More Balloons

[Jocelyn Walker]

I thought by darkening the pic, it would give it more punch, however I am aware of some noise! What are your thoughts, ideas or critique!

[lumix]

Re: More Balloons

I thought by darkening the pic, it would give it more punch, however I am aware of some noise! What are your thoughts, ideas or critique!

I like this image, but can't help thinking it was posted in hast. With a little more work it has become quite a pleasing picture. Noise is not a problem these days as there are many free programmes that will reduce noise to an acceptable level. I have also cloned out the roof of that building. Here is how I think it should have been posted.

[Patrick]

Re: More Balloons

I thought by darkening the pic, it would give it more punch, however I am aware of some noise! What are your thoughts, ideas or critique!

The mood of this picture is quite extraordinary, I love it. I would as Limix suggests clone out the building, but leave the noise. In fact I would sharpen just a little, this will give a gritty look. It will emphasize even more the mood of the image.
Shades of the old 3M Scotch 1600 transparency film much loved by many photographers.

Great stuff

Patrick

[JonMikal]

Re: More Balloons

yep, i agree.

[Jocelyn Walker]

Re: More Balloons

Thanks so much for your comments each one of you! I agree with you Ron that cloning the building out would improve the photo! Adding a simple border just adds that tad of completion! I have been playing about with B&W settings in Paintshop 9 this week & got really excited with the effects it can bring about to some of my pics! I wondered if it was just me or if the critique would show that I was actually doing something half right! It definitely has affirmed that & thank you! Now I can go back to the drawing board, so to speak!

[lumix]

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Thanks so much for your comments each one of you! I agree with you Ron that cloning the building out would improve the photo! Adding a simple border just adds that tad of completion! I have been playing about with B&W settings in Paintshop 9 this week & got really excited with the effects it can bring about to some of my pics! I wondered if it was just me or if the critique would show that I was actually doing something half right! It definitely has affirmed that & thank you! Now I can go back to the drawing board, so to speak!

Jocelyn I tried a B&W version of your image and it looks great. Add a bit of film grain to a B&W conversion and see what you think. Patrick suggested sharpening the colour version so that's also worth a try. I'm not a great lover of grain in colour images but that's just my own personal taste.