"my lonley heart" by saintly

[Mark Evans]

as the title suggests.....on the way to my local MA store this morning. there was a field full of poppies, but i felt this was a stronger picture.

2 ways of looking at this image....

 

[Stu Worrall]

i prefer the portrait one, loveley shot and well seen. got a great depth of field bum bum

 

[TDI-line]

Are you photo chopping again Mark.

 

[ceg4048]

Both have their merits mark. Difficult to choose between the two because they each say something different.

Cheers,

 

[Mark Evans]

Are you photo chopping again Mark.

i'm not good enough for that mate

 

[Mark Evans]

Difficult to choose between the two because they each say something different.

cheers guys. there was the typical field shot which was full of them...

my over contrasty style

then the single flower in the early barley fields.

 

[ceg4048]

Nice one. You did a superb job of not blowing out the red channel. Plenty of detail there. I really struggle with that. Don't know how you do it mate. 8)

Cheers,

 

[Mark Evans]

Thanks Clive.

I'd like to say it was skill, but you know, i'm lucky at times. I don't actually go through the thought process of retaining detail...it just kind of happens. shooting 2 stops under works a treat for me and RAW processing is my other weapon of choice. my third?....the gradient tool in PS 8)

as you'll already know, and it's evident in your sunset/rise images the use of curves is a powerful tool to darken areas whilst not "blowing" other parts of the image.

I'm by no means a master of PS or RAW conversion, but i have my ways of doing stuff which work, similar to my Tanks I suppose.

thanks for the interest.

mark

 

[oldwhitewood]

Thats some skill you have there, great colours even on my crappy work monitor.

 

[Mark Evans]

cheers dude. 8)