Taken in B&W Raw, converted to tif.color for processing. shot during daylight hours a solar powered garden light in our backyard.Selected light and saturated yellow channel. Desaturated background in glass panels,then desaturated background.Added 50% Gaussian noise to solar panels,and 6.5% Gaussian noise monochromatic to create rustic look. Sharpened, croped, Saved for web
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Place: 261 out of 274 Avg (all users): 4.3478 Avg (commenters): 4.4000 Avg (participants): 4.1351 Avg (non-participants): 4.6712 Views since voting: 1240 Views during voting: 257 Votes: 184 Comments: 7 Favorites: 0
As an entry to the Image Grain Challenge, it certainly meets the requirements. The concept is a good and saturating to give a yellow channel lifts it from a standard B&W image to something more.
Technical.
The use of added noise has worked well, especially in the glass around the yellow light and B&W was the right way to go for maximum impact. However, the solar panels seem to have taken on a life of their own and are not consistent with the rest of the photo. Perhaps this artifact is due to saving for web.
Personal.
I like the crop, and feel more background would have destroyed the impact of the photo. The use of the rust/brown colour for the lamp lifted it beyond a straight B&W shot. The difference in the grain on the grass and that of the lamp glass makes it stand out in the terms of meeting the challenge and attracting votes. The strange effect on the solar panels definitely hurt your scores. What could have been a 7, has been knocked down to 5, perhaps 6 due to this.
A worthy effort that suffered from saving for web. This could be an area that you could look at, refine or rethink for future challenges.
I think you have a good idea here, but those colored speckles in the top of the lantern really distract me -- they remind me of the sprinkles they put on donuts, and I doubt that's the effect you intended. 8)
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