Message in a bottle

[tolyto]

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[andrewsa2010]

i love the edit!!

[vrchards]

Editing was really fantastic. After watching both the picture one thing is coming in mind that first picture is the proof of that bottle has been used currently but the second one is telling once upon a time.....

[bdbolin]

great shot, I like the edits a lot more, but I think you should make a larger, but lighter vignetting.

[tolyto]

Thank you - yeah, I wondered about the vignetting - it was a "vintage" action I ran and I didn't adjust the vignette. Think I'll take that advice and clean that up a bit.

Thanks!

[pratapsankar]

awesome... is that a budweiser btw? :P

[corfugitive]

Now I know what a 'vintage action' is. I think. You click something and the picture looks like it was taken on a box-camera 80 years ago. Standing on its own however this picture is not improved for me, maybe because I had a box camera 60 years ago and spent too much time trying to improve my photography to click on something to return! I hate vignettes, but this is personal, however I do feel you have to put something personal into a picture to get a worth-while result. I feel there is too much 'boring' space around the bottle, before and after, and that sharp line divides the composition, it's neither crooked nor straight (level), so it adds a 'careless' element to your work. Don't be upset - there are always reasons why a good picture is good, yes?

[tolyto]

Hmmm...not sure what you intend to get across by using the term "careless" - I'm still learning a lot about composition - "careless" would imply that I didn't give any thought or attention to the shot - which means I wouldn't have bothered to try and set up the shot, work with it afterward, and post it asking if the edit was more interesting.

Amateur? Absolutely. Careless? Never.

[Barbara V]

I like the old timey one very much, except for the vignetting. I like the closer crop.