Any Better?

Greensquared

I reshot this image for LPS#11 tonight. The security guards not only held the gates open until 8pm for me, but also held off any other cars entering and disturbing my shots. I felt like royalty!

Please let me know if you feel I've addressed all the issues discussed in the previous post, and also if there is anything else that still needs work. Thanks a million...you all are the best!

1. Original Shot


2. Reshoot 1


3. Reshoot #2

Prezwoodz

I went with #2 but I think #2 and #3 are better then the first. Also I think #2 could use a bit more saturation

Nice shots though!

Llywellyn

I went with #2 as well and actually think it's a touch more contrast (just a teensy bit) that it needs.

That is magical light you got this time around!

Debboggy

I like the composition of reshoot #1. I think it has the subject at the most appealing size in proportion to the rest of the scene.

Tentacion

Like #2, it has more detail, but I like the reflection in #1.

I would take both photos and place as composites using #1 as background layer, then using a layer mask on #2, and bring out the reflection of the lake on 1 , then play with selective coloring and play with color tones....bring out some of the sandstone reds, golden yellows, then flatten layers, and play with contrasts, levels and curves...I might also bring the crop down a tad from the top....and if your feeling really creative try adding a little lake reflection like a few subtle ripples as though wheel had turned..

Just my thoughts....Good luck
Donna

Travis

Reshoot #2
Emily, glad to see that you didn't arrested sneaking into the park. I really like reshoot #2. It brings that machine to foreground, up close and personal. I think the murky color of the water takes away from the overall image in the others. Personally, I'd like to see you apply the same light vignette to #2 also. Great improvement!

richtersl

Reshoot #2
Very nice, Emily! I love this closeup of the old mill. Now the viewer can get a good look at that water wheel. Strangely enough, the tree that's in front of the mill is not as bothersome in the closeup shot as it was in the non-closeup version.

Reshoot #1 is OK but what detracts from it is the murkiness of the water. For me the reflection part does not work well in that one due to that murkiness.

That really is one impressive water wheel!

HarleyPugs

I like #3
Is that the mill on Sixes Road?

Jon

Greensquared

Thanks to everyone for your input!!!

BistiArt

Tenacity

Greensquared wrote:

3. Reshoot #2

Emily,

Now you're cookin'...

If you choose to use quick selection and a gaussian blur, then you can downplay the leaves which want to pull the eye away from the magnificence of the mill and water wheel.
The faint shoreline helps the eye find the center and so would that gaussian blur!

This image chunks the water which was either overshot and lead the eye out of the pic to the right #1 or dulled the eye down to try to perceive only faint reflection in Rs#2.

See, tenacity works... 'sides, like you said, you felt like royalty!

LiquidAir

Yep. Much better. The only that is missing are some frogs in the pond.

The color temeperature on #3 seems a little higher (bluer) than on #2. I think I perfer the slightly yellower greens of #2. The trees are still very prominant. Right now I am thinking of starting with #3, cropping it square (or close to) by taking off one or maybe even two trees off the left and pushing the WB a smidge toward the yellow. No warranty on that advice, but if I was staring at #3 in Lightroom, that would be the first thing I'd try.

simmo

I think number 3 works with the theme much better than the other two. 1 and 2 have some pleasing aspects but the tighter crop draws the attention of the 'machine' much more imo.

Tessa HD

Emily - I voted for #2. You wouldn't, by chance, have taken one with a little more space to the right of the wheel? I agree too that adding a little selective blur would enhance it. what a beautiful place!

Gary Glass

The 3rd shot is best, but I'd like to see it taken early in the morning or evening. Or maybe at night with some light painting.

Greensquared

Gary Glass wrote:

The 3rd shot is best, but I'd like to see it taken early in the morning or evening. Or maybe at night with some light painting.

It was taken at appx. 7:30pm.

Greensquared

Thank you to everyone for your much valued opinions! I think I am going to play around with crops some more and see if I can't come up with a good compromise between #2 & #3. People seem to like the two different images for very valid reasons on both.

Gary Glass

Greensquared wrote:

It was taken at appx. 7:30pm.

Ah. Must be the trees mellowing out all the light then. Could you reshoot it without the trees?

HarleyPugs

HarleyPugs wrote:

Is that the mill on Sixes Road?

Jon

Guess I will answer my own question....

http://roadsidegeorgia.com/site/sixes_mill.html

Nope...it is not the place....

Jon

Greensquared

HarleyPugs wrote:

Guess I will answer my own question....

http://roadsidegeorgia.com/site/sixes_mill.html

Nope...it is not the place....

Jon

Hi Jon,

Sorry, I thought I'd already answered this, but I guess the post didn't go through. This is the Old Mill at Berry College in Rome.

HarleyPugs

Greensquared wrote:

Hi Jon,

Sorry, I thought I'd already answered this, but I guess the post didn't go through. This is the Old Mill at Berry College in Rome.

No problem.

I've heard a lot of talk about the Sixes Mill, just never been (even though it is almost in my back yard).

The mill in your picture is beautiful. Is that around the area where they filmed the football movie "Remember the Titans"?

I pm'ed you about a local photographers meeting today in Buckhead at the Rock Bottom brewery today at 1.
http://www.rockbottomsouth.com/index...location_id=26

Jon

Felicia

I like Reshoot #2 the best because of the "in your face" feeling I get from the water wheel. Like LiquidAir says, the color does have more a "blue" feel to it. It also seems a little "too" sharp... or maybe that's oversaturation...

Since you shot later in the day, did they give you "special dispensation?" Or did you bivouac in the woods under a rotting tree stump? Yeah... can you tell my life isn't very dynamic? I have to live out my adventures through others... online...

Greensquared

Felicia wrote:

I like Reshoot #2 the best because of the "in your face" feeling I get from the water wheel. Like LiquidAir says, the color does have more a "blue" feel to it. It also seems a little "too" sharp... or maybe that's oversaturation...

Since you shot later in the day, did they give you "special dispensation?" Or did you bivouac in the woods under a rotting tree stump? Yeah... can you tell my life isn't very dynamic? I have to live out my adventures through others... online...

Thanks for your input Felicia.

The mill is on the campus of Berry College in Rome, GA. I called the president's office and they most graciously had the campus security leave the gates open for me. They were all extraordinarily kind about it.