>> http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW7/42.htm
Thank you all for the comments and compliments! Some notes below ... From: Michael Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > First this in an intriguing image. Lot of mystery and room for > personal interpretation/involvement in the scene. Second, I wonder > how much post processing you did? I mean was the light REALLY that > blue? From: Rick Womer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Very nice. Is that the actual color or did you do a > B&W conversion and tint it? This photo was made in one of the small gallery halls at the De Young Museum in San Francisco. The full frame of this exposure would have revealed that the entire room was being illuminated by a ceiling to floor set of windows ... there were no pieces on exhibit in the room at this time, just this child and his mother dashing about so the lights were off ... and that directly outside was a very bright, sunny day with an intensely blue sky and bright green foliage. While I did try a couple of B&W renderings, I didn't like the dark effect very much and discarded them. Any cropping I made that included the scene through the window distracted me. So I kept cutting it down until just the essential elements I wanted ... the glow of that blue blue sky reflecting in the highly polished floor, the slight warmth afforded by the green reflecting in the midst of all that blue, the gesture of the child's body and hand against the table legs, the hard, sharp shapes of the circular plugs on the floor and the legs of the table against the subtle limb of the child's silouette, etc. So, aside from picking the cropping that satisfied me and the black point that hit the balance I wanted, very little post processing was done. All the procesing was done in Lightroom in this case too, so there was no local, selective editing done on it ... yet ... From: Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cool concept, well rendered. Unfortunate placement of the table legs. From: ann sanfedele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Jaume Lahuerta wrote: > >> What a shame those (table legs?) just above the child's head... >> >> This case is the limit that I would allow my self to edit >> (removing those table legs), since I think that the picture >> deserves the effort. >> What about you? Also, maybe I would crop a bit in the bottom, but >> this may be caused by my monitor showing this part too black. > > I sure disagree - The legs frame the kid's head and taking the > legs/posts out is removing something that is really there... not > in Godders style to do that (nor mine) ... the kid's silhouettte is > just > right. I also wouldn't crop at the bottom.. I made about seven exposures ... the child (and his mother) were running about the room quite quickly and were certainly not under my control so the notion of moving left or right to catch the child at this point is impossible to imagine doing. The whole sequence of seven were taken in less than 4 seconds by the timestamps, and then they were out of the room. I'm glad I had the camera on Continuous drive mode for once. And I don't know why I did... ;-) I chose this frame because of the positioning of child and table, and the visibility of the illuminated limb of his silhouette and the gesture in his hand. Downsizing it for the web has reduced that point of near-far separation, which I might be able to restore with a little selective editing. But it is actually exactly what I was after as I worked on it: the juxtaposition of the hard, sharp objects against the organic shapes in silhouette. Whether it works for you or not remains a personal opinion, of course. Actually, some of these responses beg a question: How many people open up the larger rendering I provide by clicking on the image in the web page? Or are you commenting based solely upon the smaller rendering in the web page? > I don't know whether the blue cast is "real" I'd like to se it in > pure > black and white, but that is purely a matter of taste > and I'm betting Godders has already looked at it that way and changed > back again. Yes, I've made monochrome renderings of others in this sequence but was not as thrilled with them as I was with this one's intense colors. Thanks again! Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
