Welp. Excerpts of my notes which I sent to Dan: "I'm sure someone will think I made the world's most spectacular urinal" "I watched the Andrea Bocelli yootoob, and it changed my mind a little about pl

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her: "I went to Greece for a generational family reunion and while I was there I saw a spectacular sunset that I just had to try to capture." + ipad friend: "That was so like her." + me: "Lightening t

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"We have met the enemy and he is me" (sic.) I carped a bit about the par the other day, saying attention is drawn neither up to the stage nor down to the audience. I don't think I need a mirror to fin

I'll start with Question #2: I prefer the par, despite my quibble posted in the other thread, I can believe that it is representative of that concert. - #308: the griminess throws me off a little, but

Going back to last summer's case studies, this is the first par I don't find particularly likeable. The audience is... just there. The band is just there. The bandstand, the beach, the ocean, the sky,

I expected a wide variation in how people would see the faces but I didn't expect such variance in how people see blacks. Mine is easily identifiable, although not because it is an extreme outlier (23

I like yellow mustard on my hot dog, not that elitist grey poupon stuff. I stay at Motel 6. So what do I know about "posh"? Seriously, it's nice to know I avoided fatal decisions and omissions in comi

Right off the bat I can see a dichotomy between lighter more orange corrections and darker browner ones. I would guess that one of the reasons is the choice of source file: the flat version which is l

I'm interested in another run of case studies. I thought the mix of images for last summer's series was good and the 7-day cycle allowed for life getting in the way of fun.

First and foremost I would like to extend profuse thanks to Dan for conducting this series of case studies. It was a golden opportunity for me and his generosity with his time and commentary made it m

Here's how I started this case study (and as a matter of routine for all color images): duplicate image to a new document: color boost, color boost again: noted the red cast back to the original image

"Here, let us assume that it is for promotion of tourism to the Cinque Terre region of Italy." Based on this premise none of the entries would compel me to visit this town (including my own). That spe

Interesting... The immediate thing that struck me about 319 was the excessive local contrast/clarity. My tactful opinion is that it is the antithesis to most peoples' notions of a wedding portrait. Bu

In one word: no. It may be that there is less portrait experience among the partcipants than in a typical ACT class or in the group list several years ago? Personally, eye color doesn't matter one bit

Many thanks to Dan for conducting this case study and to all those who participated. Faces and skin tones have always been the most vexing aspects of photography and image editing for me. What made th

Does this apply only to "normal" (edge) sharpening, or also to hiraloam sharpening?

I found out about this group list only a few years ago, and in mining the messages archive had discovered the Challenges and Case Studies of yore. Those were highly instructive in a way that just isn'

My thanks to Mr. Margulis for conducting this case study for us, and to Mr. Tartaglione for providing the example. I put most of the emphasis on Mr. Margulis' objective: "make it as colorful as possib

I would most certainly be an early buyer if and when it becomes available.