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The Umbrellas

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Marshall Everett

New member
This storefront area caught my eye the other day, a variety of textures, shapes and colors all playing together to create a moment. Thought I would play with it a bit and see what it said to others. Please share.

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Marshall Everett The Umbrellas ​
 
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Michael K. Carberry

New member
Nice image.Good color,intriguing composition.I like it.The shrubbery is a bit dark but I don't believe that detracts from the image as a whole.Scratch that I just moved the monitor a bit and it came alive. :) That was an epiphany for me on how difficult it is to display an image on LCD screens.
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Marshall Everett said:
This storefront area caught my eye the other day, a variety of textures, shapes and colors all playing together to create a moment. Thought I would play with it a bit and see what it said to others. Please share.

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Marshall Everett The Umbrellas ​
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I too like the vvid colors and the strong curve as well as the sharp shadow of the frame of one umbrella. I would consider balancing this composition by a lot of blue sky or the opposite, looking at portions as individual images.

Asher
 
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Cedric MASSOULIER

New member
Hi,

Here is a good idea and well managed colors but i think the shrubbery is too present : it breaks the abstraction and the graphism of the whole image. Maybe another attempt with a framing which would reduce size of the shrubbery ?

Cedric.
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Marshall Everett said:
Thank you all for the input!!
I can play with the RAW file and see what else I can come up with. That might be fun.
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Marshall,

It's fun and instructive when a picture is revisited after critique. For sure your original intent might have evolved but let that be your trusted friend. In a way, feedback can be a trusted enemy if we do not keep out own concepts even closer to us!

Good luck! Waiting for the results!

Asher
 
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Mike Shimwell

New member
Marshall

Following Cedric's comment - try a crop that retains all the right side of the picture, but cuts off the left along the retaining wall. You'll need to be just to the right of the edge of one of the umbrellas.

I think that works well andemphasises the shadow in the leading brolly making it a key part of the compositions dynamic.

Mike
 
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Marshall Everett

New member
Mike Shimwell said:
Marshall

Following Cedric's comment - try a crop that retains all the right side of the picture, but cuts off the left along the retaining wall. You'll need to be just to the right of the edge of one of the umbrellas.

I think that works well andemphasises the shadow in the leading brolly making it a key part of the compositions dynamic.

Mike
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Mike, I will give it a go and post as able. Thanks for the input.
 
fahim mohammed

fahim mohammed

Well-known member
I too like the vivid and contrasting colors. My suggestion would be to crop out the sky, brighten up
the shrubbery...or crop it to. Let's see how just a graphic would look.

Thanks for sharing.
 
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Marshall Everett

New member
Here are two crops, the first more aggressive. In the second one, I was trying to keep many of the arch patterns present.


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I darkened the shrubs and tweaked the levels as the image changed with each crop.
 
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