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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Bruce Cox on October 25, 2011, 11:41:30 am

Title: household ornaments
Post by: Bruce Cox on October 25, 2011, 11:41:30 am

I have been reworking this shot, off and on, for the last three years.  With recent work, it has started looking better to me.  Please critique.

Bruce

Title: Re: household ornaments
Post by: louoates on October 25, 2011, 01:52:45 pm

Sorry, Bruce. I can't see what this is supposed to be. I can see a tree-top angel but the rest is just confusing to me.

Title: Re: household ornaments
Post by: Bruce Cox on October 26, 2011, 12:39:53 pm

Attached is a more simply processed version of the whole handheld frame, f 5.6, 1/30s, 24 mm equiv., ISO 160.  The most prominent, if closer than minimum focal distance, figure on the right side of the frame is a common, around here, wooden polychrome figurine from [the interior? of] Mexico.

Bruce

Title: Re: household ornaments
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on October 26, 2011, 12:59:25 pm

One of the examples where the original is better than fancy post-processing. The "simply processed" version is too simply processed... even Auto Levels in Apple's Preview improves it.

Title: Re: household ornaments
Post by: shutterpup on October 26, 2011, 02:56:20 pm

Quote from: Slobodan Blagojevic on October 26, 2011, 12:59:25 pm

One of the examples where the original is better than fancy post-processing. The "simply processed" version is too simply processed... even Auto Levels in Apple's Preview improves it.

+1

Title: Re: household ornaments
Post by: Bruce Cox on October 26, 2011, 06:47:18 pm

Quote from: Slobodan Blagojevic on October 26, 2011, 12:59:25 pm

One of the examples where the original is better than fancy post-processing. The "simply processed" version is too simply processed... even Auto Levels in Apple's Preview improves it.

Yes, it was too simple.  I have made a more ernest effort to do well without being fancy, but I only was only able to get so far with it, and so could not resist layering the fancy version over it.  It is now only semi-simple.

Bruce