|
About mocando/Martin
All photos
63 photos
Abstract & Still Life
2 photos
Candid & People
22 photos
City and Street
17 photos
Landscape & Scenics
10 photos
Nature and Wildlife
6 photos
Travel
6 photos
Photo critiques
195 critiques
Discussions
0 discussions
Journal entries
0 journal entries
|
Tecnology and romance of shipping
(5)
johanscheepers/Johan (4,750)
|
|
|
from mocando/Martin (1,259) 
on June 15, 2012 12:31:24 PM CDT
(1)
Agree with the previous critiques. Although, I think it has too much saturation and is oversharpened a bit. You can see halos around the left part of the ship, against the blue water. In Lightroom, drop back the "Detail" slider in the Sharpening block, Detail menu. Moving it down past below 30, it does have a halo suppression effect. I also believe cloning out the lettering might help create a more mysterious effect.
|
 | | |
Lagoon Balos
(6)
tadekz/Tadeusz (959)
|
|
|
from mocando/Martin (1,259)
on June 15, 2012 12:25:21 PM CDT
(3)
Very nice image. Agree with the cropping. It would create a more impacting image. The rocks are a distraction, and doesn't add up too much to the overall scene. The arrangements of chairs and umbrellas are quite appealing already.
|
| | |
Norwegian pastoral
(2)
yellowhawk/Fred (5,211)
|
|
|
from mocando/Martin (1,259)
on June 13, 2012 10:45:26 AM CDT
(4)
The image is nice, and have good potential, but there is something weird about the cows in the field. Is there a small hill in front of you? they seem to be all in the floor resting, but some of them look like had their legs cut off. I think you should have moved a bit closer to them.
|
| | |
Misty Day Along the Blue Ridge Parkway
(1)
richardgreene/Richard (4,239)
|
|
|
from mocando/Martin (1,259)
on June 11, 2012 3:02:41 PM CDT
(1)
Richard. The image has lots of potential, you used the basic compositional rules, but it fails completely in post processing. You have huge area of blown highlights in the top that is a pain to look at.This kind of high dynamic range images are better shot in bracket mode, were an image is taken for the highlights and one for the shadows. Then you blend them together in photoshop. Or, using a wide DR sensor, like the ones used by modern cameras (your T3i included), then...
|
| | |
Memories of Hong Kong
(5)
mchitre/Mandar (2,551)
|
|
|
from mocando/Martin (1,259)
on June 11, 2012 1:03:38 PM CDT
(2)
The approach I take when deciding between B&W or color, is, many times, are there elements in the image that are clearly modern, post B&W only photography? Because, in my personal opinion, having split air conditioning systems in an image, just doesn't fit with B&W.
I would have also cropped or shot vertical, since the main subject is not very clear. My eyes continue to move around the image, and can't lock into something. And that is, because there is lots of detail in...
|
| | |
In The Slot
(9)
sundown/Barbara (688)
|
|
|
from mocando/Martin (1,259)
on June 11, 2012 12:47:54 PM CDT
(5)
Barbara, nice try. Although I would like to know which lens you used. I see very strong chromatic aberration in the extreme highlights. I know there are many software that can reduce CA, but I don't know at what extent. Another issue, already mentioned, is about the contras and tonal values. There is simply too much for the sensor to handle, even for a D800. You could try toning down the highlights, and recovering the shadows to add detail, but noise might be an issue. So,...
|
| | |
Let the right one enter
(9)
yellowhawk/Fred (5,211)
|
|
|
from mocando/Martin (1,259)
on June 11, 2012 12:37:50 PM CDT
(3)
Such a gorgeous lady, on that white gown, in an old broken doorway... Ohhhh my. That is too good to be true. Either she is not from around here (planet earth), or she is not really here. I'd run as fast and far as I can. The look is bone freezing frightening!!! AWESOME. You can put your imagination to fly by just looking at the image. Outstanding job.
|
| | |
Dawn: "Empty Sky" 9-11 Memorial and Freedom Tower
(5)
karlt/Karl (7,781)
|
|
|
from mocando/Martin (1,259)
on June 8, 2012 4:55:51 PM CDT
(4)
Excellent idea, and great composition. Maybe a bit over sharpen (halos in freedom tower), and lack of contrast, maybe due to the distance. But overall is a great strong image. Good job.
