48--Am I on track??

rteest42

Please! Let me know if any of these images are going in the right direction??? (and is the EXIF good for the aqua/phone images???)
THANKS
1--reflection in window


2--food in window


3--under stairs

4--ready for dinner

5--aqua/phone barn

6---trees (phone)

Kinkajou

Love #3! I'll have to read the challenge details again to see whether it's on-theme.

DeuceFour

I like #4!!

WhatSheSaw

I like #3. Way cool.

rteest42

WhatSheSaw wrote:

I like #3. Way cool.

thanks! 3 is actually shot from under the stairs at the Apple store in mid-Manhattan....I didn't 'do' anything to it, yah know??
4 is shot thru the gauzy curtain window of the restaurant at Rockefeller Center
5 looks like I messed up, lol!!! Let me resend..(5 and 6 were with my cellphone camera, with a bit of 'nose smudge' on the lens)

I feel like i need to at least do a bit of contrast adjustment on this...is that acceptable?

travelways

I like "3--under stairs" very much!!!

sunflowerstudio

#3 for me as well.

I usually think of myself as not processing my picts very much, but this challenge is making me realize what I do do, almost automatically: straighten, brighten, sharpen, increase contrast, skew color. And, I've always thought that's not very much :-).

photo-bug wrote:

I like "3--under stairs" very much!!!

sunflowerstudio

I feel like i need to at least do a bit of contrast adjustment on this...is that acceptable?

I don't think so -- no contrast adjustment.

kds1

Trish, as to whether or not you are on track, I have no idea (reference last conversation about my weirdness with being able to determine that) but I do love number 3! Really nice.

rteest42

sunflowerstudio wrote:

#3 for me as well.

I usually think of myself as not processing my picts very much, but this challenge is making me realize what I do do, almost automatically: straighten, brighten, sharpen, increase contrast, skew color. And, I've always thought that's not very much :-).

Don't I know it!!! It's amazing how much stuff we just do automatically in the computer when we upload...how many shots we "know" will look good after we upload, even if they aren't stellar in camera!!

rteest42

kds1 wrote:

Trish, as to whether or not you are on track, I have no idea (reference last conversation about my weirdness with being able to determine that) but I do love number 3! Really nice.

Lol...
but i do believe you made it to the finalists while my perfectly new crayons didn't

TLVoDra

#3 is a really fun picture! I like it a lot.

AndMan

I like #3 but for the challenge #6, given what Sean was suggesting as tools this seems a much better fit.

DsrtVW

3 I think it would bring it more lo fi if the corners with the focused buildings were cropped out then it turns the glass stairs into more of the distortion filter creating the interesting pattern of the feet above

rteest42

DsrtVW wrote:

3 I think it would bring it more lo fi if the corners with the focused buildings were cropped out then it turns the glass stairs into more of the distortion filter creating the interesting pattern of the feet above

I think you may be right.... I even have some without the buildings....
So far to me its my strongest image of all those I have been playing with at home....everything else, while the effects themselves are interesting dont feel any different than everything else I am seeing others post...and they are certainly not better examples of this or that effect!!
eeh, one more week to shoot...I'll figure out something