Challenge 73 - Connections

Flyinggina

What do you think about this photo for Challlenge 73? It was taken today.





Virginia

SloYerRoll

Excellent shot!
A little post production work on the shot and that will be a good entry.

Mabey clone out the wall on the upper right, using the wall on the left and a few other minor things.

Nice eye.

-Jon

Zahid Niaz

I agree with Jon, the wall on upper right corner is disturbing and may be cloned with whitish wall, keeping the Red panel intact.
Zahid Niaz

Flyinggina

Thanks, Jon and Zahid, for your input. I personally like the stone wall in the texture of the stone wall in the upper right because it adds character and also because it tells the viewer that the photograph was taken of a real place. But I understand how it distracts from a photograph that is essentially graphic in character (if graphic is the correct word). Incidentally, the penguins are drawings on a wall but the tree is real.




Virginia

SloYerRoll

The fact that the tree is real really makes this shot jump out at me. It looks like the tree is part of a bigger picture (well it is, but you know what I mean).
Mabey clone the wall out to match the other side of the wall (both white)? The darker color makes me go to the spot in the top right and that's not where I want my eyes to go. You can make this go all dark as well. Just a uniform color will help our shot.
Just a thought.
Regardless, good shot Virginia.
I'm posting my syncronicity shot up in about 20 minutes. Check my thread out and don't hold back!

-Jon

TomaS

Very well done! Two small areas still bother me. The bit of red in the upper left of frame, and the blot (?) on the lower part of the white penguin. If it was little higher, it could be rated X.

Flyinggina

TomaS wrote:

Very well done! Two small areas still bother me. The bit of red in the upper left of frame, and the blot (?) on the lower part of the white penguin. If it was little higher, it could be rated X.

Tsk tsk, Tom. Those are his feet!!

Thanks for the encouraging comments. I'm working on a revised version but I fear it will retain the feet. Well maybe I'll get rid of them. The red, however, has already gone.

Virginia

SloYerRoll

Flyinggina wrote:

Tsk tsk, Tom. Those are his feet!!

Thanks for the encouraging comments. I'm working on a revised version but I fear it will retain the feet. Well maybe I'll get rid of them. The red, however, has already gone.

Virginia

I'm sure you'll notice this during post p.. But w/ the upper wall completely white. You may want to crop a little lower since there is nothing "useful" up there.

TomaS

Flyinggina wrote:

Tsk tsk, Tom. Those are his feet!!

Thanks for the encouraging comments. I'm working on a revised version but I fear it will retain the feet. Well maybe I'll get rid of them. The red, however, has already gone.

Virginia

FEET!? Sorry but my feeble mind just cannot grasp that. Guess I better retake Antarctic Zoology 101.

sayntbrigid

Its a cute photo, and the frame adds a LOT clap

douglas

I think it fits the challenge well, might try cropping just above the penguins heads too and leave just a white background.

Flyinggina

Thanks Brigid, Tom, Jon and Douglas, for your thoughts and comments.

I have played with cropping at the top to achieve a white background but find that what drew me to the shot gets totallly lost. What appealed to me was a the theme of strangers to the city (tree - penguins) each a connected set of two. Would Jung have found universal meaning in this?

Once the photo is further cropped, what does one make of the tree other than something that is drawn on the wall beside the penguins although, in fact, it is a live tree.

Anyhow, I have concluded that I can't make this picture work for the challenge. I end up with a photograph with context that, for many, is too busy or, alternatively, a picture that is so stylized in a graphic arts sort of way that any meaning for the challenge is lost. Enough already! :deadhorse

Thanks to everyone who commented and helped me make a decision - albeit perhaps not the one I would have preferred.

Oh, and Tom, you've got me seeing the same thing. Hard to conjure webbed feet out of the mass at the foot of the penguin on the left.

Virginia