Much improved, IMO. A little more cropped off the left would save you any additional PS work. But it looks good as is. Nice shot, great light. Paul On Aug 15, 2008, at 8:54 AM, Brian Walters wrote:
> Thanks Christine, Charles, Jack, Rick, Doug, Dave, Paul, Frank (hope I > haven't missed anyone) for the comments on Take 1. > > Bit of variation in the comments - yes, the contrast is high but that > golden/orange light was what attracted me to it. I'm working on a > river > project to show the Nepean River environs under all sorts of > conditions > so I quite like this image in that context. > > Christine - not sure what that 'Brian Walters' Wow Dynamic' is. > 'Brian > Walters' Wombat Droppings' is the reaction my photos usually > receive! :-)> > > Dave - hope you got out to take some photos after commenting.... > > Paul wondered whether the image might be improved if the stump on the > left without any illumination was removed. After playing around with > the idea a bit I decided that he was right. Hence - Take 2. > > http://www.blognow.com.au/PESO/95818/Stumped_-_Take_2.html > > > The cloning and other manipulations around the left hand stump > probably > need more work but I think it's an improved composition - still with > strong contrast, though. > > I also slightly increased the size of the image horizontally and then > cropped a bit off the left, to keep the original aspect ratio. > > What say you? > > > Cheers > > Brian > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Brian Walters > Western Sydney Australia > http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ > > -- > > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an > unladen european swallow > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
