Colour Wheel...

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Colour Wheel...

Postby Remorhaz on Tue May 01, 2012 10:53 am

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Re: Colour Wheel...

Postby Mr Darcy on Tue May 01, 2012 4:41 pm

I like it, but cannot help thinking it would be better as a (vertical) pano crop.
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Re: Colour Wheel...

Postby Mj on Tue May 01, 2012 6:37 pm

Love the subject but I think the processing doesn't quite work.
The vignetted lighting applied to highlight the the stack misses the top... this is something you could play with however I would have also preferred to see the top of the last tyre as it is stacked differently and therefore completes the sequence.... unless you cropped it that's a bit more difficult to change (if you wanted to). The location makes the shot seem a little staged to me but of course if that where you found it that was not your doing !!!
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Re: Colour Wheel...

Postby biggerry on Tue May 01, 2012 9:36 pm

Nice tyre stack, with a bit more room on the top and bottom I reckon the composition would sing alot better and thus allowing one to really develop and run through implied curved line of teh tyres. Dial back teh vignetting 80%, if it smacks you in teh face first thing then its be over applied imo, vignettig is something that should become apparent only after the eyes have explored and digested the whole image.
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Re: Colour Wheel...

Postby surenj on Wed May 02, 2012 1:01 am

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What's the story behind these?
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Re: Colour Wheel...

Postby Remorhaz on Wed May 02, 2012 10:44 am

Mr Darcy wrote:I like it, but cannot help thinking it would be better as a (vertical) pano crop.


Thanks Greg - I was heading more towards the ROT I think...

Mj wrote:Love the subject but I think the processing doesn't quite work. The vignetted lighting applied to highlight the the stack misses the top... this is something you could play with however I would have also preferred to see the top of the last tyre as it is stacked differently and therefore completes the sequence.... unless you cropped it that's a bit more difficult to change (if you wanted to). The location makes the shot seem a little staged to me but of course if that where you found it that was not your doing !!!

surenj wrote:What's the story behind these?


This shot is as taken (crop wise) but I do have others from different angles and from further away to include more of the stack (see below) - It was very late in the afternoon (sun setting) and I was trying to cut out the bright sky as best I could (and poles and signs and other distracting stuff :)).

I didn't stage these :) - one of my daughters plays netball and this tyre stack is just in the carpark where we park

biggerry wrote:Nice tyre stack, with a bit more room on the top and bottom I reckon the composition would sing alot better and thus allowing one to really develop and run through implied curved line of teh tyres. Dial back teh vignetting 80%, if it smacks you in teh face first thing then its be over applied imo, vignettig is something that should become apparent only after the eyes have explored and digested the whole image.


Thanks Gerry - agree re vignette and have dialed it back some.

Some other earlier shots showing more of the location/environment and more breathing room around the stack. Perhaps I should take the first and try content aware filling the pole on the right which would leave lots more breathing room around the stack?

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Re: Colour Wheel...

Postby ozimax on Wed May 02, 2012 5:38 pm

The image is a bit tired...sorry about that.

Great colours and an interesting subject.
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