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12/05/2005 12:26:21 AM · #1 |
So I didn't expect to win, but I didn't expect to place in the lowest 10%! I agree that there wasn't a very strong tie to adulthood but I don't know of too many 12 year old's hopping on a plane to take a vacation from parents. What else did I mess up on? Maybe I need to calibrate my monitor or something...Give me ideas please.
Message edited by author 2005-12-05 00:27:48. |
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12/05/2005 12:27:53 AM · #2 |
you got it ;)
Message edited by author 2005-12-05 00:28:13. |
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12/05/2005 12:38:35 AM · #3 |
The photo appears to be under exposed a lot.
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12/05/2005 12:45:48 AM · #4 |
| I left you a comment, hope it helps |
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12/05/2005 12:49:49 AM · #5 |
commented, hope it helps.
R. |
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12/05/2005 01:00:28 AM · #6 |
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12/05/2005 11:46:34 AM · #7 |
Thanks for the comments, there are two and a half things that concern me.
One being the underexposure comments. I looked at the image on my company laptop and on my LCD at home and it looks properly exposed with some underexposure in the palm leaves however, this is a shadowy and overcast day so are you guys mistaking overcast conditions for underexposure? The grass, the chairs and the sky look perfectly exposed with underexposed leaves.
The other one was the punch/interest comments. Would having a bunch of little kids running around help? What would make this more interesting?
And the half being the horizon. I agree that if you draw a line it won't perfectly match up, but there are at least two good reasons I can see (that aren't perhaps obvious in this image) is that the horizon is not a horizon but a shoreline, and a bendy one at that. The camera was pointed at the bay so the left side did come closer towards the camera |
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12/05/2005 12:29:36 PM · #8 |
Psyche,
Maybe this will help: here's your entry side-by-side with a quickly adjusted version:
Let's address your issues separately:
1. Underexposure ΓΆ€” you can see that under overcast conditions, it's possible to render a scene using full tonality while still retaining the "gloominess" of the lighting. In this case I did it simply by using auto levels on your original, then making a contrast mask to darken the bright areas and lighten the dark areas. NO hue/sat or selective color was used.
2. Leveling horizon ΓΆ€” I'm sure you'll agree, comparing these two, that the image looks more natural this way. One of the things to look for is what I call "vertical giveaways"; even if there had BEEN no horizon in this image, it would not have looked right becauze there are many, tiny quasi-verticals scattered throughout and they all were slanting off dramatically to the left.
3. Punch/interest ΓΆ€” speaking of the image outside of the challenge context, I think in the reworked version the blue of the chairs is startling enough for them to carry the load. Composition could be improved by arranging the chairs to create a leading line or two, perhaps. Within the challenge context, not only might the chairs be rearranged but you'd be looking for some tie-in to adulthood. Perhaps a low table with drinks, perhaps discarded robes and bikin top implying an off-camera seduction, I don't know what would work. I tend not to do those sorts of shots myself, but this scene as-is is just not hooking strongly to the topic.
Note that when I rotated the image I had to crop and lost quite a bit along the edges. I borrowed it back in the foreground by cloning grass, but the left and right edges are tighter than they should be now. On the "exposure" issue, note that "correct exposure" in a visual sense includes the concept of tonal range, or "contrast".
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12/05/2005 01:19:33 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by psychephylax:
...the horizon.
.... The camera was pointed at the bay so the left side did come closer towards the camera |
Thanks ever so much for that information. From now on I must remind myself never to turn my camera on when I am in my fishing boat, lest the horizon suddenly dip and I find myself cascading down rapids or waterfalls.... hehehehe.
Just joking... No offence but that horizon is seriously tilted.
I believe you may have the idea of a horizon confused with the slope of the shoreline.
Ray
Message edited by author 2005-12-05 13:21:07. |
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12/05/2005 01:59:16 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by psychephylax:
...the horizon.
.... The camera was pointed at the bay so the left side did come closer towards the camera |
Which reminds me: that's not quite accurate. I'm in this situation all the time, 'cuz we got nothing BUT shoreline on Cape Cod :-) When photpgraphing a bay with open ocean to the left, as you did here, the "horizon", as defined by the shore/water interface, would appear to tilt to the RIGHT, not the left, as the right side shore moves nearer to you because of the shape of the bay.
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