Earth's Thirst

Shrimp

5 photos stitched together.
Camera: Canon G6 w/ Wide-Angle Lens held infront of camera.


All C&C welcome! Any questions, please feel free to ask.

Thanks guys!

CoolBoardr

Looks good but somehow the trees, fence and floodlight take away from 'natural' feel. Is the foreground a different location to the background/sunset?

heffsarmy

This shot for me does'nt work at all. The exposures don't blend properly, the foreground and the background don't look like there from the same location. Imo this shot would look better if the background were a nice sunny day.

ChityWest

I think that's a really good & unusual picture, on my screen I have to scroll up and down to view the whole thing - and along the way it does look like completely different pictures blended together very well.

I think possibly it may have been better with more fiery sun in the distance. It's still a lovely shot. I like the way that at the very bottom of the picture it looks like its an almost straight down view (ie you can almost imagine your feet in the picture) and then from there on out the perspective changes.

Valentia

The top of the picture does nothing for me. In fact it is kinda annoying, the plain sky and an horizon with distracting poles and hedge. If you scroll up and crop the picture so that the top is just at the beginning of the small, dark gradient then I think it works really well and is more universal, whatever that means. 7/10

Edit: Having looked again that dark overlay at the bottom is slightly offputting too.

FreeAnd..

I really like the photo and the overall effect. You can fell yourself tilting your head as if looking from the sky to your feet and vice versa. A nice variation on a panoramic view..

beans

On first glance, I like this image. It's quite evocative, but then some of your other stuff has been, and you do this kind of image quite well.

The tones and colours are nice, I know others have commented on the fact that the fore- and back-grounds clash but I'm kind of ignoring that (I mean it's obviously not a single image) and I still like it. Very cover-of-Time-magazine if you get me

I feel it could be improved with some cropping at the top and bottom though. And while it's emotionally engaging, and pretty, it doesn't say a lot to me beyond this. I could see this hanging in a corridor in a bank. It ain't got no soul

And I only put this in as a 'negative' cos I feel you're better than this picture belies...

Flipflip

I have to say that the background just takes away so much from a potentially great shot. Its just that theres nothing happening in the sky.

BaZmO*

heffsarmy wrote:

This shot for me does'nt work at all. The exposures don't blend properly, the foreground and the background don't look like there from the same location. Imo this shot would look better if the background were a nice sunny day.

Have to agree with all of the above. I've seen a lot of your stuff and it's usually top notch, but imo this pic just doesn't work. The two pictures just seem to be at odds with each other, (maybe that's what you were going for?) either way I just don't think that it works as an overall composite.

Shrimp

Firstly, I'd like to say thank you for the replies. Genuine and coherent. I appreciate that.. (Ironic to some I'm sure..)

Ok, just to sort out a few little discrepancies about the photo. A couple of people have mentioned that it doesn't look like the photos were taken at the same place. They actually were, however, due to the nature of the lighting at the time, there were some problems with washouts/blackout etc.. It was a 5 exposure shot...

Regardless of that I did intentionally try and emphasise the difference between the foreground and background with 2 black gradients. One between in middle and one at the very bottom.

Quite a few people have mentioned that they don't feel the sky does enough for the photo. Perhaps, however I feel, well my rational or leaving it there was to capture the sun(the reason for such a cracked terrain) just leaving the shot as if it's fleeing or done the damage and leaving. I do feel tho, as a fellow poster said, "a more fiery" sunset would have been nice. Then on the other hand some people have said they like the busyness of the foreground, with the calmness of the sky.

Thank you for all the comments (with a few compliments thrown in there), They are all very helpful.

Any questions or further points feel free to post.

Zillah

Shrimp wrote:

Quite a few people have mentioned that they don't feel the sky does enough for the photo. Perhaps, however I feel, well my rational or leaving it there was to capture the sun(the reason for such a cracked terrain) just leaving the shot as if it's fleeing or done the damage and leaving.

I think thats an excellent idea, I like the thought of the photo just catching the aftermath. Although I don't think it worked, as others have said. Nice idea. Do you not think the foreground is too bright? Its looks like a mid day desert, too white or yellowish light for the time of day.

edunon

I really like the photo, however, the ground goes out of focus at the back but the fence and trees look in-focus. That's gives the impression that are two photos blended together and doesn't look very real.

