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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 79 |
Nov 23 |
Comment |
I'm late this month in responding - so in case anyone returns and reads this: thank you all for your comments and ideas.
I actually spent a lot of time with this image in the past few weeks influenced by a book on "modern art" (where modern is the 1910s-20s). For your amusement, this is my current version |
Nov 20th |
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| 79 |
Nov 23 |
Comment |
We were just at the Met just before you posted this, and saw an almost identical skull painted in a special exhibition there; yours is the more colorful, and I think effective, background.
Your combination of images is for me well chosen as thematically they enhance each other.
Did you consider rotating the blanket 90 degrees ? I am thinking here that the symmetry of the skull and blanket would then match.
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Nov 20th |
| 79 |
Nov 23 |
Comment |
A fascination and inventive collage. I suggest that the eyes might better "reflect" some of the flames.
By coincidence I recently learnt that some think that the original "fruit" was a fig: hence the fig leaves that Adam and Eve then used to cover their nakedness. |
Nov 20th |
| 79 |
Nov 23 |
Comment |
A great idea to isolate the one exciting element in this manner: I had fun replicating your approach ... and I find that wine is important to the process.
I would also suggest a burn tool is useful for the core and a blur tool softens the edges. |
Nov 20th |
| 79 |
Nov 23 |
Comment |
Marianne
lovely subject - and excellent post-processing work
personally I would cut out from the right and lose the shed which I think makes the cart into a closer diagonal |
Nov 20th |
| 79 |
Nov 23 |
Comment |
I am all for imperfections: I leave my own in my self-portraits. Autumn leaves are a perfect example of when decay can be seen as beauty - along with acceptance.
I like the isolated leaf, and the choice of placing it off-center and "off-straight". I think the subject sits very well in the frame.
The back-ground is striking - and for me a little too much as it seems to detract from the subject, thus masking its imperfections. An alternative might be to simply desaturate the background and then to add a strong filter over it (perhaps a complementary color to the subject).
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Nov 20th |
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| 79 |
Nov 23 |
Comment |
Judith , For me the colors in the soft grasses are the highlight of this image: so gentle and almost stroking. They are I think the dream-like quality you were seeking.
My suggestion would be to tone down the flat leaves (perhaps selectively educe the saturation) as they may dominate as is. |
Nov 20th |
| 79 |
Nov 23 |
Reply |
I love the sentiment : it has to be art because it can't be anything else ... :-) |
Nov 12th |
7 comments - 1 reply for Group 79
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| 99 |
Nov 23 |
Reply |
Thank you for the correction: this is not a barrel vault, it is a faulty memory. Having surfed the internet and watched YouTube videos, I completely agree and will retitle my work for the future: Ribbed Vault it will be. Thank you for saving me from future embarrassment. |
Nov 23rd |
| 99 |
Nov 23 |
Comment |
Kathleen, personally I like the limited tonal range, I think it subtle and more than sufficient to define the subject.
The slight blurring of the wall seems effective to me in isolating the subject - and I see a texture contrast between the hat that the blanket that makes both interesting, especially the curves and shadows of the subjects back.
I agree with Kathleen about the white pipe - it needs to go - and her crop on the right to take out the metal chair arm - but I would keep the left since I prefer to place the subject's eyes/nose on the center line rather than centering the head (it gives space into which they can be looking). |
Nov 19th |
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| 99 |
Nov 23 |
Comment |
John - welcome into the group!
Great subject. I think your image conveys a cold and blustery day - which is the right way to go walking by the coast.
For my attempts to play with your image - I created two images in Nik - one for contrast (which I sharpened) and one for atmosphere - and then in photoshop I blended the two together using a slider until I was happy. Finally I used curves to adjust the contrast (though I confess I am often too heavy handed with this).
Oh, yes, and I eliminated the other tourists by painting them out (noise elimination I call it :-) ). |
Nov 19th |
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| 99 |
Nov 23 |
Comment |
Linda - I love the impression of haze: it projects a feeling of wilderness and lost moment.
I am of two minds about the left tree (sorry to pick on it). I like it. For me it does distract from the center, but in doing so it makes the image more about location rather than a specific subject: place rather than trunks. On the other hand, when I was playing with your image I ended up with a white vignette that served also to focus onto the center.
Still I think your version stands as beautiful
The short broken branch poking up - dead center - from the fallen trunk is for me a useful anchor to this composition. Nicely placed. |
Nov 19th |
| 99 |
Nov 23 |
Comment |
I only wish that had been a beer can and not coke.
Nice shot as always
My debate is batman. On the one hand I like the resonance between his posture and the child's - on the other I think the narrative might be stronger if he were cut leaving only the two main characters.
Another title? "Have a sit down, mum" - might be a little kinder. |
Nov 19th |
| 99 |
Nov 23 |
Comment |
Beautiful and simple. I do not use flash but you certainly have made me think about learning. I would be inclined to add some negative space. |
Nov 19th |
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5 comments - 1 reply for Group 99
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12 comments - 2 replies Total
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