Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >On Apr 2, 2007, at 4:55 PM, Rick Womer wrote: > > >>Another from our recent trip to New York City. This >>is a nocturnal shot through the window of a >>vitamin-supplement shop in the Upper West Side. It >>amazes me how much merchandise they cram into a small >>space in that neighborhood. >> >> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5801682 >> >> > > > >>ist D, DA 16-45, ISO 400, RAW, 1/60 @ f/4.5, cropping >>and minor adjustments in ACR and PE4. >> >>If there are no comments I'll start sulking again... >> >> > >Rick, > >Can't have a man sulk... > >The issue with this photo, to me, is that you describe the store as a >jumble and present a photo that is also pretty much a jumble. >Unfortunately, that doesn't do justice to the portrayal of the >store's crowded spaces as too much of my attention is drawn upwards >to the large open space of the ceiling and lights, which *isn't* a >jumble, while the rest tends to fall down into murky and poorly >separated shadows below, which I can't really see well enough to call >one thing or another other than a mess... > >The balance of light and shadow here is 'as caught' which isn't the >best way to render the scene. Simply toning down the lights and >bringing up the values in the lower foreground enhances the sense of >space, the sense of a 'store crammed full of stuff', rather than just >presenting a jumble under a brightly lit ceiling. Contrast this edit >with your original: > > http://homepage.mac.com/godders/5801682-lg-g.jpg > >By rebalancing the relationship of light from top to bottom, it >refocuses our eyes to notice the important things ... all the >merchandise and the area of 'business' in the store, and not give up >looking at the ceiling and the dark jumble of bits below it. > >G > > > RIck - what he said :) AND did - to bring the file up to what you saw...
Of course, living in NY and seeing a title of "crowded shop" I expected to see lots more people ;) Think Crocodile Dundeed saying... "You call that a crowd? This is.... " And ff course, since I hate crowds, I don't have a photo of one to make the punch line work. ann > > > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
