Pond abstract

[celksy]

Please give me your thoughts as to whether you think this works-- as an abstract. Color, composition.... any input appreciated!

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[Marko]

I'm not crazy about this one Celsky. I think it may have been stronger without the fish. The image is also very noisy....sorry.

[celksy]

I'm not crazy about this one Celsky. I think it may have been stronger without the fish. The image is also very noisy....sorry.

Hey, don't be sorry- I really want honest input!

I've been playing around with this particular shot on and off.... I keep feeling there's something there, but when I see the images, I'm unsettled, and not sure why. And actually with this particular image, I did remove a lot of what I felt was distracting detail, and left what you see. Although it did occur to me to remove the fish completely, or in other words wait for when they're elsewhere :)

[theantiquetiger]

Maybe if you could get the fish in better focus, the surface will be out of focus because of the ripples. The green of the water surface has a lot of noise in it.

[susan]

I like the orange and tealish green together - but the noise needs to go bye - bye.... perhaps playing in your editing program and masking the noise? Maybe a little bit of distortion too so that it is more of an abstract. You can also layer other images on top and mask too. There are possibilities here, you just need to think outside the box. :-) Hope that helps. --- i see that you grant permission to edit. I will grab it quick and play with it ....

[susan]

Using this texture (http://www.flickr.com/photos/65974419@N00/5294501371/sizes/l/in/photostream/) -- a little play in LR3 and then over to PS5 - the result of about 15 minutes of play. I hope you like what I did. More so, I hope you try some too! :-) If you don't have Photoshop - GIMP is your friend. It is a free download and quite good.

ETA -- celksy - the two images were layed on top of one another :-)

[celksy]

I like that first one Susan! Looks like you put the fish in a bowl :) I don't recognize the second as coming from my image though :) I do have Photoshop and will try to play a little more..... Thanks!

[kat]

My thoughts are similar to marko.

I personally think, and boy this may sound harsh but I don't want it to be, but I'd like to see you reshoot it if you can than edit the photo.

[celksy]

My thoughts are similar to marko.

I personally think, and boy this may sound harsh but I don't want it to be, but I'd like to see you reshoot it if you can than edit the photo.

My goodness, that's not harsh! I appreciate your input and I will probably both experiment with editing.... and reshooting as well.