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Hi Joust,
I like the sepia tone (mine was slightly yellow) but it looks like it's sloping down to the left now.
Mine maybe looks a bit wonky at first but if you look up to the buildings, you see it works out at the top. Crop the top off and you lose that balancing perspective.
NB Thanks to Bacardi for explaining how to get the C-B look (a beret always helps
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I like the sepia tone (mine was slightly yellow) but it looks like it's sloping down to the left now.
Mine maybe looks a bit wonky at first but if you look up to the buildings, you see it works out at the top. Crop the top off and you lose that balancing perspective.
NB Thanks to Bacardi for explaining how to get the C-B look (a beret always helps
)simpo two said:
Hi Joust,
I like the sepia tone (mine was slightly yellow) but it looks like it's sloping down to the left now.
I wondered about that. I had 5 goes at using various things to set the "correct" angle using the measure tool. I tried the kerbstones, but then the girl looked stupid (she was walking up a hill in Monty Python style
) and a few other things. If you crop the top off without changing the angle it looks even more wonky though - a great "optical illusion" as it were. I noticed it had a slight cast, but for my eyes/monitor it wasn't a deep enough sepia to give that "authentic" look.
simpo two said:
Mine maybe looks a bit wonky at first but if you look up to the buildings, you see it works out at the top. Crop the top off and you lose that balancing perspective.
Nod - it looks fine "whole", but as you say, when the top goes it all goes horribly wrong. Perhaps I'll have a play with the perspective tool in PS CS2 and see what I can do with that?
simpo two said:
NB Thanks to Bacardi for explaining how to get the C-B look (a beret always helps
te51cle said:
As the girl is fairly symmetrical in profile I was wondering if she could be turned around so that she's walking in to the picture ? As she's so bright and contrasty she has become the real centre of interest in the image and she leads your eye out of the picture not in to it.
That was my first thought. Then I decided I rather liked the abstract nature of her walking out. She (and her direction) also balances the streetlamp, which subconsciously I was using to balance the composition.
Amazing what you can do with an obsolete 3.2Mp compact
>> Edited by simpo two on Wednesday 30th November 21:05
simpo two said:
Then I decided I rather liked the abstract nature of her walking out. She (and her direction) also balances the streetlamp, which subconsciously I was using to balance the composition.
Silly idea here how about a dog investigating the lamp post on a long lead to her hand - Elliott Erwitt style ?
Ah just got here....
...where's the dog?
Well the original is good, but I'm in conflict betwen the lampost, the drainpipe and the left hand side vertical line between the two buildings. Then the lines on the road are distracting, too. But the straightened image is a good step forward.....
...except... well no, the original has the interesting angles. No! Can't win either way, but the pedestrian, in stride is great - would be better walking into the shot rather than out???
Good use of colour throughout
...where's the dog?
Well the original is good, but I'm in conflict betwen the lampost, the drainpipe and the left hand side vertical line between the two buildings. Then the lines on the road are distracting, too. But the straightened image is a good step forward.....
...except... well no, the original has the interesting angles. No! Can't win either way, but the pedestrian, in stride is great - would be better walking into the shot rather than out???
Good use of colour throughout
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