'Morning all... Thanks Bob, Larry, Ken, Tim, Ann, Dave, Chris, Igor - and all who took a look.
A couple of responses.... Igor - thanks for the detailed critique. I tried your cropping suggestion and it works well although I like the uncropped image as well. This seems to be one of those images that 'grows' on you (well, me anyway). I was unsure about the darkness of the clouds, but the more often I came back to it the better I liked it. The black background and white border are both set by the current JAlbum settings and apply to all of the images in that PESO gallery. I don't like the absolute black background either and I've been meaning to tweak the JAlbum style sheet to change that. I've tried a light to mid grey but the background colour also applies to the index page and a light grey doesn't seem to work well there. I'm leaning towards a dark grey. I'm less concerned about the white border but I'll play around with that as well. Dave - Thanks. I don't know what you Kiwis have done to deserve the year you've had but you should have a bit to cheer about tomorrow night. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ On Thursday, October 20, 2011 7:28 PM, "David Mann" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 20, 2011, at 1:14 AM, Brian Walters wrote: > > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1370864/PESO/slides/_IGP3239a-peso.html > > Given what's all over our news lately (a stricken container ship which > hit a reef just out of Tauranga) one of my first thoughts was that it was > leaking so much oil it'd turned the ocean black. > > I do like the photo, especially the clouds. On Wednesday, October 19, 2011 2:39 PM, "Igor Roshchin" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Brian, > > I very much like the idea, technical part (the exposure, the silhouette > appearance, etc.), but something in the overall image doesn't quite work > for me. > > First, I thought it was the large gap between two interesting parts: > the ship and the clouds. > I remember having a similar reaction to one of the pictures posted here > several year ago (I don't remember who did it, may be Godfrey?), > that also had something high at the sky, and something at the very > bottom, I believe, also right on the water. > > I was thinking if reducing that gap would have helped that, - probably > not. > Cutting out the clouds completely would not help either, - you need > something at the top to complete the picture. > > It might be that the low profile of the ship is responsible for that > impression. So, that part is relative to the overall dark area. > So, I just tried to do the following cropping (using just the browser > window > to obscure the rest): about half of the black area > from the bottom, about half of the darkest portion of the clouds from > the top, and probably nothing from the sides. > That seems to work better for me. > > There is one more component that didn't quite work for me: > the combination of the black background and the white border. > So, even without doing the cropping, getting rid of the white border > and black background helps (even thought I like and use this combination > myself very often). > I'd choose a light off-white, maybe light-light-light grey/bluish > overall background for this photo. > > I hope you don't mind me "butchering" your nice photo. :-) > > > Igor > > > > Wed Oct 19 08:14:34 EDT 2011 > Brian Walters wrote: > > > I spent a couple of days at an old lighthouse keeper's cottage last > > week > > and got up early one morning to catch the sunrise. I was a bit late - > > the sun had cleared the horizon before I got outside. I managed to get > > this shot of one of the many bulk carriers anchored offshore. > > > > > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1370864/PESO/slides/_IGP3239a-peso.html > > > > > > Comments and suggestions appreciated. > > -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - mmm... Fastmail... -- 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.
