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 04/17/2012 06:29:35 PM · #26
I have just started reading Michael Freeman's "The Photographer's Eye", looks like a very good resource for learning about composition in photography, it would take you beyond ROT (Rule Of Thirds).
 04/17/2012 08:14:19 PM · #27
Originally posted by cloudsme:
I don't think the winner was DNMC, but I do like "Unsharp Mask"

Thanks. In which Photoshop menu/palette do you find "Vanishing Point"? I usuallly use an old version of PS -- maybe it's something that's been added in the past 12 years ...
 04/17/2012 08:18:12 PM · #28
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by cloudsme:
I don't think the winner was DNMC, but I do like "Unsharp Mask"

Thanks. In which Photoshop menu/palette do you find "Vanishing Point"? I usuallly use an old version of PS -- maybe it's something that's been added in the past 12 years ...


In CS4, 5, and 6 (maybe even in some of the earlier ones):

Filter->Vanishing Point

ETA: If I am not mistaken, I think it was introduced in CS2.

Message edited by author 2012-04-17 20:28:37.
 04/17/2012 09:10:39 PM · #29
Originally posted by AllenP:
Filter->Vanishing Point

ETA: If I am not mistaken, I think it was introduced in CS2.

Thanks! -- I retract my criticism of the other photo, though I still think mine deserved a five ... ;-)
 04/19/2012 09:46:14 AM · #30
I was speaking of the lightest part of the water next to the darkest spot of rocks, it's almost dead center. The eye gets pulled there and stalls. I think Brennan has given sage advice about the sky, I never noticed how blown out it was. A good crop point would have been to leave the spot I am talking about in the golden mean.
 04/19/2012 09:48:25 AM · #31
Originally posted by blindjustice:
I was speaking of the lightest part of the water next to the darkest spot of rocks, it's almost dead center. The eye gets pulled there and stalls. I think Brennan has given sage advice about the sky, I never noticed how blown out it was. A good crop point would have been to leave the spot I am talking about in the golden mean.


Excuse my ignorance but what is the "golden mean"?
 04/19/2012 10:15:38 AM · #32
golden ratio

It's a compositional thing, similar to the rule of thirds.

Message edited by author 2012-04-19 10:16:19.
 04/19/2012 10:19:31 AM · #33
Originally posted by james_so:
golden ratio

It's a compositional thing, similar to the rule of thirds.


Cool. Thanks.
 04/19/2012 11:24:38 AM · #34
On your color shot, it is looking downstream. Generally, flowing water pictures look upstream, so the white water areas aren't hidden behind their cause (rocks, edge, etc.)
I thought your entry put some nice elements too far in the background. The ripple at about the 1/3 mark could have been a nice foregrounder, the fallen log at the 2/3 mark.
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