Topic: Extreme watersports (Read 3212 times)

stamper · « **on:** March 27, 2015, 06:41:10 am »

Not sure if they caught anything or got caught? Possibly a crop at the top?

francois · « **Reply #1 on:** March 27, 2015, 08:51:46 am »

I like and I don't think that cropping the top would improve it.
Well seen!

RSL · « **Reply #2 on:** March 27, 2015, 09:37:12 am »

Great street, Stamper. Takes a moment to see what's going on.

seamus finn · « **Reply #3 on:** March 27, 2015, 09:49:16 am »

Firstly, well seen indeed - and then well done for applying the slow shutter treatment. Very nice!

Eric Myrvaagnes · « **Reply #4 on:** March 27, 2015, 10:05:19 am »

Quote from: RSL on March 27, 2015, 09:37:12 am

Great street, Stamper. Takes a moment to see what's going on.

+1.

If anything, they may have caught a bad cold.

As Russ says, this image has lots of good stuff in it.

And please don't crop (and not just because it would offend Russ.

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stamper · « **Reply #5 on:** March 28, 2015, 05:55:47 am »

I was using a tripod and ND filters to slow down the speed of the water when I saw the older angler carrying the younger angler across the top of the waterfall on his back to get to where they wanted to fish. It probably wasn't as dangerous as it looked but a slip would have been harmful. The top half of the image is a deserted rail bridge. The river holds salmon and sea trout so it is popular with anglers and this is a popular area to fish and it is in the centre of Glasgow, Scotland. The river Kelvin.

William Walker · « **Reply #6 on:** March 28, 2015, 05:57:26 am »

Stamper, I have really enjoyed many of your pictures shown here in the past six or seven months. It is almost as though something has "clicked" (pun intended) with you. I like your processing too.

Top stuff and this one is in the same league, keep going!

(You still seem to be has grumpy as ever looking at a few other threads going around, but one cannot expect too much change, can one?

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William

stamper · « **Reply #7 on:** March 28, 2015, 07:16:18 am »

Nope. The older I get the grumpier and less accommodating I get.

BobDavid · « **Reply #8 on:** March 28, 2015, 08:25:06 am »

You caught a whopper. This image would look great printed onto a nice big sheet of Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Baryta.

David Eckels · « **Reply #9 on:** March 28, 2015, 08:29:38 am »

Love it and, no, I wouldn't crop it

Slobodan Blagojevic · « **Reply #10 on:** March 28, 2015, 10:21:11 am »

Quote from: stamper on March 27, 2015, 06:41:10 am

... Possibly a crop at the top?

Definitely.

Good catch, sloppy processing.

stamper · « **Reply #11 on:** March 28, 2015, 10:41:52 am »

Quote from: Slobodan Blagojevic on March 28, 2015, 10:21:11 am

Definitely.

Good catch, sloppy processing.

Odd man out....so far.

Slobodan Blagojevic · « **Reply #12 on:** March 28, 2015, 12:34:38 pm »

Cropping

This is how my eye scans the image, even at the thumbnail size. In other words, it starts in the lower left, where we naturally (in the western world) start, then follows the highlights and quickly rushes to the top (bypassing the anglers), where there is nothing to stop it, and leaves the image way too fast. The strong vertical, repeated presence of bridge pillars serves as a pointer for the eye. With nothing above it to stop it, the eye leaves the image. Cropping to the black horizontal line would stop it.

RSL · « **Reply #13 on:** March 28, 2015, 12:35:59 pm »

I don't often agree on a crop, but this time I do.

Slobodan Blagojevic · « **Reply #14 on:** March 28, 2015, 12:46:54 pm »

Processing

I guess you realized that, without your processing intervention, anglers would escape most people's attention, for the reasons described in my previous post. So you decided to add some emphasis to them, to make them more noticeable. Nothing wrong with that. Except you did it in a sloppy way, not careful and precise enough. You dodged the boy's face (again, nothing wrong with the idea), but you went too far. There is no reason for the boy's face to be lighter than his father's. It is clear that the boy's face is in the shade, not in the sun, as his hand and leg are (in the green circle). Also, there is no reason for the father's collar to be so bright white in the shade.

BobDavid · « **Reply #15 on:** March 28, 2015, 01:16:01 pm »

Slobodan has a point about the PP of the faces. Just a thought: since the kid's face seems blurry/featureless, why not substitute another for it. Of course, I am not a purist or a journalist. I sometimes think all is fair in love and art.

mezzoduomo · « **Reply #16 on:** March 28, 2015, 01:24:31 pm »

Quote from: BobDavid on March 28, 2015, 01:16:01 pm

Slobodan has a point about the PP of the faces. Just a thought: since the kid's face seems blurry/featureless, why not substitute another for it. Of course, I am not a purist or a journalist. I sometimes think all is fair in love and art.

Yes, a tack-sharp, perfectly lit Justin Bieber face would do the trick.

Slobodan Blagojevic · « **Reply #17 on:** March 28, 2015, 01:46:15 pm »

Quote from: mezzoduomo on March 28, 2015, 01:24:31 pm

Yes, a tack-sharp, perfectly lit Justin Bieber face would do the trick.

Yes, with him in play, I think that the thread title* would make much more sense

* Check any urban dictionary

stamper · « **Reply #18 on:** March 28, 2015, 02:14:03 pm »

Quote from: RSL on March 28, 2015, 12:35:59 pm

I don't often agree on a crop, but this time I do.

Russ your earlier post.

Great street, Stamper. Takes a moment to see what's going on.

You are now appearing to contradict yourself?

stamper · « **Reply #19 on:** March 28, 2015, 02:15:32 pm »

Quote from: Slobodan Blagojevic on March 28, 2015, 12:34:38 pm

Cropping

This is how my eye scans the image, even at the thumbnail size. In other words, it starts in the lower left, where we naturally (in the western world) start, then follows the highlights and quickly rushes to the top (bypassing the anglers), where there is nothing to stop it, and leaves the image way too fast. The strong vertical, repeated presence of bridge pillars serves as the pointer for the eye. With nothing above it to stop it, the eye leaves the image. Cropping to the black horizontal line would stop it.

Guilty of over analysing an image Slobodan.

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