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Post by cannockwolf on Jan 23, 2012 14:46:22 GMT
I took a friend to Magpie Mine yesterday as he had never shot there and was desperate to go out, so i was trying different shots than i took last time  |
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Post by katynoelle on Jan 23, 2012 16:16:09 GMT
Moody and gritty and a good composition in your wonderful style - it should work but, really, doesn't speak much to me. I keep coming back to see if it was just that I needed more coffee or something but, still, not there. It seems a bit really dark, though, could that be why I'm having a hard time taking it in? Of course, I'm a girly; so....it may just be the subject.... you know....  You know, perhaps, it's because the leading line of the road gets cut off before we get to the building. I kind of get stuck at the bright highlight at the top edge of the furthest part of the road that we can see - right at the curve. Also, the mud is so dark - I'm having to work to get hooked into it - it seems like that should be the 'entrance' to the image. What do you think? |
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Post by Barry on Jan 23, 2012 18:03:51 GMT
This one does not work as well as your other Magpie Mine image. I think I would had cropped a bit off the bottom to remove those tyre tracks, and I don't feel that the sky looks right, this one does look as if you have dropped it in.
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Post by cannockwolf on Jan 23, 2012 18:11:37 GMT
I don't feel that the sky looks right, this one does look as if you have dropped it in. Lol this sky is real pmsl |
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Post by Barry on Jan 23, 2012 18:18:38 GMT
Lol this sky is real pmsl  maybe you need to soften the horizon between land and sky. |
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Post by The Wirefox on Jan 23, 2012 18:30:22 GMT
I will have to remember PSML. It has a far more British feel to it than ROFL or LMFAO. Now it is interesting that the sky is real on this one because it is showing the symptoms I came across when converting your workflow to GIMP; posterisation and noise in the clouds and excessive edge sharpening. I am going to go against the flow and say that I do like the composition. It is unusual and it works for me. Thats the problem with showing us your best images..anything slightly below and you get bombarded with crit It does not take away from the fact it is still B****dy good and well above par of the average landscape. |
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Post by cannockwolf on Jan 23, 2012 18:45:26 GMT
tbh i think the sky suffers from being reduced in size, viewed on a 27" screen it looks good for me
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Post by Barry on Jan 23, 2012 18:48:14 GMT
tbh i think the sky suffers from being reduced in size, viewed on a 27" screen it looks good for me This is something that Steve Webb seems to be suffering from as well, maybe if is something to do with the resizing effect. |
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Post by The Wirefox on Jan 23, 2012 19:12:30 GMT
That is an interesting point and that could be tested by looking at the size variants in Flickr. This forum does not resize the image as it is taken from source. You could do a similar check in SmugMug too. I still think there is is a combination of processing that exists in SEP and other layer methods that increases noise artifacts and leads to posterisation and speckling.
Dave it may be worth posting this at 1920px or similar to see if we get the same effect.
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Post by cannockwolf on Jan 23, 2012 19:38:22 GMT
im going to use this in competitions mate so im not keen on posting large files but if you want me to email you a full jpeg i will
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Post by Barry on Jan 23, 2012 20:07:43 GMT
im going to use this in competitions mate so im not keen on posting large files but if you want me to email you a full jpeg i will I understand that well, hence the reason why I try and keep my file sizes low for uploading anywhere. But I'm sure you have a duff image somewhere in your archives that you could upload in a test thread at different image sizes, to see how it compares. |
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Post by The Wirefox on Jan 23, 2012 21:35:27 GMT
Dave, I wasn't thinking when I suggested posting at large size. Barry's solution may be best then we can see if posting on the forum somehow degrades the images.
Sent from my GT-I9100 using ProBoards
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Post by cannockwolf on Jan 23, 2012 22:00:03 GMT
ive just printed it A3+ and the clouds are perfect
i may have a work around, gimme a minute
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Post by cannockwolf on Jan 23, 2012 22:02:02 GMT
full jpeg here  |
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