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This Ol House

Postby zafra52 on Thu Sep 27, 2007 11:38 am

The subject drew my attention because of its ruggedness and varied textures. I am not sure which is best, what do you think?

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and colour

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Postby gstark on Thu Sep 27, 2007 11:44 am

Do you have any of the whole building?

I'm feeling sort of cheated, because this seems to be just the middle, with no ends in sight.

If that wasn't possible, I'm thinking a square crop of one of the windows might be more satisfying to me.
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Postby bwhinnen on Thu Sep 27, 2007 12:13 pm

My personal opinion is neither of them :) But I'm being picky. But in seriousness I like the shot and the feel of the textures.

I like the colour one better than the b&w conversion. I'd like to see the sky all blue though and the house warmed up, I think that would really bring up the feel of it. Ooh and you've got a dust bunny on the RHS edge just above the roof :)

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Postby zafra52 on Thu Sep 27, 2007 1:10 pm

Thank you for the comments. Unfortunately I only have that section of the house. I wonder if this is what you mean.

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Postby gstark on Thu Sep 27, 2007 1:40 pm

If the image's resolution will handle it, I'd go even tighter.

Perhaps just the window with some of the surrounding wall ...

or try cropping this in this way ...

Square ... ish

Leave just two or three rows of tiles from the roof in this image, at the top.

Remove everything below where the top of the fence is. Basically, kill the fence and everything below it.
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Postby zafra52 on Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:13 pm

Thank you for your advice. I think this is the best I can do without loosing too much detail.
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Postby Onyx on Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:50 pm

Looks better in colour - but if you could pump the blues in the skies a bit more. B&W looks flat IMHO.
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Postby zafra52 on Thu Sep 27, 2007 5:23 pm

if you could pump the blues in the skies a bit more


Ok I enhanced a bit the sky colour without making too obvious.

Ooh and you've got a dust bunny on the RHS edge just above the roof


And got rid off the offending dust bunny. Thanks again for your help.
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Postby gstark on Thu Sep 27, 2007 5:29 pm

That's more to my taste ....

But my taste is irrelevant: this is your image. What do you think of this now?
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Postby zafra52 on Thu Sep 27, 2007 5:48 pm

Gary, I like it more than before and I also like the square window as well. Thanks for your help.
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