Thanks for the comments. Yes, Larry, I will admit this is not my strongest shot. I took it mostly to make a point about diners, and I let the photographic quality suffer. Also, I took it yesterday and posted it in the blog today. I should have put more thought into the post-exposure processing.
The color balance was difficult, as there were several sources of light: natural light through the windows, florescent lights, incandescent lights and neon lights inside the diner. I will try your suggestions, and see if I can improve the image. Dan On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/3/2010 12:49 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: >> >> http://dinerdan.posterous.com/ >> >> Comments, criticisms and suggestions are encouraged. > > I appreciate what you're trying to do, but this isn't one of your strongest > shots. > > It looks like you had a tough color balance problem there. Did you > deliberately place the coffee pot to shade the table from the sunlight with > the purplish color balance? > > Rather than trying for the whole table, perhaps you could have come in a bit > tighter, maybe with the toast on the right, next to the coffee, and just > showing that corner of the table. > > Maybe if you were to just crop with the lower left defined by the bottom of > the plate, and the upper right by the coffee pot, you could dial the color > in a bit better. > > Or alternatively, how does it look in black and white? > > By the way, I love the reflections in the coffee, I'd have been tempted to > put the toast by the cup of coffee, and put the coffee pot next to the > plate, about where the toast was and come in tight on the bottom of the > coffee pot and the upper left portion of the plate, with all of the plate > reflected in the coffee pot. > > It does look like quite the yummy breakfast though. -- 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.
