This was a very difficult shot for me. You can't tell from the picture, but these graves are about 8 feet apart from each other! I struggled with light, focus and detail. Cutting this photo down to 640 pixels without having diagonal pixelations (particularly in the "Ware" headstone) was very tricky. I had to crop the picture alot, then did some hue, saturation, brightness and contrast adjustments to the whole image. I do love the irony though, and couldn't resist trying to capture it!
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I really appreciate everyone's comments throughout the challenge. I am honored to have placed 7th! This was a tricky photo to take, due to the distance between the headstones. I took the following shot at a different time of day, but you can see the perspective. Take a look below:
As for critique, I'm wondering if you used curves (or similar) to adjust the colors of the image. The pine needles seem extremely orange and not real too me. They are colors that fall leaves would typically be; not pine. (not that I've seen anyway!)
Ok, ok.. so I'm sitting here starring at this and saying I don't get it. But I'm determined to give each and every shot equal chances because I've only seen a few that are Irony and not just staged Oxymorons. Then it hits me- WARE WULF! Duh!!! And I started laughing. That's great! Nicely done! Good colors too!
Ha! One of the few images in the challenge that made me chuckle! Good find, indeed. I might have tried showing more of the "Wulf" stone... something bothers me just a little about the composition. Hard to say whether it would have been possible, but a straight on shot might have been cool, especially with the colorful foliage in the background.
I came across this a second time and could have sword I'd voted and commented on it, either I'm going mad, my computer is, or the comments went astry - lost to the void. anyhow, enough stream of conciousness...
I like lifes little conincednces and this is certianlly an amusing one. the focus is bothering me slightly though -the way it's sharp on the background and not the foreground, praps greater depth of field might have aided?
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