Is this something?

Quincy TQuincy T Registered Users Posts: 1,090 Major grins
edited June 6, 2012 in Street and Documentary
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Just returned from Oman. This is my favorite, taken at the gate to Old Muscat on Mutrah Corniche.

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  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited June 3, 2012
    Most definitely. I would work the image a little though. But this is definitely "something."
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  • Quincy TQuincy T Registered Users Posts: 1,090 Major grins
    edited June 3, 2012
    bdcolen wrote: »
    Most definitely. I would work the image a little though. But this is definitely "something."

    Well thanks! What are you thinking, B.D.? I look at it and I feel like there's a little too much negative space, but I don't want to eliminate the very distinctive architecture by doing so. Maybe I could come up from the bottom a bit more than anything else. I'll recalibrate on it. I do love Lightroom.
  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited June 3, 2012
    Not too much negative space. I'd burn in the arches on the left and right enough to make them stand out a bit more, and I want the skater to stand out from the background more.
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  • Quincy TQuincy T Registered Users Posts: 1,090 Major grins
    edited June 3, 2012
    bdcolen wrote: »
    Not too much negative space. I'd burn in the arches on the left and right enough to make them stand out a bit more, and I want the skater to stand out from the background more.

    Like dees?

    i-KpQQMtk-L.jpg Or more extreme?!
  • lensmolelensmole Registered Users Posts: 1,548 Major grins
    edited June 3, 2012
    Maybe take a bit off the bottom like you were saying and try to lift some more detail from her pants. just my 0.02. Nice image !

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  • rainbowrainbow Registered Users Posts: 2,765 Major grins
    edited June 4, 2012
    Image is very good as having a skater is so out of place (disrespectful?).

    But still needs reworking. Bottom off, maybe. Need to drop the brightness/highlights of the top arches and then bring up the darks of the person. Do you have LR3 type sliders to work with those independently (especially if you have separate color sliders to use with the b/w)?
  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,961 moderator
    edited June 6, 2012
    Definitely something, but I agree that some reworking is in order. The second version is better, though I would push it much farther. The crop seems OK to me, but I would darken the rest quite a lot, except for the person, who could be a bit brighter.
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  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited June 6, 2012
    Quincy T wrote: »
    Like dees?

    i-KpQQMtk-L.jpg Or more extreme?!


    Or this?

    i-jZvBck9-L.jpg
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    "The more ambiguous the photograph is, the better it is..." Leonard Freed
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