My Last Sunday in My First Half-Century: A Day of Rest and a "Redo" of Claw Row by darylo

My Last Sunday in My First Half-Century: A Day of Rest and a "Redo" of Claw Row

Tuesday, I submit my first photo for critique for 2015, and I spent a good amount of time working on this photo to make it better than the original I had already processed. You might like to see the original for comparison. I posted it at the end of November http://365project.org/darylo/didn-t-make-cut/2014-11-30 . I asked for a critical eye from some friends, and here is what I did:I eliminated distractions above the machines (I had to use a graduated filter because honestly, my "heal/clone" capabilities are still lacking); eliminated distractions on the left; made the right and left more flush with the edge (that involves constraining crops and going for the vertical distortion slider in LR5--learned that trick from my editing friends!!); and cloned out a distracting puddle.

This image is what I submitted, but now I see that some of the flareupon the ground distract the eye for some, but I'm satisfied with it as a first entry in the 2015 Photographic Society months of critiques! I'm there for feedback after all.

I couldn't even post this shot on time for 365 as I am feverishly trying to figure out how to make a slideshow for the end of Year Two and failing pretty miserably. On top of that, holiday, dentist appointments, work, you know, life!
Very effective processing. Fav.
January 20th, 2015  
Really loving the edit!!!
January 20th, 2015  
Very atmospheric.
January 20th, 2015  
A great edit Daryl you have eliminated the distraction really well. A great B&W image!!
January 20th, 2015  
Nice job, Daryl. This looks great!
January 20th, 2015  
Beautiful scene, love the processing!
January 20th, 2015  
greatly artistic, super editing
January 20th, 2015  
wow the first one was great, but this one is so much better! thanks for explaining what you've done!
January 20th, 2015  
Perfect. really great.
January 21st, 2015  
This is terrific. Just those little white bits on the ground that I find distracting, but I think you mentioned that above. Love the lighting.
January 21st, 2015  
Great! Very good composition and neat cropping; love the high contrast.
January 21st, 2015  
i think the black and white some how makes it look a bit sci fi!
January 22nd, 2015  
Yep, great contrasts and wonderful blacks and whites.
February 7th, 2015  
Leave a Comment
Sign up for a free account or Sign in to post a comment.