Rob, I read your excellent posts and comments and appreciate the feedback. Yes, I added red, but then took it back down. You are right, and now that I look at it I think that the actual ground color is probably somewhere between where my original is and your corrected one is. I also played with bringing out the red only on the one cross, but in the end decided to leave it as it was. And I kneeled and stood, used the 15mm fisheye and the Pentax 16-45, shot vertical and horizontal, and finally decided to show this one, even though I have other perspectives.
Oh, you don't like my 388K image, eh? (Now the GRIN.) I saw the size limit for the PUG but this one is posted up on one of my own web sites, so I let it go. Sometimes I put even larger images up there, but I will keep them off here if that is what you prefer. Thanks again for your very good comments and suggestions. I saw the hill and couldn't resist taking a photo. Not anything I plan to do much with though. Just a fun shot. You know how that goes. That's actually Wal-Mart's US flag in their parking lot showing in the left lower side of the image. -----Original Message----- From: Rob Studdert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 10:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PAW - Hill On 26 Jul 2004 at 21:27, John Power wrote: > I guess there is some symbolism of some sort here. What do you think of the > blank spot between the two crosses? Maybe I should have stuck another cross > there, don’t know. Not too good with symbolism. > > It was across the street from a Wal-Mart. Maybe it represents all the local > businesses that closed when Wal-Mart came to town. :) > > http://www.solutns.com/jpeg/crosses.jpg Hi John, That's really interesting (from a non-religious perspective of course). From a composition perspective what I guess I would have done had I shot the same scene would have been to step back a fraction and try to get a little elevation so that the crosses in the distance were more prevalent in the frame. Of course I've no idea how difficult it would have been to do this but there's always a way :-) Technically the image is tending to blue, I expect that you were likely shooting under a cloudy sky? Without warming this makes the image a little less intense, the reds are no where near as saturated as they could be and the whites of the crosses are just begging to be white again. Also (you will hear more from others about this) but the image when compressed well should only be between about 75-100kb for those pixels dimensions. I hope you don't mind but I've turned this into a WOW as I've taken the liberty to re-work your image (colour and saturation wise) to give you an idea of what I mean (and yes I've gone a little overboard), the crosses could be brightened a bit too. http://members.ozemail.com.au/~audiob/temp/crosses.jpg Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
