Life

by **tombothetominator** on Wed May 02, 2007 7:34 pm

Photo manip from a hunting trip, where i suddenly started postulating on our dependence on grain for life (animals eat the grain, we eat the animals, ect)

I went a little overboard with the grass brush...
Coms and Crits welcome.

by **LucasZ21** on Wed May 02, 2007 9:19 pm

All the fancy stuff kinda takes something away from the point your trying to get across (the grain>animals>people thing).

but I like the concept.

by **tombothetominator** on Wed May 02, 2007 10:24 pm

Appreciate the comments.
I wasn't really trying to get the grain-animals-people thing to show up in the image. That was just what inspired the thought.

by **Excruciating** on Thu May 03, 2007 6:24 am

Just remove the grass-brush and it would look a lot better

by **DonTony** on Thu May 03, 2007 9:48 am

agree

by **tombothetominator** on Thu May 03, 2007 3:55 pm

Appreciate the crits guys. So no grass - should anything replace it, or is the double border as-is good enough?

Thanks again!

by **DonTony** on Thu May 03, 2007 5:00 pm

uhh i wouldn't make the border bleu...
i would also delete the green glow around the text.
and i think the bg is a bit overblurred.

sorry
no cool ideas

by **Excruciating** on Thu May 03, 2007 5:07 pm

I really like the effect on the two straws, looks excellent. The border should just be black. A border is supposed to be simplistic and not something you should pay attention to as a viewer really. Don't change the text either if you ask me.
And don't replace the grass brush with anything.
THe only real problem I see is the low detail in the background. I could imagine that this image would rather quickly get boring to look at.

by **tombothetominator** on Thu May 03, 2007 5:34 pm

cool guys. Appreciate the crits and will make some changes today. As far as the blurred background: not much i can do about that as that was how i took the picture. :roll:

by **tombothetominator** on Thu May 03, 2007 5:48 pm

Allright, updated photo at top of thread with changes. What are the thoughts about grass paths? Should they go as well? I hesitate to remove them because then there really isn't a lot in the image to look at....

Original for reference:

by **Excruciating** on Thu May 03, 2007 7:37 pm

The image in itsself is looking pretty good xD

by **DonTony** on Thu May 03, 2007 8:17 pm

yeah i agree
nice focal point

by **tombothetominator** on Thu May 03, 2007 9:13 pm

thanks!

by **Q21** on Thu May 03, 2007 11:05 pm

Remove grass brush and fix text and it would be much better.

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