Monday, July 09, 2007
Quasi-Awareness (I think Blogger is not liking my attempts to create a title for this entry) From my series: Bad Trip - Sad Trip
Permalink / posted by and copyright of Doug Stockdale : 11:36 PM
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Blogger has a posted fault to do with post titles. There is a work around, but better to just to wait for it to be cleared.
The blur works well to suggest a snatched glance from a moving vehicle - even if Blogger did conspire to take away your title.
I'm not sure that the colouring is adding much here, other than consistency within a series (which is potentially important and reason enough to do it).
Are you off-road? I am sure that I can see the road just beneath the cross. As Colin says, the blur works well, particularly being able to find the relative peace of the path at the top of the rise and rest the eye.
Seeing the tint alone is better than having it next to the blue of the fly! But even so, I have the feeling that it is more than is needed to convey the nature of the place - or even than to fit in with the series.
Both posts above agree with my feelings about this -- the blur is effective, and the tint is not. One thought is the the color seems too warm for such a somber subject.
The cross is such a small part of the scenery, yet it stands out very well as the subject.
I certainly feel a sense of speed with this one. You almost miss its subject though. In it's own I would find it a little weak but as part of the series it fits in very well. Some very good horizontal parallels add to the speed.
The blur works for me. The tint works too, but what doesn't is that look of posterization in the sky and the compression artifacts along the ridge line. I notice that the posted JPG is quite small, only 30 something k. You might think of backing off the compression settings a bit.
Apart from those web presentation nitpicks, I really do like this photo. The isolation of the small cross in the big landscape is a very lonely thing.
The tint makes me think of arid dusty countryside with long straight boring roads. The cross is a small glimpse of humanity in a desolate environment.
Final note on this image. It was taken about 70 mph (don't remember the shutter speed, but in the 1/150th range)on a highway, but I was also panning the camera with the exposure. This has created some odd elements. The blurred foreground up towards the small memorial, but then the mid-hill is almost sharp as a tack. And the top of the hill has blurr.
As a stand alone image, I would not use this tone, but this tone does tie it to the rest of the series. And it is a dry, desolate and boring road!
btw, I use a medium compression with my jpg from CS3, should I step up to a high compression when I save the image for this blog?
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I'm not sure that the colouring is adding much here, other than consistency within a series (which is potentially important and reason enough to do it).
Seeing the tint alone is better than having it next to the blue of the fly! But even so, I have the feeling that it is more than is needed to convey the nature of the place - or even than to fit in with the series.
The cross is such a small part of the scenery, yet it stands out very well as the subject.
Apart from those web presentation nitpicks, I really do like this photo. The isolation of the small cross in the big landscape is a very lonely thing.
As a stand alone image, I would not use this tone, but this tone does tie it to the rest of the series. And it is a dry, desolate and boring road!
btw, I use a medium compression with my jpg from CS3, should I step up to a high compression when I save the image for this blog?