Three images for your opinion (Page 3): The Cowboys played today!

leicajah Loc: Texas, grew up in Louisiana

The Cowboys played today!

Hal81 Loc: Bucks County, Pa.

Looks like new years day in Philly when the Mummers march down broad street.

shelty Loc: Medford, OR

The first one is just a plain sharp picture which is very busy. The second is where you added movement into the picture, probably to show that they were moving.; The third, you used a program trying to blot out most of the dancers. I would say that no. one is the best. No. two and three, to my mind, are failures. the best thing to do is; concentrate on one figure and try to make the others look out of focus. I have had luck in changing contrast in the background. if done right, you could make a prize winner as I have done on similar pictures.

Annie-Get-Your-Gun Loc: Byron Center, Mi

rborud wrote:

Hi All I have never done this before, but while working on a couple of PP techniques my curiosity of this group given choice and thoughts might be very helpful. The main goal if which servers better to separate the frontal dancers. So here they are, tear them apart!! RBorud

rborud, what's your point? I don't see any difference in the images. I will say the focus is sharp. I'd be interested in what PP techniques you came up with. Maybe I'm missing something. I hope my comment doesn't scare you off. I'd like to see more of your work.

aellman Loc: Boston MA

rborud wrote:

Hi All I have never done this before, but while working on a couple of PP techniques my curiosity of this group given choice and thoughts might be very helpful. The main goal if which servers better to separate the frontal dancers. So here they are, tear them apart!! RBorud

I prefer #1. You don't need all that processing.

BocaMac

How would it look if you put it into Lightroom and made it blurred, trying for something more abstract. What a palate of compatible colors. It might be fun. Wouldn't have to worry any of the other shortcomings mentioned above.

GWR100 Loc: England

rborud wrote:

Hi All I have never done this before, but while working on a couple of PP techniques my curiosity of this group given choice and thoughts might be very helpful. The main goal if which servers better to separate the frontal dancers. So here they are, tear them apart!! RBorud

For me the second one is the most affective, but if it were mine I would have converted to mono then bought bak muted colour to the areas you want to be less prominent and then bought the rest back to full colour, and if you wanted to go further you could have blurred the picture an bought the stronger front areas back to full sharpness?? just my take on it.

Geoff

rborud Loc: Minnesota

Hi All I can only thank you all so very much for your collective and individual inputs to the proposition I put to any and all. I am truly amazed by the dichotomy of thought on this topic. However I must say that the input from every single one contained gems of information, direction, and thoughts of where not or where to go with my somewhat strange visual thinking.

For those who find this important this was shot with a Nikon1 V2. Kind of amazing was my discover after I was leaving the event, very large number of images I had captured with one battery. I must thank you all again for playing with my little experiment.
RBorud