LPS #14 -- One more time

richtersl

Just returned from a trip to "ye olde drawing board" with a few different candidates for "craggy".

Your input is welcome! Thanks!!!


#1 - Four Little Nuts (muted colors)



#2 - Four Little Nuts (a bit more saturated)



#3 The Old Red Door




#4 Chipped Paint & Rust

PaulThomasMcKee

Put me down for the Old Red Door!

paul

HoofClix

Linda, this is some nice stuff! They all have a delicacy about the color, and they display fragility to me. I like the higher saturation of your "Four Little Nuts," but the crop of the second one leaves the dark triangle on the bottom, which is distracting. If you cropped that out, it would be my favorite.

I have to also note that I'm having a hard time generally seeing how to interpret the "craggy" side of the theme, so I have a hard time opining about how it fits the them... It's just not as easy as looking up the definition!

pyroPrints.com

I like #s 2,3 , I like this style quite a bit.

Llywellyn

Old Red Door!

richtersl

PaulThomasMcKee wrote:

Put me down for the Old Red Door!

paul

Will do!

Thanks, Paul!

richtersl

HoofClix wrote:

Linda, this is some nice stuff! They all have a delicacy about the color, and they display fragility to me. I like the higher saturation of your "Four Little Nuts," but the crop of the second one leaves the dark triangle on the bottom, which is distracting. If you cropped that out, it would be my favorite.

I have to also note that I'm having a hard time generally seeing how to interpret the "craggy" side of the theme, so I have a hard time opining about how it fits the them... It's just not as easy as looking up the definition!

Thanks!

I appreciate you pointing out that black triangle in the saturated Four Little Nuts. After you mentioned it, I took a look at the photo again and wondered how the hell did I miss THAT?

Regarding the "craggy" side of the theme: I've always associated that term with mountain peaks. Any "mountains" in my area have been too worn down by erosion to be considered "craggy" (and not worn down enough to be considered "smooth" :patch ) so I was stuck until I looked the term up and this is what I found:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/craggy
crag·gy (krg)
adj. crag·gi·er, crag·gi·est 1. Having crags: craggy terrain.
2. Rugged and uneven: a craggy face.

Adj.1.craggy - having hills and crags; "hilly terrain" cragged, hilly, mountainous rough, unsmooth - having or caused by an irregular surface; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face"

But will a judge see it that way? Who knows!

Greensquared

Hi Linda,

I really like #2 and #3. For #2 I agree with cropping some from the right. With #3, I would burn in some at the bottom and especially bottom right, to bring the tones down and keep the eye in the frame, and also to pull a little more of the color in there.

Beautiful shots!
Emily

richtersl

pyroPrints.com wrote:

I like #s 2,3 , I like this style quite a bit.

Spassiboh!

richtersl

Llywellyn wrote:

Old Red Door!

Thanks!!

richtersl

Greensquared wrote:

Hi Linda,

I really like #2 and #3. For #2 I agree with cropping some from the right. With #3, I would burn in some at the bottom and especially bottom right, to bring the tones down and keep the eye in the frame, and also to pull a little more of the color in there.

Beautiful shots!
Emily

Thanks, Emily! I will play around with the burning as you suggested on #3.

Travis

1 more for the Old Red Door!

Tentacion

Linda...Love the Old Red Door...the only thing that distracts me...the bright reddish line on the left side...I would burn a little saturation on the edges of the chipped paint to make them stand out more....

Justiceiro

My $0.02, I prefer the first shot over the old red door. The oxidation on the right side is very cool. The hole is a lot less interesting. Can you reshoot this? I would go for a macro shot of the greenish oxidation, real close in. To my mind this theme is all about texture, so I don't want to be distracted.

sherstone

Crazy thing -- I actually like #4 the most - In #3 the master lock pulls me away from the craggy area of the photo. Please do not base my one small opinin on how you choose, but I thought I would voice it.

Greensquared

Linda,

I really like your entry and it definitely says craggy to me. The blue in the master lock does draw my eye a little, but not too badly with all the wonderful textures there. I suppose you could tone down the blue a bit to make it less of an issue.

Still, I love this image!

Emily

leaforte

Patina is cool. I am also for that old red door.

drdane

In case you didn't have enough feedback Linda (), I like 2 through 4 a lot, and lean toward the "red" door for sure. Though being a macro guy, I'd like to see some close in shots of the funky wood, metal & paint.

Can you send some of that stuff out to Oregon for me to play with? Do you have some salt air in New Hope?

No need to repeat the good suggestions you've already recieved, so Good Luck!

Dane

indiegirl

Hey Linda! Nice door!

Jesse

richtersl

Travis wrote:

Thanks!

richtersl

Tentacion wrote:

Linda...Love the Old Red Door...the only thing that distracts me...the bright reddish line on the left side...I would burn a little saturation on the edges of the chipped paint to make them stand out more....

Greensquared wrote:

Linda,
I really like your entry and it definitely says craggy to me. The blue in the master lock does draw my eye a little, but not too badly with all the wonderful textures there. I suppose you could tone down the blue a bit to make it less of an issue.

Still, I love this image!

Emily

Thanks for your suggestions!!! I burned in some more contrast on the chipped paint and added a vignette to (hopefully) lead the eye more toward the chipped paint and wood. We'll see what happens! I just don't want to obsess too much over this....

richtersl

Justiceiro wrote:

My $0.02, I prefer the first shot over the old red door. The oxidation on the right side is very cool. The hole is a lot less interesting. Can you reshoot this? I would go for a macro shot of the greenish oxidation, real close in. To my mind this theme is all about texture, so I don't want to be distracted.

Thanks so very much for your comment. I tried shooting that oxidation again today and I was not able to get close enough to it to come up with anything worth keeping. But I did get some other cool shots, which I'll be adding to a new gallery soon.

richtersl

sherstone wrote:

Crazy thing -- I actually like #4 the most - In #3 the master lock pulls me away from the craggy area of the photo. Please do not base my one small opinin on how you choose, but I thought I would voice it.

Thanks, Sean!!!

richtersl

leaforte wrote:

Patina is cool. I am also for that old red door.

Thanks!!

richtersl

drdane wrote:

In case you didn't have enough feedback Linda (), I like 2 through 4 a lot, and lean toward the "red" door for sure. Though being a macro guy, I'd like to see some close in shots of the funky wood, metal & paint.

Can you send some of that stuff out to Oregon for me to play with? Do you have some salt air in New Hope?

No need to repeat the good suggestions you've already recieved, so Good Luck!

Dane

Thanks for your comments, Dane.

Nope, no salt air over here in New Hope -- we're too far inland. Acid rain perhaps?

Those photos are of old trains that are sitting behind our restored Victorian-era train station in New Hope. There are several old locomotives that are sitting around waiting for someone to restore them.

richtersl

indiegirl wrote:

Hey Linda! Nice door!

Jesse

Thanks, Jesse!