Looking through bars

[vipgraphx]

This is a very colorful HDR I did while visiting some historical homes downtown Tucson. I think the title says it all. I was attracted to this area because of the color. The wood door was very interesting to me. I just loved the colors in the wood. I liked the added chile peppers on both sides and the cacti hanging on the front.


looking through bars by VIPGraphX, on Flickr


doorandbars by VIPGraphX, on Flickr

 

[kharp]

Nice set. The second one is my favorite.

 

[Joel_W]

Super set. Love the colors, yet each photo looks realistic because they contain at least one common element like a flower pot and flowers that look natural to my eye.

 

[Majeed Badizadegan]

In number one I'd drop the vignette like a bad habit. This is a perfectly good example of a vignette ruining a great image. Why? You have these very interesting dried veggies hanging giving the composition a nice feel of symmetry, but the vignette encroaches over half of them, for no immediately apparent reason. Besides the vignette, nice colors and textures and good composition. I might even conisder getting rid of the rooftop/gutter in the sky so it doesn't distract from the rest of the goodies in the image.


The bottom two seem a bit weaker than the top. Plants coming into the frame at the bottom right are a bit distracting.
In the second i don't feel that the door has enough room to breathe-- the crop is too tight.

 

[vipgraphx]

In number one I like the vignette, I know people think its old but for me I still like it.

When I did the second one is about taking two photos and making it one. You see the door with the bars and wonder whats behind it and then in you look at the other picture and see what it is you don't see from the street , instant zoom

thanks for the feed back, always room for improvement.....

 

[Majeed Badizadegan]

Hmm, all I'm saying is #1 the artificial vignette encroaches on two interesting subjects in the image (the hanging peppers). I don't usually care when a vignette is neutral, but when it starts taking away from an image, that's when it bothers me. In this particular instance I think the vignette is doing more harm than good.