Feel like lending your opinion?

sherstonesherstone Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,356 Major grins
edited January 4, 2008 in The Dgrin Challenges
Sometimes working on an image you get to a point that you do not see the good or bad in the big picture. It has reached that point for me and I'm afraid that I may have gotten to point that if I continue I will just ruin it.

If you could take a couple minutes out of your pre-new year day to comment on which version you prefer that would be great, assuming of course we have a heavy opinion of one side or the other - sometimes things like this go 50/50 :wink

P.S. This is not a composite

morning mudras

More Natural - (currently posted)
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Some mystery etc...
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Thanks a bunch
and have a Happy new year!

Sean
Sean

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  • zweiblumenzweiblumen Registered Users Posts: 369 Major grins
    edited December 31, 2007
    I like the skin/face in the first one better.

    When do I get my opinion back? And is there any interest on the loan? If so, good rates? I mean, I guess I've kinda given it to you anyway... just curious :D
    Travis
  • sherstonesherstone Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,356 Major grins
    edited December 31, 2007
    zweiblumen wrote:
    I like the skin/face in the first one better.

    When do I get my opinion back? And is there any interest on the loan? If so, good rates? I mean, I guess I've kinda given it to you anyway... just curious :D

    Thanks zweiblumen, I'll release all captured opinions sometime next year during a full moon so they can frolic and maybe meet new opinions. So its all for a good cause mwink.gif
    Sean
  • HoofClixHoofClix Registered Users Posts: 1,156 Major grins
    edited December 31, 2007
    It took me a minute or two to notice that these were the same image just PP'd a bit differently. I saved them to a folder, opened in Nikon View, and flipped back and forth between them. I decided that I like the second one better because the person seems better lit from the rest of the image in the second.

    I do, however, seriously question if it would have been an issue on Judgement Day.
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  • zweiblumenzweiblumen Registered Users Posts: 369 Major grins
    edited December 31, 2007
    sherstone wrote:
    Thanks zweiblumen, I'll release all captured opinions sometime next year during a full moon so they can frolic and maybe meet new opinions. So its all for a good cause mwink.gif


    As long as it's for a good cause, I'm down with it :D Make sure you get pictures of the frolicking. It should be memorable! rolleyes1.gif
    Travis
  • Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
    edited December 31, 2007
    i like the 2nd version most
    but i can see difference at close inspection only headscratch.gif
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  • TentacionTentacion Registered Users Posts: 940 Major grins
    edited December 31, 2007
    I like number 2.

    Why you ask? Ok it is kinda of a spiritual thing the man is doing and the PPW that you gave it, almost makes it seem like he is calling the "waters" and it is moving towards him...Yeah what can I say..I like all the Greek and Roman pictures - Zeus, Poseidon, Athena, Hercules, etc...lol...

    I like the lighting better on the facial area too in the 2nd one.
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  • GreensquaredGreensquared Registered Users Posts: 2,115 Major grins
    edited December 31, 2007
    #2 :d
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  • cjmchchcjmchch Registered Users Posts: 222 Major grins
    edited December 31, 2007
    #2 for me as well
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  • sherstonesherstone Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,356 Major grins
    edited December 31, 2007
    Tentacion wrote:
    I like number 2.

    Why you ask? Ok it is kinda of a spiritual thing the man is doing and the PPW that you gave it, almost makes it seem like he is calling the "waters" and it is moving towards him...Yeah what can I say..I like all the Greek and Roman pictures - Zeus, Poseidon, Athena, Hercules, etc...lol...

    I like the lighting better on the facial area too in the 2nd one.

    Indeed, Tentacion the idea of power and control over nature was very prominent in my design around this image. The treatment that I gave the second one was designed to not only push the viewer towards the subject but suggest the power behind the mudras.

    Thank you HoofClix, Awais, Greensquared and cjmchch for taking the time to look and help me in my quest for opinion interaction by the light of a full moon. :D
    Sean
  • TunaTuna Registered Users Posts: 44 Big grins
    edited January 2, 2008
    I like the 2nd one best. The look of mysticism really fits well with the blur from the movement of his hands. thumb.gif
  • LlywellynLlywellyn Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 3,186 Major grins
    edited January 3, 2008
    Numero dos para me. That added bit of mystery gives me a little more to chew on while contemplating this image. Very nicely done. thumb.gif
  • sherstonesherstone Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,356 Major grins
    edited January 3, 2008
    Thanks Tuna and Llywellyn

    I ended up doing a "re-mix" mixture of both and adding a few final tweaks, a little dodging a little burning etc...

    It's been a fun one but I have to put it to rest sometime.:D
    Sean
  • SwartzySwartzy Registered Users Posts: 3,293 Major grins
    edited January 3, 2008
    Yep
    I think you got it. An unusual photo for sure but it is good thumb.gif
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  • sherstonesherstone Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,356 Major grins
    edited January 3, 2008
    Swartzy wrote:
    I think you got it. An unusual photo for sure but it is good thumb.gif

    Thanks Swartzy!
    Sean
  • shatchshatch Registered Users Posts: 798 Major grins
    edited January 3, 2008
    Like number 2. Great composition and expression. Good luck!
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  • sherstonesherstone Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,356 Major grins
    edited January 4, 2008
    shatch wrote:
    Like number 2. Great composition and expression. Good luck!

    Thanks shatch!
    Sean
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