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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Bruce Cox on September 07, 2013, 03:11:53 pm

Title: House Plant
Post by: Bruce Cox on September 07, 2013, 03:11:53 pm: Too familiar or only familiar?
Title: Re: House Plant
Post by: Harald L on September 07, 2013, 07:07:12 pm: Interesting subject. The picture is too tightly framed and would contribute from a few pixels more to the left and to the top. (of course only IMHO)

Harald
Title: Re: House Plant
Post by: Bruce Cox on September 07, 2013, 11:05:47 pm: The next exposure needed to be cropped on the bottom, but it provided a few more of the pixels on the top and left. And seemed to want to be processed a little differently.

I will have more opportunities to reshoot as well.
Title: Re: House Plant
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on September 08, 2013, 03:57:04 am: Quote from: Bruce Cox on September 07, 2013, 03:11:53 pm
Too familiar or only familiar?

I like it, and I prefer the b&w to the colour. I agree with Harald about the crop, though. When you reshoot, you might like to do something about the diagonal branch in the top left: it's distracting.

Jeremy
Title: Re: House Plant
Post by: Rob C on September 08, 2013, 04:10:26 am: Quote from: Bruce Cox on September 07, 2013, 11:05:47 pm
The next exposure needed to be cropped on the bottom, but it provided a few more of the pixels on the top and left. And seemed to want to be processed a little differently.

I will have more opportunities to reshoot as well.

This tighter shot pleases me more - I don't think I'd bother to reshoot, I'd just do a bit more contrast and clone out the stray branch that's too strong. For my money, you don't need any detail at all in the shape of the pot: it's strong enough as a shape already, and would be stronger yet as a total black.

Rob C
Title: Re: House Plant
Post by: Bruce Cox on September 08, 2013, 02:28:45 pm: I painted on two of the tree branches and processed some more.
Title: Re: House Plant
Post by: Harald L on September 08, 2013, 04:20:08 pm: I've just ignored your copyrights and played around with the last shot (removing the branch and processed into BW). After doing that I'm pretty sure that I'd like it much more in BW.

Harald
Title: Re: House Plant
Post by: Bruce Cox on September 08, 2013, 05:04:40 pm: Quote from: Harlem22 on September 08, 2013, 04:20:08 pm
I've just ignored your copyrights and played around with the last shot (removing the branch and processed into BW). After doing that I'm pretty sure that I'd like it much more in BW.

Harald

Would we like it better? I have B&W version that I don't like better and I lack the stamina to try again. Feel free to post your version, this and any other time.

Bruce
Title: Re: House Plant
Post by: Harald L on September 08, 2013, 06:10:01 pm: Quote from: Bruce Cox on September 08, 2013, 05:04:40 pm
Would we like it better?

Actually a work like this has never been finished,
therefore you have to declare it finished,
if you - considering the time and the circumstances -,
have done everything possible.

J.W. v. Goethe
Title: Re: House Plant
Post by: Bruce Cox on September 08, 2013, 08:12:57 pm: Never finish anything. Herman Melville

which means much the same thing.
Title: Re: House Plant
Post by: Bruce Cox on September 09, 2013, 01:11:00 pm: I declare it finished. Thanks for the help.
Title: Re: House Plant
Post by: Harald L on September 09, 2013, 08:10:38 pm: Quote from: Bruce Cox on September 09, 2013, 01:11:00 pm
I declare it finished. Thanks for the help.

Please, don't refer to Goethe. Melville is your man! ;-)

Harald