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Feb 19, 2024 12:48:08   #
(Digital Artistry)
The mean streets of the city
Curmudgeon wrote:
AI WARNING

All three images are from MidJourney.

What I need from you is an honest critique on the composite. I appreciate emojis and "well done" BUT from you folks that make composite images: What is right, what is wrong. Be truthful and brutal. I am not happy with my skill and I need your help


Perhaps its just a quirk of my brain, but I prefer things that move from left to right. Some have said it is because I'm right handed, some that it would be different if I'd learned to read Chinese, but, as Popeye had it, I yam what I yam.

Here I get stuck a bit in the larger left hand buildings. So perhaps you could just reverse the background, or simply reverse the entire thing, and see what you think.

And I agree that the kids look like giants, which I suspect is not your intent.

Otherwise, pretty darn interesting.
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Feb 18, 2024 18:24:27   #
(Digital Artistry)
By The Dawn's Early Light
NikonGal wrote:
Simplicity at it's best.


Thank you so very much.
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Feb 18, 2024 18:24:10   #
(Digital Artistry)
By The Dawn's Early Light
dpullum wrote:
oops, the title was above my upper margin when looking at the photo. When I show a photo usually I add it in the title line that comes with adding the photo. My goof not looking.


No worries. Would that my own goofs added up to so very very little. Indeed, my initial response to your goof was my own goof, having not decoded your remark to indicate that you thought there was no title, while I thought you meant the title was wanting. I would welcome you to the Brotherhood of Goofies, but I don't think you qualify.
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Feb 18, 2024 15:17:55   #
(Digital Artistry)
By The Dawn's Early Light
AzPicLady wrote:
The colours are beautiful. I really like the sparcity of the tree.


Thanks you. I'm glad you agree about the elegance of the tree branches.
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Feb 18, 2024 15:16:58   #
(Digital Artistry)
By The Dawn's Early Light
l-fox wrote:


Thanks, Foxy
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Feb 18, 2024 08:10:01   #
(Digital Artistry)
By The Dawn's Early Light
Linda From Maine wrote:
I think it works for an uplifting mood (both in color and the design of the limbs) and, as tcthome says, as an example of excellent minimalism.

I very much like the slight diagonal of the slightly soft clouds. You have a great artistic eye, Sam!


Thanks so much Linda. Like so many of us, I get lucky every little once in a while.
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Feb 18, 2024 08:09:13   #
(Digital Artistry)
By The Dawn's Early Light
tcthome wrote:
Nice post work. Minimalism at its best.


Thanks so much.
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Feb 18, 2024 08:08:55   #
(Digital Artistry)
By The Dawn's Early Light
dpullum wrote:
cbtsam, a title is needed to direct my interpretation of your image. ** Is this somber ... "Red Skies in the Morning Sailors Take Warning" foreboding or sunrise thing-will-be-better promising? Regardless of which, it is striking and the blend of blue and red with crossing parallel lines for each color is mood effective construction. Placing a foreboding vulture perched on a limb would unquestionably define the image.

**Page 253 of Suler's work on the psychology of images:
"Especially in online photosharing groups, people like to create titles and write descriptions for
their pictures. Because text interacts with images in all sorts of fascinating ways, the words you
choose to accompany a photograph of artwork can expand, modify, or dramatically alter a
viewer’s interpretation of that piece. "
https://johnsuler.com/pdfs/photopsy.pdf
cbtsam, a title is needed to direct my interpretat... (show quote)


Well, there is a title: By The Dawn's Early Light, referring to the morning sky and the tree's location at Baltimore's Fort McHenry. As for one's response to the image, I think the ambiguity you experience can be an advantage.
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Feb 18, 2024 08:01:43   #
(Digital Artistry)
By The Dawn's Early Light
veralisa296 wrote:
You did a fine job with using the early morning sky and the tree is reaching for it! Great job! Love the Y-shaped tree!


Thank you, Veronica.
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Feb 18, 2024 08:01:11   #
(Digital Artistry)
By The Dawn's Early Light
UTMike wrote:
Gorgeous result!


Thanks so much, Mike.
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Feb 18, 2024 08:00:49   #
(Digital Artistry)
By The Dawn's Early Light
Curmudgeon wrote:
Beautiful. Did you play with the sky or is that the actual color?


Thank you. Yes, I tend to play with everything.
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Feb 17, 2024 19:33:50   #
(Digital Artistry)
By The Dawn's Early Light
joecichjr wrote:
A phenomenal beauty 🥇🥇🥇


Thanks so much Joe
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Feb 17, 2024 18:39:23   #
(Digital Artistry)
By The Dawn's Early Light
A couple of weeks ago, the weather turned remarkably warm, so we went down to Fort McHenry. One of the images I shot was of a bunch of trees without any leaves, silhouetted against the sky. I was particularly taken by a "gesture" a couple of branches made, as seen in the image here; it was a small bit of what my 120 mm could gather. I cut it out, enlarged it, and pasted it onto a sky I shot a couple of years ago. The sky was shot pretty early early near the end of 2022, the tree rather late. Feedback is more than welcome; indeed, it's why I'm posting.


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Feb 14, 2024 18:46:41   #
(Main Photography Discussion)
Dealing With "NEF" Files or RAW
Linda From Maine wrote:
If there is any quality loss with dng, surely it will be a non-issue for the hobbyist photographer who doesn't have advanced skills in composition, exposure or editing, and who doesn't intend to print gallery-quality (and size) images.

We know very little about the OP (minimal posting history), so suggesting a wide range of options (including free and easy) seems like a reasonable use of our time


One indication of the loss of quality, or lack thereof, involved in converting to dng, might be indicated by the fact that the makers of HeliconFocus software, which I use for converting a stack of variably focused NEF images into a single focused stack image, uses the dng format for its output. My use of their system may not indicate much by way of quality, but the software's pretty solid reputation reputation might.
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Feb 14, 2024 14:54:30   #
(Main Photography Discussion)
Dealing With "NEF" Files or RAW
Linda From Maine wrote:
Thankfully, I haven't seen him suggest we buy cannons, just Canon


Nor have I, though I have seen him fire them off pretty routinely.
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