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02/10/2005 01:33:44 AM · #1 |
How do you like this photo, what would you change/improve here.
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02/10/2005 01:36:32 AM · #2 |
Originally posted by artvet:
How do you like this photo, what would you change/improve here.
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Don't change anything. Great composition.
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02/10/2005 01:47:09 AM · #3 |
For me, it has alot of interest but the tonalities are working against it. The brightness of the left wall and the murkiness around the man are pulling our eyes the wrong way. Here's a play with selecting the wall and then doing various combinations of levels, plus usm for contrast at the end:
Robt.
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02/10/2005 02:06:41 AM · #4 |
I think it leads you into darkness. The old man ascends into the darkness of the building. Almost gothic in nature. If that was the intention it works.
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02/10/2005 02:11:27 AM · #5 |
I wouldn't change a thing!
I think this is a wonderful picture with grat contrast. I don't feel it needs to be changed one bit.
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02/10/2005 02:24:48 AM · #6 |
bear_music, I get your point but your version of the picture seems to me little bit odd. nsbca7 correctly noticed my intention - ageing, facing the darkness - unknown... Maybe the color is the better choice here?
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02/10/2005 02:53:14 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by artvet:
bear_music, I get your point but your version of the picture seems to me little bit odd. nsbca7 correctly noticed my intention - ageing, facing the darkness - unknown... Maybe the color is the better choice here?
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I think the steps have more depth in this version. Perhaps something in between. Desaturated a bit. I think too much color in this image loses the mood.
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02/10/2005 03:06:45 AM · #8 |
The color helps separate the man a little better, and makes the left wall less agressive, all good. As nsbca says, maybe somewhere in between. Likewise, between your B/W version and mine, somewhere in between. The man's a little too lost in the original post, and the wall's a little too bright and agressive. In my version, the tonalities are "better" but some of the impact, the sense of disappearing into the dark, is lost.
Sometimes we can fiddle with these for months, fine-tuning. See a thread I just started on my Ice Peninsula to see some incredibly nit-picky tuning...
Robt.
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02/10/2005 06:56:49 AM · #9 |
yeah, i do agree with both of you.
I think bear's adjustment made theimage too flat. I don't think having the man walking up into darkness is any problem, but our eyes are definatly drawn of the bottom left of the photo... the steps are quite a bit brighter there. Ifthe steps were evenly bright across i think it would help. The left wall got a little bit too much light as well, which distracts us, and is unnecesary to accomplish what you are trying to show.
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02/10/2005 07:38:00 AM · #10 |
| Great mood but could you show us a resized crop to remove most of the left hand wall and some of the bottom steps? Thanks. Ben |
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02/10/2005 08:24:03 AM · #11 |
BTW those of us at uncalibrated work monitors can't see the man in nsbca7's photos. I can however see the man on the stairs on bear musics rework... just a little piece of info for those of you that always get the annoying too dark comments on challenge entry's.
I like bear musics better... I can see it...lol sorry I just get frustrated with this crappy work monitor.
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02/10/2005 09:25:42 AM · #12 |
Originally posted by tristalisk:
BTW those of us at uncalibrated work monitors can't see the man in nsbca7's photos. I can however see the man on the stairs on bear musics rework... just a little piece of info for those of you that always get the annoying too dark comments on challenge entry's.
I like bear musics better... I can see it...lol sorry I just get frustrated with this crappy work monitor. |
I didn't re-work anything. The ones I have up on my posts are up as quotes.
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02/10/2005 11:09:46 AM · #13 |
I, too, think the shot is worth fiddling with.
Colour or BW (depending on temperament/mood/personal stance toward the scenario) - both, IMO, would benefit from a subtle lighting effect, a soft omni or something of the sort, in two or three passes: an underexposure of the foreground wall, placed left and a positive exposure encompassing the bent figure of the man, leaving the dark dark and black black (background). I'd follow this with an appropiate adjustment to contrast and lightness.
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