RustyBug Offline Upload & Sell: On
|
Thanks Scott.
Nicely judicious rework on your part as well to help the viewer, yet still safeguard the vibe.
Of course, the vision was in the OP's capture to begin with.
I just tried to imagine what it was that drew the OP to make the capture. I came up with (perceived subject) their relationship as being my "What's the point?", "What's the message you want to convey to your viewer."
The camera format doesn't always coincide with our mind's eye, so I try to default to my mantra of what was it that compelled the capture for sharing with others. Then, it's a matter of looking into the tool bag to decide how to approach it's presentation.
Imo, the personification of the boy/frog interaction was the attraction (guessing) for the OP. At least it was the message that I felt like I wanted to share with viewers. For me, this makes me appreciate the talent of the sculptor to be able to bring such a personification to his medium, more so than a "picture of a statue". I think we're getting a nice 2-for-1 here at artistic message.
Props to both the OP for the vision for capture and to the sculptor for his creation that shares with us the boy being studiously/curiously mesmerized by the frog. I see the selective focus area chosen being that which tells us what the boy was looking at (i.e. frog). Even though we really don't see much of the frog's face, to me it is still implied. I see this as very intentional focus placement by the OP, as the water just in front of the frog's face is sharp also.
For additional processing, I could use "maybe" a little more oof at the bg, and maybe some different tonal values back there also, The tonal value and mass of the bg is still tugging a bit to pull me away. Probably not going to make any more changes to the mass/scale/balance relationship, but focus/blur and tonal/saturation value tools are still in play to help push/pull/draw the eye.
|