Up Where the Air is Clearby
PatellaComment by Patella: A few generic responses to comments:
Over saturation? Possibly.
Over sharpened? Didn't sharpen at all -- actually despeckled a bit to try to soften some of the jaggies. This is just a sub-megapixel camera shot.
Bigger kite in frame? Could have. Didn't want to. This was about letting the viewer fly the kite. I mean, come on, if you're out flying a kite, do you fly it two feet over your head or do you let out ALL the string? Not only that, I wanted this to feel like the kite had room to fly around in the shot.
Crisper, more focused kite string? Like I said, I wanted this to feel like you'd feel if you were there flying the kite. Kite string in the foreground simply isn't going to be in focus in your visual field if you're looking at the kite. On top of that, kite string vibrates in the wind, making it hard to capture crisply. On top of THAT, this is a zoom shot, there's a lot more kite string in this shot than it looks like -- that also does things to your depth of field that are just not possible (or at least extremely hard) to control.
Other than these areas, I don't really know how to respond about having an ugly kite (personally I dig it) or using white kite string (if someone can tell me where to find black kite string, I'll give it a shot) or how this doesn't meet the challenge (in my book, this is from the perspective of the ground up).
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