With more time being enforced indoors I have taken a further look at some of my Fall images and worked revisited the processing.
I'd be interested in impressions, specifically anything that grabs your attention in either a good or bad way. In all i have attempted to maintain an essence of the environment - do you feel that adds or detracts from the images?
No right or wrongs here, as long as you have a set of eyes your opinion is both meaningful and helpful to others.
The second one is especially great. How did you accomplish that interesting effect?
Thanks Hunter. Rather than try to explain I will send you to my personal website. There are lots of instances sprinkled throughout the site where I touch on technique - if you work through my blog you will be able to follow my original (not good...) experimentation, through to where I am now.
My site is really built as my creative outlet and for fellow photographers, so hopefully you'll find something of interest.
This is probably the most pertinent blog entry if you're solely looking for technique;
https://www.alanbrownphotography.com/blog/2019/11/11/in-the-round-lesson...
The first image has the most "clarity" of the three, and the background details can be made out. I still love the effect but compared the second and third image... These feel like impressionist paintings from a long dead master painter of centuries past.
Thanks Joe, I tend to agree.
I like the second and third images, Alan. Especially the second, with that striking flame-like effect, and the echoes of Impressionism.
Since you're interested in subjectivity, I haven't mentioned the first, because that curving road somehow instantly makes me think of a car park, or a race track. These in turn somehow jar with the bucolic Impressionism! Although, of course, the Impressionists painted new-fangled cars and the like. So, crazy or not, I wouldn't buy the first one. Prices for the others? I'd pay double for No. 2 compared with No. 3. ;-)
Done deal Chris - how about you purchase both and I put that toward the new tripod you are intent on forcing on me?
As it happens #1 & #3 were a bit more of an experimentation with the technique (#1 outside a school) and suffer from the location.
#2 is one I have gone back to a few times - one of those that was close but needed tweaking.
Like the others, I feel that the second image has that special something that's hard to identify but makes it really work. it is very successful and I really like it. The first one is not as successful and I think it is due to too much clarity in the background which draws my eye past the tree to see what it is. I don't know why the third one also is not as successful for me. I'm sorry I wish I could give something more specific.
I would be interested in seeing the first versions of these as you say these were produced by going back and doing some more editing. Particularly for the first one. I am just wondering where you started to arrive here.
That second one is a gem Alan! I put that one in my portfolio in a heartbeat
Thanks Ruth, I'm it total agreement on #1 & #3. I think the road detracts from #3.
I'm glad you & Joe pointed out the background clarity in #1.Looking at it now (sometimes it needs afresh set of eyes to point out) the background is a total distraction.
Due to the location this would never be a winner anyway, but something to play with and learn from.
This originated (as others) from a number of images blended together - the original versions are totally boring.....