Mixed Bag (warning: 8 photos)

[jv17]

i like the first one its so artistic..

 

[jeroen]

I like 8 best. Very nice photo.

 

[MarshallDodge]

Very nice! I like 7 and 9 the best.

 

[clee27]

Love them all but my hubby and I both love the last one the most!

 

[manaheim]

Hey man, thanks for the kind comments as usual. I am indeed the one who chatted with you about the yellow cast some time ago, but it was one specific case in which I had processed an image that way. I personally don't see the cast here, but then again my eye might not be trained that well yet. I'd like to point out, however, that the majority of these images were shot during the golden hour, which might (or might not) explain the yellowish tones you're seeing.


Thanks! No, the only filter I have for now is a UV...

Oh? Really? Hm. Must be some midwestern thing. Funky. I gotta get the heck outta Boston at some point.

 

[invisible]

Oh? Really? Hm. Must be some midwestern thing. Funky. I gotta get the heck outta Boston at some point.

Thanks everyone! It seems 1, 8 and 9 are the keepers here...

 

[kundalini]

#8 & #9 :thumbsup:

#1 is pretty stong as well, but quite the same impact.

 

[invisible]

#8 & #9 :thumbsup:

#1 is pretty stong as well, but quite the same impact.

Thanks man, much appreciated!

 

[LilSparkPlug]

Amazing photos!! I'll go against the grain a bit, I like 1, 2, 7 and 9. The GMC truck is just gorgeous. Very nicely done.

 

[Alpha]

#8 is hands down the best, because it's original. The rest I've seen too many times.

 

[johngpt]

Checking through the gallery after a couple days away at soccer tournament, to find that once again, I'm the proverbial day late and dollar short. Great stuff federico.

#8 should be hanging on a gallery wall in Santa Fe.

 

[invisible]

Amazing photos!! I'll go against the grain a bit, I like 1, 2, 7 and 9. The GMC truck is just gorgeous. Very nicely done.

Thank you! The truck was on the side of the road with a "for sale" sign. A week has passed, so I'm sure it's already gone... it was really beautiful and well kept.

Checking through the gallery after a couple days away at soccer tournament, to find that once again, I'm the proverbial day late and dollar short. Great stuff federico.

#8 should be hanging on a gallery wall in Santa Fe.

Thanks John! You need to send me the contact info for that gallery ASAP!

 

[johngpt]

Hey vis... Nice series. I liked 1, 8 was really creative and I thought 9 was just amazing. One thing bothering me though is that they almost ALL have a yellowish cast to them... I can't recall... you may be the guy who likes to do this deliberately... if so, ignore me... if not... stop it!

EDIT: Actually the yellow cast in 9 is a cool effect with the yellow truck.

I was curious about your comments regarding a yellowish cast. I downloaded images #1 and #3 as there looked to be some parts which I thought I could pinpoint to see if they were neutral white.

I opened them in PS and placed a color sampler mark on areas of white, then looked in the info palette.

Image #1, having chosen a spot of white in the middle clouds, toward the right of the image shows RGB values of 153, 168, and 165 with corresponding CMYK values of 43%, 26%, 33%, and 0%. If the white were truly neutral, the RGB values would be equal to one another. While that white in the cloud isn't neutral (what toward sunset would be?) the info palette doesn't seem to suggest that there is a cast toward yellow. Really low Blue of the RGB would suggest excessive yellow, as would an excessively high Y value on the CMYK side.

Image #3, having marked the white trim of the window within the door gives info palette values of 233, 237, and 246 for RGB, and 7%, 4%, 1%, 0% for CMYK. Here the B value is highest, denoting lowest yellow, which seems to be corroborated by the 1% of the Y on the CMYK side. The white window trim seems to be pretty close to neutral.

I didn't try with the other images as I wasn't seeing an easy area to pick that should be neutral.

Hope this doesn't confuse the issue too much.

Perhaps someone with more computer/monitor savvy could address whether differences in monitors could create differences in what the info palette shows? My knowledge in that area is quite limited, and I had thought that monitors wouldn't affect the info palette, which is why that technique is recommended for analysing colour.

All too often differences in monitors and differences in ambient light can affect our human perception of colour, and I'm hoping that the info palette method of analysing colour reduces those factors.

 

[Stranger]

Great job, im liking the shadow games... Im a reflection nut though i may be biased

 

[JoshYent]

oh man! i love the last one, when i was in Texas a few weeks ago i found a old truck that is similar to this, i took some pictures, but the color didnt come out nearly as nice as this because it was really stormy and rainy and i had to cover my camera with a plastic bag