One from yesterday

bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
edited April 13, 2010 in Street and Documentary
Color?

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Or black and white?

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  • michswissmichswiss Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,235 Major grins
    edited April 12, 2010
    Girl or Shadow? Both could use some more "pop." The light is a little flat.
  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited April 12, 2010
    michswiss wrote:
    Girl or Shadow? Both could use some more "pop." The light is a little flat.

    Boy, are we looking at different monitors! rolleyes1.gif Not to say you can't hate it, or dismiss it for any number of reasons, but it looks pretty damn 'poppy' on the Apple Cinema Display in my office, and on my laptop screen for that matter. But here's even poppier....

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  • Wil DavisWil Davis Registered Users Posts: 1,692 Major grins
    edited April 12, 2010
    I like the B&W!

    …her left foot being in the air implies movement! (shadow emphasizes that…)

    …the lines across the pavement (sorry, sidewalk…) makes it look like she's running up the ladder of life!

    …definitely B&W!

    Nice job!

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    - Wil

    PS: On my monitor the tones are pretty good; not flat at all ne_nau.gif
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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited April 12, 2010
    They pop on my screen/s.
    But that's about all they do ne_nau.gif:D
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  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited April 12, 2010
    bfjr wrote:
    They pop on my screen/s.
    But that's about all they do ne_nau.gif:D

    Well, that's honest and direct. mwink.gif
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  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited April 12, 2010
    Wil Davis wrote:
    I like the B&W!

    …her left foot being in the air implies movement! (shadow emphasizes that…)

    …the lines across the pavement (sorry, sidewalk…) makes it look like she's running up the ladder of life!

    …definitely B&W!

    Nice job!

    thumb.gif

    - Wil

    PS: On my monitor the tones are pretty good; not flat at all ne_nau.gif

    Thanks, Wil - I think they may have flattened out crossing the Great Internet Wall of China. rolleyes1.gif
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  • michswissmichswiss Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,235 Major grins
    edited April 12, 2010
    bdcolen wrote:
    Thanks, Wil - I think they may have flattened out crossing the Great Internet Wall of China. rolleyes1.gif

    Damn, there they go again with that desaturation filter at the firewall! mwink.gif

    For what it's worth, the image still feels flat to me this morning (on my MBP matte screen). I really want the girl's shadow to be the dominant element in the B&W version and it doesn't feel strong enough. I guess the image doesn't do it for me. ne_nau.gif
  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited April 13, 2010
    michswiss wrote:
    Damn, there they go again with that desaturation filter at the firewall! mwink.gif

    For what it's worth, the image still feels flat to me this morning (on my MBP matte screen). I really want the girl's shadow to be the dominant element in the B&W version and it doesn't feel strong enough. I guess the image doesn't do it for me. ne_nau.gif

    Well that's fine. But it all seriousness, if I were you I would definitely check my screen adjustments. Right now I'm on a Blackberry, and even on that the contrast between girl and shadow POPS - particularly the bottom half of the shadow. If it were any darker it would look as though Eugene Smith had taken it and some meth into the darkroom and not emerged for three days.
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    "He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan

    "The more ambiguous the photograph is, the better it is..." Leonard Freed
  • black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,323 Major grins
    edited April 13, 2010
    I don't see any problem with a lack of " pop ". But I strongly vote for color with this one ( surprise, surprise ). The picture just seems to come alive more...to me, the colors in her dress make the image.

    Tom
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  • PattiPatti Registered Users Posts: 1,576 Major grins
    edited April 13, 2010
    The first two look flat on my monitor too but what can you expect from a hospital PC. mwink.gif
    The popping B&W is my favourite.
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