From Florence - part 7 - Abstracts

[MilT0s]

OK, those aren't abstracts, I know. Just a couple shots not directly related to the city.

#17


#18



Mostly playing with the complementary colors contrast (yellow-blue).

Let me know if you find these compositions interesting.


The whole set can be found in my site

Part 1 - The River
Part 2 - The Duomo
Part 3 - Love Padlocks
Part 4 - The Haze
Part 5 - Pigeons
Part 6 - Shadows
Part 8 - Black&Whites

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[Sergio M.]

Great shots and exposure, Miltos. I particularly like the composition of the first one. Fantastic colors on each.

[Mike Buckley]

I like the composition of the second one, though I think I would have liked it even more if there had been no clouds in the sky. For me, the subject is the tree and I don't like that it has the distracting cloud line in the middle of it.

The first one appears overly sharpened, which I don't remember ever thinking about your images.

[MilT0s]

Thanks for your comments Sergio and Mike.

Mike I think you are right, the first one is over-sharpened. I did another PP pass yesterday but today it doesn't look good to me either.

In the second one what I saw in the first place is the sky triangle between the tree, cloud and building.

[MilT0s]

I have replaced #17 with a better (I think) version.

[Mike Buckley]

The sharpening is now fine in #17. However, notice the strong halos that are not sharpening halos on the street light. There is a strong blue halo mostly on the top and left side. There is a strong red halo mostly on the right side. Is that chromatic aberration?

[MilT0s]

Is that chromatic aberration?

Mike this is CA and I really have no idea why my 24-105 gave me that in some shots.

[Mike Buckley]

The image is well worth getting rid of the CA: http://digital-photography-school.co...n-in-photoshop

[MilT0s]

Thanks for your help Mike, really appreciated it.

I uploaded a new version where I tried to fix for CA and halos. I used a different method however, applied the Lend Correction -> Custom -> Chromatic Aberration filter in Photoshop and then a manual mask to the problematic areas.

Thanks again.

[Ans]

The 1st image is great. I lov the composition and the colours. Beautiful. Love the colours in the second one too. well done!!