[nfl-fan]

March 12, 2010 at 10:24 am

Oh man, you are so funny.

Beats being a dour, miserable old fart… like you Wallyman :D

[nfl-fan]

March 11, 2010 at 9:32 am

Thanks lads.

The gear has been sitting in a bag with some bread soda since yesterday… like vinegar it is ‘supposed’ to absorb odours.

I’ve used a vinegar/water solution in the past to clean the young lads matress… he wet it a few times when he was a nipper and it works very well at eradicating the smell.

If the bread soda doesn’t work then I’ll try the water/vinegar solution.

Cheers
J

[nfl-fan]

March 11, 2010 at 9:16 am

While its extremely obvious it has been photoshopped, is it so different from using hdr effects, and the wide range of other effects available and used regularly by photographers in PS?

Of course it is… are you telling to tell us that the birds, the hot air baloon and the Yellow Submarine styled sunbeams were all part of the original photograph?

You could actually create this image without taking a single photograph.

[nfl-fan]

March 10, 2010 at 3:19 pm

It just looks un-natural to me.

I find the colours slightly gaudy… the water has an ultraviolet glow about it and the orange sky looks like it was pushed too far.

Just a bit too bling for my tastes.

[nfl-fan]

March 10, 2010 at 1:35 pm

I’d have serious reservations classifying this as a photograph… and as a result can’t find much to say about it.

[nfl-fan]

March 10, 2010 at 11:38 am

If that works on your underpants it’ll work on anything.

[nfl-fan]

March 10, 2010 at 10:49 am

It’s a Blue Tit… but it’s not the best amigo.

Bird photos taken at distance would typically require a less cluttered backdrop to work.

I’m not keen either on birds looking away from the lens.

This pic is also very faded, as if too powerful a flash was used. You could fix this up with a contrast tweak.

J

[nfl-fan]

March 10, 2010 at 9:53 am

Looks much better in my opinion… the toning suits… and as much of a cliche as it can be… this would look great with a couple of old ladies on the steps.

[nfl-fan]

March 9, 2010 at 3:56 pm

In general I’m not keen on colour popping at all, it’s more of a gimmick than an effective post processing technique.

The way this image is compositionally that colour popping is just drawing you down to the bottom half of the photo when in fact the top half makes up as much of the scene… and as a result it becomes sort of unbalanced.

I think if you stuck to the mono conversion it would make for a much better photograph.

[nfl-fan]

March 9, 2010 at 3:51 pm

what do ya think?

Not very much I’m afraid… it’s neither aesthetically pleasing, well defined from a compositional viewpoint or straight.

Not sure where the Rule of Thirds comes into play here… or not… you’ve lost me on that one.

Sorry… but I don’t like it at all.

[nfl-fan]

March 9, 2010 at 1:35 pm

[nfl-fan]

March 9, 2010 at 12:11 pm

If I’ve been fiddling about with this one I’d come clean… but this is honest to goodness almost untouched… a few dusties sent to hell… and a bit of a rotation… now’t else I think.

That’s not to say the white balance isn’t out.

I did play about with another version… primarily the crop… but I do recall trying a blue filter… but it was all a bit blue then.

Cheers.. J

[nfl-fan]

March 8, 2010 at 3:48 pm

As much as I’d never question the word of his lordship I think we need to get an independent review on this matter.

Does anyone have a number for the Lord Mayor of Photography, Mark Sedgwick?

[nfl-fan]

March 8, 2010 at 10:19 am

The glowing radioactive foliage on the bridge gives the impression that there’s a nuclear power plant with some serious problems not too far away.

[nfl-fan]

March 8, 2010 at 10:14 am

If I started to answer those questions we’d end up at the most obvious of places i.e. “Photography is Subjective”.

Being honest I’m not really one to be bothered about answering all the questions that eventually reveal the Secret to the Universe and all that.

To say it is too gimmicky is just my opinion… by posting this here you’ve asked and I’ve supplied… you can choose to ignore it :wink: