In addition to the grad ND used on the sky, I severely darkened the foreground dead grass and cropped it by about half. I didn't like it's 'in your face' glare at the time. Dodged the barn front a bit. As I look at the image, a fix eludes me. Very often when this happens, I ask myself why I didn't do the obvious. In this case, that's not happening. Thank you, Marnie.
Remarks always appreciated. Jack --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Lovely barn, lovely tree. Sort of agree with Bob about branch right > at peak > of roof. But what bothers me more is the lighting, bright, bright. > Might tone > down contrast in PS or redo in later afternoon light. Definitely > worth a > revisit, good subject matter, and older barns in California are > increasingly harder > to find. Has lots of potential, texture et all, but I find the > brightness > distracting. HTH. > > Marnie > ========== > > > Jack, > > Film! Wow! > > Nice setting, but I want to get the oak's branch out of the barn's > > roof peak and I have some trouble visually separating the right > side > > of the tree trunk from the background. Obviously, you have more > > framings of this setting? > > Regards, Bob S. > > > > On 8/12/06, Jack Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Wife and I took a Sierra foot hill drive earlier this AM and > found > > a > > > road (Frenchtown) we hadn't taken before. > > > Came across this barn framed by a beautiful Oak and set off by a > > patch > > > of California Gold dry grass. > > > Had a 1-hour processing and CD done at Walgreen's. > > > Scan only able as web upload. > > > > > > MZ-S, FA*28~70, 1-stop B+W ND grad(sky), Reala 100, Bogen 3021 > > w/Bogen > > > Proball > > > > > > Comments welcomed > > > > > > Jack > > > > > > http://photolightimages.com/aspupload/detail.asp?ID=169 > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
