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Slobodan Blagojevic

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The Big Sky Country
« on: April 23, 2015, 10:45:03 pm »

Been to Montana. Apart from mermaids, they do have other attractions, like the big sky. Two renderings:


The Big Sky Country - B&W
by Slobodan Blagojevic, on Flickr


The Big Sky Country
by Slobodan Blagojevic, on Flickr

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Re: The Big Sky Country
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2015, 12:07:41 am »

I like the second one a lot. The muted the colors work really well. I like the simplicity and vastness of the play between blue and yellow. But the noise is distracting--it flattens the space and muddies the scene.
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Re: The Big Sky Country
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2015, 04:58:39 am »

I like both, the first one for the "elegant" lines of the furrows and the second one for the soft blues and yellows. I'm not too hot about the grainy sky, though.
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Re: The Big Sky Country
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2015, 11:01:45 am »

I prefer the B&W version. The curve of the rows adds a lot.

When I go to the flicker site, both photos are quite blurry, but not here on LuLa. Any idea why that is?
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Re: The Big Sky Country
« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2015, 11:28:20 am »

When I go to the flicker site, both photos are quite blurry, but not here on LuLa. Any idea why that is?
The photo has not finished loading. It's sharp as a tack for me.
The noise is so pronounced it almost works to convey another feeling to the photos. I'm not sure what, but, in the end it fails and becomes distracting for me as well. Nice composition.
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Re: The Big Sky Country
« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2015, 01:09:09 pm »

As Paul says just before me - the picture is still loading and will remain blurry until it has fully loaded. Once fully loaded it's fine.
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Re: The Big Sky Country
« Reply #6 on: April 24, 2015, 03:42:52 pm »

Looks like, in the fight against any traces of the dreaded digital noise, we've lost any taste for a film-like grain? Is grain in color more objectionable than in b&w?

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Re: The Big Sky Country
« Reply #7 on: April 24, 2015, 03:45:23 pm »

Both are well composed (as expected from Slobodan) and moody. I even like the grain, regardless it is artificial or not.

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Re: The Big Sky Country
« Reply #8 on: April 24, 2015, 04:47:23 pm »

As Paul says just before me - the picture is still loading and will remain blurry until it has fully loaded. Once fully loaded it's fine.
Anthony
I guess Flicker doesn't like Internet Exploiter 11 (or v.v.) Three whole minutes and it hasn't finished loading. But in Firefox it takes about 2 seconds.
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Re: The Big Sky Country + No-Grain Version
« Reply #9 on: April 24, 2015, 05:33:04 pm »

Ok, here is a color version for the no-grain crowd:

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Re: The Big Sky Country
« Reply #10 on: April 24, 2015, 06:37:57 pm »

we've lost any taste for a film-like grain?  
It appears you were inspired and took the subject matter to heart.  ;D

Is grain in color more objectionable than in b&w?
I like it better in the color version.
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Re: The Big Sky Country
« Reply #11 on: April 24, 2015, 10:35:44 pm »

Im voting for the first photograph which to my eye has a very nice geometric flow 
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Re: The Big Sky Country
« Reply #12 on: April 24, 2015, 11:49:44 pm »

Black and white with grain, please.
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Re: The Big Sky Country
« Reply #13 on: April 25, 2015, 01:57:08 am »

Too much noise.  I like the first one composition wise and the black and white suits that.  But what's with the messy noise??
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Re: The Big Sky Country
« Reply #14 on: April 25, 2015, 10:36:22 am »

...what's with the messy noise??
It's a grain elevator folks. Very clever Slobodan!
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Re: The Big Sky Country
« Reply #15 on: April 25, 2015, 11:03:02 am »

I like the shot, but mainly because in the fifties and seventies I lived in Montana for roughly four and a half years and spent a lot of time flying over Montana and its surrounding states.

I don't get the point of the noise, though, Slobodan.
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Re: The Big Sky Country
« Reply #16 on: April 25, 2015, 06:40:39 pm »

I don't get the point of the noise, though, Slobodan.
He mistook it for a noise elevator.   :D
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Re: The Big Sky Country
« Reply #17 on: April 26, 2015, 02:01:01 am »

You guys are raising too much noise about something that is not even noise...it's grain, people! Film-like grain. It is an effect. Not unlike vignetting, subdued colors, polarized sky, warm white balance, etc.

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Re: The Big Sky Country
« Reply #18 on: April 26, 2015, 02:10:43 am »

I like both images, not preferring one over the another.  And I prefer the images with grain.

I add grain to most of my b&w conversions and some color shots.

Nicely done, Slobodan.
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Re: The Big Sky Country
« Reply #19 on: April 26, 2015, 04:36:24 am »

I like both images, especially the B&W. However, the grain does not look natural (to me, and btw I do like grainy images) I'm not sure if you downsized / compressed after applying the grain. If I view the flickr images at 300% (firefox browser zoom), it looks like artifacts / pattern noise, not random like real film grain.
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