River Bottom Art
black mamba
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Well, you didn't think I'd jump in that river and leave with just one shot, did you?
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Sam
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Those are certainly nice colors, but I think the perspective would have been better about 6' lower.
BTW, I know how tall you are :-)
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Tom
I haven't seen any river bottoms as pretty as this one was, Taz. It does jump out.
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Tom
You're absolutely right, Sam. I'm trying to become more cognizant of them.
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Tom
Your comment, Cristóbal, highlights a very interesting situation. The angle at which you view the monitor can significantly affect certain dynamics....contrast being one of them. I tend to view my monitor with the top of the screen tilted very slightly away from me. I've adjusted this image to more closely reflect what I was seeing on my monitor. I think you'll like the changes.
Nice try, Pard, but I was in water only about 3 feet deep. You'll have to shoot me....drowning won't work.:D
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I tried to reply to your post in the normal fashion....click on " reply " and go from there. On doing that, though, your initial comments didn't show up. Don't know where the problem may lie.
I was aware, as I was taking the shot, that the grasses were mostly on the right-hand side of that diagonal line. However, due to the desire to keep some unwanted elements from view, I was kind of trapped to the composition as I show it. I did try some slightly different crops with the initial post but wasn't happy with them. I'll just have to ride with this one as it is shown.
As always, I value your input. Thanks,
Tom
I agree with your crop suggestion, Richard....... Not all the lower left 1/2, but certainly part of it.
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You may want to see my response to Richard. Honestly, the preponderance of rocks on the lower left doesn't bother me. But I can well appreciate a different opinion. As I told Richard, I looked at all sorts of different crops initially. In my mind, the entire top portion ( all the way from left to right ) is necessary so that there's enough green grass to offset the burbling water. That said, I can't figure out how you would crop that shot, keeping the top intact, to eliminate any of the lower left. Unless....you raise the bottom margin. And I don't want to get into that much revision on this image.
You and Richard are two of the more accomplished shooters we have. So my interest here is genuine: how would you two guys go about the cropping ? I give up on it.
Tom
BTW, I used your revised version because I think most people will prefer it. Despite what I said earlier, the original looks dull by comparison. Your saturation slider must go up to 11
Thanks for taking the time to mess with this. Your crop certainly is an option. The only way to get there, as you have done, is to lop off a good portion of the left hand side. In doing so, though, you loose that very top left area that I really want to keep. To me ( and this may be one of the more subjective reactions on my part that I've faced ) the photo looses more than it gains by going with your crop. I understand that you feel the right side of the " diagonal " is the more powerful and dynamic.
Look at it this way....this is a shot of " yin' and yang' " in a river bottom.
BTW...I've got even more notches left on my saturation slider.
Take care my friend,
Tom