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09/07/2009 11:21:34 PM |
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09/07/2009 05:03:27 PM |
| You did a great job of bringing out the detail, but it just seems a bit "busy" to me. |
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09/06/2009 03:36:33 PM |
Wonderfully chaotic and smartly framed. I could have done without the Topaz HDR, but that's just me. Good job!
Message edited by author 2009-09-08 20:25:20. |
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09/06/2009 09:02:00 AM |
| My first thought was "too busy", but then I kept looking and realized that's the point of this scene and it's appeal. A thick, man made forest of masts. |
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09/04/2009 12:16:34 PM |
| Striking mishmash of masts and rigging with dock pilings in between. Very nice b&w conversion with excellent contrast and detail. |
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09/03/2009 03:09:35 AM |
OK, I'm going through the Free Study submissions, purposefully finding those images I think are shot with a less conventional eye - this is one of those images! Thanks for offering something that isn't just DPC friendly eye-candy (though of course there's nothing wrong with eye-candy):
Positives: Wow, what a busy image! Of course the busyness IS the image, this creates an abstract pattern which effectively creates an overlay effect onto the scene making this shot more than the sum of its parts. You were quite right to offer this in monochrome and your manipulation of the contrast emphasises the oh-so-important vertical lines in this shot. Your placement of the boat towards the left side of the image is critical to the shot - to borrow a boating metaphor from your image, it anchors the shot. It is that boat the eye latches onto and it acts as a primer to the rest of the virtually encoded image, allowing the brain to make sense of the rest by offering the vital context of the scene.
Critical stuff: I'm not sure I have any; I do note that there is very little that is actually white in the image and I wonder how a tweak in levels might look, but then it would be a different image and this one is just fine.
Overall: An image that keeps the eye and brain busy and one which manages to almost create an impressionist image from an 'ordinary' scene. Great job. |
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09/01/2009 10:11:46 PM |
| Nicely done b/w and I really like the image. |
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09/01/2009 04:26:25 PM |
| Like the lines lines lines. Like the choice to go B&W. Feels abstract to me. |
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09/01/2009 08:00:04 AM |
| Interesting, but too cluttered for my tatses - my brain balks at trying to absorb so much visual information, and struggles to make sense of it. |
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09/01/2009 07:25:05 AM |
| I love all of the vertical lines. B&W works very well. |
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