City - Oshinomura State - YAMANASHI PREFECTURE Country - Japan
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This is the same garden that features in several recent photos, including panoramas. Thought I'd make it difficult by seeing if I could make it look good in sepia. I chose this because it had fairly strong structure and various textures. (The colour was nice, though--lots of subtle greens.)
Argh! I never noticed it, Bertram!! You have an eagle eye... It was SO nice to see several comments from you all at the same time. My panoramas, as you can see if you scroll down the page, attract very little interest... but I am enjoying them a lot, and gradually mastering the camera. It performs well, doesn't it! Soon I will have my own site, with VR viewing of panoramas and much higher definition--at least 1200 pixels wide.
Works surely better for me than the colour version, you come quite near to John's IR style ! I think you would not damnage the photo by cutting off this sandwich box I love such obviously "invisible" stuff, often to find in my pics too ! Haha !! BTW a nice photo of you in the member profile, had not seen it yet. Hope all runs well so far.
Sepia is something of a challenge for me, Matej,and I keep an eye open for images that might work with it. I'll post the colour version of this once I've reduced it to fit the 500 pixel limit. The many shades of green in the central area work much better in colour than in sepia, so I feel you comment is right on the mark.
I'm not sure if an abundance of textures is sufficient to make an image look good in sepia. I know you like photographing park scenes that you find beautiful, and in my opinion colour is likely to work better for such documentation. Without colour, the wooden walkway becomes by far the most dominant element of the image, a leading line. For me the problem is that it doesn't actually lead to anything in particular, so I tend to get sort of lost in the image.
I think you were right on two counts, Roger! i. Making this shot "look good in sepia" was never going to be easy! And? ii. It certainly does a have strong structure (nice lines) and a variety of textures (grass, rock, water, wood, leaves, etc.) For what it's worth, I think you did a great job, though I'm sure the colour version is also well worth displaying. Kind regards, Chris P.S. Thank you for your friendly comment on my 'pins and needles' pic ~ much appreciated.
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Enjoy {K:16125} 8/7/2004
Stunning and beautiful... I can't expand on that..lol
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