Multicolor

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OK, so how did you get that color? Surely that's not the real colors on an old rusty piece of equipment (part of an auto maybe?). Certainly is interesting and how anyone couldn't find this original I have no idea.

Interesting rust colors - seemed to be PSed

Really?! Just what about it seems to have been PSed. Please be specific.

 

. . . just out of curiosity, would you raise your rate if I told you the colors were unchanged and that the only 'enhancement' was setting the black and white points?

Carl, another great rust shot. Jeeez you can find em... Low originality scores? I really wanna give up sometimes... LOL... Don't look for logic bud...

 

Even thought I like the red at the bottom I feel a bit should be cropped off. There (for me) seems to be an imbalance in space top to bottom. Hope that explains it well enough.(?)

 

Great texture!!! Just a fun shot... Dave

Actually Dave, the balance of this composition has always bothered me because the large square with the two holes gets too much attention. I think cropping off the top to a square might be an improvement.

Carl, this is picture offers so many resources of composition. As you stated before, I am not sure this was the best way to compose or crop it but, I would say it is a detail.

The rending and variation of colors is impressive and your eye to capture this rusty scenery is also.

I attach 4 square crop ideas, but as said, this offers so many others possibilities...Cheers.

Another idea that crossed my mind, in a different format. Your last post is indeed very inspiring!

I agree that squaring it up some would be better (off the top). I'd like to see this about 5 feet high. I'm going to figure out what white and black points are. I also agree that ratings are sometimes BS. Nine times out of ten, someone who gives me a bad rating has 3 or four really BAD photos to his credit or they're using an alias.

Max, Go to 'levels' in PS.

 

Jacques, We're talking about digital bigotry (still!!) in another thread. The crops you offer are interesting, but they're so severe that you couldn't print them at any decent size, and if you try to capture them that way, I suspect you'd run into DOF problems. A fun excercise, though.

Boy do I like this!!!

It's just trash to some peoples eye but you saw it differently. Wonderful!

BTW, I think I found the reason why I like those design and colors... there is a subliminal design behind... dont you recoknize a face of Modigliani somewhere ( I let you find out by yourself)... it's like looking clouds for a long time... you can see so many spectacular visions..

This is simply beautiful. I'd think I had died and gone to heaven if I ran across this kind of rust in the field. That fuji 100 is good stuff, eh? Again: excellent photo!

I found this shot, and a whole lot more like it, at a farm machinery retailer near Easton, MD. All the new stuff was near the main building and the row of equipment got older and older as you got further form the main sales area. (Hint. . . . start as far from the building as possible :-)) The manager came out and asked me if he could, uh, be of assistance. I showed him what I was doing, and everything was cool.

Makes a nice abstract image! Can't see anything I would want changed on it.

Carl, I'm always amused at the skepticism people show. I guess they figure if they couldn't see it then it wasn't there. I've found that light conditions and whether this kind of material is damp, but not too damp to cause glare, makes a huge difference to its appearance. And I reckon you got it just about at its best here. I am still looking for the Modigliani - probably my favourite painter. I expect if I stood on my head or lay down it would bring forth all sorts of possibilities for the imagination. I love viewing this sort of image. My only slight complaint is the tightness near the middle left edge and top right edge, but I still like it alot.

The image was framed a bit too tightly given my use of the 100% viewfinder on the F5 and the smaller window on the standard slide mount. Most people have the opposite problem. The upper left red corner does draw the eye and I tried to minimize it with this framing with the resulting problem that you've noted.

This is a very powerful image, in which I like the panoply of colours AND the panoply of shapes. What puzzles me is whether there is too much of BOTH of them. I seem to be able to concentrate EITHER on the contrast of squares, circles and cylinders OR on the contrast of colours... but might be a feature of my brain...