Abandoned shed (two versions)

NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
edited January 17, 2011 in Landscapes
Comments welcome.:thumb



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Canon 40D, 35mm f1.4L

Neil
"Snow. Ice. Slow!" "Half-winter. Half-moon. Half-asleep!"

http://www.behance.net/brosepix

Comments

  • peoorvendalpeoorvendal Registered Users Posts: 45 Big grins
    edited January 17, 2011
    I like the color one better (but the white balance seems to be way off, and saturation is a bit too high in my opinion). The B/W one seems overexposed/brightened with loss of details in the bricks.
  • NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited January 17, 2011
    peoorvendal wrote: »
    I like the color one better (but the white balance seems to be way off, and saturation is a bit too high in my opinion). The B/W one seems overexposed/brightened with loss of details in the bricks.

    Thanks for your comment peoorvendal! Yeah, I agree the colour is a bit off, but actually you can blame vanGogh for it, it's his palette for Portrait of a Peasant.mwink.gif

    And you are right about the b&w too, but wait, I can explain!:D It's an infrared with a bit of diffusion, so the highlights are strong and some of the detail is diffused in the diffusion. But the highlights are not blown. It's a matter of taste. I didn't want strong crispiness in it, I wanted something a bit softer and dreamier, even creamier! in the edges.

    So I was moving away from documentary and from correct this and that, towards mood.

    Dunno what score you would give me in those terms.rolleyes1.gif

    Great name for the town you're from!

    Neil
    "Snow. Ice. Slow!" "Half-winter. Half-moon. Half-asleep!"

    http://www.behance.net/brosepix
  • peoorvendalpeoorvendal Registered Users Posts: 45 Big grins
    edited January 17, 2011
    In that case, I like the B/W better. The blue sky of the other one bothers me for some reason.

    I wish the barrel was more prominent in the B/W one, to give the eye somewhere to go.
  • squirl033squirl033 Registered Users Posts: 1,230 Major grins
    edited January 17, 2011
    i'm partial to the color version, but try turning down the cyan to get a more realistic color balance
    ~ Rocky
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  • Doug SolisDoug Solis Registered Users Posts: 1,190 Major grins
    edited January 17, 2011
    I'm liking the Infrared version best.
  • NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited January 17, 2011
    squirl033 wrote: »
    i'm partial to the color version, but try turning down the cyan to get a more realistic color balance

    Thanks Rocky, I will have a look at doing that! I don't want it to be mistaken for naturalistic, however. I am trying to keep framing in mind, imagining it as a miniature with a wide matte. Presented in such a way the intense and exaggerated colours are going to be less in area so more acceptable to the eye and brain... maybe!

    Neil
    "Snow. Ice. Slow!" "Half-winter. Half-moon. Half-asleep!"

    http://www.behance.net/brosepix
  • NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited January 17, 2011
    Doug Solis wrote: »
    I'm liking the Infrared version best.

    Thanks Doug. Yes that version is attractive to me too. It has something of the "twi" in it, as in twilight.

    Neil
    "Snow. Ice. Slow!" "Half-winter. Half-moon. Half-asleep!"

    http://www.behance.net/brosepix
  • NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited January 17, 2011
    peoorvendal wrote: »
    In that case, I like the B/W better. The blue sky of the other one bothers me for some reason.

    I wish the barrel was more prominent in the B/W one, to give the eye somewhere to go.

    Thanks peoorvendal, I see your point. I could burn it in a bit. In fact, I would have moved that drum out of the picture but it was half full of rocks and water! Had to accommodate it!

    Neil
    "Snow. Ice. Slow!" "Half-winter. Half-moon. Half-asleep!"

    http://www.behance.net/brosepix
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