Saturday, July 08, 2006
Forgotten
I tried this in B&W but I couldn't get the effect I wanted. The PP I've done still doesn't please me or quite get what I wanted. Suggestions and guidance appreciated. RAW file available if anyone wants a play!
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There's certainly an overwhelming sense of green here. I'm not getting forgotton from the image though. The gravestone is the focus you want me to pick on but it's so well hidden I'm not sure it works. Email me and I'll give you an address to send the raw to. I'd love to have a play in B&W with this and see what I can get.
I'm seeing more 'overwhelmed' than forgotten. Those greens are overpowering.
(Which leads to a side thought: for a landscape photographer, I'm remarkably unfond of green).
I don't see a strong image here, so I'll be fascinated to see what akikana makes of it.
Forgotten - two steps removed from overgrown! This is one of the most difficult subjects to photograph - wild, temperate, vegetation in profusion. I'd be very surprised if you could make this work well in b/w unless one can blur (figuratively speaking) the green bits and darken the Celtic cross. As it is, I quite like the composition but feel that the dead (bramble?) in front of the cross does detract visually, however much it is fulfilling the title because, as Akikana says, one needs every bit of the main subject that one can get. I'm one of the few who can live with lots of green and like the different hues here.
Auspicious - Akikana has been here already!
John E - I think auspicious remarks about akikana refer to him producing a B/W image from the RAW.
To me, the light is far to bright and strong to get any feeling into the picture. Probably the only time Rex could take the picture. I can see what he was after and the idea is great but the timing is not.
This might work better with a brutal crop of the green. I would try chopping off everything a little below the stone. to see how that works out.
Have I wasted my time? I desaturated the contentious green and resaturated the flowers and cross. I've put the result at "http://www.myhome.uk.com/p4220574a.jpg"
Hmmm. I don't understand that. I used the coding that I've used before in original postings and it wouldn't work. However the link worked in the original email from the site. So I've just posted the link and you'l have to cut and past, or use the email!
(via the e-mail) the reworking does work for me, although a bit of creative cross-processing might add even more!!
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(Which leads to a side thought: for a landscape photographer, I'm remarkably unfond of green).
I don't see a strong image here, so I'll be fascinated to see what akikana makes of it.
Auspicious - Akikana has been here already!
To me, the light is far to bright and strong to get any feeling into the picture. Probably the only time Rex could take the picture. I can see what he was after and the idea is great but the timing is not.
Hmmm. I don't understand that. I used the coding that I've used before in original postings and it wouldn't work. However the link worked in the original email from the site. So I've just posted the link and you'l have to cut and past, or use the email!