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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: wmchauncey on February 26, 2014, 04:26:25 pm

Title: Don't do decisions very well
Post by: wmchauncey on February 26, 2014, 04:26:25 pm

Found a different sky residing on my HD...which is more better, color or B&W?

(http://i329.photobucket.com/albums/l383/chauncey43/Fire-in-the-sky-color.jpg) (http://s329.photobucket.com/user/chauncey43/media/Fire-in-the-sky-color.jpg.html)

(http://i329.photobucket.com/albums/l383/chauncey43/Fire-in-the-sky-BampW-2.jpg) (http://s329.photobucket.com/user/chauncey43/media/Fire-in-the-sky-BampW-2.jpg.html)

Title: Re: Don't do decisions very well
Post by: Christoph C. Feldhaim on February 26, 2014, 04:29:19 pm

Color.
Cheers
~Chris

Title: Re: Don't do decisions very well
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on February 26, 2014, 06:12:59 pm

BW.
Cheers,
~Eric      ;)

Title: Re: Don't do decisions very well
Post by: RSL on February 26, 2014, 07:13:26 pm

+1. The color's just over the top. The B&W's great.

Title: Re: Don't do decisions very well
Post by: Alan Klein on February 27, 2014, 12:09:30 am

I like the color better.  A couple of things.  The out of focus forground is a little distracting and doesn't add anything.  Also, there seems to be a lot of jpeg artifacts in the clouds.  Maybe a higher save quality would eliminate them.  Nice shot.

Title: Re: Don't do decisions very well
Post by: wolfnowl on February 27, 2014, 02:18:09 am

It's a tough call, but I'm going to go with Russ on this one.

Mike.

Title: Re: Don't do decisions very well
Post by: francois on February 27, 2014, 05:15:38 am

I'm totally undecided but I'd vote for the color version but both versions are amazing.

Title: Re: Don't do decisions very well
Post by: wmchauncey on February 27, 2014, 07:41:51 am

Thanks guys...I really appreciate the kudos.        ;)

But, I have an urge to say "Houston, we have a problem"...the colors and tones of what I'm looking at here do not represent what I see on the ProPhoto converted to sRGB and saved via "Save for Web" originals.
What goes into Photobucket only vaguely represents what is coughed out onto various sites. What might be better alternatives than Photobucket?        ???

Title: Re: Don't do decisions very well
Post by: Christoph C. Feldhaim on February 27, 2014, 07:48:25 am

Quote from: wmchauncey on February 27, 2014, 07:41:51 am

Thanks guys...I really appreciate the kudos.        ;)

But, I have an urge to say "Houston, we have a problem"...the colors and tones of what I'm looking at here do not represent what I see on the ProPhoto converted to sRGB and saved via "Save for Web" originals.
What goes into Photobucket only vaguely represents what is coughed out onto various sites. What might be better alternatives than Photobucket?        ???

Zenfolio?
Smugmug?

I doubt your site alters the images - download one and compare with your original, usually there shouldn't be a difference.

Title: Re: Don't do decisions very well
Post by: Alan Klein on February 27, 2014, 10:13:17 am

Internet presents color in sRGB.  If you download Adobe RGB or another color gamut the colors could be different.  It's a good idea to download in sRGB.

Title: Re: Don't do decisions very well
Post by: wmchauncey on February 27, 2014, 12:54:58 pm

All I know is when I use "save for web" in PSCC and send them to Photobucket they seem fine, even when viewing in Photobucket, but...
when I link to them, or even take a screen capture from Photobucket, they gain about 30 points in saturation.

Title: Re: Don't do decisions very well
Post by: BernardLanguillier on February 27, 2014, 07:46:28 pm

Color.

There is too much foreground, I would crop half of it.

Cheers,
Bernard