|
| | |
Eagle
(2)
rcnut/Mark (1,401)
|
|
|
from mocando/Martin (1,259)
on June 7, 2012 3:09:16 PM CDT
(3)
Jeeze, great capture Mark. But those halos. Way over sharpened. Although the moment is brilliant. I wonder how can someone critique badly your timing, like the eagle was posing for you and if you could yell at her: "Buddy, can you please make another flight, but this time look at me?". Come on, people. Be realistic. They man did what he could. Just drop down sharpening it a bit, and crop it tighter and it will be better. Maybe not 3TU, but at least 2TU.
|
| | |
Lac De Nino
(4)
vtie/Vtie (7,061)
|
|
|
from mocando/Martin (1,259)
on June 7, 2012 3:02:03 PM CDT
(5)
As said, the scenery is breathtaking, although this is one of the pictures that fail to work, because there is simply too much. The foreground is way too busy. Simplicity is key. You have to walk around and look. Maybe the stone up front would have been a better foreground subject than the puddle. Or walk all the way to the border of the lake, and get the reflections from the mountain. Or maybe getting very low, and get some detail from the puddle, but hiding the small...
|
| | |
Acres
(10)
billhubbard/Bill (23,784)
|
|
|
from mocando/Martin (1,259)
on June 7, 2012 2:28:13 PM CDT
(2)
Beautiful. Love the colors and the wavy lines of the hills. I think is quite sharp as it is, maybe it needs a bit of capture sharpening, but I can see lots of detail in the dirt. There is something odd about the foreground grass, though. I don't know what it is, at first I though it was motion blur, but I'm not sure. Great capture. Good job.
|
| | |
Bovine Intervention RE-SUB
(4)
silverball/Sean (1,262)
|
|
|
from mocando/Martin (1,259)
on June 2, 2012 12:05:30 PM CDT
(1)
Very good. See, you did it. Although I would just add a bit of contrast and saturation. More saturation than contrast. You took too much from it.
Is an optical illusion, but one tend to see at the third cow, since we knew it was there originally, but for new people, they won't even know what was there. I would have followed the line of lower bushes, when the darker shadow to follow, instead of creating like a small hill there, but It hink you did a great job anyways.
|
| | |
Bovine Intervention
(3)
silverball/Sean (1,262)
|
|
|
from mocando/Martin (1,259)
on June 1, 2012 9:58:17 PM CDT
(3)
HAHA, very funny picture. Great hair. I almost hear them singing red red wiiiinee.... Now, I think is too much PP. Way too contrasty and blown highlights. At least for my taste. About the third cow, I think it can be cloned. Is tricky, because of the foreground leaves, but very carefully I think it might be pulled out. I would have given the main cow a bit of room in the top left corner, though. I think is cropped too tight. Other than that, I love it.
|
| | |
Summer's Light
(9)
mrabriand/Alain (5,659)
|
|
|
from mocando/Martin (1,259)
on June 1, 2012 6:38:35 PM CDT
(5)
Great capture, and gorgeous model. You don't say what lens you used, but I assume is an L glass, since it held its quality, even with strong frontal flare. The image is very sharp. I don't quite think the left down and right bushes work. I would have preferred a simpler seaside background, but even though, the image is great. Thanks for sharing.
|
| | |
Kupres plateau, BiH - Kupreska visoravan, BiH
(-2)
sirius2007/Denis (53)
|
|
|
from mocando/Martin (1,259)
on June 1, 2012 6:10:14 PM CDT
(3)
Denis. First of all, sorry for the thumbs down, but I think this image fails in the basics. The sky is very noisy. I don't know which program you use (or if any altogether) to process your images, but noise is very easy to remove in Lightroom. Next is the total lack of sharpness all around the image. Nothing appears to be in focus. Maybe is camera motion blur, or wrong focus point selected, but since you stripped the EXIF, and you gave no data on how the image was taken,...
|
|
