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This image, from a museum in Germany, speaks to me on many levels. I hope you take some pleasure, as I do, from a shot from this fine small camera. Comments are always welcome; yet not expected. Please be advised that I am far from even a journeyman in PP; any ideas for adjusting this are, as well, welcomed.





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ArnJ

some images: http://www.pbase.com/arnj/galleries

'Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler'
-Albert Einstein
 
Kevin, it wouldn't get better! Excellent job. And thanks to the original poster!
 
I like Kevin's suggestion about separating the statues... very elementary PP could help improve the VB and contrast, with both adjusted you may be surprised how good your shot looks in colors ;)... hope this will help, thanks for posting :D..

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ArnJ said:
This image, from a museum in Germany, speaks to me on many levels. I hope you take some pleasure, as I do, from a shot from this fine small camera. Comments are always welcome; yet not expected. Please be advised that I am far from even a journeyman in PP; any ideas for adjusting this are, as well, welcomed.





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ArnJ, yours is a very nice image that deserves the valuable advise received. Best regards,

Eduardo
 
Kevin Coppalotti said:
Hmmm, It is quite a messy composition, maybe better to photograph the two statues individually. The lighting is flat with the gold panel looking out of place. I tried a conversion to black and white and some spot lighting to separate the statues from the wall.
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Well done, I really like you PP
 
Thanks for posting, Arn. I agree with others, this would have more impact by cropping it into two shots. Though, I like Kevin's b&w treatment, as a two statute composition.

There are many ways to make a blah photo into a wow photo with post processing. There are all kinds of books and software out there that you can get to learn how to do that. But I find that improving on composition skills has helped a great deal for me. For that, its mainly been taking lots of shots from different perspectives of the same subject matter; looking at other people's photography and reading books on composition. Of course, if you want to learn Photoshop or other ways of improving on an image, there are tons of resources for that online (such as lynda.com).

BTW, the LX3 is a great camera to learn on. Keep on posting.

Daniel
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ArnJ said:
This image, from a museum in Germany, speaks to me on many levels. I hope you take some pleasure, as I do, from a shot from this fine small camera. Comments are always welcome; yet not expected. Please be advised that I am far from even a journeyman in PP; any ideas for adjusting this are, as well, welcomed.



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There is nothing about it I would change. It is a nice shot.
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Regards,
Baz

"Ahh... But the thing is, they were not just ORDINARY time travellers!"
 
I agree with Barrie, AmJ. To be honest, I like the original most. To my opinion there's nothing wrong with the composition.
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Regards,
Jouke
 
apology up front, for kicking this dead-horse to the top tonight.
thought about and looked at the b&w treatment; it was just not my style.
thankful for the appreciation that 'version1' was, a nice one.
and just as thankful for that comment 'bout 'messy composition'.
played around with my simple PP program and liked this variation.

I don't have a lot of folks to show things to, and for many reasons, I need to finalize this image; it has messages to me that require closure.

on screen this version pleases me a bit more.
expect no feedback 'bout it.
thanks for helping to motivate me to adjust things.

Peace.





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ArnJ

some images: http://www.pbase.com/arnj/galleries

'Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler'
-Albert Einstein
 
joukek said:
I agree with Barrie, AmJ. To be honest, I like the original most. To my opinion there's nothing wrong with the composition.
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In my opinion this is a scene that just does not lend itself to any kind of a good composition. Given my choice I'd like to have one statue nearer and prominent in the picture, and another in the background maybe somewhat out of focus to fill some of the remaining space. But here with the statues placed as they are, the photographer can take a photo of one statue ("this is a statue") or of both ("here are two statues"). There's no way to bring composition to bear.

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So is a gnat.
 
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