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01/26/2003 05:31:39 PM |
Critique Club comment by Grayce M. Dillon aka Gracious
Although this is a very familiar scene to me, having lived many years in rural upstate New York, it has a surrealistic quality to it.
There are many hay rolls, yet it is a simple composition and very appealing.
The coloring and subtle shading is fantastic. It is sharpened to the point of bringing the texture out in the field beautifully.
I can see the point some have made about the glare in the upper corner perhaps being distracting. BUT....it sort of adds a little heat to the image...making it even more surrealistic.
I like it...this is very artsy. Keep up the good work!!!
Regards,
Grayce |
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01/19/2003 05:39:20 PM |
| Bonus for daring to be punny. |
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01/19/2003 07:47:25 AM |
| Lovely landscape; very nice colors but the flare on the left is distracting. |
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01/18/2003 05:21:05 PM |
| I like the set up, the colors and the subject, Just a little too much saturation though. |
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01/18/2003 12:51:24 PM |
| Lovely subject, and lovely vibrant colours. My one biggest gripe is with the left hand corner at the top. I think maybe it is a bit over exposed, and the rays of the sun make the colours on the left hand side quite faint. -Annida |
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01/18/2003 11:02:27 AM |
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01/17/2003 08:21:04 AM |
| Where does one find hay like this. I love the beautiful, golden sheen that comes from these rolled bales. Excellent lighting, color and compositon. |
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01/17/2003 08:10:57 AM |
| we tooka straw poll and it said puns are good. So is this pic |
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01/17/2003 07:21:54 AM |
| looks like you playede with the settings a little. Very nice |
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01/17/2003 06:22:33 AM |
| Light is a little harsh. This is a wonderful shot. Nice color. Little pixelated. |
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01/17/2003 05:25:56 AM |
| i dont know what it is that appeals to me.. but i really really like this picture. Good job done. |
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01/17/2003 05:04:31 AM |
| The landscape itself looks pretty dull. Add the round bales and you got yourself a pic!! Nice colors. Looks like the upper left side wanted to glare a bit - Inspzil |
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01/17/2003 01:25:23 AM |
| I like the title and the colors are great. The haze or smoke in the left middle is really distracting though. Nice shot. |
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01/16/2003 04:40:34 PM |
This is my favorite this week (besides mine of course).
I would have cropped about half of the sky. |
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01/16/2003 03:22:22 AM |
| Nice colour, but the sun flare does not add to the photo. There also appears to be too much grain. Perhaps a lower ISO would have been better and positioning it a little more to the right to get the sun out of the frame. |
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01/16/2003 12:59:18 AM |
| The composition is wonderfull and you have choosen a great topic. In my opinion it could have been improved by choosing a darker and deeper blue for the sky, but maybe this was not possible. Together with the yellow it looks a little artificial to me. Also the bright spot from the sun in the upper left corner does not add something in my opinion. Still a great picture for its topic and a 8 from me. |
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01/16/2003 12:20:12 AM |
| If that one could be re-shot my advice would be: get closer to some of these and have more fun composing with these shapes in different sizes and keep just enough sky only to mark the horizon. 7 |
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01/15/2003 08:36:06 PM |
| Nice photo, but the colors are very saturated. Gives photo more of a "painting" feeling. Good eye for catching this scene. |
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01/15/2003 09:22:16 AM |
| Brightness/contrast is a little too harsh |
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01/15/2003 06:53:47 AM |
| colors are a bit too unrealistic for me. |
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01/15/2003 05:16:10 AM |
| Colors are a little too harsh for me. |
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01/15/2003 02:20:56 AM |
| Hay, that's extremely bright! |
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01/15/2003 01:01:34 AM |
| I like the way the suns warmth is reflected off of the bales. Wonderful colours! |
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01/14/2003 10:03:37 PM |
Great colors and very buisy picture! i Like it. Nice!!
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01/14/2003 08:44:32 PM |
| I like it. Love the title too! The sun washed out the left side of the the picture a bit too much, and you could probably crop a bit of that out. But other than that cool shot.7. |
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01/14/2003 07:15:52 PM |
| Great title and wild colours. It works very well with your chosen subject. Good work |
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01/14/2003 07:05:08 PM |
| Beautiful composition, but the colours seems off, especially the sky. The sun's glare on the left side unfoirtunately washes out the colours on that side. The colours on the right side are very rich and deep. Beautiful. I guess maybe next time don't shoot into (or so close to) the sun. Saturation is also maybe a little too much. |
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01/14/2003 05:00:18 PM |
| I sense some image manipulation here, but whatever the case, the flare from the sun makes the image unevenly lit on the left side. Other than the flare, a good fit for the challenge and a nicely composed shot. |
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01/14/2003 03:37:41 PM |
| Lovely subject, perfect for the challenge, one big problem I see here was that you were shooting into the sun which caused the white spot more in the left hand corner... too bad, because I love the rich colors of the land, and the sky. Also I think your horizion is a little tilted.... fixing that in photoshop might have worked... cool idea though. |
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01/14/2003 02:40:36 PM |
| Looks a bit oversaturated, but it's a fun shot. |
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01/14/2003 09:28:53 AM |
| Very interesting photo. The chaotic placement of the hayrolls makes a nice composition. Too bad it's a little overexposed at the left because that kinda draws away my attention out of the photo. Besides that, great job. |
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01/14/2003 07:46:22 AM |
| I think I would like to see the original color to this. Looks too fake like this. I mean, colors are good, but maybe a bit too oversaturated? I love the shot though. All the bales, the smoothe ground and the smoothe horizon line. Very nice composition. Focus and clarity are good, and the angle and framing/cropping are excelent. Color just seems off. Very nice find. Good landscape. Good luck in the challenge. |
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01/14/2003 03:11:00 AM |
| Amzing colours and light. Great shot. The shaows are perfect and the yellow is vivid. Simple, but very good work. |
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01/14/2003 02:47:40 AM |
| with you title you pulled the foces from the landscape to the hay, a good title for this photo would have been Rolling Hill , I went through and voted now i am back to correct my mistakes. this is one of 4 photos that i made a mistake on and i am uping your score from a 3 to a 7 good job and good luck |
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01/13/2003 11:11:34 PM |
| With the brightness in the top left corner, the left half of the picture is a bit washed-out due to the reduced contrast. I think that cropping it to produce a protrait format picture might have worked better. |
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01/13/2003 10:27:15 PM |
| Unfortunate hot spot ul corner. Interesting colors, nice composition! |
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01/13/2003 08:21:51 PM |
| Really cool, pumped-up colors. I think you could stand to crop off the left side where the sun is fading out the shot. |
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01/13/2003 11:41:10 AM |
| maybe the colours are just a little too emphasized |
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01/13/2003 10:03:07 AM |
| Like the abstract and grainy effect. |
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01/13/2003 05:51:05 AM |
| This is a real winner picture. It looks as though it has been over saturated in post processing, which has really hurt it. It doesn't look natural, Sorry. |
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01/13/2003 05:09:40 AM |
| I think you went way overboard with the saturation slider. :) |
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01/13/2003 04:52:10 AM |
| a bit grainy but I like it |
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