Critiques

sykonico (769) 2008-10-24 7:23

Congrats Jim, you have really captured something here. That special something you can't really describe that just leaves you thinking "Wow, that's a great one !".

May be as mentionned by fayeulle this one would also work in a more 'panoramical' format. But I like this area of plain empty water. It reinforces the feeling of cold brought by the surrouding hills and the fog and makes the houses (especially the one on the right because of the warm tones from the artificial lights) look all the more comfortable.

  sykonico (769) 2008-08-21 10:41

Hello,

I agree with everyone else about the wonderful colors, typical Irish landscape and so on.

However, I have to point out that your picture is slightly tilted. And since you've added a frame, maybe you could have corrected this at the same time. This is all the more important considering the castle is the main feature in the picture.

So I made a workshop. To correct the vertical lines first, and also to bring back some life in the clouds. I used the contrast mask technic.

Copy of the main layer.
Adjust > Desaturate > Invert
'Overlay' as blending choice of the layers
Gaussian Blur 10Px

  sykonico (769) 2008-06-13 14:11

Basse-Normandie, not Haute...

  sykonico (769) 2008-06-06 7:46

Cadrage intéressant en effet comme le souligne xavshot.

Et la lumière fait que la scène était assez difficiles à saisir. Le soleil sur la craie a toujours tendance à tromper le capteur de l'appareil. Ce qui a ici un peu noyé l'eau et l'échelle dans l'ombre. Dommage. Si ma mémoire est bonne, tu étais toi aussi dans l'ombre au moment de prendre cette photo car il y a de la falaise derrière toi, ce qui renforce la différence de contrastes.

Mais tout ceci peut facilement se rattraper avec un peu de 'Contrast Mask'.

New Layer via copy > Desaturate > Invert > 'Overlay' en choix de superposition > Filter - Gaussian Blur (environ 30pixel dans ce cas)

sykonico (769) 2008-05-27 8:55

De la qualité comme toujours.

The tint of blue in the foreground water is incredible.

I had to take a ruler to check but your horizon seems a bit... tilted :))
Must be because of the lake's shore.

Fallait bien que je trouve une critique à faire non?

** Je suppose que c'est une pose longue. Peux-tu indiquer combien de temps dans la note stp?

sykonico (769) 2008-05-03 19:29

Rien que pour l'ambiance, une "promenade" comme celle que tu as dû faire pour arriver là est déjà un cadeau en soi.

Mais pouvoir en ramener une photo qui traduise aussi bien le sentiment de plénitude que l'on peut éprouver face à un tel spectacle, je dis chapeau.

Merci pour ce morceau de rêve :)

sykonico (769) 2008-05-03 19:23

Nice choice for the global color tone. Gives a sunset feeling - although I'm ready to bet it wasn't sunset at all.

sykonico (769) 2008-05-03 19:10

Simple yet so effective.

The Little People and all kind of mythical creatures are everywhere around us but only expert eyes can spot them. But not only did you spot this one but managed to immortalize him :))
Well done.

  sykonico (769) 2008-05-02 3:49

Haute-Normandie would be more appropriate though ;)

  sykonico (769) 2008-04-20 12:54

Hello,

There is a strange little black dot on the right side of your picture... Any idea how it landed there?

The rocks formation all around the 'Rock' are amazing. Another excellent example here.