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    Old Friends

    I saw them sitting at a Waffle House in Georgia and quickly framed and snapped on my cell phoe. The lighting was pretty bad. Not sure how well this works. Comments welcomed.

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    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.

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    It works for me. Have you considered a slightly tighter crop on the left and right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Digital View Post
    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.

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    I just had the feeling they were old friends as they sat talking to one another. Old friends that with time grew to resemble each other.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stagecoach View Post
    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.

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    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.

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    Re: Old Friends

    Images of people (animals, vehicles, etc.) taken from the back do not generally work all that well. That seems to be the case here.

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    I don't understand this image.

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    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:

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    Quote Originally Posted by DanK View Post
    I don't understand how you got motion blur in the background. Can you explain what you did?
    Hence my previous post - I don't understand the how and the why of two friends apparently sitting at a bar which seems to be rushing past them?

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    my guess is that it's some iphone computational photography trick.

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DanK View Post
    my guess is that it's some iphone computational photography trick.
    Found motion blur in photoshop.

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    The motion blur is a real distraction to me, I am left wondering if the 2 old boys are in a Time Warp!

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    Maybe use a different blur, perhaps Gaussian.


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    Quote Originally Posted by lunarbo View Post
    The motion blur is a real distraction to me, I am left wondering if the 2 old boys are in a Time Warp!
    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.

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    Well OK…..you have made the image memorable because it’s a bit different.

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