Path

Shrimp

Hey guys,

Been a little while since I've put a photo up for C&C, here it is.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/youssefsarhan/232340153/

Thanks.

5uspect

nice shot, very well composed and processed. I love the way the path just falls away like a stream.

440Hz

Yup, works for me.. i said it all on flickr early so you already know i think its super Great work

Valentia

It's nice but it wouldn't be my favourite of your work. Just something not right. The pole/tower on the horizon, the glimple of the lake I dunno, just something keeping it from working for me, something incomplete.

Shrimp

Thanks guys for the comments.

@Vel: I actually like that pole, I left it in on perpose, I was gonna clone it out, but I like the sense of scale it give to the photo.

Zillah

I kinda like it, the sky is gorgeous. However, the lighting seems a bit weird. The foregroud seems really well lit and then it crashes suddenly to a darker area and then back to the brighter sky, kind of upsets my asthetics. Was it post processing or were the clouds acting funny?

Shrimp

It's a composite of about images, that brightness you see was a slight break in the clouds, however after some curves/levels it has jumped out a bit.

The clouds are more dramatic that what they were, they were quite grey, it was over cast. So I bumped the contrast.

Ruu_Old

The clouds look menacing, it works well. Good work.

Oriel

Yet another composite.
What is the subject of the photo? The path, or the clouds?
It all looks too over post-precessed.
Shrimp, take an honest shot. For once. Use film. Let's see what you can really do.
It's sooo cropped too. Let's see the full image.

S.

Shrimp

6 Composites in a gallery of 36 photographs. So so many, I should really stop.

The name of the photograph is "Path", one could only assume that was the subject. Sorry for being so cryptic.

A honest shot? Film? what are you talking about?

"sooo" cropped? explain?

Zillah

Shrimp wrote:

The name of the photograph is "Path", one could only assume that was the subject. Sorry for being so cryptic.

Rofl

Tarakiwa

I really like this..............

The sky is moody .......... I love the way that the path draws you in ........ I also like the colour of the lake.

T

joolsveer

Rofl
what does this mean?

440Hz

joolsveer wrote:

Rofl
what does this mean?

ROFL== Roll On Floor Laughing

Zillah

joolsveer wrote:

Rofl
what does this mean?

n00b! Pwnt! RUFLMAYO!

On teh int0rnet we use crazy talk. Wikipedia can explain all o' these crazy talks for you.

joolsveer

Why not use English? We can all here understand then.

Zillah

Its a form of English, and everyone here does understand...now. Get with the times Pops

joolsveer

You must be one of the elite who regards himself as everyone.

Zillah

Now who's not speaking English?

Shrimp

here, lets keep this on topic. Jools, what do you think of the photo?

Zillah

I'm out.

CONMIKE12

I like your shot Shrimp,well done.And i don't see what the problem is whether it be a composite or not.Keep 'em coming !!

sionnach

sinecurea wrote:

Yet another composite.
What is the subject of the photo? The path, or the clouds?
It all looks too over post-precessed.
Shrimp, take an honest shot. For once. Use film. Let's see what you can really do.
It's sooo cropped too. Let's see the full image.

S.

Is the goal of the photographer to deliver a final image to his taste or to just stick to whatever he manages to capture in the confines of one exposure and the default aspect of the camera's sensor?

I believe in the former. So what if it's cropped ffs? If ~3x2 doesn't suit the way you want to present something then screw it, crop all you want. This purism is really beginning to annoy me, fair play to shrimp for experimenting. He's trying to capture the landscape as he saw it and he does, he's not a press photographer photoshopping a warzone.

To me all these people needlessly criticising post processing and exposure composites like this just sound like sore losers who lack the talent to do so themselves.

Valentia

Agree completely sionnach. Even though I'm not mad about the pic, Shrimp is dead right to get it to where HE wants it.

sionnach

Yeah i'm not crazy about the picture either, i think the foreground is too bright and distracting, but if that's the way shrimp wants it and he can do it in photoshop, then fire ahead. It's your privilege as an artist

Zillah

I for one find all this quite ironic.

JackKelly

I like the photo, nice and simple with some good contrasting tones. I think the bright/dark mixture brings to it and the patches of red also add something. I presume it's a stitch?

Shrimp

Yep, of about 4 photos.

I'm glad you like it.

joolsveer

Shrimp wrote:

here, lets keep this on topic. Jools, what do you think of the photo?

I like your work in general and I really like the path shot with the sinuous track.