On 1/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not getting out and taking pictures these days -- difficult to. So I've > been going through some old photos. > > This was taken back in May '05 when I shot a bunch of old gas pumps. At that > time I was told the one I showed on list was too soft. Upset me because that's > what my former photography teacher kept telling me. I changed lenses (one > shot too soft), then cameras systems, and improved my technique, so I thought > I > was way past the too soft stuff. Anyway, that's why I got upset. Raw nerve. > > This is the first photo I've shown with PS post processing. I am learning PS > CS. Before it was all Elements post processing. All I did though was use auto > stuff and USM. > > I plan to shoot them again. But I also have bunches of gas pump photos that I > may work up into a collage too. They are really more striking when taken > together. > > I think this one's mildly interesting, but nothing great. I've considered a > closer crop on some of the flakiness and/or gear stuff. Suggestions on that > welcome. > > Its interest is more in its age. This was the oldest gas pump they had. Dated > back to the 1920's -- 1928 I think. Maybe a tad earlier. > > http://members.aol.com/eactivist/PAWS/pages/oldgas.htm > > Comments are okay. Just don't tell me it's too soft.
It's too sharp. Maybe use a soft focus lens, or maybe gaussian blur in PS. Just a thought. <GD&R> -frank (you said we couldn't say it was too soft, and I didn't) -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
