Thanks again, Ann!
I see what you mean. My biggest challenge in making more changes is that
I'm not good enough with my software to be able to consistently
replicate the rendering. So, it's going to take some fiddling around,
but I'll keep at it and see what I can do. At this point, I'm kind of
inclined to leave things as they are and just let the image be a little
smaller if it's printed in the annual rather than risk changing it too
much from the initial rendering for the sake of scale.
I did a little reading on "The Four Feathers" last night, and it does
sound interesting. Apparently, it's been reproduced in film and on the
stage quite a few times -- so it must have something going for it. :)
Thanks again for the input. If I can manage to get it right, I'll upload
a different crop and hope it comes across in print somewhere close to
the way it comes across on my monitor.
-- Walt
On 2/2/2012 9:38 AM, Ann Sanfedele wrote:
Walt, as always you should consider how you view it..
I find the horizontal crop interesting - but prefer the portrait
orientation for the same reason Larry does - what I find distracting is
just the tippy top white blobs as they draw your eye away from the
feather.
what is intersting is that no matter how you crop it,it holds the
viewers interest.
I didn't know about Harry (Henry Five) and the feather (but it must
have been of note in the film as it is about bravery vs cowardice in
battle ).
When I nit-pick anyone's photo I would never bother if it were
not something I found intesting and try to approach it from a
what would I do if I had shot this point of view. Sometimes
that's a good thing, sometimes it doesn't work because we aint on the
same page at all.
Now go rent the original Ralph Richardson "the Four feathers" from
Netflix and see why your photo would serve it well as a jewel box
cover :-)
ann
On 2/2/2012 03:07, Walt Gilbert wrote:
On 2/2/2012 1:45 AM, Brian Walters wrote:
Quoting Walt Gilbert <ldott...@gmail.com>:
On 2/2/2012 1:00 AM, Larry Colen wrote:
On 2/1/2012 10:44 PM, Walt Gilbert wrote:
Here's a re-crop. I tried to replicate the original look as much
as I
could using what tools I have at my disposal (GIMP and Picasa),
though I
got the shadows a bit darker in this one.
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/6805434841/
I think you took too much off the top. I much preferred the
composition with the feather closer to the left edge. On the left,
I'd leave just a little space past the knuckle. On the top you could
crop it square, you could crop it just below the lights at the top
(which didn't bother me, and they kind of frame the picture), and/or
you could burn in the lights a the top a bit, so make them a little
darker so they don't stand out quite so much.
Or you can just go with what looks good to you because no matter
what you do, some people will like it more, others less.
I sort of liked the original crop a little better, too -- and agree
with the lighter area at the top helping to frame the image a bit and
break up the negative space. I'll see what I can do with a square
crop, but don't know how that would look in a book if it were
actually published.
Well, if you only submit one photo it is guaranteed to be published
:-)>
I agree with Larry that the re-crop is a bit too much. A bit off the
top (just below that light 'blob') and a tad off the right is how I
would do it. But - what works for you is the main thing.
I think I'll probably just go ahead and stick with the portrait
orientation of the first one. When I reverted back to the original RAW
image, I discovered that the reason I cropped it that way was because
there was another white blob in the upper-right corner that made it look
just a little too busy across the top. But, if I crop it square or
horizontal, there just doesn't appear to be a better option than the
vertical orientation.
But, I didn't realize I was guaranteed to have at least one photo
published. I should probably stop where I am and leave things be in that
case.
Thanks for the input!
-- Walt
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