Secured #2. Appreciate your critique.

Appreciate your critique of this image. Thank you.

 

Nice! How about "Hooked"?

Interesting detail! Close up (scrolling) the photo looks fine. Viewed as a whole on one screen, I find some of the fine details (wood grain, pock marks, ...) tend to get a bit lost in the "redness". You might to want experiment with a bit more sharpening (HPF) and contrast. These might bring out the wood grain more.

I like.

 

Does remind me of "I see a red door, and I want to paint it black" though

 

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Edited June 13, 2022 by JDMvW

Nice! How about "Hooked"?

Thanks Sandy.

Yes, that would be a good title. I did change the title to this one. Originally, I just called it "The Bullpen Door," which is what it was. It's the bullpen door to the bullpen on the farm where I grew up. Of course , at that time, the barn and the door were pained white. Thanks for the good suggestion.

Interesting detail! Close up (scrolling) the photo looks fine. Viewed as a whole on one screen, I find some of the fine details (wood grain, pock marks, ...) tend to get a bit lost in the "redness". You might to want experiment with a bit more sharpening (HPF) and contrast. These might bring out the wood grain more.

 

Thanks for your response and suggestions, Mike. What is "HPF"? My processing software is an older version (I won't say how old) of Photoshop Elements. Don't laugh too hard!

Thanks again for your comments.

Beyond the fantastic color, a look at the whole image at once shows a very interesting composition, with the hooks mirroring each other but not exactly, with the different linear orientations, and with a subtle but striking dimensional element, and with all of the little details in the wood and paint. A lot to see, all well designed.

Really nice image. I'm particularly enjoying the composition, the color, and the enigma (it sent me down the rabbit-hole of puzzling over the reasons that two hooks might be necessary). The monochromatic nature of the image works beautifully to make the viewer zero in on the textures here, and I agree with Mike that this provides a great opportunity to play up the textures by increasing the contrast. Right now the image is mostly midtones, and it'd be interesting to see what would happen if you stretched out that histogram.

I like this one. Has a very stock image quality to it. Well done!

Beyond the fantastic color, a look at the whole image at once shows a very interesting composition, with the hooks mirroring each other but not exactly, with the different linear orientations, and with a subtle but striking dimensional element, and with all of the little details in the wood and paint. A lot to see, all well designed.

 

RWS,

Thanks for your kind, detailed response .

Michael

Really nice image. I'm particularly enjoying the composition, the color, and the enigma (it sent me down the rabbit-hole of puzzling over the reasons that two hooks might be necessary). The monochromatic nature of the image works beautifully to make the viewer zero in on the textures here, and I agree with Mike that this provides a great opportunity to play up the textures by increasing the contrast. Right now the image is mostly midtones, and it'd be interesting to see what would happen if you stretched out that histogram.

 

Leslie,

Thanks for your detailed response. Greatly appreciated. I am going to consider your suggestion about the contrast. Thanks again, Michael

Lots of potential here (wood grain, weathering, etc.). Have to agree with Jd though. Think it'd be better in grayscale rather than red.

I immediately thought B&W also. The color hits you in the face and then...so what? I think that the textures are far more interesting than the color. Still, well done.

Red, not b/w.