Thanks for all the great comments. This picture did better than I thought it would: the colour contrasts are not as obvious as I would have hoped , in that I did not have many complimentary colours next to each other (the reason why I was going back to re-shoot). The man in the picture is a stranger, but necesary, I thought, to create a sense of scale.
Thanks again!
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Took a few photos at this inflatable installation on the South Bank next to Tower Bridge on Bank Holiday Monday. Saw the challenge, and decided to go back to re-shoot a couple of shots yesterday, but the whole thing had been dismantled and taken away. Had to coax one of my shots from last Monday into shape.
Desaturated a bit (!), had thankfully shot RAW, so recovered some missing highlights and boosted the mid tones without too much trouble. Some moderate sharpening and de-noising to get rid of in-camera noise (the place itself was smooth - I wanted to capture that). Resized and cleaned a few stray pixels resulting from exposure manipulation and noise treatment. Some more sharpening and save for web.
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Place: 4 out of 343 Avg (all users): 6.7871 Avg (commenters): 8.2581 Avg (participants): 6.7034 Avg (non-participants): 6.9038 Views since voting: 4525 Views during voting: 424 Votes: 249 Comments: 41 Favorites: 11 (view)
They still have those installations? I got some good (slide) shots back in 1984 at the Barbican Centre, though it was a much lower and more tunnelled affair. But great image, and the person really adds to the atmsophere of this strange world of colour. Congratulations on your high placing.
I knew it would do well - the colours are so good and it is well shot despite not getting a second chance!
Deserves its place or higher! Well done Matthew.
Really nice finish here. I love this image. Definitely one of the very strongest color-contrast shots. I'd sort of expected it to ribbon, and it nearly did.
Well I see, not as many people found the guy as distracting as I. After going back over it I realized the guy may be more of an asset to the composition than a distraction. Well congratulations, and its well-deserved.
What it the world is this?! Where it is? Is it really this colorful in person or did you accent it. It looks like the boy just stepped into a painting.
First of all, this is excellent exposure. Great colors, and this fits in well with the subject. I do have to say, the inclusion of a figure really takes away some of the inherent mystique and aura of this photograph, especiallyin regular street clothes.
Nice one Matt. This place looks fantastic - we need it to educate all the other voters out there exactly what colour is.
Technically brilliant on the reds, a bit dark on the greens and too many midtones on the blues, but who cares.
Should place very high IMHO (am I biased? - probably)
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