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54 Sep 23 Reply I copied your image into Photoshop and used the Curves Adjustment Layer to darken it. It was a quick fix. Tell me what you think. Sep 18th
54 Sep 23 Comment It's hard to be near the end of the comments. I agree with a lot of what has been said above. You usually use interesting backgrounds and have done so again here. The statue is well placed but a little too sharp. Overall, a good idea. Sep 18th
54 Sep 23 Comment Christina can walk! Christina is the subject of one of my favorite Andrew Wyeth's paintings. She is alone in a scene like this lying alone in the field. There's no storm in Wyeth's painting, but he creates emotion subtlely. The oncoming storm, the distance the girl has to run, and the potential safety of the barn are powerful elements that work very well together. The choice to use black and white was brilliant. Andrew Wyeth would be proud. Sep 18th
54 Sep 23 Comment I like this image so much that I thought I'd try to improve it. This sounds like a non sequitur but I see the potential here. The lighting is captivating to say the least, but I find the large tree in the foreground distracting. The lighting plus loneliness of the setting and the (smaller) bare trees all work very well together. Add to that a mother-and-child theme and you have quite an emotional image here. I tried to show what the scene might look like without the big tree and with some cropping. I'm not totally in love with my version, but it speaks to the potential this image has. Sep 18th
54 Sep 23 Comment It's hard being the last to comment. I agree with a lot of what was said above, especially the shadow. If this were my scene, in addition to some of the above suggestions, to create a foreboding mood, I would darken the part of the scene under the overpass. You want more than just a human figure backlit under a bridge. The depth of the scene under the bridge i s quite powerful. Sep 18th
54 Sep 23 Comment This is a complex image that just may keep you enthralled for a while. That's a compliment. An abandoned truck on a country road with this wonderful lighting invites extraterrestrials or surrealists. In the movie "Signs" the scariest scene was when Mel Gibson was in the corn field at night and his flashlight catches a glimpse of a leg of the e.t. turning amidst the corn. I saw only the calf of the e.t. and that was enough to make me jump. If this were my scene, I would eliminate the bird and its trail, darken everything except the truck, and have a part of someone walking out of the scene. Your elements of night, abandoned truck, and lonely country road work very well together and are work exploring. Sep 18th
54 Sep 23 Reply I'm glad you like the composite. As I explained to Kristi, I feel that subtlety is a lost art. So is anticipation, which helps create tension. I'm happy you saw the anticioation. I don't see the son as facing the wall. To me, he is looking in the direction of his father. Sep 16th
54 Sep 23 Reply Thank you for our feedback. The story of the prodigal son is one in which a teenager/young man argues with his father, leaves the home, and returns, wiser, as a man to seek forgiveness. This explains the size of the son as I saw it. Sep 16th
54 Sep 23 Reply This is one of my favorite composites, partly because of the colors which I had nothing to do with. Thank you for such positive feedback. Sep 16th
54 Sep 23 Reply Thank you for your kind words and for noticing the son's posture and clothes. Sadly, I find subtlety is becoming a lost art. Sep 16th
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