The Flaw

Aynia · Post by **Aynia** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 11:17 am

The flaw in the glass bottle! I can't make up my mind, but I think this is too dark!!

ChrisR · Post by **ChrisR** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 1:49 pm

Well I like it a lot. So mysterious.

I wouldn't have guessed a bottle.
It has a enough white for me.

It occured to me to make the reddish part lower left match the rest - perhaps you put it there though?

Harold Gough · Post by **Harold Gough** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 11:39 pm

ChrisR wrote: It occured to me to make the reddish part lower left match the rest - perhaps you put it there though?

The red in the lower left background ties in with traces of red around the rim of the bubble.

An interesting, somewhat brooding shot.

Harold

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 11:47 pm

I keep coming back to this one. It's a bit addictive.

The thing in the middle looks like a flaw only if you know the other stuff is a bottle.

Otherwise the bubble looks pure and pristine, and all the other stuff looks like, well, flaws!

--Rik

Harold Gough · Post by **Harold Gough** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 12:15 am

rjlittlefield wrote: The thing in the middle looks like a flaw only if you know the other stuff is a bottle.

Otherwise the bubble looks pure and pristine, and all the other stuff looks like, well, flaws!

Rik,

There is flaw in your reasoning!

Harold

ChrisR · Post by **ChrisR** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 12:48 am

The red in the lower left background ties in with traces of red around the rim of the bubble.

Yes Harold. Have you only just noticed?

I keep coming back to this one. It's a bit addictive.

I agree. "Impact + interest" - and I want one!

Harold Gough · Post by **Harold Gough** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 1:25 am

ChrisR wrote:
The red in the lower left background ties in with traces of red around the rim of the bubble.
Yes Harold. Have you only just noticed?

I was responding to this, which I read as making it blue:

ChrisR wrote:It occured to me to make the reddish part lower left match the rest - perhaps you put it there though?

Harold

Aynia · Post by **Aynia** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 7:10 am

Thank you for your comments everyone.

I agree the red bit does tie in with the bits on the flaw.... and I did think about cloning it out, but was a bit lazy to even try!!

ChrisR · Post by **ChrisR** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 7:56 am

By request

(Much of the red patch desaturated, then overpainted with a low opacity brush in "Color" mode, with colours sampled from the image. A few specks zapped and the very point of the UFO lightened to just separate it from the background)

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 8:34 am

Definitely improved, to my eye.

"UFO" is very apt. I was thinking earlier that this image would make a great illustration for some science fiction story about a mysterious alien craft hovering over dimly seen landscape.

Having the red restricted to the shiny thing helps to further make it different from the other stuff.

Nicely seen, nicely shot, nicely edited.

--Rik

Aynia · Post by **Aynia** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 12:24 pm

Thanks Chris for posting your version and the explanation. I have learned something new from it!

It didn't occur to me to paint it with colours taken near by!!!!! Sheesh. I hate editing.