sure what to suggest to improve upon what you have already done:eek::)
 
Laird Knox said:
This is a stack of 720 exposures of 25 seconds each. It is made from the JPGs straight off the camera as I haven't had a chance to process the raw files. It was beautifully calm that night as you can see in the trees. They are lit by a campfire in about 100 of the images.

This was my first try at stacking. I'll also be making a time-lapse from the shots but only had iMovie in the field and it won't let me do individual frames less than .1 seconds in length.
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Nicely composed/executed! Did you plan for the north star to be in that little break in the tree branch, or was that unintentional fortune?

Only thing I would suggest is to maybe tone down the brightness of the trees a little, to emphasize the night sky a little more. To my they look a little unnatural and slightly distracting as they are.
 
fcortese said:
Stunning. Not sure what to suggest to improve upon what you have already done:eek::)
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Well thank you! :eek:

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Ruahrc said:
Nicely composed/executed! Did you plan for the north star to be in that little break in the tree branch, or was that unintentional fortune?

Only thing I would suggest is to maybe tone down the brightness of the trees a little, to emphasize the night sky a little more. To my they look a little unnatural and slightly distracting as they are.
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I agree about the trees. This is just the JPGs right off the camera. Yesterday i was working to mask out the trees on the RAW files and did a test stack. It worked pretty well. Now I have to select which frame I want to use for the foreground. At the same time I will remove the three planes for the final image.

I wanted the north star to be in the frame but outside of that it was just a lucky chance that it fell into the cove created by the trees. Looking at the tiny LCD screen it was difficult to tell which little dot was the one I wanted. ;)
 
guy curlewis said:
The lines just appealed - have bumped the saturation, sharpness and added some vignette.

Love some c&c
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I really like this photo - it really has atmosphere. I have no critiques.

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Alonzo84 said:
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Bicycles For Rent by JonathanVirgiePhotography, on Flickr
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The sunlight is a bit bright. I feel like I need sunglasses. It does make me want to go for a bike ride though.
 
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