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This Ol House

PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 11:38 am
by zafra52
The subject drew my attention because of its ruggedness and varied textures. I am not sure which is best, what do you think?

Image

and colour

Image

PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 11:44 am
by gstark
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.

PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 12:13 pm
by bwhinnen
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 :)

Brett

PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 1:10 pm
by zafra52
Thank you for the comments. Unfortunately I only have that section of the house. I wonder if this is what you mean.

Image

PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 1:40 pm
by gstark
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.

PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:13 pm
by zafra52
Thank you for your advice. I think this is the best I can do without loosing too much detail.

PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:50 pm
by Onyx
Looks better in colour - but if you could pump the blues in the skies a bit more. B&W looks flat IMHO.

PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 5:23 pm
by zafra52
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.

PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 5:29 pm
by gstark
That's more to my taste ....

But my taste is irrelevant: this is your image. What do you think of this now?

PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 5:48 pm
by zafra52
Gary, I like it more than before and I also like the square window as well. Thanks for your help.