Anne Hornsby

Congratulations, Marty!!

Hah!!  🙂   His note is in the mail!

I like the 1st photo best, too, Lenny.  I tend to literal titles for minimalist images.  Such as “Curve with Staves”      For something goofy & musical, what first came to my mind looking at it was Twist and Stake.    🙂

Beautiful flower!  I also really like the B&W version.  Did you sharpen the inner rings, Marty?  Or dial up the contrast? It looks like it to me, and if so you could experiment with dialing that  back slightly.    I actually like the 1st better than the 2nd because for me the second has too much contrast/sharpening in the inner rings, but I unders…[Read more]

I agree with Beth, Patrick, and Light& Shadow re how to reshoot.  In terms of working with the image you have,  I would crop way in and drop the highlights & sharpen a bit. (I did this with the limited tools in “Photos,” since I don’t have LR/PS with me.)

I’ve been away from LS for awhile – crazed life – so I don’t know if people still edit o…[Read more]

Lenny, I really like the combo of textures, and dramatic lighting.  I didn’t change your lighting. Instead, for the upper right and left corners, I brought back detail into the image so the empty black spaces are reduced.  In doing this I discovered the bits of burlap in the upper left, which I like. 

Congrats, TImothy.  I love the mist and composition.

I’d like to hear about the lunacy, Beth!  Are you in NY?   I was lucky to view the total eclipse in a small quiet area in northern Maine.  The lunacy I experienced was the miles of stopped traffic trying to get to the expressway afterwards!

@erik-fransman  Fascinating experience with color, Erik.   Thanks.

@martye  Marty, this plant is very photogenic – I love it.  My comment is that the green in the image is too saturated and has too much blue in it.   (Of course, as Beth mentioned, it’s hard to know what each of us sees in our monitors.)

Thanks, Elin.  The “diamond ring” is my favorite, too.

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No changes to these i3 mages except to crop. 1st image: about 2/3 eclipse. 2nd image: the so-called “Diamond Ring” that occurs seconds before totality. It was like a light explosion. 3rd image: totality
I didn’t really have the right lenses. For 1st image, I used my 70-200 telephoto with…[Read more]

I’ve also been away from LS.  I always studied David’s images and found them so inspiring.  My belated condolences to his family.

Congrats, Julie!  This is an incredible image.

Thank, Patrick & Lenny.   I’ll try reshooting with some line!

Thanks so much, Federico, Dahlia, Diane!  I will reduce the vignette.   I’m also trying to think about how to introduce a sense of motion.

I never built computers like you, Federico, but I have taken apart a number of broken ones to see what’s inside!