The critique is very helpful. So I won't sell my gear and I know what to work on. Great show guys these are always one of my favorite programs on the Grid.
Nice show and good feedback! These critiques are great especially with the live editing suggestions. It makes you really appreciate how small edits can have big impact. I have to point out something about the basketball dunk picture at the ~1h mark. This is a Topaz quirk that drives me nuts. The faces in the background are disturbing and just off and because of that, I guarantee that picture used Topaz Denoise AI. It has a "recover faces" feature that finds every face in the image and sharpens it if it is blurry. This can work well except when you have out of focus faces in the background like in this picture. It tries to recover them but there isn't enough information so you get cartoonish, distorted faces that are just disturbing. The workaround is to expand the select faces option in Topaz and deselect all. Then select only the faces that you are interested in. You did a nice job repairing this debacle with the blur tools but, it may have been unnecessary if Topaz hadn't "recovered" all of those faces in the background.
I always learn so much from watching the blind critiques. Regarding the African wildlife photos and the first lion chasing wildebeests photo, is it just me or are the two wildebeest exactly the same?
A mediocre photographer can produce a brilliant image when using a brilliant subject. An amazing photographer can produce a brilliant image from a bland and dull subject.
Hey, I love Scott Kelby by what I'm asking myself is....why does this pod have two critiques though? I feel like we are only getting Kelby's opinions!!!!!! just saying
Best BPC for a while. More content, less irrelevant chat than usual. Thank you.
Thank you for the critique Scott & Erik, your feedback is always helpful
Great show ... learnt some good stuff 👍
The critique is very helpful. So I won't sell my gear and I know what to work on. Great show guys these are always one of my favorite programs on the Grid.
Those car photos look great
Would love to show you what I did with the wedding shot on the dock.
Nice show and good feedback! These critiques are great especially with the live editing suggestions. It makes you really appreciate how small edits can have big impact. I have to point out something about the basketball dunk picture at the ~1h mark. This is a Topaz quirk that drives me nuts. The faces in the background are disturbing and just off and because of that, I guarantee that picture used Topaz Denoise AI. It has a "recover faces" feature that finds every face in the image and sharpens it if it is blurry. This can work well except when you have out of focus faces in the background like in this picture. It tries to recover them but there isn't enough information so you get cartoonish, distorted faces that are just disturbing. The workaround is to expand the select faces option in Topaz and deselect all. Then select only the faces that you are interested in. You did a nice job repairing this debacle with the blur tools but, it may have been unnecessary if Topaz hadn't "recovered" all of those faces in the background.
Happy new year 🙌
was anybody else shouting LEOPARD! 😂
I think it was a Jaguar.
No I'm shouting Jaguar 🤓
It ended so fast!
I always learn so much from watching the blind critiques.
Regarding the African wildlife photos and the first lion chasing wildebeests photo, is it just me or are the two wildebeest exactly the same?
Good job guys. BTW, that was a Leopard. Cheers.
I think it was a Jaguar.
A double thumbs up.... that'll do for me guys, 2nd critique in.👍👍🙂
A mediocre photographer can produce a brilliant image when using a brilliant subject. An amazing photographer can produce a brilliant image from a bland and dull subject.
Hey, I love Scott Kelby by what I'm asking myself is....why does this pod have two critiques though? I feel like we are only getting Kelby's opinions!!!!!! just saying
*but
It's not a Cheetah, it's a Leopard
So skiing photos are even more boring than football photos?