theonlyD800inthehameau
Photography by theonlydeadheadinthehameau
One Photo Focus: February 2016
The original image for this month’s One Photo Focus challenge was provided by Stacy at lensaddiction and is what I’d call a bit of a tester.
Before
After
There’s a lot going on in the original image and not all of it sits comfortably together (a sailing ship and modern high-rise buildings, for a start).
After a lot of thought, I decided to crop in on the rigging and, in particular, the two human figures, which I placed on a Rule-of-Thirds point.
Having looked at the blown-up image, I felt that there wasn’t enough detail in the figures to command much attention so I went for the opposite extreme and effectively turned them into silhouettes by taking down all the sliders – Highlights, Shadows, Whites and Blacks – to -100.
This also made the background sky more interesting and to compound that effect I used a Graduated Filter at the top to reduce the exposure of this part of the image. This not only darkened the clouds but also reduced the ‘blown-out’ area where the sun sits. I think the final result is quite dramatic.
theonlyD800inthehameau 
I think so too, Bryan! Seems you weren’t alone in focusing in on that wonderful rigging 🙂 Love the silhouettes – they just pop right out. For some reason – and I don’t quite know why – I find myself thinking of Captain Hook and Peter Pan 😉 Thanks for being part of 1PF!
Love your job
We have worked quite the same…
Ciao ciao
Max
Grazie. Do you know the English expression ‘Great minds think alike’?
oh yeah ! thank you very much !!!
I have to be honest, I didn’t actually realise there were people in the rigging of this image, I might have known when I took it but now Im surprised, so well done for noticing!
Thank you – although, to be fair, I wasn’t the only one.
Love how you cropped the photo and how the silhouettes just pop out. 🙂
Thank you very much