Boat

[Alex53]

Comments and criticism welcome

 

[startrek2]

whats the fuzziness around the ball ? (left side) a little to washed out for my tastes (top background)

but still nice reflection i like reflections..lol

 

[Johnny|lucidcomposure]

its a really nice photograph but the sphere seems to be showing some clone effects maybe?

If you didn't then I am sorry but there is an apparent disturbance with that orange sphere

 

[BloodyL]

Glitch aside, the first thing I thought was that it is photographic evidence of the river Styx.
My second thought once I'd double checked the mythology is that it is more "in tune" with the river Cocytus.

cracking idea.

 

[ZG002]

I like it..but the top of the photo hurts my eyes while i try to focus on the boat.

 

[robertgilbert86]

I think a mono version would be best.
Selective colouring always seems a bit cheap to me...

 

[Johnny|lucidcomposure]

normally I would agree rob. I find it can be cheaply done but I think if this was monochrome I would just want to remove the object completely if it was not spot colored.

I think the spot coloring plays a huge role in this image.

 

[Alex53]

Thanks for your comments.

I wanted the image to fade into perfect white. So that it looks a little bit like an illustration on white paper...Sorry its causing your eyes some pain ZG002

I will have to go back to it and do the selection around the bouy more accurately, it was a little hard to do on the left because its highlight merged with the background visually. But you're right it could look better.

I am with FStop11 on the spot colouring. I hardly ever use it myself and I considered full monochrome and boat only, but it just lost something.

BloodyL: Consider this image renamed from the boring 'Boat' that was all I came up with to 'Cocytus'. Thanks for your insight and knowledge !

 

[Zake Black]

Thanks for your comments.

I wanted the image to fade into perfect white. So that it looks a little bit like an illustration on white paper...Sorry its causing your eyes some pain ZG002

I will have to go back to it and do the selection around the bouy more accurately, it was a little hard to do on the left because its highlight merged with the background visually. But you're right it could look better.

I am with FStop11 on the spot colouring. I hardly ever use it myself and I considered full monochrome and boat only, but it just lost something.

BloodyL: Consider this image renamed from the boring 'Boat' that was all I came up with to 'Cocytus'. Thanks for your insight and knowledge !

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[BloodyL]

Oooh, thanks Alex!

 

[Alex53]

Downloaded the trial of Fluid Mask, at first sight it looks very good, thanks for sharing!

 

[Zake Black]

Downloaded the trial of Fluid Mask, at first sight it looks very good, thanks for sharing!

No problem,

Their are a couple of others that do the same thing, i tried one from a company called OnOne, (we see this at focus on digital aswell but did not seem to be as slick) and corel trace.

I found fluid mask to the best.. but its down to personall prefence so it may be worth looking at others also.

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