I took some pictures of people up in a lighthouse and I got lucky with this one. I thought I'd blown it because of some other distracting elements in the photo, but it was easy to crop them out. I predict that some people will think it's tilted and some people just won't get the photo at all. I'm hoping that some will enjoy the thematic resonance of a dwarfed hand reaching through bars on a lighthouse.
neat image
crop
calculations to b/w, multiplying red and green channels
levels to make the gray areas more contrasty
resize
USM 4px 150+%
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Well dang, this shot was a disappointment. I didn't think it would score well but I thought at least a few people would like it. I'm very happy that jonfrommk grokked it.
Rob, maybe you're right. A white sky. I think if I used the blue channel I could have managed that.
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He looks locked away in a tower prison -- an unfortunate, lonely, little prince reaching out for human contact. Sort of makes me think of the way severe depression can keep a person trapped and isolated even on the sunniest day. I really like the b&w, the light, and the lines of this image. Nice composition.
I find it hard to comment on this picture. It took me a long while to see the child. There are so many lines criss-crossing in the shot that the viewer quickly gets lost, nothing to hold on to. May be if the child dropped something like a stuffed animal or so. Then there would be a story to tell.
Lovely B&W conversion and quite a haunting picture. The hand stretching through the railings seems very plaintive (almost as if it is stretching out to either stop a parent leaving or grasping for a balloon that has slipped from its grasp.
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