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Holiday Snaps #1

Postby Greg B on Sun Feb 20, 2005 11:18 am

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The wharf at Merimbula, very high up off the water, popular with anglers.

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Postby sheepie on Sun Feb 20, 2005 11:27 am

Hi Greg - I'm trying to work out what I don't like about this image. It just doesn't do it for me I'm afraid.
Perhaps it's a tad over sharpened? I'm trying in my mind to picture a crop I'd like better too - perhaps less of the foreground (although I understand this is the main subject!).
I do like the concept, but (to me anyway) it doesn't quite work.

Just scrolling down now to have another look, and the view I get does work for me - a crop about four or five widths of timber down from the chair. Makes it more a pano, and I like the result.

Hope I'm not being too harsh!

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Postby meicw on Sun Feb 20, 2005 11:33 am

I agree with Sheepie. Perhaps crop the bottom to where that dark V is on the right hand side of the pic.
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Postby Greg B on Sun Feb 20, 2005 11:44 am

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Good points. Thanks sheepie, and mceiw.

Version 2, I think it is an improvement. I have it in mind to do a BW conversion, just leaving the chair red. Probably a bit cliched, but I won't let that stop me :D
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Postby phillipb on Sun Feb 20, 2005 11:59 am

A definite improvement Greg, I probably would have gone just a touch more with the cropping, then you would have equal thirds for symmetry between the white sandy line and the black wharf line.
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Postby sirhc55 on Sun Feb 20, 2005 1:37 pm

Second version is certainly better Greg. Love the red chair and I would be inclined to clone out the boat - would make for a masterpiece in understatement :D
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Postby dooda on Sun Feb 20, 2005 4:39 pm

Interesting idea to clone out the boat. That may do it for me as well. I don't think that you should make it completely BW with a red chair, but desaturate it somewhat while leaving the red chair as it is, a little more subtle and not quite, as you say, cliche.
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Postby Deano on Sun Feb 20, 2005 5:02 pm

How about this version?

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A combination rule of thirds and neat-and-in-the-middle. All it needs now is a brick wall and a duck. :lol:

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