Maestro1.jpg
by Almilan

Comment:

Originally posted by Almilan: Cropped too much, maybe? Edit: Have posted a different version of this

I love the lady on the bench! What a great counterpoint! Why don't you just crop off the top of this one? I think that would look great.

Maestro1.jpg
by Almilan

Comment:
I like this. Yes, it's a tight crop but it makes him look like an exciting blotch taking over your photo. His pose is perfect. The OOF background kind of blends into him, though he is clearly demarcated by color. This "blending" keeps the centered composition from being too dull.

Day 5: Gettin' Me Some SKILLZ!
by levyj413

Comment:
I think this would be funnier if you did even more stuff to screw this up in Photoshop...

haircut
by pla2

Comment:
This is a *fantastic* picture!

Boy and birds
by Melethia

Comment:
I was tired of being in love with someone who didn't love me. I felt like I had to cut the connection completely, so I burned every letter and card she sent me. It's kind of awkward burning paper in a dorm room, the burning fragments, sparky and puffy and softly jagged.

That's what this photo reminds me of, those fragments of a lost love burning into light.

birdhouse
by bucket

Comment:
this is a portrait with no eyes. incredible.

by boysetsfire

Comment:
I feel like I am being tested (yes, the world revolves around me). You are submitting a completely random picture just to see if I will say it's brilliant. Well, life is brilliant! So much is done by photographers and other artists to control that brilliance and in doing so, they lose it. I can't say whether or not you can call yourself an artist for taking this picture... but this picture makes ME feel like an artist! I feel like I am looking at the world and the world is electrified with secret life. This is symbolized by the red that runs through it and the lace of ornamental spirals and swirls. The two people and the dog pretend to ignore. One of the women wears a burqa of shadow. I love your shadows! How do you do that?

On second thought... I just looked up from the computer monitor and the world isn't nearly this interesting. You are one of those damned dissembling artists after all. I have to stop looking at your picture now, because the more I look at it, the more I feel I am entering this world.

You win. I fail the test. I am insane. But perhaps it was you who made me so?

Magic Stick
by colorcarnival

Comment:

Originally posted by agenkin: A mediocre shot was used as a canvas for Photoshop tinkering

He's probably right, but there's nothing wrong with that. "Photoshop tinkering" is its own art form.

It's true that this picture doesn't quite come together, but I don't think it's all that far from doing so. You have the boys directing attention to the main object. Even though we can't see their faces it seems that they are rapt. This is good for a photo, because this sort of attention calls the viewer to attention. But the selective saturation is too much. It overpowers the rest. selective desat is a very powerful visual technique and therefore is almost always misused.

Perhaps without it, the stick gets lost. I can't know without seeing the original. Maybe a more subtle saturation?

birdhouse
by bucket

Comment:
You are the god of dirty windows.

F-clef for big F
by silverfoxx

Comment:
Posthumous Yellow Ribbon and a 10.