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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Christoph C. Feldhaim on October 21, 2013, 04:33:33 pm

Title: Messing around with my P/S: Going postal with a treetrunk in the local park ...
Post by: Christoph C. Feldhaim on October 21, 2013, 04:33:33 pm
Trunk of a tree in the local park after running through my mad post skills - going postal so to say .... :P
And: Yes, I used the clarity slider - to lower clarity ...

ADDENDUM: After some comments here I decided to workover the second image and attached it here as a third inventing the "High Art Crapdagram" genre. Seriously.
Title: Re: Messing around with my P/S: Going postal with a treetrunk in the local park ...
Post by: Harald L on October 21, 2013, 07:20:59 pm
#1: What shall I say. My eye doesn't find any anchor to start with. This picture hasn't anything which draw my attention. Perhaps to busy.

#2: Very moody and interesting. But then the top of the tree in the middle is somewhat awkward and distracting in a negative way, to much dodged?

Harald

PS: Stadtpark?
Title: Re: Messing around with my P/S: Going postal with a treetrunk in the local park ...
Post by: Christoph C. Feldhaim on October 22, 2013, 05:07:45 am
Yup. Stadtpark.
Don't ask me why I posted this.
I was in a sort of silly mood trying out some postprocessing stuff with some basically boring images.
Sometimes it can work, but probably not this time.
I think I'll to an overhaul to push it further.
Title: Re: Messing around with my P/S: Going postal with a treetrunk in the local park ...
Post by: kaelaria on October 22, 2013, 11:59:15 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn-dD-QKYN4
Title: Re: Messing around with my P/S: Going postal with a treetrunk in the local park ...
Post by: Christoph C. Feldhaim on October 22, 2013, 12:05:54 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn-dD-QKYN4


Love it!
Sorted in category "Fooling Around".

Cheers
~Chris
 ;D
Title: Re: Messing around with my P/S: Going postal with a treetrunk in the local park ...
Post by: RSL on October 22, 2013, 01:22:31 pm
Good try, Christoph, but the toning doesn't help #1. #2 is a fair shot at pictorialism but the light, especially the blowout at the top, doesn't help pull it together.
Title: Re: Messing around with my P/S: Going postal with a treetrunk in the local park ...
Post by: Christoph C. Feldhaim on October 22, 2013, 02:24:04 pm
... pictorialism ...

Pushing it even further - see 3rd image.

Cheers
~Chris
Title: Re: Messing around with my P/S: Going postal with a treetrunk in the local park ...
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on October 22, 2013, 02:34:57 pm
Pushing it even further - see 3rd image.

Best of the three, I think. You could perhaps crop off the blown-out bit of sky at the top, which doesn't contribute anything.

Jeremy