the pier
by Tiberius

Comment:
I see a normal photo not art created with your camera and/or processing.

"The hum of the bees is the voice of the garden" ~Elizabeth Lawrence
by mlu

Comment:
Nice photo to art/painting conversion

rat hat
by PennyStreet

Comment:
This is more like existing art not art created with your camera and/or processing.

Dusty chaos
by Ammie

Comment:
Nice one....Looks like this could be on a farm in the Free state near Clarens ;)

Twisted Deadwood
by ThingFish

Comment:

Originally posted by Bear_Music: FWIW, if you'd entered the outtake as is instead of the doctored one you went with, you'd have had a 9 from me instead of a 6. I don't think the processing helped you at all. To the degree that you scored well, IMO, it's because the *perfect-for-the-challenge* subject overcame the overwrought processing...

Cool thanks for the feedback Robert, I appreciate it and I learned something from it too. I must stop getting too enthusiastic with my processing...that old adage still holds true...most times less is more 😎

Twisted Deadwood
by ThingFish

Comment:

Originally posted by bassbone: I imagine the yellow tone of the image was pretty off putting for some voters rather than anything nefarious.

Yeah maybe you are right but the difference in participant scores vs non-participants scores suggests otherwise. But I got some really lovely comments that make up for that and actually those comments mean a lot more then the score to me.
Anyway I specially chose that style as it was quite prominent during the 19th century in the Wild West and was called "Albumen Print" and I wanted to recreate that look. Egg whites were used to achieve that look. Here is a link to how it was done. Very interesting:
Quote"To create albumen prints, paper was floated in a mixture of fermented chloride and egg white, dried and then floated on a solution of silver nitrate. The paper would then be placed in a frame in direct contact with the negative. Sunlight was used during the exposure process. Albumen can sometimes be one of the easier print formats to identify in our holdings. Image tones will sometimes change towards yellow brown with yellow highlights due to deterioration."Unquote

https://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2020/05/14/19th-century-photographic-processes-and-formats/

Message edited by author 2024-11-11 14:47:16.

fly on a twisted wire
by roz

Comment:
No I think you made the right choice but whoever gave you one 1, one 2, one 3, two 4's and seven 5's either does not know what constitutes a good photo or they were voting strategically to boost their own chances. I was one of your 7's

Message edited by author 2024-11-11 10:08:41.

twisted outtake
by roz

Comment:
No I think you made the right choice.

peace begins with a smile
by PennyStreet

Comment:
Peace sure does and it sure is a lovely smile but yet the image does not project serenity to me...happiness yes...now if it was more like a Mona Lisa smile then it would have projected serenity :)

with grace
by glad2badad

Comment:
I think the image would have projected even more serenity without the vignetting