On Mar 4, 2007, at 3:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I kept trying to line up the gap in the fence with something really > interesting and couldn't quite. But I still liked and do like the > old fence... > > http://members.aol.com/eactivist/PAWS/pages/oldfence.htm
I like the idea in this photo, but to my eye it falls short on three counts. The first is a capture time issue: - foreground-background separation is poor As it stands, the background competes with the gestures of the fencing and distracts. A wider aperture or a longer focal length to blur the background more would help, or post processing sections with a Lens Blur filter to simulate that kind of separation. So this could be improved in rendering... After that, simple rendering issues: - the tonalities of the wood grain are too compressed, a sea of close- together gray tones, which images poorly on my screen. - there seems to be too much unsharp mask applied, particularly because of the high-frequency detailing, which lends it a somewhat "brittle" look just shy of haloing. With a bit of rendering work, this photo would be excellent. You have caught a lot of good things in it. :-) Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
