Black & White...

Frequency · Mar 1, 2012

C&C please...

Regards

MReid · Mar 1, 2012

Kind of a cool shot....maybe crop top and bottom and make it more of a pano.

Bossy · Mar 1, 2012

Same as the other, you gotta get the whole body! Its a little discerning to see people grow out of the ground

Frequency · Mar 1, 2012

MReid said:
Kind of a cool shot....maybe crop top and bottom and make it more of a pano.

Thought of that way...then i thought this would be better... but i may be wrong

Frequency · Mar 1, 2012

Bossy said:
Same as the other, you gotta get the whole body! Its a little discerning to see people grow out of the ground

I was on a lower position of a hill side where as all the activities, including the"photographer" were taken looking inclined upwards....
Until you mention i never thought of their growing out of Earth..but now i too see it that way...

Studio7Four · Mar 1, 2012

Bossy said:
Same as the other, you gotta get the whole body! Its a little discerning to see people grow out of the ground

I disagree, I like it this way. If he were to have captured the whole body of each of the figures - their feet being right on the transition from black to white - this image would have an extremely flat, 2-dimensional feel to it in my opinion (think of paper dolls). As it is, I immediately got the sense that they were on a hill. Imparting a sense of topology in an image like this is quite an accomplishment I feel.

I do wish that the figure on the far right had been just a tad higher, so that the crop was not right at his/her waist (a valid point also made in the "Photographer" post). However, I would not edit that figure out entirely as I like how it adds a kick to the line formed by the other three heads. I also like how the hands of the left two figures come just to the horizon, giving a stability to those figures.

Bend The Light · Mar 1, 2012

I like this a lot. I also don't mind the "growing out of the ground" thing, as I too saw it as climbing a hill...the mind can fill in, I think.

What I would like to see, and this is ONLY for showing on here, is a thin stroke around the image to define the edges...as it is a lot of white shown on a white background...

Scratch that...I clicked on the image and looked at it on black in Flickr. It looks good. It looks like it could be a CD cover...

I might have just wanted the extreme left of the tree to be in the frame...

Like it though.

Scuba · Mar 1, 2012

I like it Frequency. I see it as a hill and not growing people. I too would like the rest of the tree in the image. I think a little less white at the top would help, maybe half way to the tree top. I really like what you did in the image though.

Bend The Light · Mar 1, 2012

Just for fun, and because you allow edits...I did this...

A CD cover for a new band...

Albino horse and the Pink Eyes by http://bendthelight.me.uk, on Flickr

doomster · Mar 2, 2012

Bossy said:
Same as the other, you gotta get the whole body! Its a little discerning to see people grow out of the ground

I agree with Bossy

Frequency · Mar 2, 2012

Studio7Four said:
Bossy said:

Same as the other, you gotta get the whole body! Its a little discerning to see people grow out of the ground

Click to expand...

I disagree, I like it this way. If he were to have captured the whole body of each of the figures - their feet being right on the transition from black to white - this image would have an extremely flat, 2-dimensional feel to it in my opinion (think of paper dolls). As it is, I immediately got the sense that they were on a hill. Imparting a sense of topology in an image like this is quite an accomplishment I feel.

I do wish that the figure on the far right had been just a tad higher, so that the crop was not right at his/her waist (a valid point also made in the "Photographer" post). However, I would not edit that figure out entirely as I like how it adds a kick to the line formed by the other three heads. I also like how the hands of the left two figures come just to the horizon, giving a stability to those figures.

Thank you S74

....I liked your keen analysis...as you might have guessed, this is a totally unplanned image...they were moving down and were soon to set behind the hills... the right extreme figure was a lady who either of lesser height or moved down more

i am not even sure now whether they belonged to the same group or not....

Regards

Frequency · Mar 2, 2012

Bend The Light said:
I like this a lot. I also don't mind the "growing out of the ground" thing, as I too saw it as climbing a hill...the mind can fill in, I think.

What I would like to see, and this is ONLY for showing on here, is a thin stroke around the image to define the edges...as it is a lot of white shown on a white background...

Scratch that...I clicked on the image and looked at it on black in Flickr. It looks good. It looks like it could be a CD cover...

I might have just wanted the extreme left of the tree to be in the frame...

Like it though.

Yes, that was a fatal mistake to miss the edge of the tree ....
Putting a border is a good idea....

Regards

Frequency · Mar 2, 2012

Scuba said:
I like it Frequency. I see it as a hill and not growing people. I too would like the rest of the tree in the image. I think a little less white at the top would help, maybe half way to the tree top. I really like what you did in the image though.

Thank you Scuba very much

Frequency · Mar 2, 2012

Bend The Light said:
Just for fun, and because you allow edits...I did this...

A CD cover for a new band...

Albino horse and the Pink Eyes by http://bendthelight.me.uk, on Flickr