I spent the day trying to catch up with myself and when I saw that it was likely to be a beautiful sunset, I was way too tired to go anyplace to see it so I shot it off our deck. My mentoring group's assignment is "colors" and I have been remiss but figured here was an opportunity. I experimented for the first time with doing swirls thanks to Marnie's notes. Wild and fun!
Thanks much for your visits, comments, suggestions, favs. I am gradually taking a look at your more recent shots. I don't think I will be able to get to all the ones you posted while I was away, so if you have ones that you would particularly like me to see, please let me know.
@taffy@newbank@888rachel@golftragic@pamknowler Please give me CC as you have time. And, Marnie, I could read about 1/2 way through...maybe I could type what I have up and you fill in the blanks when you have time?
First, I do love it and haven't yet tried it myself, so it's hard to provide CC. I don't know what is possible, so am going just on this image and what I might do with it. I love the individual elements -- it's almost like a collage, but I find there's so much going on that my eyes (or my brain) wanted to know what was critical. To me, it's the twirl on the left supported by the orange swoosh beneath. I'd think about cropping up from the dark area to the bottom of the orange, just above the hint of leaves at the top of the darkest area. Then, I'd come down from the clouds to the top of the feathery stuff, so you don't lose the orange flair on the upper right of the 'eyes'. If I needed to balance for proportion, I'd either square it, or just come in from the right a bit. You'd lose the 'realistic' clouds and grasses.
@jgpittenger No worries, all done and on its way back to you. Very little to correct. Love this treatment of a sunset though I think it would be even better with around 20-25% cropped off the right-hand side, and a little off the top and bottom, more particularly the top.
