Posted: 3/30/2009 12:27:33 PM EDT
I realize it's not the most exciting subject matter, but would you notice that the 2nd image has been fairly heavily edited?
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The colors and brightness levels look very wrong in the second one, even without comparing them to the first. At best, it looks like you caught a very strange angle of sun reflection or something. Curbs like that are never green like they look in the second one. The whiteness on the building across the river is funky, the paint on the house on the left is funky, even the parking sign looks odd.
I dunno anything about editing. First pic looks better, to me. What were you going for? |
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The colors and brightness levels look very wrong in the second one, even without comparing them to the first. At best, it looks like you caught a very strange angle of sun reflection or something. Curbs like that are never green like they look in the second one. The whiteness on the building across the river is funky, the paint on the house on the left is funky, even the parking sign looks odd. I dunno anything about editing. First pic looks better, to me. What were you going for? I realized the colors were screwy after I posted it. Should be fixed now. I wanted to clean up the image; the overhead wires cluttered it up too much. And I wanted to bring outthe reflection on the water a bit more. |
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Ah.
You did a damned good job on the power lines. Look like one of those "what's different between these pictures" puzzles. I'd leave the colors alone, though. Or, only adjust them on the water reflection itself, either as a separate layer or as a cut and pasted separate picture altogether, then reassemble when done. By adjusting the whole pic, every color has turned whitish or green. Kinda looks like legos, actually. |
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I would also suggest experimenting with cropping the right side of the image rather than the left. There's a symmetry to how the house across the river is centered between the two street lights. The house on the left is kinda comfortable looking, and there really isn't anything of interest to the right of the historical sign. Additionally, the house way in the back on the right is slightly distracting. So, trim the right rather than the left, and the house will be centered between the street lights and in the picture, and the background house will mostly be gone.
But, that's just my rain man geometrical brain talking. |
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I try really had to not make things too symetrical; I've found that tends to make images a little boring in most cases (though it's my natural tendency).
There's also something strange about the resizing that the new arfcom does (these are saved at 1024 wide; the site is resizing them to 800). It's also causing the colors to look very different here than when I look at the larger image next to it on my dsplay here. (which has nothing to do with my slack of shooting/editing skills, but is a new artifact since the site redesign). |