This weekend only, at the Holiday Inn. Original oil paintings from $50.

Ok, there was no photoshop on this one. I simply cropped the print of

a picture that I apparently took at too low a speed. Doe this image

work on it's own? Any comments? Thanks.

it's really quite awful.

Well, after that in-depth review I took another look. I don't like the grain from the print, but I still like the composition, in a cheesy oil painting kind of way. I tried to get rid of the grain in my next version.

Obviously it was a horrible mistake, but it is kind of interesting. It reminds me of those watercolor paintings as you said. I bet if you kept trying to screw up like that you could get some really cool affects. Just make sure you don't have the grain, because then it'll look like a wacked out painting. Other than that, it gets a 10 on the funky scale.

Hm, different. Sure, it's cheesy, but I kind of like it. I would, however, go against the consensus and say that I probably prefer the grainy version.

 

The soft version is just too cheesy for me, I guess, or tastes too much of digital manipulation.

 

The grain in the original version screams "hard-core photo journalism" to me. It gives a nice contrast to the image which, as you said, basically look like an oil painting.

 

Yes, I kind of like it. Certainly it kept my eye longer than the average upload.