Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: stamper on August 23, 2016, 08:35:32 am
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The Isle of Arran, Scotland.
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I liked it better in color. The picture hasn't enough graphical strength to make it particularly good in B&W. It's not bad, but the color version is able to pick up contrasts that are lost in the B&W.
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Where can I find a colour version? I don't see one.
On my monitor (small retina display) it looks a bit crunchy and texturally unpleasant. I think that may be a problem at my end, and am wondering how to diagnose and solve it.
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Check "Old Street," Ken. It's the same scene, but more of it.
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The black and white one certainly feels more desolate than the color version, but I agree with Russ: The color version works better, for me.
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The colour version is actually a different image but similar. I deliberately went for a crunchy look to try and emphasis the desolation. Perhaps overdone it?
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I share the preference for the colour version, which has a 3-dimensional quality the other one largely lacks, but which could maybe be recovered with a different treatment. "Desolation" is an interesting title, its rightness in relation to the ruin qualified by the lushness of the vegetation, which to me says "renewal" as well.
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I deliberately went for a crunchy look to try and emphasis the desolation. Perhaps overdone it?
Light that is less harsh might be helpful in allowing you to adjust the contrast more finely.
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The cottage ruin is intriguing. The nearest chimney has a newish looking pot and the steps seem to lead to a way in only just below where the roof eaves would have been. I also wondered what the steps were made of (obviously not local stone) but there's not enough resolution to see any detail.