mike_silverman

Bill,

 

Thanks for your thoughts and the work. I'm bascially one-step up from a point and shoot photographer and I find the critique/suggestions really useful.

 

Mike

Comments welcome

I'm thinking post-it notes. Nice work, whatever the medium. To me, even more interesting if composed from mundane elements.

It was shot on color film with a yellow filter. Interesting the negative feedback on the yellow (at least from this sample of two). I live in the foothills of the Cascades in Washington and spend many months of the year living in mist and rain. I prefer the surreal effect of the yellow, as do most of the local people that have seen it. Maybe we're just so sick of living in the fog that we want it to be different. Without the color, the end of the house hidden in the treeline becomes more prominent, and that human element is one of the things I like about this photo.

I actually drove past this scene on my way back from a day of macro

photography. There was something about it that grabbed me, so I did

a u-turn and took a few shots. I like the sense of nature slowly

reclaiming her space, but the shadow of the shed also imposing itself

on the pond.

 

Constructive critcism welcomed.

Jerry,

 

I took your advice and increased the contrast and you're right. I like the new version better. FYI, I didn't purposely compress the gray scale. I'm new to photoshop and just trying to get the scanned image to look like the actual photo.

OK, I'm still figuring out the netiquette around here. I shot the scene with with a yellow filter and without, both on color film. Most folks who have seen both, myself included, like the yellow better for the surreal effect. But then, I live in the foothills of the cascades and pretty much exist in mist for seven months of the year, hence my desire to make it look like something else. Yellow aside, the things I really liked about this photo were the light, the "curve ahead" sign and the glistening of the water on the road. I can't seem to get the latter to show in the scanned version. I have posted a B&W copy (thanks to photoshop) so people can judge for themselves.

 

Thanks for taking the time to write.

 

 

Comments welcome.