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[tzimmerman]

Hello everyone,

Ok....I really do not know why I like this picture, but something about it just nags at me and keeps drawing me to it. I am not exactly sure why. I have messed with it some in photoshop, but just can't seem to make it so I love it...not sure why I really like it....I just do :P.

What I am asking is any suggestions to do in photoshop to make it better, or just general comments about it so I can decide if I like it or not. Feel free to mess with it if you would like. I am pretty sure I will crop the dark area off the top, and the only edit I have done that I have even remotely liked is a partial desaturation to where the mud and such is mostly all gray and the grass retains just a bit of its green.

Thanks in advance for suggestions and critiques.

[thekevinmonster]

I don't think there's a way to do this with photoshop, but to me it seems like the 'subject' is really the tire mark part of the track, in the middle-left of the frame. Your camera focused way up front, at the splotch of mud, leaving the tire track out of focus.

If I was taking the picture (oh no, one of those...), I would have gotten way closer to the ground if I wanted to focus on the splotch of mud on concrete. That shifts the perspective angles around a bit, and makes it much more obvious that the 'in focus' foreground is close. The way the picture is taken from more of an angle looking down, it just seems like parts of it are blurry.

You may also want to try rotating it to the left until the grass horizon at the top is horizontal. It's hard for me to visualize that without being able to do it (I'm on lunch break), though.

[tzimmerman]

Yeah.....possibly that could help....I believe the lack of subject maybe is what bothers me, or that the possible subject (tire mark) is mostly out of focus. I only took one picture of this, if I messed around with it I am sure I can get a better shot.....just one of those I walked up....snapped the pic....didn't think I liked it was going to move on to look at something else.....then when the camera came off the camera the picture kinda intrigued me....don't really know why, so now I am trying to figure out how to make it so I am happy with it....may just have to go retake them so I have something more to work with.

[clockdoc]

Congratulations on seeing a photo opportunity that most folks would pass by. I agree with thekevinmonster's comments. There is so much out of focus, even if it did have a subject, I don't think my eyes could handle the blurriness of the overall image. Don't get discouraged though. While the rest of us are sitting here pounding the keys, at least you are out there shooting something. Thanks for taking the time to post your image for us to see.

[jiminyClickit]

tzimmerman,

Long ago I gave up trying to figure why people point a camera where they do, even mine. You like what you like. So you may have to do different stuff here. The only key I might offer is to select around most of the tread mark, then invert back and forth, changing whatever here and there, until you find the "one."

[spazoid1965]

Alright Zimmerman I see you like posting dirty pictures. The corner of the house and the shadow at the top of the photo are a little distracting to me. I would crop it out.