Rules are made to be broken...

[V6GTO]

This image breaks the "rule of thirds", but I think it still works.

[pic]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v520/V6GTO/MarbellaHillscomp.jpg[/pic]

Martin.

[joust]

Looks photoshopped (over sharpeded) which means my eyes can't work out what's going on.

I think if the car was more to the left (it's in the correct place up down IMHO) it would work better, or, turn the sharpening off?

I do like it though - the colour of the sky against the car really works.

J

>> Edited by joust on Tuesday 1st November 17:09

[_dobbo_]

Not sure it's oversharpened to my eyes - certainly it's very contrasty but I really like it. Different strokes and all that I guess.

[V6GTO]

No sharpening at all, Justin. It's that 100-400...it'd cut your hand off it's so sharp!' There is a lot of cloning of small stones though, to tidy up the tarmac and gett rid of some grass stalks.

Martin.

[vipers]

I think photography is like women, bueaty is in the eye of the beholder, whilst you may like the photo, others may pick it to bits.

If Lord Snowdon took a pic, lots of ooohhhh's and aaarrss's, but if job bloggs took a similar photo, different comments altogether.

Personally I liked the photo. Well done mate.

[GetCarter]

Speaking personally - I think bo11ox to the rules. That is a great image.

You might have chosen black paint mind

[te51cle]

V6GTO said:

This image breaks the "rule of thirds", but I think it still works.

I like it, but I'm not sure that it actually does break the rule of thirds. Although the car itself isn't on a classic third the cockpit window is on the intersection of two "third" lines - which (psychologically ?) places the viewer straight in the driver's seat, and that is very appealing !

Did you do some burning in around the edges and corners ? Its a little too sharply defined if you did.

[cvp]

Personally I like it quite a lot. Different nut interesting. The low angle does remind me of Trackdemon's style but you have created something that is different.

Chris

[rustybin]

Cracking photo. Rules should be guidelines in my everso 'umble. If it works it works and it does. The stand out thing about the image for me is that it makes the ride height look huge, thus the car looks less grown out of the tarmac and more on it than most car photies one sees.

[trackdemon]

Nice image - love the simplicity of it, although IMHO the car is just a little too far to the right; the rear of the car being so close to the edge of the crop looks a little uncomfortable to me.

[Bee_Jay]

Very cool - poster-worthy.

[joust]

te51cle said:

Did you do some burning in around the edges and corners ? Its a little too sharply defined if you did.

That was my thought - the car seems to "float" out of the image.

Perhaps it's just the shot or the image resizing, but it doesn't look "natural".

J

[chris.mapey]

trackdemon said:

Nice image - love the simplicity of it, although IMHO the car is just a little too far to the right; the rear of the car being so close to the edge of the crop looks a little uncomfortable to me.

Exactly my thoughts - a few mm to the left & bingo..

Great image though

Chris

[srider]

V6GTO said:

This image breaks the "rule of thirds", but I think it still works. Martin.

works for me

[V6GTO]

For Justin...



Martin.

[joust]

I'd go back to the original "up down" position of the car, and perhaps darken down the ground in the way you did in the first shot?

J

[V6GTO]

joust said:

I'd go back to the original "up down" position of the car, and perhaps darken down the ground in the way you did in the first shot? J

As soon as I pui it up I said "Bugger, forgot to burn the tarmac!"

3rd time lucky?



Martin.



>> Edited by V6GTO on Wednesday 2nd November 07:46

[chris.mapey]

V6GTO said:

Fantastic.

Do you have one I could use as desktop background?

Chris

[_dobbo_]

Yep, third one for me, that's a beauty.

[beano500]

Left a bit


Right a bit


Left a bit


Up a bit


Left a bit







Oh S0d it - it was right in the first place!










(Nice shot, btw!)