Re: PESO: Last Apples

2007-01-19 Thread Boris Liberman
Rick, I should say that the light made me immediately think about the autumn. Well done. Rick Womer wrote: The last apples of the season, at the local farmer's market in mid-December. http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5458065 ist D, FA 16-45, ISO 200, 1/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/8,

PESO: Last Apples

2007-01-15 Thread Rick Womer
The last apples of the season, at the local farmer's market in mid-December. http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5458065 ist D, FA 16-45, ISO 200, 1/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/8, RAW, minor adjustments in PE4. Comments most welcome. Rick http://www.photo.net/photos/RickW

Re: PESO: Last Apples

2007-01-15 Thread Bob Sullivan
Rick, I like seeing the baskets as part of the display. (It's hard to do an artistic shot.) I find the apple in the upper left corner of the front basket a bit distracting. The color seems to fade into the background...maybe just my monitor. Regards, Bob S. On 1/15/07, Rick Womer [EMAIL

Re: PESO: Last Apples

2007-01-15 Thread Paul Stenquist
Nice light. They look good enough to eat:-). On 1/15/07, Rick Womer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The last apples of the season, at the local farmer's market in mid-December. http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5458065 ist D, FA 16-45, ISO 200, 1/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/8, RAW, minor

Re: PESO: Last Apples

2007-01-15 Thread Jack Davis
Love an image which appears to reflect my vision of true-to-life color. Very well done! Jack --- Rick Womer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The last apples of the season, at the local farmer's market in mid-December. http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5458065 ist D, FA 16-45, ISO 200,

Re: PESO: Last Apples

2007-01-15 Thread Bruce Dayton
Not quite there for me. Not sure why, but the composition just doesn't do it. Maybe a different angle, or different amount of apples showing or something. I think you need to show more than one basket of apples and somehow the table to help convey the title you have picked. Maybe the fisheye

Re: PESO: Last Apples

2007-01-15 Thread Mark Cassino
There is a nice luminous feel to the light and the apples are well presented, but the contrast is too great and the shadows too deep to my eye. It's a matter of taste, but if you pull it into Photoshop and give the shadows a healthy whack in adjustments-shadows and highlights you can make the

Re: PESO: Last Apples

2007-01-15 Thread Rick Womer
Thanks for all the comments! This was a difficult shot, because the market was crowded, there weren't many apples (what you see is what there was), and the apples were surrounded by clutter. I played with the shot a while, and tried the fisheye, but other shots worked less well than this one.

Re: PESO: Last Apples

2007-01-15 Thread Mark Cassino
Rick Womer wrote: What attracted me was the low, warm December light on the apples, and the deep shadows. I like what Mark did with the shot, except that it makes it look too much like September rather than December. Something in between would probably be ideal. Ahhh - I did not