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06/08/2005 04:44:01 PM · #1 |
I just entered my first DPC with the construction challenge and one of the comments I got stated that it was a little dark in the detail.
I recently posted a picture to another site and also had a comment about lack of detail.
And I was just wondering what is meant by detail and how important is it ?
For an example the photo I posted to another site.
Link to Larger Version
Now I myself rather liked the white out effect of the left half of the picture, but the comment made about not enough detail and now this comment on my challenge photo makes me wonder what I should be doing.
(as a note I desaturated and then put a gradient on that photo to get the heavy shadows and the whiter contrast)
And Yes I know I spelled critique wrong.... PFFT
Message edited by author 2005-06-08 17:38:27.
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06/08/2005 05:12:39 PM · #2 |
That's a little large for those of us viewing at 1280 - which is most.
It's a great shot, though - I really like it. It has all the detail you might ever need, exactly where you need it, and has a proper sense of location and light. Moody as all hell, if that were Brad Pitt in the foreground you'd earn a fortune from it. It reminds me of lots of the work in the film Cidade de Deus: a film all photographers should see.
However, I would guarantee that it wouldn't score well here in a challenge - don't forget, there is no qualification for voting, and most folks are not steeped in the history of photography, nor of differing approaches, and most people just vote on what they like - as is right. There are plenty of people who think that whited out areas are wrong, period.
what people mean, I think, is that there is no detail in those 'over-exposed' areas, the left of frame. Obviously, to anyone with eyes, there is plenty of detail in the face of the foregound guy. Given the fact that those other people are deliberately out of focus, it seems a rather strange comment to make.
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06/08/2005 05:14:58 PM · #3 |
Also, way too large (file size) for those on dialup. Please use a link if you can't create a clickable thumbnail.
I like the photo though. The highkey effect in the background works very well. |
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06/08/2005 05:27:14 PM · #4 |
I LOVE the exposure you have for the area on the right. Lighting and exposure is absolutely PERFECT on her hair and face and the fact that the rest of the right is shadow works extremely well.
I really don't like the blown out left hand side at all.
If it was shot in RAW (and I was processing it to MY tastes) I'd convert it twice, once for the bright area and once for the shadowed area and then combine the two versions in Photoshop. (I understand CS2 has a new merge function especially for this kind of thing). You might also be able to save two copies of the jpeg version and adjust levels differently before combining but you've less latitude to recover lost highlights in jpeg images so I don't know.
That said, I do hear you when you say you have processed deliberately for this contrast between left and right and that's fair enough.
It's a purely personal reaction to let you know it doesn't work for me.
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06/08/2005 05:39:17 PM · #5 |
lol sorry about the image size there just didn't click that it might be to large when I posted it.
Thanks for all the comments also
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06/08/2005 05:43:44 PM · #6 |
But Kavey, without that extreme constrast you wouldn't get that feel of heat, that feel of the street, that certain sinister sense of waiting in the shadows ... the whole danger, the threat of the image.
Ken, do you have a less processed version that we could compare?
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06/08/2005 05:45:07 PM · #7 |
Hmm yes I would love to play around with RAW but sadly I don't believe my digital does it...(at least not that I have found yet.)
And I'm also still very much learning processing of digital photos so I have a lot to learn about what and how to do things. I will give the double process and combine a try.
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06/08/2005 05:46:54 PM · #8 |
Yeah I do
Here is the orginal
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