Sat, 15 Jul 2006 21:13:14 -0700 Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
> Both of these are good concepts, if somewhat commonly seen for > California farmland. > > The way you framed them is fairly static ... by that I mean, too much > sky, too much centered and balanced for my taste. A little less sky, > a little closer in to the foreground would have given them a bit more > dynamic feel. Sat, 15 Jul 2006 18:28:26 -0700 Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > To me, there is some magic in the straight lines of the vine with > > mountains in the background: > > http://www.komkon.org/~igor/PHOTOS/CentralCoastCA/IMGP3615sm2.jpg > > > Nothing new here. Maybe it's because I've been working around vineyards > off and on for 30 years that I see this as just a rehash of dozens upon > dozens of photos. Not that it's a bad photo - it's well done, but, > personally, I'd like to see something more creative. Different lens, > lower/higher angle, someone in the vineyard .... looks like it was shot in > the latter part of the day ... maybe a warmer tone would help. Those > golden hills can really glow around 8:30pm or so. Actually, the color > looks a little odd to me - can't quite explain it - what color space are > you using on this one? Thank you both for commenting. I agree that this picture has no new concept. More over, when posting it to the list, I thought of adding a comment that it looks rather cliche, something that one can find in coffee-table books about wine country in California (or Italy or maybe even some other place) Nevertheless, I like this magic combination. Also, in my mind it would fit on a [traditional] wine label for a serious good wine (non-funky style). I am not looking for dynamism here. I enjoy the peacefullness and a combination of "down to the earth" and magnificent at the same time. I tried to do other shots - some along the lines of Godfrey's suggestions, but none of those were to my liking. Particularly with the sky, - Godfrey, I understand your way of thinking, and normally would agree with it. When I was taking the image, I was also thinking similarly. I tried to have less sky, but that didn't work for me at all. However, something is missing in this shot for me. One thing is that I wish I'd have a more saturated sky color. Even though this image was taken with a polarizer, I was not able to get a good saturation here. It was taken at 7:22pm - that could be the reason. I didn't have much time to play with it, - but I was not able to get the sky color the way I wanted. It is possible that some half an hour-an hour later the color gamma would'be been different, a bit warmer, but it was not reasonable to stay in the middle of the road for an hour just for that. Shel: I am using the standard Adobe RGB color space, so nothing special here. > > I also tried to play with it a little bit, creating what I associate > > with Nikolai Roerich's "himalayan" sky colors. > > http://www.komkon.org/~igor/PHOTOS/CentralCoastCA/IMGP3615sm3.jpg > > An odd color sky doesn't help make this any more interesting. Maybe > changing the colors of the vines and the hills as well, adding a more > abstract or surreal look might do something. The lines of vines might be > put to more interesting use with further manipulation. You've gone part > way, why not see what happens when you go all the way? I didn't have any idea of what to do with it. This version happened in my unsuccessful attempts to "saturate" the sky. It just stroke me by the color similarity to Roerich's drawings that were stuck in my memory for almost 20 years. > > This place looks unreal to me, both in reality and on the photo. > > Toyland: > > http://www.komkon.org/~igor/PHOTOS/CentralCoastCA/IMGP3627sm.jpg > Agreed. Maybe a B&W conversion would enhance the "unreality" even further. Ghm.. I tried that after your suggestion, but wasn't able to have it looking good in B&W, even after playing a little bit with color mixing. Igor PS. Godfrey: as for dynamism, let me offer to your attention the picture from another image that I just posted in a different thread (don't eat like a pig). :-) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
