 | Discussion on: Image 752 - "Produce Stand" |
| Discussion on: Image 752 - "Produce Stand" |
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| Adrian Warren (AdrianW) Msg: #1 May 14th 2006 19:51:54 | nice shot! you've captured this still life well. i couldn't work out why it looked slightly strange, then i realised it was iso400 - as the reviews suggested, your f10 clearly does do a good job at high iso, although i'm wondering whether it's muted the colours somewhat? the chinese leaf (perhaps you'd call it chinese cabbage?) is a bit bright, so i'd play with shadows/highlights to tone it down a bit. the next thing is that bag beneath the spring onions (salad onions i think you'd call them) is a bit distracting, so perhaps clone it out? whilst the vegetables are fascinating, and nicely arranged i feel the photograph lacks a single overall focal point - my eyes keep wandering across it, yet all i find is the pole on the right. clone that out too? this sort of scene is very hard to deal with well photographically - and i think this is a valiant effort! i can't improve the composition by further cropping, so i was wondering - do you have any wider angle shots of it? | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Bob Wallace (BobTrips) Msg: #2 May 15th 2006 12:17:52 | Thanks very much for the feedback. I really benefit from the eyes of others. Let's try this version. The pole bothered me, as did the bag. I had darkened(burned in) the bag but it was still intrusive. The pole? Cloning it out would be a solution, but a lot of work. So a crop.... This image does lack a focal point. But I don't know how one would 'create' a central subject in a 'still life' that someone else has arranged. I'm not sure that this image would stand alone because of the lack of a single strong subject, but since it's part of a Lao market series I'm not going to worry about that. I've got several produce/herb/fruit images that are similar in their 'frame of a lots of stuff but nothing in particular' characteristic. I think that they will work well as part of a collection. Your particular points: I think the muted colors might have come from the unusual light in this part of the market. It was filtered through various tarps, including some of the too common blue plastic types. I worked a bit on the color, boosting the saturation and burning in the brighter part of the Chinese leaf (Chinese cabbage or Napa cabbage is what it is called around here). Cropping chopped off the ends of the spring onions (green onions is name we use). I hated loosing the white ends but in order to get rid of the pole.... So anyone has a moment perhaps I can get a bit of first/second version feedback. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Bob Wallace (BobTrips) Msg: #3 May 15th 2006 12:21:40 | Something on the site is broken. I uploaded the revised image twice. I'll post the problem in the bug thread. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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