Greg

Defringed and darkened it a bit. My tastes run contrasty.

Wow. The sharp gray-blue against that faint, soft gold is spectacular to me. I wonder if there may be a better choice in background color. Something that makes that blue/gold combination pop even more? I’ll see what I can come up with.

I like this shot better because the power in the message comes from the garbage-bagged person compared to the umbrella. This version isolates these two elements and, to me, makes the message stand out from other distractions.

Oh, and, for the stated reason, I’d get rid of the bird.

Me too. First thing that came to mind was regarding the lack of an arresting feature upon which to rest my eyes. Second, nice detail in the focused area.

I agree, I want to see more of that fantastic head with the horrible haircut. Reminds me of that old Beatles song. Something about “Ju-ju eyeball.”

A little late to the party, but I agree with the general consensus: First one, dramatic and almost like a puzzle — I didn’t know what it was at first. Second one, like was said, is a lovely, simple knife.

I’ll try that when I get around to increasing the canvas size. It was a deep shade of Ridiculously Blue before I adjusted it, so I may have just noticed the difference and stopped rather than trying to find the sweet spot.

Thanks, Rob

Thanks, Jasenka. I agree.

Thanks, Frederico. I like it better darker, too. See below.

Darkened the exposure. Adding canvas to the bottom next.

Thank you, Peter and Jasenka. I have some sort of aversion to composing a shot with plenty of background surrounding the subject. Going to stop shooting and try to add some space to the canvas — apparently I’ll need to learn that one.  🙂

Striking. Interesting. I quickly noticed the very light sky, and immediately wanted it to be darker in some way, but after I thought about the abstractness of your intent, the light sky  doesn’t feel as relevant.

Looks like a strange painting — and that is not intended as criticism.

Someone on this board said Shark Tanking abstract photos is…[Read more]

I prefer @annehornsby‘s version. I like the background of the original, but it is too intense for me — takes away from the subject.

I also like the cone-head haircut on this little spider — not so much on humans.

… and thanks for the nomination, @admin – Rob.

OK, Pennywise is just plain frightening, so I’ll *never* do that again. 🙂

Thanks, Jasenka. I cropped the top to get rid of some background distractions, but created another one as I got rid of the original distraction. This leads to the following: When I use the burn tool to get rid of the distraction (a horizontal band of light tonal values), I get a horizontal band of *darkness* with rounded ends — but only if I look…[Read more]

Thanks, @Admin. Frankly, I’m surprised it turned out so well, myself. Some things are coming together in this old brain.