Challenge 34 - Aero-nut - Minimalism

aero-nut · March 6, 2005

Ok, I know it's early, but I've been playing with some ideas for this next challenge, and I wanted to bounce them off you folks.

Comments/suggestions welcome.

Balance

Two pieces of posterboard, and two river rocks. No photoshop other than some color and desaturation.

Lucky Hack · March 6, 2005

Cool concept!

What if you offset scale and proportion to compose a shot that is a little more precariously balanced?

hoping this message finds you well -Ian

ps. where do you ride? I'm a bike nut as well,(my wife thinks I should be commited). From Downhill to Roabike and everything in between!

aero-nut · March 8, 2005

The blues of DOF....

The subject was selectively desaturated in photoshop...not sure if I like the effect or not....plus I was set to 400 ISO, and the camera was a little off center....looks like I need a reshoot.

aero-nut · March 8, 2005

Reshoot.....

This time the focal point was a little forward of the subject...more fitting of the title...:D

"The blues of DOF"

jwear · March 8, 2005

i like the first one better but some have ? my taste and that said i still like the first on with out bluetint Jeff

PeterGar · March 8, 2005

I like the first... the simplicity and the contrast. Very nice.

Eric&Susan · March 8, 2005

I like the first one. When I saw it I thought darn great idea, Why didn't I think of that

Eric

aero-nut · March 8, 2005

Lucky Hack wrote:

Cool concept! What if you offset scale and proportion to compose a shot that is a little more precariously balanced?

hoping this message finds you well -Ian

ps. where do you ride? I'm a bike nut as well,(my wife thinks I should be commited). From Downhill to Roabike and everything in between!

Thanks. I mainly ride in the hills in Northern Antellope Valley, Tehachepi, and Kernville.

aero-nut · March 8, 2005

Thanks Peter, and E&S.... I can't figure it out, but it seems like the first one's missing something....maybe that's an artifact of being a minimalist pic..who knows...

I'm all ears if someone has a suggestion...

bkriete · March 8, 2005

I like the composition of the first of your "tworocks" pictures. I think I would like it better without the selective desaturation, and shot at ISO100. Maybe it's just an artifact of the compression, but it looks a little noisy. The blue tinted version looks very out of focus to me; in fact the only part of it that looks in focus is a band below and to the left of the rocks. This is the case in both pics, but more so in the blue one.

ginger_55 · March 9, 2005

aero-nut wrote:

The blues of DOF....

The subject was selectively desaturated in photoshop...not sure if I like the effect or not....plus I was set to 400 ISO, and the camera was a little off center....looks like I need a reshoot.

I like this one. I don't like the black and the white. If you are going to do that, I think you need to go with some form of a rule of thirds.

But I love this one. I don't know why you changed it.

ginger

aero-nut · March 9, 2005

ginger_55 wrote:

I like this one. I don't like the black and the white. If you are going to do that, I think you need to go with some form of a rule of thirds.

But I love this one. I don't know why you changed it.

ginger

Yeah, the desaturation was an experiment...didn't work out too well....

Here's the origional with some color correction and despecle..

I probably still need to reshoot at a lower ISO though...dang noise. :bash

RocketMan · March 9, 2005

I think moving the focus in front distracts from the whole composition. its not the line where the colored paper (?) meets that is the subject (right?) but rather the stones, so I'd say keep them in sharp focus and let forground and background fade out of focus.

RM

aero-nut · March 15, 2005

Ok, yet another try after a hike this week.... comments?

aero-nut · March 15, 2005

Hmmm... I'm getting a little light headed....

:hurt