Posted by Tim Goodspeed on March 28, 2006 at 9:06 PM
Here's another from my trip to California. It seems that most of the poppies I found were located right next to the road. As a result, the color in the background of this one was nothing special. So I held the color in the blooms and desaturated everything else. Let me know what you think.
I'll 3rd that, your other version works better IMHO, too.
There's not much you can do about the composition here. But, maybe try a mostly desaturated background instead of pure gray-scale. Or, perhaps just bring back the greens, having them removed makes the flowers feel cut off. This one feels more watercolorist so there may be a better color balance in there somewhere. Keep at it.
Posted by Erik Lundh on March 30, 2006 at 12:14 AM
John,
There is a difference between rank and rate. Futhermore, nobody said you weren't "supposed to rate images". Folks are just saying they prefer his first post which is a image of the same subject.
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6 repliesThere's not much you can do about the composition here. But, maybe try a mostly desaturated background instead of pure gray-scale. Or, perhaps just bring back the greens, having them removed makes the flowers feel cut off. This one feels more watercolorist so there may be a better color balance in there somewhere. Keep at it.
There is a difference between rank and rate. Futhermore, nobody said you weren't "supposed to rate images". Folks are just saying they prefer his first post which is a image of the same subject.