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02-JUL-2005

Rope by Peter Thorup

Reworked version inspired by JDU but not completely so. I wanted to keep the reflexions and also to shift the balance slightly because so much goes on in the lower left corner. Changed the tint slightly in ACR.

Konica-Minolta DiMAGE A2
1/500s f/8.0 at 51.0mm iso64 full exif

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Konica Minolta Users04-Jul-2005 11:03
Thanks for the comments John. I haven't got the original here at work, but I think it was taken more or less with the rope from corner to corner so the crop was mainly from top and bottom. If you look closely at the water for instance close to the bigge reflection on the left I think you can see that there are tiny ripples on the water but almost smoothed away by OOF. Regarding the colors I'll have my wife look at it tonight to circumvent my colorblindness, but as I remember I haven't done anything to change the colors.
Anyway I'll have a go tonight and see if I can use some of your suggestions.
Peter
Guest 04-Jul-2005 09:09
Peter, this one has some interesting qualities to it. The water seems a bit surreal with its OOF swirls/reflections and the jagged reflection of the rope is intriguing to me, given the apparent smoothness of the water overall. The part of the reflection at the left must be your knot from your Blue Knot image or something similar. The colours don't seem quite right. I think this is too yellow/green to look natural to me. I guess that kind of thing might be a challenge with your colour vision. I'd be inclined to run the rope more corner to corner, or if you didn't want to do that, then maybe just below the corner at the top left to just above the corner at the bottom right, although that might kill the reflections you're after. I'm glad I stopped to have a look as the thumbnail doesn't reveal the detail to be seen here.
John