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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: petermfiore on October 06, 2015, 07:40:27 am

Title: Empty Shoes
Post by: petermfiore on October 06, 2015, 07:40:27 am
Empty Shoes...

Peter
Title: Re: Empty Shoes
Post by: BobDavid on October 06, 2015, 09:31:46 am
When I allow my imagination to run amok, I do not see a happy ending to this story.
Title: Re: Empty Shoes
Post by: stamper on October 06, 2015, 09:35:22 am
An image that makes you think and is therefore successful.
Title: Re: Empty Shoes
Post by: Rob C on October 06, 2015, 09:59:04 am
Quote from: BobDavid on October 06, 2015, 09:31:46 am
When I allow my imagination to run amok, I do not see a happy ending to this story.


Nonsense! She got rid of them, didn't she?

;-)

Rob C
Title: Re: Empty Shoes
Post by: drmike on October 06, 2015, 11:36:46 am
I hope that no offence will be taken (where none is intended) if I say that I don't find the colour rendition quite right. The pinks are as weak as the greys and I'm not sure that there's anything to be done about it. Is there a black in there? I wonder if adjusting levels to get a black somewhere, not much but somewhere might help?

I also wonder if the shoes are as you found them or you arranged them that way? In similar situations I am reluctant to move things but in this case I would have tried and probably failed to improve it. Maybe closer together and a square crop but that isn't your photograph. I just don't feel the composition is quite right in some way. That yellow wrapper/leaf top left is distracting drawing the eye away from your subject. I'd have done some litter collection for sure :)

Mike
Title: Re: Empty Shoes
Post by: francois on October 07, 2015, 04:21:00 am
Quote from: BobDavid on October 06, 2015, 09:31:46 am
When I allow my imagination to run amok, I do not see a happy ending to this story.

Just the wrong size… maybe!
 ;D
Title: Re: Empty Shoes
Post by: petermfiore on October 07, 2015, 07:19:44 pm
Quote from: drmike on October 06, 2015, 11:36:46 am
I don't find the colour rendition quite right. The pinks are as weak as the greys and I'm not sure that there's anything to be done about it. Is there a black in there? I wonder if adjusting levels to get a black somewhere, not much but somewhere might help?
Mike

For the observations you state are what attracted me...The discarded SOFT feminine pink.

Peter
Title: Re: Empty Shoes
Post by: drmike on October 08, 2015, 02:11:21 am
Sounds fair to me :)
Title: Re: Empty Shoes
Post by: Dale Villeponteaux on October 19, 2015, 07:53:07 pm
There's something evocative about empty shoes. I recently saw a memorial to victims of the Holocaust in Budapest. It consisted of empty shoes of all sizes and shapes, on the banks of the Danube where the executions took place. Children's shoes were among the adult shoes.

Regards,
Dale
Title: Re: Empty Shoes
Post by: petermfiore on October 19, 2015, 08:57:11 pm
Quote from: Dale Villeponteaux on October 19, 2015, 07:53:07 pm
There's something evocative about empty shoes. I recently saw a memorial to victims of the Holocaust in Budapest. It consisted of empty shoes of all sizes and shapes, on the banks of the Danube where the executions took place. Children's shoes were among the adult shoes.

Regards,
Dale

It's funny how shoes are only thought of as empty outdoors.

Peter
Title: Re: Empty Shoes
Post by: Rob C on October 20, 2015, 04:15:02 am
Quote from: petermfiore on October 19, 2015, 08:57:11 pm
It's funny how shoes are only thought of as empty outdoors.

Peter

Now that's a head journey I haven't begun...

Rob C