Thanks Mike, and everyone else who commented. I have made an in-between version:
http://www.web-options.com/Easter/content/_4084944_large.html -- Bob > > > > I don't usually muck about much with photos, just > presenting them more > > or less as they come straight from the camera. However, here are a > > couple of photos from a reedbed close to my house: > > > > http://www.web-options.com/Reedbed/ > > > > I have altered the curves on both of these because the originals are > > very muddy: > > http://www.web-options.com/_4084933.jpg > > http://www.web-options.com/_4084944.jpg > > > > I'd be interested to hear peoples' opinions about these alterations. > > Do they look natural? I've done them by eye, but I don't > trust my eyes > > in this sort of thing, being colourblind. Do they look overdone? > > > > The more I look at them, the more I think the edited ones > are overdone > > and overdramatic. The unedited ones have a calm about them, despite > > the muddiness, which I quite like, but I feel as though > they could do > > with something a bit more. > > > > Opinions, please? > > They remind me of prints made in the 1970s, using Russian optics. > Flary, slightly faded to that orange haze that they eventually > degenerate into. Ideal for a Cadbury's Flake advert. You > might call it > impressionistic. 8-) I do like it. > > The room I'm viewing them in is far too bright. I might > change my mind > this evening. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
