Playing with #86

divamum

Not my usual kind of shots, but we were out yesterday and it occurred to me these might convert nicely.

Thoughts?

1

2

luxbug

divamum wrote: »

Not my usual kind of shots, but we were out yesterday and it occurred to me these might convert nicely.

Thoughts?

1

Nice, I like #1. The uncropped ripples of water on the lower right bring me right in.

torrbrae

The black & white also enhances the serenity of the photo.

divamum

Thanks both! How's the contrast? I feel like #1 might be a little dark, but can't decide....

WhatSheSaw

Definitely #1 and I like the contrast as is.

thegreenegg

#1 is great as is. The birds are right in the third and I agree with above that with the bottom un-cropped helps to bring you into the photo.

sapphire73

Beautiful shots! Like both of them, but agree with others about entering #1 over #2.

Precarious

Not to be contrary but I find the ripples distracting so prefer #2. I also like that there is more sky visible to balance out the scene. The horizon line moved to dead center may really set it off.

dnie

#1 gets my vote

rteest42

I'm a fan of # 1... have you thought about playing with a colored filter to get an even more dreamy/fairytale feeling?

Actually #1 with a bit more sky, if possible...

billseye

My take is slightly different... I like the composition of the first shot - the ripples and the horizon above center. But... I prefer the processing in the second shot (maybe with a bit of drama added to the sky).

I do agree that the scene processes nicely in B&W.

divamum

Thanks all. I don't have them open right now to check "history", but iirc I think I copied/pasted settings from 1 into 2 and thus actually used the same processing on them! They're different shots (note the positions of the geese) rather than 2 versions of the same one. Weird how they took it differently. I did both of them in LR alone, believe it or not .... and they were shot with my s95 (pns) - we took the dog up to the reservoir and I just liked the geese on the water!

I'll check them out and incorporate suggestions . I'd hoped to do some of my fave kind of bw portraits for this challenge - I do a lot of conversions - but haven't had a subject in the right time period.

StueveShots

Great shots, divamum. It is interesting that you used the same processing...to my eyes, they do seem different. I prefer #1, but would like to see the contrast pushed just a bit so that the shapes on the water (and the ripples, I suspect) pop just a bit more.

mr peas

This photo is tough, its kind of like trying to get a grasp on the piece but my eyes just seems to wander through it looking for something to focus on. The post-processing and crop is good on #1, but its still missing that anchor. The dead space in the water just doesn't hold it up. Not trying to sound negative but that's how I see it.

divamum

No disagreement from me, Mr Peas - that's kind of my feeling about it too! Haven't had time to shoot something especially this week though, so I've tweaked #1 and submitted it. Kind of fun to push myself to do something a little different - landscape is definitely NOT my forte, and it's always fun to see what I can do with the limitations of a pns (even a very good pns like the s95)

I'm such a b&w lover that I'm sad time was too short to do some portraits "to order" - I'd have loved to do something like this one (which isn't eligible - shot back in August!). Oh well!!