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   Stuart BassAugust 7, 2019

   Very nice Dylan! One thing I would like to hear is the artistic rationale for making some of the decisions. I really appreciate it when you explain why you are cropping a shot often talking about how it improves classic composition, but very often you simply go ahead and make a change without explaining the motivation. For example, looking at the photo of the baby and and adding warm color. What did you see in the photo that made you feel the skin was not warm enough. Why did you choose split tone over other methods to add warmth? Or with the boat, you used an oval mask. Why does a sloppy mask like that work well compared to a more specific mask around the boat only? I would like to hear about the greater strategy of what you want to do to the photo to get it where you want it.
   This is a small criticism, overall I enjoy your clarity and method of making incremental changes that create dramatic results.

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   ulmamanAugust 15, 2019

   Hi Dylan, I agree to some extent with Stuart. It would be good to know your reasoning. I understand that it’s a matter of personal vision. I would like to see the difference if you gave the same photo to Dan Harlacher and Hudson Henry to process, how each of you would process that photo and what different settings in each of the modules you would use. Of course I wouldn’t expect you to confer with each other. It would be interesting to see how that turned out. It would help us to see how each of you sees differently.
   I don’t expect you’ll take me up on this but it was just a thought. I think it’s a case of the more people we see working a photo the more ideas we get when modifying our own photos.
   Thank you so much for your hard work and please keep it coming. I’m learning so much.

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