john_hansen_flaschen

wonderful design and execution

I like this. It looks like water. Probably looks better on a wall than on a monitor. Would be more interesting without grain. See also the other images in Barry's folder.

I like this image. The truck looks like it grew right there. I reworked this a little in Photoshop (tighter crop, more dynamic range in shadows, more contrast and saturation).

And I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed

and her seed. She will lie in wait for your head, and you will lie in

wait for her heel. Genesis 3:1

Never mind the cropping debate. I'm distracted by the sharpening halos. These are excessive at the interface between background trees and sky, and extreme between the bridge/people and the sky. Note the thick white lines around the dark posts.

 

This can easily be avoided in Photoshop by:

 

1) making two duplicate images as layers. 2) Sharpen both duplicate layers using the same algorithm (unsharp mask or whatever). 3) Reset the blending method for the first layer to Darken and adjust the Opacity slider until the dark side of the edges looks right.4) Reset the blending method for the second layer to Lighten and adjust until the light-side halo is just barely visible.

 

There are other ways.

nice photo marred by sharpening artifact on the skyline

Very nice. The color in the first image doesn't quite match the color in the other three (less green). I find this a little distracting.

Out of focus

To promote the discussion of color in this study of red-green-blue balance, I have posted a black and white version of Haart's image here. This is the green channel, otherwise unmodified. All of the compositional elements are preserved.

Photographed Thanksgiving Day, 2002. Handheld, natural light.

Nice composition. I woiuld prefer a little more of interest at the focal point.

Nice.

 

See also:

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=650457

Here is a modification of the image intended to bring out detail in the shadows.

 

I used Fred Miranda's Shadow recovery Action at medium, followed by Unsharp Mask 20/10/0 followed by a 50% blend of Nic Sharpener Pro, Internet Autoscan, "Anna".

 

Finally, I cropped the image and smoothed out a few jpeg artifacts I brought out with my sharpening.

These boys practice summersaults and twists in a vacant lot on

Lancaster Avenue in Philadelphia. Photographed hand-held in late

afternoon after the boys tired of my presence and retunred to their

routine.

This is part of a mural painted on the wall of a rowhouse facing a vacant, fenced-in lot in a run-down but rapidly revitalizing section of West Philadelphia. The city currently has more than 2000 wall murals, some of which are superb.

 

 

Grab shot from knee height of a deck and mast painter on the last

remaining tea clipper. Canon G2, ISO 50, 1/250, f4. No Photoshop

manipulation other than 1) Unsharp Mask @ 50, 15.5, 2, followed by 2)

Nik Sharpener, Internet/Autoscan, Anna profile bended, selectively @

50%.

Wonderful composition. The rope seen through the portal is mysterious. Like a reflection but not. Are we seeing another line through a glass window--but then, where does the light come from? Is this a composite?

These kids started performing to imaginary music when I set up my

camera. The big guy set the tempo.Afterwards, the girl with the

pigtails asked, "Why you taking pictures in the ghetto?

 

Please comment on lighting and crop.

Philadelphia city landscape at sunrise.

Here is a quick re-working of your image in Photoshop. Post in sRGB colorspace with a largest dimension no greater than 800 pixels so that your images will fit on the monitor screens of viewers.

Over the past decade, Philadelphia has successfully fought graffiti

by commissioning thousands of street murals, small and large. This is

one of the oldest. It faces a parking lot off Lancaster Avenue in

West Philadelphia and is visible now only in the Winter.

With John's crop, a Photo of the Week contender.

Unretouched photo of a rowhouse on a quiet, forlorn side street off

Lancaster Avenue in West Philadelphia.

image is too bid. i can't fit this image on a 19 inch monitor. 800 by 600 pixels max. very nice composition and texture. good light on faces. unfortunate blown highlights. try using Fred Miranda's Highlight Recovery photoshop action to regain some detail: http://www.fredmiranda.com/

best of group. nice detail and framing.