TJ19971
Blues fan with a camera
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Sioux Falls, SD
| [CritEditY] Which do you prefer?
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Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi
21mm 1/125th F6.3 ISO100
Black and white version |
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rdavs
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Tucson, AZ | For me the color, I have a problem with the tone of the sky in the B/W version. |
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Jodokast96
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Erial, NJ
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| said by rdavs  :For me the color, I have a problem with the tone of the sky in the B/W version. Not only that, but the halo too. Neither are really my cup of tea, but I'd go with the color one. |
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Kringle
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Pierrefonds, QC
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I prefer the colour in this case because (as stated before) there's no sky detail and it needs the colour to "say" what it is. What really bothers me about both, though, is the person walking out of frame on the left and I think that they should be cropped out. By doing that the little extraneous piece of forest on the left would also be removed making for, in my opinion, a much more pleasing shot.
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Pretorious
Theres more behind the pic than the wall
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clubs:   | reply to TJ19971
The colored version gets my vote as well. |
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ErikVKing
Erik the Viking
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Kuwait
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Croup out the guy on the left and the modern looking car, and I think the black and white would look great. With the same editing the color would as well, but from the looks of it this building has historical significance so the B&W would make it have a nostalgic feel.
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TJ19971
Blues fan with a camera
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edit:
July 26th, @08:14PM
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Thank you all for your input. I came up with a couple alternate edits based on everyone's feedback. I brought back the sky to a more natural state and did some cropping etc. I like these better then my original edits. I did do a bit more of a sepia feel to the black and white as well. Your thoughts? Ideas?
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Kringle
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| I think that the colour one has improved quite a bit with the recent edits - nice work.
Suggestions for the monochrome one:
* Change your "sepia" tone to be closer to the brick colour in the original
* Add some more contrast to the sky. The blue and white are very distinguishable in the colour version but not so much in the B/W
I'm liking where you're going with these!  |
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jaykaykay
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I like where you've taken both colored and not. I love the feel of the brick texture in both. That said, either of the edited images works well. I do think that the monochrome one can take a little of the sepia and more tone, more like what Kringle says. |
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ErikVKing
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I like these much better. For some reason I keep getting distracted by how glary? bright? the bricks are on the "turret" in the foreground. Not sure if I'm alone in this.
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ddevilduck
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| maybe I should calibrate my monitor. When I look at the colored one it looks like it is over sharp or something. the edges to me look like they glow. And when I look that the Awning on the side the strips seem to merge almost like looking at one of those picture puzzles with alternating black and white lines that seem to move depending on how you look at them
Guess its time I invest in a puck |
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TJ19971
Blues fan with a camera
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Sioux Falls, SD
edit:
July 28th, @12:26PM
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Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi
21mm 1/125th F6.3 ISO100
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Thanks to all for the input.
Special thanks to mhhack for the IM.
Edit added an alternate edit
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ddevilduck
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Minneapolis, MN | I like that one |
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ErikVKing
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said by TJ19971 :I don't believe it is your monitor, in all the editing the images did get oversharpened. I actually scrapped these, wend back to the original image and started from scratch. Thanks to all for the input. Special thanks to mhhack for the IM. Edit added an alternate edit Yeah I like the bottom of these two the best of them all. Nice work.
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