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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: rbayle on November 01, 2007, 10:58:03 am
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a picture I took at night (9.3pm) at west vancouver.
look exposure at 200mm.
I was looking for a quiet and peaceful picture...
all comments are welcome.
thank you
romain
romain bayle pictures (http://www.romainbayle.com)
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a picture I took at night (9.3pm) at west vancouver.
look exposure at 200mm.
I was looking for a quiet and peaceful picture...
all comments are welcome.
thank you
romain
romain bayle pictures (http://www.romainbayle.com)
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Hi Romain... you already know from a previous comment that I have an issue with so much vignetting so just out of interest what lens are you using to have it so pronounced?
I questioned myself as to why I find it so irritating. I feel like I am being forced to look into the lighter areas as if there were a row of guards along the perimeter, and that my choice to look around the image has been somewhat removed - (which is of course not true.)
With the strength of the vignetting, I feel like the photographer is ushering me with a firm grasp on my elbow to look into a specific area and directing me instead of allowing me visually to meander there myself in a more exploratory and subtle way.
....perhaps I am just inclined to resist being told what to do!
Julie
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Hi Romain... you already know from a previous comment that I have an issue with so much vignetting so just out of interest what lens are you using to have it so pronounced?
I questioned myself as to why I find it so irritating. I feel like I am being forced to look into the lighter areas as if there were a row of guards along the perimeter, and that my choice to look around the image has been somewhat removed - (which is of course not true.)
With the strength of the vignetting, I feel like the photographer is ushering me with a firm grasp on my elbow to look into a specific area and directing me instead of allowing me visually to meander there myself in a more exploratory and subtle way.
....perhaps I am just inclined to resist being told what to do!
Julie
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you! again!!!
I love vignetting, because it's closing the picture and you feel "inside" it.
everything is directed by the composition and the light, like a tunnel...
it's like playing with the DOF but with the light.
you should just let the picture control you, stop fighting it...Oh sounds scarry
I use different lenses, sometimes I shoot wide open on a full frame, so the vignetting is very strong, if it's not the case I push it with the raw files then you color correct the dark with the curve .
that is another example of strong vignetting.
but I do also picture where you're not prisoner, (the color picture)
romain
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you should just let the picture control you, stop fighting it...Oh sounds scarry
but I do also picture where you're not prisoner,
romain
romain bayle pictures (http://www.romainbayle.com)
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ahhh... I think you like being the controlling one, and I just don't like being controlled or feeling like a prisoner. lol
So good that we're all so different!
Julie
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ahhh... I think you like being the controlling one, and I just don't like being controlled or feeling like a prisoner. lol
So good that we're all so different!
Julie
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right!
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I usualy like a certaiin amount of vignetiing, if it suits the picture and the motive. But in this case it is overdone for my taste.
And it ads quite a bit to the overall "dark" and -in my opinion- depressive tone of the image.
lighten things up just a little and the picture might loose this slightly "opressive" punch.
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In my view, vignetting is fine as long as it doesn't take attention away from the image. Used more subtly it can help draw the eye into the picture.
I agree that the vignetting here is a bit too strong for my taste.
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I like vignetting in general and use it often in my own images (see my Photo.net portfolio if you wish: http://photo.net/photos/IanCoxLeigh (http://photo.net/photos/IanCoxLeigh) ).
But, I feel it is a little heavy handed here. If you had said you wanted to create a dark, foreboding image. Maybe with a sense of being lost or of being adrift in the wilderness, I might feel different. Those are certainly the emotions and moods this image creates for me. I don't get a sense of calm and peacefulness. Maybe a sense of longing to reach the island -- that is the least 'dark' emotional response I have and that is still a long way from peaceful.
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Patrick Hoelck's work isn't really to my taste, but he uses vignetting to good effect in a lot of his work: http://www.patrickhoelck.com/frameset1.html (http://www.patrickhoelck.com/frameset1.html)
Mike.
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all these replies are pretty interesting...
it confirms what I liked about a picture, it makes people reacts...
and the vignetting even more...
But I still like that picture and the heavy feeling in it.
romain
romain bayle pictures (http://www.romainbayle.com)