1st Try at LPS#8

Awais Yaqub

When i was shooting i was thinking of explosion it is rainy these days. Shot the picture. When i was shooting i thought i will name it "When we will fall.."
then i saw word Sedate in dictionary then i thought i should name it "Relax we will fall"
to me they are father and son :rofl:scratch:huh



http://awais.smugmug.com/photos/167864153-O.jpg

About photo that black thing is Iron bar of main gate of my house these water drops were resting under that iron bar which was rusted. I squeezed lens hood into Iron bar which enabled me to shoot at 1/6 sec with little zoom still i was not able to completely eliminate blur as it was too high for my new 6 feet tripod :rolleyes. I turned green gate to to blue in ps
1/6 sec F 3.5 ,ISO 80 Sony H5, 15mm, 6/28/2007
If i participated in LPS regularly it will surely improve my English :wink

richtersl

Hi Awais!

I've seen you post in some of the other areas here. Glad to see you're submitting a photo for LPS!

This is a nice submission for "explosive". The bubbles look like they're moments from causing the drops to explode. The top half of the photo looks a bit dark, though. What I would try doing is experimenting with some crops to remove some of that dark area.

Hmmmm....a macro closeup shot of those drops might be worth investigating.

HoofClix

Yes, your English will certainly improve!

I agree with Linda on what should come out of it. Either crop most or all of the dark area out to make this shot a landscape rather than portrait, or possibly even this is a candidate for the 10:4 crop that is being discussed here in the contests section.

As for theme adherence, I thought more of tranquility more than explolsive when I saw it, but that's only my first impression. I see everything Linda's talking about.

Nice job without a tripod!

Awais Yaqub

Thanks Linda and Mark i am little affraid from cropping as it will distort the image this is already cropped. Linda i shot it with macro mode and H5 goes 2cm close to subject.I will try to do something with black

Justiceiro

Awais Yaqub wrote:

Thanks Linda and Mark i am little affraid from cropping as it will distort the image this is already cropped. Linda i shot it with macro mode and H5 goes 2cm close to subject.I will try to do something with black

I like this a lot Awais. I do agree that you should cut more of the black. The drops are a bit too centered for my taste.

That ebing said, I this captures very well what I think is the main opportunity of this theme- potential energy or action.

Awais Yaqub

thanks mate

What about now

Justiceiro

Nice. That looks good.

HoofClix

Stunning to me, almost exactly as I would have cropped it!

richtersl

Awais Yaqub wrote:

thanks mate

What about now

Nice!

BistiArt

Explosion's Aids

Awais Yaqub wrote:

thanks mate
What about now

I wonder if a little blending might make this image more 'explosive'...

for example, screen white opacity ~ 11% to segregate the black bar from the drops

then multiply, balck opacity ~ 6 to make the innards (inner portions...) somewhat darker

would both add to the sense of impending explosion?

Awais Yaqub

BistiArt wrote:

I wonder if a little blending might make this image more 'explosive'...

for example, screen white opacity ~ 11% to segregate the black bar from the drops

then multiply, balck opacity ~ 6 to make the innards (inner portions...) somewhat darker

would both add to the sense of impending explosion?

Great thanks for sharing this technique i liked it a lot