Oyster Mushrooms — Cluster 1
by Bear_Music

Comment by yehbah:
nice lighting, 8

dpcBorrego.jpg
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Comment by Bear_Music:

Originally posted by rikki11: I personally think that the building is a tad too small. Foreground is good but the plant on the left is a bit distracting. I would love to see how the interior shots came out. Did you ever take long shots at an angle so as it isn't a straight shot elevation of the building?

Yeah, we had like 50 shots of this project. This was one of the "environmental" ones; we had others with less distracting plant elements. Unfortunately I lost ALL my portfolio, and all my negatives, in a basement flood while we were on vacation, some years ago. This is one of a few prints I scavenged from former clients as keepsakes. I have no interiors of this one, sadly. We shot a ton of them, I just don't have copies...

Fisherman at Dusk
by Bear_Music

Comment by Bear_Music:

Originally posted by ubique: Originally posted by lots of folks: "Too purple, too pink, blah, blah, blah ..." Bullshit. Why should every photograph exhibit colour fidelity? This is dusk. Dusk is evening. Evening is velvet. Velvet is this colour. I don't want to go over the top here, especially as Robert says it's a bit of a throw-away shot for him, but PLEASE have a look at a couple of Van Gough paintings ... do you imagine Vincent's colours and textures are high-fidelity?

Agreed, in principle but not int he specific instance; after all, I'm well-known for extreme color-throwing (I wish it were an olympic sport), but this is SUCH a botched-up job. I got no problem with the colors per se (they are pretty much what I wanted) but the execution is abysmally bad IMO.

dpcBorrego.jpg
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Comment by Rikki:
I personally think that the building is a tad too small. Foreground is good but the plant on the left is a bit distracting. I would love to see how the interior shots came out. Did you ever take long shots at an angle so as it isn't a straight shot elevation of the building?

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Comment by Joey Lawrence:
Wow, very simliar to mine!
Except of course I was probably sleeping, I took mine at sunset.
*Hisses at the daylight

where be dis
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Comment by Rikki:
I would probably opt for no cars as well if I were the architect. What I would probably recommend in this photo is a person so there's a sense of scale for the building. The smooth curves compliment the repetitive columns as they vanish down a point. Great!

Message edited by author 2005-07-24 03:03:24.

Fisherman at Dusk
by Bear_Music

Comment by ubique:
Originally posted by lots of folks:
"Too purple, too pink, blah, blah, blah ..."

Bullshit. Why should every photograph exhibit colour fidelity? This is dusk. Dusk is evening. Evening is velvet. Velvet is this colour. I don't want to go over the top here, especially as Robert says it's a bit of a throw-away shot for him, but PLEASE have a look at a couple of Van Gough paintings ... do you imagine Vincent's colours and textures are high-fidelity?

Fisherman at Dusk
by Bear_Music

Comment by Bear_Music:
LOL, I am amzed this broke 5.0... As I hinted above, this was shoehorned in at the last minute. The colors are ridiculously overdone, and I don't blame folks for thinking it looks silly. Since it was basic editing, there was nothing I could do about the white shirt and bag picking up the hue. The "haloing" around the tree/sky interface has nothing to do with burning or sharpening; obviously I didn't burn, it's basic editing rules. Sharpoening was minimal. There was some sort of weird synergy developing between hue/sat and selective color, and I didn't have time to figure it out before submitting.

"I only did this because I'd JUST gotten my 10-22mm zoom, and I wanted to get something IN!" he muttered plaintively.

Robt.

Fisherman at Dusk
by Bear_Music

Comment by Rikki:
i think the levels were a little too overdone for this image. The magenta bleeds into the man's shirt which i doubt really happens. The image in itself is done very well. The white plastic bag (?) just behind the fisherman is a little distracting against a saturated green. I suggest toning the levels down and this image would be perfect.

Fisherman at Dusk
by Bear_Music

Comment by TrumanMeg:
Beautiful picture... I love the purples on the water