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Sally Morgan
{K:9219} 9/21/2005
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:)
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Martin Halley
{K:580} 9/21/2005
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Sally,
I followed your advice and cropped off the left margin. The resulting print scored a perfect "10".
Thanks for the input, greatly appreciated.
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Sally Morgan
{K:9219} 8/18/2005
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I wish that was true Martin - but it's not so simple - you can never, ever get a 7 with the ratings system - I challenge you to find just one rating higher than 6.6!
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Martin Halley
{K:580} 8/17/2005
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Sally,
The rating you give is added to all the others and then averaged. If you rate 6 and there is already a 5 rating it will appear as 5.5.
Everyone who posts is looking for ratings, so please do unless rate they say "Critique only".
Regards.
Martin.
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Martin Halley
{K:580} 8/17/2005
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Sally,
The trick to adding skies (in Photoshop) is to have a blank grey sky to start with. Then set the added sky layer to "multiply" and to convert it to a mask then rub-out the sky over the buildings and solid objects but to leave the trees alone. Let "multiply" deal with the branches and leaves. I usually find it necessary to run a 2 pixel 100% blur around the joins after flattening the image.
I take your point about the crop but this is a picture of the canal lock as much as the building. I did try cropping more off the left hand side but I couldn't decide if was an improvement, so I left it in. Now that you have commented I am obliged to get the scissors out.
The original image is as sharp as can be expected (hand-held, very low light, light rain, compact camera), down-sizing to an 800 pixel jpeg (from a 5,400 pixel psd original) hasn't helped. The other factor is that this little pocket camera does have noise problems in very low light. This does limit the sharpening options quite considerably. I used "sharpen edges" once. Twice produced too many artifacts to be acceptable.
Thanks for the critique, it is very welcome.
Kind regards.
Martin.
Thanks for the comments Now dig out those skies and try again!
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Sally Morgan
{K:9219} 8/17/2005
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Nice composite - I've given up trying, I'm useless!
I think you could probably crop off the bit to the left of the ducks, and apply a little bit of sharpening - especially to the building.
I like the composition, and I like the info you've given in your about (I always read that while the pic downloads).
I haven't given it a rating - because the number never comes up the same as I awarded! (ie if you mark a 7 it comes up as 6.7, and a 6 comes up as 5.6 etc.)
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Hakan AKIRMAK
{K:15913} 8/17/2005
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I understand now :)
Thank you for your explanation Martin!
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Martin Halley
{K:580} 8/17/2005
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Hakan,
The words of Jeruselem (A favourite hymn of the English) refer to industrial buildings like this as "Englands Dark Satanic Mills".
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Ron Wilson
{K:18362} 8/17/2005
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Great building lots of chacracter. Well balanced pic with an amazing sky. Well done.
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Hakan AKIRMAK
{K:15913} 8/17/2005
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Good ambience but I don't understand, why is satanic?
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