After a disappointing hike, only disappointing because I couldn’t find a single yellow leafed tree, I found this little gourd on the side of the road, half eaten by something wild. I thought it would make for something interesting. I also happened to be visiting the old and busted Spring Valley Bridge, and thought the two would go together.
PP :
1)auto color, auto levels
2)bumped up the saturation to +33 and tweaked the hue +4
3)USM: 85% / 1.0 pixels / 4 levels.
4)Flipped it over to Helicon Noise Filter, for a 110% run
5)Back to PS-CS, for a crop / resize / save for web.
I hope it does well. I love the shot!
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It's a pretty interesting-looking shot, and the gourd has a pretty heavy look to it, but the overall balance seems a little off...like the gourd wants to be in the center, but it's not, or it wants to be off to the side, but it's sitting in between. The left side feels really empty compared to the right, which has the heavy 'weight' of the gourd, along with the stuff in the background, and there's nothing on the left side to really offset that.
I like the dof for this shot very much. It really works. I also like the black color against the yellow. The setting is strange...not where you'd expect to find a gourd but it's a visually pleasing enough shot.
Interesting observation of likeness of bolt heads to gourd. The composition suffers from the picture being cut nearly in half horizontally. Perhaps if the gourd were moved further back, the camera moved to the right, so that it allowed more of the bridge to be seen and so that the gourd compared in pictorial size to the bolt heads A 5.
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