IMHO this photo needs more context.
If you had not identified Waffle House for the location, this shot could have been anywhere.
By context I mean some thing in the photo that supported the main elements.
Bruce
Last edited by Digital; 24th July 2022 at 11:56 PM.
It works for me. Have you considered a slightly tighter crop on the left and right?
I had considered cropping out the bottom up to just below their shoes and making a landscape, but I like the stools. I could try to remove the stool on the left with that thingy thing on it and replace it with a copy of the stool on the right. That might be my next challenge for the image.
I just noticed how the selection of the shirts needs adjustment. The edges are raggedy. There was something in the tutorial I was watching that I skipped. It was about adjusting the edges. Photoshop is challenging.
Images of people (animals, vehicles, etc.) taken from the back do not generally work all that well. That seems to be the case here.
I don't understand this image.
Philip
I like this image. If you had had time, you could have done it more carefully, but even as a quick capture, I think it's evocative and interesting.
I don't understand how you got motion blur in the background. Can you explain what you did?
I'd crop it. I think there is too much top and bottom, and it's asymmetrical side to side. I would have preferred a somewhat different aspect ratio, but given what you have to work with, I think I would go with something like this:
my guess is that it's some iphone computational photography trick.
I watched a tutorial on blueing backgrounds using photoshop. I selected motion blur. There are a lot of options to explore. Sometimes when two people are focused on one anotherÂ’s everything around blurs out. Like in the movie west side story when Tony and Maria first see each other. Hoping it conveys a bit of that. The background was awful as shot. This was my first time blueing a background. Excuse my mistakes. IÂ’m traveling and typing on a phone thatÂ’s hard to see.
The motion blur is a real distraction to me, I am left wondering if the 2 old boys are in a Time Warp!
Maybe use a different blur, perhaps Gaussian.
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Thank you for commenting, Bo. The fact that you were left wondering I see as a plus. Another poster stated he did not understand it. For me, that's also a plus. A different blur would result in a different image. Maybe they are in a time warp with the world around them rushing by.
Well OK…..you have made the image memorable because it’s a bit different.