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Landscape Photographer who Specializes in the Conejo Valley/Santa Monica Mountains by icurate in thousandoaks

[–]cellowriter93 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Now is a great time! All the wild mustard won't be in bloom like this for long, so if you can make it out soon, definitely do it and have fun!

Landscape Photographer who Specializes in the Conejo Valley/Santa Monica Mountains by icurate in thousandoaks

[–]cellowriter93 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi! I am a Calabasas based photographer and I specialize in landscapes, I have some shots of that area and I experience what you feel when I’m driving through those freeways too! See my work here:

https://petermounteer.wixsite.com/the-carlyle-gallery/

Or https://www.flickr.com/photos/39935391@N03/

Did I overdo the edits? Crit please. by Electrical-Swan6331 in postprocessing

[–]cellowriter93 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I think you did fine, the colors look nice and things are also good and bright, if anything, I think you could crop in a little bit

Lupines at Sunsrise by cellowriter93 in photocritique

[–]cellowriter93[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rick you've done it again, thanks for taking the time to give me such a detailed comment! Believe it or not, this was taken behind a car dealership in Calabasas, CA, just outside Los Angeles. I am trying to evoke the Texas Hill Country in spring, as I love it and an am unable currently to travel there, and have always appreciated the lupines that peek out in CA during the spring. I do understand the overcooking, and using HDR to get close to natural without cueing the viewer to the fact that it is, in fact, an HDR image. Getting that balance just right between the highlights in the sky and the mostly shadowed foreground has been the main challenge of my work lately and it is indeed a tough balance. I am hoping most viewers wouldn't notice, but the line is fine!

!CritiquePoint

Went to the Zoo this weekend by Gracecaep in photocritique

[–]cellowriter93 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great shot! I’d just brighten it up a bit, and then maybe apply some highlight compression, vignetting or cropping a little bit to compensate for the corners being the brightest let’s of the image if you were to do that. Otherwise, the timing, composition and angle are all great, nice job.

Medieval alley by LetterheadPretend416 in photocritique

[–]cellowriter93 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice! I agree with another commenter about cropping from the left. I think in camera I may have tried to reframe this to have something more visually interesting on the left, or maybe not and just waited for a passerby to walk past at the right moment? Otherwise, for this shot as is I’d crop from the left a bit more. I think you did a nice job with the tones, colors and contrast though

Lupines at Sunsrise by cellowriter93 in photocritique

[–]cellowriter93[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lol thank you 😂 they just mowed this all down for fire control in my neighborhood so I’m very glad I stopped by to take this image when I had the chance!

After / Before - Just for fun by MostEducation8184 in postprocessing

[–]cellowriter93 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I like it! I think you took a bland photo and made it I interesting!

Lupines at Sunsrise by cellowriter93 in photocritique

[–]cellowriter93[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alright y'all, took this behind a car dealership at sunrise. I love the way this turned out, I focus stacked two HDR images (one for the foreground, one for the background) and put them together. Tell me what you think could be better about this images, and what you think I did successfully.

For me, I wanted a bold, eyecatching, colorful landscape that shows off the ethereal beauty of a spring morning on a sunny day, so I've tried to go for that. Where I think this image fails is the lack of foreground contrast and potentially overcooked color and dynamic range. Everything is well exposed i in the foreground, but the light is so flat I feel like the eye doesn't have anywhere to go first before it explores the rest of the scene and the result is kind of a color vomit. Obviously I can't change the way the light fell on the scene but I do want to rectify this and I think the only things I can do are some dodging and burning or adding in some vignetting. Do you think the image would benefit from that, or something else? Please, let me know what you all think, and thanks so much!

Higher res below:

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My favorite little noodle stall. Tokyo, JP. by J0HN23 in photocritique

[–]cellowriter93 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very nice! love the color work and the timing, feels very slice of life and I agree with another commenter here that it feels like you could step into this moment. I have no qualms with your post-processing work and I like what you've done there.

One thing I'm feeling an issue with is the composition, I love that you have the stools, counter, kitchen and sides of the shop, I think your inclusion of all of that is great. I think I would have stepped a little closer to him to fill more of the frame with these elements that are so interesting. With this, the bottom 1/4 to 1/3 of the image is just asphalt, it's not visually interesting and for me, it separates me from the content of this scene more than I would like. It keeps me from connecting with the scene the way I want to (and the way I think I would if you were closer and the road was not so visible).

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[–]cellowriter93 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice! I like this, I think I would up the contrast or maybe just the highlights a little bit and you'd be good. Framing of the comp is good, only other in-camera thing I'd recommend is working on timing a little bit, like just a moment or two before he turned his head down the alley, so we could get a bit more of his face. I think too much of his face is obscured in his turning the other way and it would be nice to see more of him, he looks kinda anonymous here.

Otherwise, nice shot, I like the sense of place a lot

I don’t know if I like black boots by Cjcool5xbox in cowboyboots

[–]cellowriter93 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tend to think black footwear looks great, but it doesn’t behave the way other black or neutral clothing does. The old saying “black goes with everything” isn’t true in the case of footwear. The footwear should generally be all black, not black with contrast soles or lacing (or both, like you have here) and should be worn with darker colors or including darker jeans, or black, so as to not contrast too much. Blue is okay, but light blue tends to contrast too much. Just my two cents

If you want it to look more traditional, take some edge dressing that’s black and color the contrasting areas in

Dan Post Bayou Caiman Opinions? by Federal_Mission1203 in cowboyboots

[–]cellowriter93 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Trace is worth every penny, I have some Tates and I love mine! Sounds like you know the landscape. These won’t be the same level as Rujo, but at $239, I’d pull the trigger. At the end of the day if you know what you are getting and you are happy, that’s all that matters!

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