[matthew]

Here's something that I have in mind as a possible "fine art" print, to be sold as a set of three and matted roughly like this:


(slightly larger)

I have some others that I can use as singles as well.

Any and all thoughts, feedback, and to-shreds-ripping will be appreciated.

[Toad]

I don't really see any reason to rip it up. Its a good solid effort. Great color. Composition across the 3 frames is excellent with the first frame leading the viewer into the complexity, and the final frame "capping" the photo - and spinning the viewer back into it again rather than letting him go. All the blue metal is within the boundaries of the red and the 3 frames hang together very well. First class effort, I would say.

If I had any quibble, it would be that the blue in the center frame doesn't quite match the other 2 frames. I like the gradient, but it might link it somewhat better if the darkest blue in the gradient matched the blue in other 2 frames exactly. That would tie it all together just that little bit better.

Triptychs are very commercially desirable in the photo fine art world as well.

[matthew]

Thanks Rob, I agree about the blues not matching and will certainly fix that when I do my higher-resolution scans. I'm trying to decide which tones I'll try to keep, whether its the more saturated sky with less differentiation of the supports that I see in the side photos, or the darker supports with the paler sky of the central image. The three photos have to match, but I like both renderings.

When I'm looking at these three together I have to remind myself that the middle photo is the same size as the ends. I perceive the lighter colour as being a slightly smaller square…

[EnglishBob]

I like it, and have the same comment on the middle blue. How's it look in Mono?

[NT73]

If the two outer ones have drop shadows, then the centre one need not be smaller. But it will look farther away. Maybe. :/

[matthew]

I intentionally used different B&W conversions to get a sampling of different looks, and I have to say that none of them grab me. But I frequently suffer from an inability to imagine things being different from how I first saw them.

[Toad]

I think these lose for not having the color.

[matthew]

I have to agree.

I've tried converting some other images into B&W – mostly ones that have some serious colour balance issues. Perhaps unsurprisingly, I haven't really liked those in mono, either. But I need to figure out if it's that I don't like the colour to B&W conversion from film, or if it's simply a matter of GI-GO.

I need to get this figured out before the next trip so that I bring the right film types, but perhaps 120 and 135 formats aren't similar enough that I can draw comparisons. Time to go through the archives, I suppose.