Thanks Lasse, I am glad you liked it. When I took the picture, I was sort of thinking "Old stuff and New stuff" hmm... might turn out ok. You see I had just gotten in a couple of filters and lens and I was dying to try them out. So my sister and I went out to the Fort where we go fishing and I walked around the fort while she fished. It was pretty late in the day and the sun was about a hour from going down. So I was out there shooting with every lens I had and I actually recorded it all, for a change. It was alot of fun, but I didnt really think that I was trying to say anything with the picture. When I scanned it and then cropped it, I thought "that looks neat", so that was the one I sent in. Also, in paint shop I sharpened it (I think twice if I remember right) and that may be why it looks like a hand tinted b&w picture. I am not sure. I am glad you like it. Thanks again, Rebecca > >Rebecca Lane: Old and New > >I like this picture. It presents an interesting and unusual cropping - a landscape panorama crop where the content, (it's lack of symmetry and "rest points" etc) is not what you usually get in this format. The colours are also rather off (I guess) compared to what it looks like in real life. It almost looks like a hand tinted b&w picture. >Frankly, I don't really know what to make of it. It raises many questions (a quality that I generally like, both in artistic expressions or in life in general.) I ask myself if this is the result of a very deliberate artistic statement, or if you just went by some gut feeling of at one point simply deciding "I like it this way". (And it really doesn't matter at all; I find it refreshingly original.) One could discuss other ways to crop the picture, change the picture format, adjust the colors, but any different cropping would change the impact dramatically. And since I have no idea of what you want to "say" with this picture, I wouldn't dare to suggest any "improvements" of it. (However, since it's so easily done, you could do some alternate (cropping) takes. Save them all, and at a later time go back to them to see what you think of them.) >All in all, an interesting and different take. > >Lasse > >- >This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, >go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to >visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . > > > NetZero Platinum No Banner Ads and Unlimited Access Sign Up Today - Only $9.95 per month! http://www.netzero.net - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
