Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: mdg on June 03, 2013, 03:48:33 am
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Please give me your thoughts. Thank you.
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Very dramatic, and I do like it. Whether you have burned in the sky, or added a darkening vignette - I find the top of the lighthouse too dark. It need to be lighter to stand out from the sky.
Jim
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Very dramatic, and I do like it. Whether you have burned in the sky, or added a darkening vignette - I find the top of the lighthouse too dark. It need to be lighter to stand out from the sky.
Jim
I agree with the too dark top of the lighthouse remark! Other than that, it a very nice shot.
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+1
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Very phallic... (it let me think at Bartolomeo Colleoni...) but good.
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Some of the stone surfaces are too bright, while the lighthouse itself is too dark.
Lighthouses are not just buildings, but symbols as well, and not just symbols, but symbols of light. So, unless there is a hidden message about them being something sinister, I want my lighthouses... well, light. ;)
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Excellent and moody shot, very nice indeed, but I have to agree that the top of the lighthouse is too dark.
I think there is some very clever long exposure feathering and burning going on here and very effective it is too. By very long exposure feathering and burning, I mean temporarily darkening areas of the scene as the scene is being shot. I saw a chap on Smibs TV who did a similar thing in the arctic when shooting the Aurora Borealis using 20 minute exposures, he would hang his sock over certain parts of the lens and move it about and darken parts of the scene - a bit like dodging and burning in the darkroom, except you do it as the scene is being shot.
But of course I maybe wrong and it is an effect achieved on the computer ;D
But still very good and excellent work!
Dave
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Thank you for your comment guys...I was expecting you would comment on the dark light house :)
On my end, my intention was to give details on the rocks that will serve as an anchor going to the light house. Since the top of the light house is lit, it would probably connect from the base even if the middle part is dark. I am trying something different but I guess it didn't work here :))
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But of course I maybe wrong and it is an effect achieved on the computer ;D
Yes Dave, I achieved this photoshop. I didn't have socks when I shot this :)