On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 11:12:41 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:


All good points - thank you.

I'm just experimenting - rediscovering my "muse" if you will -

I always enjoy experimenting, trying to capture a mood. Since it was a
cloudy day yesterday, my wife wanted to go to an old cometary in
Atlanta, Oakwood Cometary.

I took a photo of a the reflection of a statue in a fountain. I played
with two methods of converting to Black and White. I was trying to
capture the moods of kids lost in the woods being surrounded by the evil
forest.

Let me know if you have a preference or if you think they both suck
equally as bad.

Option A
http://i339.photobucket.com/albums/n...tWoodsSoft.jpg

Option B
http://i339.photobucket.com/albums/n.../LostWoods.jpg

When I first read your post, I did so quickly and missed the fact that they
were reflections. So I viewed them thinking that you had crouched in front
of the statue and taken the picture looking up at the kids.

My thought was, "Damn, neither of those are in focus worth a ****. He must
have gotten some drops of water on his lens."

But, in comparing the two side by side, I liked the sharper picture better
(Option B).

If I were to give any advice, it would be to show a little of the border of
the fountain, just so the context will be obvious. Otherwise, they look
like a photo taken looking up at the statue with poor focus, or water on
the lens.

Amateurish comment, I suppose, but there you go.
--
John H.