Not Ready for Prime Time

it is about sharing and learning from each other... I have entered plenty of photos in contests here that weren't great and didn't get any votes but love it anyways... you still have a few hours to enter and I encourage it! ...in fact, this group was what gave me the encouragement to even try to take a decent photo... I'm still working on it

I like the coors there too!

is very interesting... I played with it a little (just my lowly Windows program) and like the lines...

(hope you don't mind S. Tater)

without being drawn to any single point. I like it!

Edit: the more I look at it the more i don't want to stop looking at it.

I could play with it in Paintshop Pro. I thought I might try some of them in B&W, or fiddle with the contrast (or both).

This would make a nice poster.

using Paint Shop Pro.

And it uses many of the same plug-ins.

Handmades version was nice. A bit of cropping that you used, focused subject a bit better.
The eye is definately drawn toward the triangular shape of the support structure.
Go back, take some more.

I went back and re-took the shot, monochromed it and flipped it 180 degrees to make it look like the light is coming from the sky above rather than from the river below. It's not "reality", but I think it turned out pretty good.

On edit: It sort of looks like that "path" of pipes is inviting you to walk into the scene. I think the eye can find it's way through the picture more easily with the light coming from the "right" direction.

Good on you for returning to the scene.

There is still something about the original color shot that draws me; even the blown out portions around the original don't really detract from it (for me anyway), I think because the other elements override the natural draw of blown out areas. I guess what I'm trying to say is that cropping to remove those areas also seems to take away a bit from the original, but I'm not sure why.

Nice photos in any case.

It's amazing how well the flip worked.
If you can, please repost it in the RGB color.
The green and gray-brown contrast of the first images really caught my eye.

BTW, this was three bracketed exposures combined in the Photomatix HDR program.

That just looks cool.
Thanks.

need a bunch of mega pixels. I like the photos. The colors, the compositions are very pleasing.

Keep on shooting.


BTW, I started with a 3.1 mpx camera.