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Postby Justin on Sun Jul 23, 2006 7:35 pm

A weekend down South - amazing colours in the water - sharpened and some minor 'healing', a crop (to enlarge the can) - any C&C?

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Postby drifter on Sun Jul 23, 2006 7:59 pm

Nice shot . My only critique would be that it would (in my opinion ) look better if the can wasn't in the middle of the frame .
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Postby drifter on Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:05 pm

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Postby mudder on Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:19 pm

The contrasting colors work well and the subtle reflection...

Would definately crop to move the can away from the centre though... Hmmm, if cropping I think I'd crop out the TR corner to remove the odd bits of blue that might be reflections from something...
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Postby Justin on Mon Jul 24, 2006 2:37 pm

I'd tend to agree with cropping or 'healing' out the blue.

But I've shifted the can around and can't see it makes the picture any better, IMHO.

But - have a play and if you can show me what you mean then that would be valuable for me.
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Postby mudder on Mon Jul 24, 2006 6:56 pm

G'day mate,

All I've done is simply crop which makes the can seem larger in the frame and maybe a more "imposing" subject???

In the crop, I also made sure I cropped out a bright red part of the wavy reflection so there wasn't a bright color in the BL corner of the frame... Wanted to have dark color in the corners... Just another way of presenting the same image, dunno if it's of any help or not, it's all just good fun :)

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Postby marcotrov on Mon Jul 24, 2006 8:04 pm

Interesting shot Justin. Go with Andrew's crop suggestion.
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Postby nito on Mon Jul 24, 2006 8:55 pm

As a long standing sunkist drinker. my only criticism is the water colour. Its too bloody red and not orange-like.
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Postby Mitchell on Mon Jul 24, 2006 11:07 pm

mudder wrote:All I've done is simply crop which makes the can seem larger in the frame and maybe a more "imposing" subject???


I actually like the fact that it isn't imposing in the original. The unusual red water then becomes an equal focus with the can.

Break that rule of thirds and go with the original I say!
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Postby Justin on Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:39 am

Yay, that is what I like about photography - somebody is bound to like your shots, even if it is only your better half (not implying anything here mitchell :wink: )

Anybody see the politico-environmental statement in the image, a used tin consumed and discarded and floating on a sea of blood? :violin:
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