This sandstone fin had several of these lighter colored boulders imbedded in it. I thought this one looked somewhat like an eye peering out of the surrounding stone.
Tachihara 4x5
300mm Nikor
Pro 160S Color Negative
July, 2008
Yur thoughts are always appreciated.
-P
Posted by Reno DiTullio on September 18, 2008 at 8:47 PM
Preston, the eye is cool but the orange color seems over the edge to me, too strong.
Preston, the composition and name fits perfectly. I also like the strong mosaic abstract look to the scene. A bit hard for me to totally judge the colors overall being so use to the variety of transparencies we all use. And, I truly do not know what to expect from scanned color film per se such as this 160S negative here is only the second scan I have ever seen. Your last 160S was pretty much all cool colors and this has leap out at ya much stronger colors to it. I guess a really good test would be to shoot a tranny and the film to see what they look like only seconds a part in a given scene. I did that with Astia, Provia, and Velvia 100 one time, WOW, what a difference in the three.
Posted by Lon Overacker on September 18, 2008 at 11:59 PM
Hey Preston,
I love the subject matter and the "eye" is quite apparent and makes for a great focal point. My only criticism is the brightness. I just seems a little hot to me. Like Paul, I don't know that I would be able to evaluate a negative, but in my view, I think you could drop a good 1/2 stop on this.
Lon
Posted by Eric Good on September 19, 2008 at 12:55 AM
The first thing I noticed was that cool eye feature surrounded by all those wonderful colors. I too first thought it might be a tad on the bright side, but the more I look at it I'm not entirely sure. Maybe it's just the ratio of bright rock to the darker areas that gives me that feeling. Then I thought maybe a slight crop would minimize those brighter areas, but I just can't see any crop that really improves on this presentation. Well seen!
Posted by Debjit Ghosh on September 19, 2008 at 1:02 AM
Wow Preston, this is an excellent beach abstract. you need an eye to spot this. I am sure this will look far far better in large prints. these small compressed jpegs just kills all those details.
Posted by Dan Baumbach on September 23, 2008 at 10:31 AM
I first thought that this was Anil's. I pretty much agree with Lon. I find it way too bright. I'd like the contrast brought down a bit and the top left darkened a bit. Shape and color wise, it looks pretty interesting, it's just to hot to look at for any period of time.
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6 repliesThis sandstone fin had several of these lighter colored boulders imbedded in it. I thought this one looked somewhat like an eye peering out of the surrounding stone.
Tachihara 4x5
300mm Nikor
Pro 160S Color Negative
July, 2008
Yur thoughts are always appreciated.
-P
I love the subject matter and the "eye" is quite apparent and makes for a great focal point. My only criticism is the brightness. I just seems a little hot to me. Like Paul, I don't know that I would be able to evaluate a negative, but in my view, I think you could drop a good 1/2 stop on this.
Lon
- Dan.