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Round |
C/R |
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Image |
| 40 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
I'm on the long drive from Florida to NH, and the sky is almost this color, during the day, because of the Saharan Dust Cloud. Can't wait to get past GA and get away from it. I hope none of you are in its path. Definitely makes breathing more difficult. |
Jun 28th |
| 40 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Hi Andrew,
I think this picture is definitely about the tubing. You have an eye for anything steampunk-like, and this is a wonderful capture. I would suggest cropping out window on the left-it's so bright, it draws my eye even when I want to study the tubing.Then you might want to mask the tubes and the half-wheel that remains and put it agains a black backdrop or go further and create a fantasy backdrop.
I love that blue tint on the floor, but it, also, distracts from the tubing, so I would suggest a bottom crop as well.
This image, to me, is all about the texture of the tubes and so on. But we can't appreciate the textures at this level: need to zoom in, focus on specific parts, and for that you need the highest quality image you have.
I could see this as a great wall picture, with the main image in the center and close ups of particular bits placed around it.
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Jun 15th |
| 40 |
Jun 20 |
Reply |
It's a really lovely picture with a great combination of complementary colors in the flower and the background. The selective focus works for me as it gives the flower a distinct personality. It's beautiful but I also get a sense of horror or dread from it, as if this flower was in the star lineup for that play "The Little Shop of HOrrors" or that it had walked out of a Georgia O'Keefe painting. Great work! |
Jun 13th |
| 40 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Anne, what a great catch of an image!
I actually like your original better. All I would do to the original is crop the left and right sides so the lampoists act as a frame. That done, it would also work in B&W. There is something very powerful about a veiled figure crossing that particular bridge, and the image is rich in textures.
I do like your final, just not as much as the original I like the vertical cropping, I like the B&W, and I like the effect. To my way of thinking, you have posted two good pictures! A little slider work on the final to make the blacks blacker might add to the effect. Great work! |
Jun 13th |
| 40 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Dear Jamie,
B&W definitiely the right choice here!
To take the greatest advantage of it, some additional contrast to sky only, highlighting whites and darkening blacks, would help.
If you darkened the blacks on the water too then you would have the threatening dark strip at the top of the frame and the darker water at the bottom for symmetry.
I find having the horizon line almost centered across the picture to be off-putting. I think that's why people are suggesting you crop the water. I can see why no one suggests cropping the sky-because then you would lose that dark strip of cloud. I think a slight crop of the water to put the horizon further off center would be an improvement. You could then re-add the dark shadows on the water with a vignette filter or similar. It wouldn't take much of a crop, you would still have the effect of an expanse of water.
If the centered horizon line doesn't bother you, the just some work on contrast is what I would suggest. |
Jun 13th |
| 40 |
Jun 20 |
Reply |
Julie, that is a good idea, I will try that. |
Jun 13th |
| 40 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Hi Julie, It's a beautiful image. A good silhouette is the ideal we are all chasing, and you got it with this one. I see good use of thirds, good use of foreground, middle ground, and background, beautiful contrast in textures, good choice for a silhouette image.
Did you do any editing to the photo? Is there an original that is rather different from what you ended up with? I'm very interested in your process, including your settings. |
Jun 13th |
| 40 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
It's interesting to compare this to the picture you posted in June 2019 of the same spot. This one (I don't know when you took it) is framed better. (Based on the previous picture, it seems to me you must be standing in the water for this one). The crop works for me, though I think taking off a little greenery from the top wouldn't hurt.
I'm not sure I see any slider work, to me the original and the final look identical - for example, nothing missing from lower left corner.
Lovely image just as it is, the only slider work it would need IMHO is putting a little contrast in the shades of green. |
Jun 9th |
| 40 |
Jun 20 |
Comment |
Wow, Catherine, how did you get the pink bokeh background? |
Jun 9th |
| 40 |
Jun 20 |
Reply |
Thank you so much, Anne! I might use the flowers on their own online, and maybe print this image for change of address cards or something. Or save it for the August poetry event, where people write poems on postcards they've made and send it to strangers. Who knows. I still have "lockdown" brain and feel my photographic creativity is in hibernation. Maybe once we've moved it will return.... |
Jun 7th |
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