EireRoadUser

Sky still has the evening look and the sun seems to give the effect the fire is still burning . Then theres the dead branch in the foreground ,whats left of the destruction to keep the city alive.( My view of it )
I like it ,it has an american look about it though . Were the shots taken in the states ??

Fionn

this is really good, i like it
thats my humble opinion

and yes you could imagine it hanging on a wall someplace really posh!!

thing that i notice is.....

it's not perfect but then things rarely are! i saw a boiling orange ball of a sun yesterday low in the sky as i travelled (very quickly ) home, it was gone unfortunately by the time i got home, this would have been awesome transplanted into this picture.
the point is that i'm sure shrimp could have 'fixed' some of the things but choose i presume to work with whatever he had captured and the result is pretty ok

well done

Shrimp

Fionn, you nailed it. I could have added in a burning inferno of a sun, or some dramatic clouds. But I thought it might be more of a photomanip then.. as that sun was not actually in it, but rather superimposed.

Zillah, perhaps the foreground is a little on the bright side alright, but on the other-hand, I wanted to have lighten it up. Like as if there is a spotlight on the branch, saying, look what you(the sun) have done...

EireRoadUser, thanks for the feedback, I liked some of your thoughts, it actually was taken just down the road from where I live in the grounds of a secondary school..


Thanks for all the comments!

I appreciate it.

Flipflip

I must say, now that i know your reason for letting the sun the way it is, it adds a lot more to the shot.

I think thats a great concept alright.

I dont know, Im mixed now on how I feel, I think the foreground is a brilliant shot, and maybe it wouldve been better just left on its own perhaps in black and white to emphasise the barreness.

Hmm, well its all down to taste really I guess.

Either way, i have to say well done like.

Rojo

Nice photo, looks a tad photoshopped...

hate the decription.

Shrimp

Rojo wrote:

Nice photo, looks a tad photoshopped...

hate the decription.

Yes it was edited in PS, how else could the original photo look like that?

Which description btw?

rymus

Valentia wrote:

If you scroll up and crop the picture so that the top is just at the beginning of the small, dark gradient then I think it works really well and is more universal, whatever that means. 7/10

Just tried that and agree completely.

Rojo

Shrimp wrote:

Yes it was edited in PS, how else could the original photo look like that?

Which description btw?

Shrimp wrote:

Quite a few people have mentioned that they don't feel the sky does enough for the photo. Perhaps, however I feel, well my rational or leaving it there was to capture the sun(the reason for such a cracked terrain) just leaving the shot as if it's fleeing or done the damage and leaving. I do feel tho, as a fellow poster said, "a more fiery" sunset would have been nice. Then on the other hand some people have said they like the busyness of the foreground, with the calmness of the sky.

pretty cringeworthy..

Zillah

Rojo wrote:

Nice photo, looks a tad photoshopped...

He said it was a composite of five pictures. What did you think he did, wave his magic wand? :rolleyes:

pretty cringeworthy..

Oh yeah...all that imagery stuff, its real gay...


Its times like these I wish there was a less jovial looking "rolleyes" emoticon. Consider me to be dishing out a very caustic rolleyes atm. Kthnxbye.

EireRoadUser

I think shrimps stuff is good ,theres always time put into his shots.

I think photoshop is a great program ,I can't understand anyone having anything against it.

Shrimp

Thank you Zillah, i dont see how what i said is cringeworthy. It's not that cryptic or arty.

Thanks eireroaduser..

Rojo

Zillah wrote:

He said it was a composite of five pictures. What did you think he did, wave his magic wand? :rolleyes:




Oh yeah...all that imagery stuff, its real gay...


Its times like these I wish there was a less jovial looking "rolleyes" emoticon. Consider me to be dishing out a very caustic rolleyes atm. Kthnxbye.

get off the high horse, there's a difference between stiching and photoshopping them to bits. Don't get me wrong, photoshop is great. I just don't like how people overdo it and pictures don't look real. Anyone can bump up contrast and saturation on a computer..

I didn't say imagery was gay, thanks for throwing words about. Shrimp Just seems to give akward descriptions to most of his photos. Not my cup of tea!

Shrimp

Rojo wrote:

looks a tad photoshopped..

Rojo wrote:

Anyone can bump up contrast and saturation on a computer..

If that's all you think I did, then what are you winging about?