The colors of this image are great! I can defiently see a bit of texture to it and the broken glass works great. The open field gives you the feel of the emptiness that something needs to happen or already happened. I think if you worked a tiny bit more on the glass to make the allusion of it trying to continue to go further down, it might be cool. the edges seem a little to clean for the broken glass look. I think if we brought down the sky spots a tab bit lower to create the water makes it would have given more depth to the image and wouldn't have divided the image to two frames. Otherwise, I look the image is great! the tree really stands out to me.
I love your use of the cracked glass effect; it would be nice also to see those cracks extend beyond just that sun ray-like shape. As though the entire glass is cracked, which would likely be the case and therefore appear to be more natural. The sepia image is beautiful and the watercolor feel of the sky is nice!
The distressing of the edges of the photo are a good start to making the photo feel like a wet plate collodion. I think the glass crack is too stark and calls too much attention away from the rest of the photo, especially because there is nothing outside the crack to draw your eye. Keep pushing the distressed aspects to the rest of the print.
I love the cracked glass but wish it was extended just a bit more going with that idea also making the background a bit more visible I want to see the beautiful landscape.
The scene does seem rustic and timeless. The connection of the process to the scene is pretty solid. The glass crack is a great idea, but I think I would explore this a bit more as it seems unnatural (it almost looks like a bullet hole through a window). And also distress the edges a bit more as the top and right edges are really clean.
Compositionally, I would try to bring out the foreground tree a bit more. It is the focal point of the work. Even better, I think I would find a more distressed tree, one that is more stark or even a very light (almost like bone) species that could emotionally evoke the idea of a conflict.
The varied color applied to the image implies the imperfections that inevitably occur through out the entire process and the life of a Wet Plate image. I would recommend adjusting your white point to better match the tonal values found in this process. The subject matter is very traditional and is exactly what one would chose what working with this process. try adding more depth to the crack as the holes seem flat and do not have visual depth to them. The image seems to continue through some of the crack so try masking those areas out so the interruption and fracturing of the image might be more successfully communicated.
This composition of this landscape is harshly interrupted by the placement of the crack in the bottom right corner. I love the subtle use of brush in the sky space, and the over-exposure of the sky is accurate to the historical time we are referencing, but the close proximity and similar shape between the crack and the tree in the foreground is too distracting to enjoy the image fully.
I like your battlefield, I wish I can see it more and I wish you can distress the edges a little bit more.
ReplyDeleteThe colors of this image are great! I can defiently see a bit of texture to it and the broken glass works great. The open field gives you the feel of the emptiness that something needs to happen or already happened. I think if you worked a tiny bit more on the glass to make the allusion of it trying to continue to go further down, it might be cool. the edges seem a little to clean for the broken glass look. I think if we brought down the sky spots a tab bit lower to create the water makes it would have given more depth to the image and wouldn't have divided the image to two frames. Otherwise, I look the image is great! the tree really stands out to me.
ReplyDeleteI love your use of the cracked glass effect; it would be nice also to see those cracks extend beyond just that sun ray-like shape. As though the entire glass is cracked, which would likely be the case and therefore appear to be more natural. The sepia image is beautiful and the watercolor feel of the sky is nice!
ReplyDeleteThe distressing of the edges of the photo are a good start to making the photo feel like a wet plate collodion. I think the glass crack is too stark and calls too much attention away from the rest of the photo, especially because there is nothing outside the crack to draw your eye. Keep pushing the distressed aspects to the rest of the print.
ReplyDeleteI love the cracked glass but wish it was extended just a bit more going with that idea also making the background a bit more visible I want to see the beautiful landscape.
ReplyDeleteThe scene does seem rustic and timeless. The connection of the process to the scene is pretty solid. The glass crack is a great idea, but I think I would explore this a bit more as it seems unnatural (it almost looks like a bullet hole through a window). And also distress the edges a bit more as the top and right edges are really clean.
ReplyDeleteCompositionally, I would try to bring out the foreground tree a bit more. It is the focal point of the work. Even better, I think I would find a more distressed tree, one that is more stark or even a very light (almost like bone) species that could emotionally evoke the idea of a conflict.
The varied color applied to the image implies the imperfections that inevitably occur through out the entire process and the life of a Wet Plate image. I would recommend adjusting your white point to better match the tonal values found in this process. The subject matter is very traditional and is exactly what one would chose what working with this process. try adding more depth to the crack as the holes seem flat and do not have visual depth to them. The image seems to continue through some of the crack so try masking those areas out so the interruption and fracturing of the image might be more successfully communicated.
ReplyDeleteThis composition of this landscape is harshly interrupted by the placement of the crack in the bottom right corner. I love the subtle use of brush in the sky space, and the over-exposure of the sky is accurate to the historical time we are referencing, but the close proximity and similar shape between the crack and the tree in the foreground is too distracting to enjoy the image fully.
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