ben egbert wrote:
The processing seems ok and the image looks sharp and well exposed. Not sure about anything behind the head. You could crop well in front of the foot.
Thanks Ben,
Appreciate your looking and thoughts.
Looking back and what I see now - generally I see shapes with the paw helping anchor the image. I did a crop but then there is this long dark protrusion into the frame coming from nowhere - at least my perception.
I like the lines formed by the long axis of Tom's body, the line of the expansion joint and its intersection with of the dominate line of the body. These help stop the eye's travel, curiously enough, at Tom's eyes and gaze.
Processing - looked much better before resizing and posting to web. Also, perhaps imagination or less than perfect vision, images look better to me when viewed in CS6 as opposed to LR4.1 - they just seem to lose their edge and crispness.
Anyway my thoughts in retrospect. Over-analysis? Perhaps. It is what it is.
ben egbert wrote:
Bob, composition, especially formally explained is way out of my element. When I get into composition discussions, its all intuitive.
I hope to learn on this forum, so whatever I say about other images is part of that.
Ben,
Hope you did not misinterpret my comments. In this instance I realized the geometry hit me after the post.
Just trying to understand why certain images appeal to me while others do not.
We all have much to learn, over the years I've gravitated to shapes, geometry, and lines. I find them the best way to express what I find pleasing to the eye. I arrived at this point through FM participation and research on composition. Likewise, as much as I enjoy landscapes I feel that I have little to offer in the way of comments since others do so much better.
So, keep offering your thoughts and comments...the only way we can all learn,
Bob,; I used Nik Silver Efex Pro to remove shading & enhance B&W... Major crop... Added structure to fur & pavement; Darkened pavement; Colorized eyes... Do not know if it helped but I love playing with images... Jim
oldrattler wrote:
Bob,; I used Nik Silver Efex Pro to remove shading & enhance B&W... Major crop... Added structure to fur & pavement; Darkened pavement; Colorized eyes... Do not know if it helped but I love playing with images... Jim
Jim,
Thanks for the re-work. It occurred to me after responding the @AuntiPode that perhaps the image is a better candidate for SEPro. Great minds... And, play away - how we learn (at least for me - got to see to believe).
Might have a go at that workflow this evening if time permits.
I also took one of Frenchie - orange cat - had a similar problem with bridge of nose and blocking up. Granularity of SEPro and CPs could solve that issue too.
I suspect the "blurring" across/behind the ears may be an effect of the nature of the cat's fur rather than actual blurring. To unblock the white place on the nose, consider using the adjustment brush in ACR to knock back the exposure a bit on the selected portion of the nose. In PS a selection of the nose could be grafted from a copy with different processing and blended. Or a selection from the nose could be made and the gamma and/or exposure reduced.
AuntiPode wrote:
I suspect the "blurring" across/behind the ears may be an effect of the nature of the cat's fur rather than actual blurring. To unblock the white place on the nose, consider using the adjustment brush in ACR to knock back the exposure a bit on the selected portion of the nose. In PS a selection of the nose could be grafted from a copy with different processing and blended. Or a selection from the nose could be made and the gamma and/or exposure reduced.
And, play away - how we learn (at least for me - got to see to believe).