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23-JUN-2007 Barry Armer

House of Cards *

Houston, TX


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Guest 28-Jun-2007 23:03
Thank you CJ!
ctfchallenge28-Jun-2007 21:53
Great idea Barry! The image may benefit from a little increase in contrast and saturation but still a great shot and definitely delicate! CJ
Guest 27-Jun-2007 15:16
Thanks Shu!
ctfchallenge27-Jun-2007 01:23
Nicely composed shot! It really has eye appeal, IMO. shu
Guest 26-Jun-2007 00:51
Well...this will have to do! I guess I got lucky before because I couldn't even build one today. Now I like this one even more! :-)
Guest 25-Jun-2007 17:04
OK! OK! I'll work on some different versions when I get home from work tonight and see if I can improve it by taking into consideration as many of your very good comments as possible. Thanks for the encouragement!
ctfchallenge25-Jun-2007 14:03
This very delicate house of cards has definite possibilities, but could use some more exploration. A very well respected college photography teacher (who's name I forget) used to give projects to photograph the same object in as many different positions and situations as possible on one roll of film, then select from them five that best met the objective. The purpose was to find the surprises the would be discovered in the process. -tv
ctfchallenge25-Jun-2007 04:03
Aahh chooow. Sorry about that. Great idea Barry. -COAmature
Guest 24-Jun-2007 14:43
Thanks Rod! I really like the Photomatrix program for HDR and looking around in Pbase it seems to be the most popular HDR option available.
Rod 24-Jun-2007 07:46
An extra well done Barry as yours is the first HDR that looks natural....................I'm impressed mate:-)
Guest 24-Jun-2007 02:18
Thanks Rod and Tom. Versions I took with more dramatic lighting or higher contrast ended up with blown out whites on the face of the glossy cards. I ended up going with an HDR conversion using Photomatrix to try and make it as realistic as possible. I like your suggestion though and I may have tried some additional shots but the thing fell down and ended my session prematurely! *#!*#&
Guest 23-Jun-2007 23:43
It's really nice, but also has GREAT potential with just a litte tweaking! I agree with Rod on the contrast & shadows.
TomD.
Rod 23-Jun-2007 22:44
Good idea Barry we all know how delicate this is as a structure. The shot looks to need a bit more contrast & for a picy challenge it may have been best to set this up with some more dramatic lighting & a plain backdrop. Look how good the shadows are at the bottom you can make the shadows a bigger part of the shot. Then again you can just say, bugger that I'm off to play golf:-)