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Thanks for your comment. I honestly debated the very issue you raised. Enclosed is the original before I amped up the darks by changing the blending mode to MultiplyThank you Tom. I just posted my first image to The Shark Tank…grateful for comments and critique.
Very nice image that tells a wonderful story of your Molly. The high-key treatment is purposeful and well executed.
Dorothy, initially I preferred the color rendition. From my eye, everything, other than the motorcycle, appears painterly with a slightly greenish overall hue particularly the underside of the marvelously sculpted clouds. When I expanded the image the hue was a detractor for me.
It works marvelously well in BW and you have done a great job on the conversion.
In both renditions I would crop ever so slightly on the left side of the image to take out the “leg” of the signpost in the bottom left corner as I am looking at the image. I find it distracting.
I like the leading line of the road and its yellow stripes which has me go deep in the image and the white fence gracefully takes me out of the image on the right. Very nice.
Here is the original in color of the Cactus Flower with the critique comments incorporated.
Thanks to each of you for your comments and constructive criticism. Lincoln your comment about flipping it is so spot on. When you have your head down you don’t think of the obvious.
I am attaching the revised version. of the BW incorporating the critiques made.
Very well done and particularly if it was hand-held.
Completely agree with @El-Dub…Photoshop Elements is a great way to get your feet wet in the world of Post Processing. I also think what @Albider wrote about Lightroom is also true. It has absolutely amazing flexibility and capability. I am very much looking forward to LR 6 which is due to be released on the 6th of March. We’ll see what new goodies Adobe has in store for us. I was initially intimidated by LR but I started watching videos on YouTube and slowly but surely now feel great comfort inside of LR…I also realize I am a long way from having mastered it and almost daily pick something up new which I play with. I think one of the greatest features of LR is being able to make virtual copies and try new things on each copy. Great way to learn and find what really expresses who you are as a photographer and artist.
I agree with LOfty..I like the subject matter a lot! I notice movement in the background and the Blue Sneakers are stationary…interesting play of two different currents. I too would crop a bit of the sidewalk. I wonder what the pic would look like with everything in B & W and just the blue sneakers. Could raise the interest level a notch or two.
I admire your “guts” to lie under a park bench getting the shot…I too am working on street photography and find that I feel invasive…got to get over that for sure.As LOfty suggests play around with virtual copies in LR.
I agree with the earlier post. The background is flat and the three horses just seem to be there. I don’t see a story of any sort; nor is my eye drawn to any part of the photo except the demarcation between the hill and the valley. I think I would have come in closer to one of the horses and tried to find something special there. I have even looked at potential crops you might do and can’t find anything that would catch my eye.
