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Old 25-05-2008, 09:38 AM
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Th early morning light, shuttered shop, single car and pedestrian suggest the quietness; and the human city.




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Hi Antony, I like the lines in this one, and the way that it draws you into the image. Although it could do with a bit of distorting as the buildings seem to be falling away from the middle of the image, I would have probably used the distort tool in photoshop to sort this out.
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I too like this although i would conv to BW and darken the corners, enhance the light filtering through the buildings. the shutters on the RHS look great. nice work
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I think a BW conversion would work great with this image too. Also just a tadge of distortion reseting on the buildings. Great image and thought with the leading lines etc
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Also think this would look in B&W,the only thing i would have done was wait for the person to be between the two posts not behind one (easy to say now...) but something to keep in mind for next time...
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You are really much too generous - I was about to delete this as too boring: but sincerely delighted you have caught what first drew me to the shot. Great advice - I will try B&W and un-distorting (tho' my experience using this tool is not very encouraging - too much crop results, or a different sort of distortion..) Might clone the person forward and stretch her for perspective.

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(tho' my experience using this tool is not very encouraging - too much crop results, or a different sort of distortion..) Might clone the person forward and stretch her for perspective.
Well practice makes perfect (so they keep telling me) .
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