I thought about a top-crop, and I can see the advantages of such a choice.
Not sure about cropping out or darkening the right side of the frame though.
Still, I like your renderings here, Paul. I think Bob S. is right; the top
crop "pops" the scale more bringing out more detail in the scale, which is
the point of the exercise. :-) Maybe I'll do a quick print to check that
detail.
Thanks everyone for your comments. Much appreciated.
Big cheers, Christine
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From: "Paul Sorenson" <[email protected]>
To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 12:57 AM
Subject: Re: peso scale
Christine -
The bw is nice, but I prefer the color too. It has a warm, monochromatic
quality and the splash of red on the face of the scale makes the color
more special. I'd prefer a crop to get rid of some of the wall at the top
of the image - to about an 8x10 aspect ratio.
The light has a small amount of direction to it but it's almost flat. You
can enhance the directional quality by adding a right to left, dark to
light gradient. I fooled with it a little in PSE6, duplicating the layer,
adding the gradient and changing the blending mode to overlay. Samples
here...I'll take them down by Sunday evening, sooner if you like. If
you'd prefer I wouldn't mess with your images at all, let me know.
http://home.earthlink.net/~allaround6/images/Scale-bw.jpg
http://home.earthlink.net/~allaround6/images/Scale-color.jpg
-p
On 11/5/2010 11:44 PM, Christine Aguila wrote:
I really don't do much still life and forgot I even took this until I
stumbled upon it in Lightroom tonight. I think I prefer the color.
http://www.caguila.com/caguila/scale/index.html
Comments welcome, Cheers, Christine from Chicago
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