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Photo crit pretty please.

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BlackcountryBill
Posts: 955 - Karma: 576
Do you guys reckon this photo would be better without the umbrellas reflected?  I'm not sure weather to reshoot it with the brollies out of view....

Cheers.

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Oct 7 2009 1:17PM
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DANETRON
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I would go with out, i think it could go either way though.
Oct 7 2009 1:25PM
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.jr
Posts: 5313 - Karma: 356
whoa dude, theres a picture just like that in this cult.. join and read what they have to say about it..

https://www.newschoolers.com/web/content/viewcult/action/view/id/4684/


jknotreallybuttherewillbeafteryoumakethethreadyahur?
Oct 7 2009 1:35PM
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BlackcountryBill
Posts: 955 - Karma: 576
done yo./
Oct 7 2009 2:09PM
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BlackcountryBill
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BTW, I had to paste that into notepad to decode it......
Oct 7 2009 2:10PM
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davedinuzzo
Posts: 232 - Karma: 36
that photo is retarded. Selective coloring is completely wack and RUINED what could have been a good photo.


the sharpness is good, and the reflections add life to the eye. Whether or not you want both full umbrellas in there is up to you, but completely removing them will take away from the shot IMO

Oct 7 2009 4:22PM
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LBJJ
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have to agree, or somehow get something interesting to reflect
Oct 7 2009 4:51PM
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^nate^
Posts: 1263 - Karma: 560
why is it when people who don't like any sort of photo editing absolutely freak out when they see people who do...

i really enjoy the selective coloring... not all of us have purist standards...
I'd say go with one umbrella or experiment with other techniques
Oct 7 2009 5:57PM
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.jr
Posts: 5313 - Karma: 356
Im going with dave on this one, I hate the coloring.. kinda looks like a teenage girl myspace shot, except with a little more skill and effort.
Oct 7 2009 6:13PM
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davedinuzzo
Posts: 232 - Karma: 36
i quite enjoy excessive photo editing when its done properly

check out some of dave hill's work, he is phenomenal

selective coloring is a joke
Oct 7 2009 8:33PM
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freshlyDIPPED
Posts: 1160 - Karma: 121
i agree. sorry.
you got skills in photoshop but your idea was a glorified myspace.

i would choose one color for the eye and desaturate the rest of the face.

hope that helps you
Oct 7 2009 10:30PM
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Dr.NS
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this.
or, try to keep just a touch of saturation in the face, and up the contrast a little bit, and exp too
and bring dow nthe brightness of the colours in the eye imo, and go without the umbrellas. they block off the pupil and look strange
Oct 7 2009 11:23PM
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Leafman
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im against anything photoshoped, i think its cool but i prefer a picture with no effects
Oct 7 2009 11:44PM
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rach
Posts: 917 - Karma: 507
editing is fine, but sometimes you edit so much that it shouldn't be called photography. this picture is sick, not because of the picture itself (its an eye, which is a bit over-done) but because of the editing.

i like the umbrellas.
Oct 7 2009 11:53PM
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ThunderousFilms
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Oct 8 2009 1:58AM
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ThunderousFilms
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sorry for dub post but looks like u copied the painting i jst posted
Oct 8 2009 1:59AM
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.jr
Posts: 5313 - Karma: 356
and Im sure that who ever painted that copied that off somebody.. the shot of just one eye is been done and done again..
Oct 8 2009 12:30PM
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LC.
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Why is some of the photo black and white and some of it is colour?
Oct 8 2009 5:56PM
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