MrAndMrsIzzy

Well! Not perfect. Can't say I'm happy with it. But I'm not unhappy with it!!

HAH! It worked!!! At least for the old guy in the center. Still working on the other one, but looks like it's going in the right direction. Thanks John! You too Paddler, your step-by-step is a little more advanced than what I've gotten into (so far), but I'm thinking maybe it's high time I did.

I'll give it a shot and see what happens.

Got this during a 1989 trip to Papua New Guinea. Partially edited (auto color) and existing as a layered psd. Trying to tone down the breast-plates of the guy standing on the right, and the old guy behind the kid in the middle. Tried different things both seperately and in combination, (desaturate, grayscale, brightness, contrast, levels, curves, etc.). Some worked better than others, but nothing to get excited about. Any suggestions (other than scrap it) ?....Izzy

Was looking at this before. Knew there was something but couldn't quite figure it out. Took another look just now. Not completely sure, but think the problem might be that it's little too sharp.

Nice one. Don't know if this was converted from color or captured in grayscale. Either way, it looks like grayscale was the way to go. Do have a couple of nits though. #1 = the horizon (more specifically the waterline). It's going up to the right. Starting at the left (where the waterline meets the land). Think going straight across from there, would I think've made for a better composition. #2 Position of the tree is good. Looks like just the right amount of space between the tree and the right edge of the frame. Don't know if it was possible, but do think the left edge coud be a little further out. #3 Think cropping up from the bottom a little (maybe a skosh or two above your signature) wouldn't hurt either.

It worked!...Izzy

Well! As a photo it sucks!!! As an interesting piece of art work however!!! (don't know how to do an imogee for thinking so I settled for the three exclamation points). Call me weird, but I like it. Sort of reminds me of some "rough surface" oil paintings I vaguely remember seeing once or twice. Or some artistic finger painting. ???? Do they even make fingerpaints anymore???

Aha! Tried to quote but it didn't work. (shrug) No matter! If I remember my geology and plate tectonics correctly. The African plate is moving North and either subducting under the European plate, or riding up over it. The action causes crumpling and deforming of rock at the edges of the plates . Kind of like what's happening where the Indian (Deccan) plate is subducting under Asia. There the result is (and continues to be) The Himalayas. In the case of The Mediterranean, what (presumably) will happen is that The Mediterranean Sea, will eventually become The Mediterranean Mountains. Not to worry though. It's not likely to happen anytime soon.

"I still cannot think how these flat screen like structures are created by falling water. " Don't really know, and this might be a stretch, but this waterfall (I don't recall the name) is in Waterton Lakes NP in Canada (other side of the border from Glacier in Montana). That white slanting down from right to left is water. Maybe seepage from something like that (shrug).

I don't know J.D. It doesn't look quite as deformed.

Interesting! Especially from a geological standpoint. It looks like it was originally laid down flat, then subjected to upward pressure, lateral pressure, or both, resulting in its deformity. Do you have any information regarding the geological history of this particular area?

I like it! It's a good tree. I think it'd be an even better tree, if it wasn't so centered. Maybe a slightly different angle, with the tree off center to the right or left a little, and not taking up so much of the frame....Izzy

Huh! I like it. Sort of an air of mystery about it. What was it? A warehouse? Somebodys home perhaps? A workplace of some kind? A prison? What stories could those walls tell if they could speak? I know this isn't what you might've been looking for as a critique, but that's what comes to mind.

That's good! Window rather than machine. Better terminology!! Aside from that. Dprev! Used to post there. Thought it was no more! What happened?