Too much, or too too much?

MarkR

C&C welcome.

I was at my parents' house in Geneseo, NY for a party and took these. Then I started playing around with saturation, and unfortunately had Pete Turner on the brain. Is it too much?


"Goin' fishin?"


"Fields and farmhouses"

Here's a toned B&W:

"NY 1801 PC"

and, finally, a B&W of the first scene:


Thanks for looking.

kdog

I like the color ones, particularly the composition in the first one.
Colors look good to me. Basically you turned an eastern sky into a western one.

The Pete Turner link was interesting. He's got some intriguing stuff there.

Cheers,
-joel

W.W. Webster

MarkR wrote:

Too much, or too too much?

Too too much!

MarkR

W.W. Webster wrote:

Too too much!

Even the B&Ws?

redleash

I like the first two a lot--not too much, IMO. The toned BW is nice, although the sky is just a tad too bright for me. I honestly don't care for the BW--maybe with more contrast I would like it.

Lauren

dlplumer

I like the toned B&W Mark

W.W. Webster

MarkR wrote:

Even the B&Ws?

I'm referring to the super-saturated coloured skies! :uhoh

MarkR

Thanks to everyone who's replied so far ... what a variety of opinions!

Tharhawk

Too, too much.

SFGfx

I think the color ones are too much. I really like the toned B&W, and the other B&W, I agree, would look much better with a little more contrast.

Nice shots, though!

Mike

MarkR

Thanks to everyone who's responded ... looks like we're about evenly split between "too much" and "too too much."

Here's an attempt at a "more contrasty" b&w, and I turned up the vignetting while I was at it.


And a try at darkening the sky for the toned image:

redleash

I like these better. The B&W suddenly looks like a photo from the 40s or similar--I like it quite a bit.