High-Contrast Images

[steevdavis62]

Wow... as a whole photo, i like it heaps and heaps better. If you cropped some black from the top and bottom. You have a powerful photo. I love the place where the sun is fully shinng through the clouds. And the way the fence line changes from right to left. Mate, now thats what i call a good, high contrast photo. Great job mate

[jiminyClickit]

steevdavis62,

Couldn't get past the blowout, enough to keep the entire original, anyway. A quirk I'm sure, and will make the use of H/C worrisome.

[steevdavis62]

Really. Mate that is the part that makes it a WOW photo! the blow out is the high contrast, that really packs a punch. I have to agree, it could prove making h/c quite hard for you. But mate, take it from me. That is what high contrast is all about. Having blow outs...

I was the same earlier this year, i took a photo, in the beach series i showed a few weeks ago (still on my flickr if u wanna see what i mean, its called Beach 5). It is one where the whole sky is blown out. Because it was looking directly into the sun, and the whole sky just blew out, and i couldnt afford to make another print and manually burn it, lol. Film for ya... But i was about to toss it out, when one of my classmates stopped me, and started telling me how stupid i was. He said it is a wonderful photo. Said it reminds him of Ansell Adams. he thinks it was the best one in my series....

Now i still dont think it was an awesome photo, but i see some of what he, and alot of others have said. It had really good contrast now, especially on the rocks, which unfortunatly didnt show up at all in the scan. But what im trying to show you, is that sometimes a photo u think is blown out, or useless, is really an awesome photo. Sometimes it just takes another pair of eyes to see it.

Which is a really roundabout way of saying, mate, nice photo! lol

[RainPacket]

steev's right... for me, the blowout makes the picture. It IS the high contrast.

[magnus9]

I think the original really is awesome. Try cropping a little from the top and bottom like Steve suggested. It really is a good shot and you should save it.

[jiminyClickit]

To celebrate the 400th post, something different:



An odd-sized, blown-out (but finally without losing the colors) landscape, the least-likely photograph I would spend this much time on.

[steevdavis62]

Wow, i like the colour there too... i still would like to see the original cut down, its looks almost panorama. But this one has nice colours and more detail. Either one is a great photo mate, fantastic job