Fireworks are more manly being based on chemicals and explosives and loud sounds and outrageous displays of light and sparks and stuff. Flowers is blechy at best but I guess since you decided to concentrate on blech flowers blech they are good for what they are
anthony whitmo wrote:
1. Looks like you've clones something on the bottom left of screen. Very distracting.
If it's not due to cloning than ........... Well something is still distracting
Yes and yes
2. Yellow stem of Far right is a bit odd Not sure what you mean, it is as shot
3. Pedals in the foreground ............ Ruines it for me Picture looking down a long row of these Dahlia's and there being one at the end with a grass area behind it by 15ft but too high an angle brings the concrete sidewalk into the shot, low and some oof foreground but in a very soft way
4. Strongest image of the post IMHO............ But it's to pink and feminine........... Reminds me of Chad
5. Flower on Bottom Right keeps pulling my eye off of the main subject. And the extra blossoms (Unblossomed blossoms) kind of ruin it for me Not aloud to trim the flowers here at this garden LMAO, however cloning the lower right I thought would leave too much void not to mention a possible poor cloning job.......again I felt it balanced the oof flowers behind the subject.
6. I like it but the angle of the flower and the yellow saturation leave me having a tough time finding the primary and main focal point. I hope that makes sense. But the center of the flora and stems look over saturated in yellows maybe? My eyes struggle when looking at the center of the flora.............. It's not yellow
7. I like this one too. No real nitz but wonder if you could have taken a different angle to hide or give less focus to the extra stem on the top left? A rather difficult area to isolate a single bloom with out picking up surrounding stems and blooms. Always room to improve though buddy!
8. Looks over sharpened to me. Darn thing almost looks like it's brittle and about to break Interesting that this looks oversharp?
9. Nice but you cropped out one of the pedals ......... Hey is it OK to do that? That's like clipping a bird wing!! Yep
10................. You clipped the wing again ................ Were they moving to fast for you? Darn flora moves pretty quick doesn't it buddy There was another one trying to get into the picture
OK these are nice images. But just my WHIT Nitz buddy!!
Probably the best and most critical critique of all the comments but I thought you might want at least one really good critique
All in all nice job but still some area for improvement.
Now please send a critique fee payable to Anthony Whitmore
Nice critique, some good points and some things noticed that others didn't or didn't find bothersome. I think we could be even up on detailed critiques, though I do owe you some quality nits now LMAO buddy!
Thanks for the time spent and voicing your opinion..........
Karl
Thank you for the PM tip Karl as I did not see this post. I have been very busy with the ospreys and trying to get the info on all the young to the Audubon for their count and the weather is not helping. I have to say in my very limited knowledge of flowers other than poison ivy that these look very nice. Now the water droplets, did you spray them? as even I know that part for better looks. By the way have you seen this new macro lens from Nikon? I sent it to Terry and he went APE and his scream all the way here could be heard of I want one. This is a very nice post Karl and BTW also I just talked to my dealer about a 24 to 70 2.8 Canon L glass so maybe I might get into this close stuff a little more,
Lou http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/nikkoresources/zoomsMF/12001700mm.htm
lbuscher wrote:
Thank you for the PM tip Karl as I did not see this post. I have been very busy with the ospreys and trying to get the info on all the young to the Audubon for their count and the weather is not helping. I have to say in my very limited knowledge of flowers other than poison ivy that these look very nice. Now the water droplets, did you spray them? as even I know that part for better looks. By the way have you seen this new macro lens from Nikon? I sent it to Terry and he went APE and his scream all the way here could be heard of I want one. This is a very nice post Karl and BTW also I just talked to my dealer about a 24 to 70 2.8 Canon L glass so maybe I might get into this close stuff a little more,
Lou http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/nikkoresources/zoomsMF/12001700mm.htm...Show more →
Oh my Lou, you sent that to Terry That may even be too rich for his blood! My that lens is a monster, meaning it really scares me Lou, I think you want a little more reach for the florals, also the length gives you a nicer BG too most of the time. I think the 70-200 range zoom may be nice especially one with a close MFD or macro mode. I really liked my Canon 300 for flowers and dragonflies, I think it was 5-6ft MFD> Also the Canon 100mm macro is one fine piece of glass!
Thanks for the kind words my friend.............
Karl
Jul 08, 2009 at 02:27 PM
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Nice critique, some good points and some things noticed that others didn't or didn't find bothersome. I think we could be even up on detailed critiques, though I do owe you some quality nits now LMAO buddy!
Thanks for the time spent and voicing your opinion..........
Karl
Ummm I think I still owe you
Your still waaaaaaaaay up on my on the nitz
So your still in for many many many MANY more
anthony whitmo wrote:
Ummm I think I still owe you
Your still waaaaaaaaay up on my on the nitz
So your still in for many many many MANY more
Whitmo Nitz my friend
Well Mr Nitzmore, if you want nits then you gotta post up buddy! And you can't post and say 'not my best shots' 'these are crap' or 'hardly any PP' you gotta go for it again!
I'll give you a week off, then let 'em rip with no excuses, not even Canon just adjusted these and they are way off or something silly like that
Love ya buddy, have a nice visit with your daughter, hope she brings her P&S and shows you how its done!
Karl the Nit Witt
