Wheel
Uploaded: October 23, 2012
1/6sec; f8; ISO 100; 20mm
Exif: F Number: 8, Exposure Bias Value: -1.00, ExposureTime: 1/6 seconds, Flash: did not fire, compulsory flash mode, ISO: 100, White balance: Manual white balance, FocalLength: 20.00 mm, Model: Canon EOS 50D
Peter W. Marks October 25, 2012
I uploaded the wrong version! This one had the distracting white above the springs on the wheel. As BP were quick off the mark and gave it an EFP I will leave it but add the adjusted version here.Stephen Shoff October 25, 2012
Good to see you getting back on track, Peter!I think your two replacements could be done better.
For the one on the right, it appears there was enough detail that you could have used the original content and just applied a localized multiply or overlay blend to bring out a little more detail and darken it.
For the one on the left, it isn't clear that there was enough detail for the same solution as above but you could try it. The replacement you selected is large and detailed enough that it looks like an entire landscape all by itself. I think you might have done better to use the healing brush or clone tool to copy the gravel from just below and to the left of the spring to provide the alternate background. #10383637
lisa anderson October 25, 2012
Congrats on your EP, Peter! I like the tones in this shot. #10384229Dale Hardin October 25, 2012
So glad to see you feeling better Peter, and ..... that you're taking a detailed look and action to get the best from your images. Well done old friend.That said, Stephen made some good points. The one on the right you can get away with, but the one on the left is very obvious, although an effort to be applauded, and one that you'll be more sensitive if the need arises again. Ain't learnin' fun?
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Jeff E Jensen October 25, 2012
Well, I like it, Pete! #10384297Beth Spencer October 25, 2012
Congratulations on your EP! I hope you are feeling better.Michael Kelly October 25, 2012
Very nice Peter - you can almost feel the textures you captured here. I like it.I also think it is great that you recognized a small problem area and attempted to correct it. These type of fixes get easier with some experience so just keep working at them. #10384384
Rita K. Connell October 26, 2012
congrat's on EP I love the textures in this one I think this one would look in black and white also.Hope you are feeling better. don't go outside today....I think you are having the same weather we are rain....! no more slipping or falling #10385151
Peter W. Marks October 26, 2012
Thank you friends for your welcome back and your comments. However, whilst I am coping with my cracked ribs I am not sure what the bump on the head has done for me! Stephen and Dale, as much as I have re-read your comments several times I am left in a state of some puzzlement.Dale Hardin October 26, 2012
It's very simple old one. :o) there is an area on the top right of your image that was corrected, and an area on the top left of your image that was corrected. Hence, the one on the right and the one on the left. #10385580Stephen Shoff October 26, 2012
Yes, Peter, both Dale and I were referring to your original "Wheel" post and the comment you yourself made about bright spots above the springs...which you then posted a correction for. We are not referencing anything in your gallery.For the clone work you did on the right white area, there is some detail in the original "Wheel" image. You didn't need to have cloned it out. You could have just added a multiply layer that was masked so that only that one area was darkened.
For the clone work you did on the left white area, there is some detail available in the original "Wheel" image but maybe not enough to use the same solution I suggested for the the right white area. If not, you'll have to find something to clone into there. What you picked doesn't seem like it works very well.
Yes, your entire image has great detail. Our comments were limited to those two white areas that needed attention. #10385947
Peter W. Marks October 27, 2012
Dale and Stephen. I have learned something from your posts that perhaps would benefit most of us in the club. I have noticed in the past that there is sometimes confusion over which image we refer to when suggesting inprovements. This happens especially when we submit more than one version of the image we want suggestions for and show the pre-adjusted image beneath the improved image. What seems to happen then is that folk talk about "the original image" and we are left wondering if that means the 'improved' version that we submitted first for comment or does it mean the "original out of camera pre-adjusted version"? I hope that makes sense! In future I will label mine something along the lines of 'Dandelion v.1' and 'Dandelion v.2' and then my good friends here can say (and you know who you are! :0) "Peter,the tip of the petal at the top in V.1 has a tiny speck of brown on it and right at the left side, one of the clouds is slightly blown out". Then I can take another pain pill, sigh deeply, wish it was 6pm so that I might take a glass of wine without guilt and do my best to make all you lovely people happy!#10386157
Aimee C. Eisaman October 27, 2012
Peter a very neat shot...love the detail in it. My husband really likes it too! I'm sure you will be able to take care of the issues mentioned once you get to feeling better. :~) #10386298Peter W. Marks October 27, 2012
Thanks Aimee and tell Dwayne thanks too. I have to thank Dale for the inspiration for the image as I was so impressed by a similar one he shot some time back and gained a POTD. His was of an axle box on a locomotive as I remember.Kristin Duff October 27, 2012
Peter, delighted to see you are back at it despite the pain...one foot in front of the other is all that is required. unless of course the glass of wine reacts with the pain meds and you are flat on your ass...Congratulations on EP- that's a nice come back! Take good care...Kristin #10386819Peter W. Marks October 27, 2012
Very kind of you Kristin, thank you.Kristin Duff October 27, 2012
lol! #10387011Susan M. Reynolds October 28, 2012
I'm for the version on the bottom of the two posted. I like how one can read the words stamped in the steel & see the texture...I'm with Rita and thinks this would be a great photo for a Black and White too.Chris Budny October 28, 2012
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