CR, Help me pick a picture (vote inside)

[Ramsey]

Can you soften the background? It needs something.

[Richard Cranium]

Short Wide #3

[bmwohio]

Thanks for all the feedback, guys.

 

I'm stuck between these two at this point.

 

http://i976.photobucket.com/albums/ae245/bmwohio/2014%20Solo%20Nationals%20pics/kale-8cutoutcopy-3_zps76b59cb1.jpg

 

http://i976.photobucket.com/albums/ae245/bmwohio/kale-8cutout-crop_zps854abed2.jpg

 

 

I may have both printed and hang them to see how they look. The hard part has been finding a frame in that size WITH the correct matting to match. I know Hobby Lobby will cut custom mat....I may go that route.

 

Thanks again, for everyone's feedback.

[bmwohio]

Ok....LAST option, I promise.....this adds the cone back into color, to give it a little more width and action.....thoughts?

 

http://i976.photobucket.com/albums/ae245/bmwohio/2014%20Solo%20Nationals%20pics/kale-8b_zps7a1dc5ac.jpg

[Ramsey]

Ok....LAST option, I promise.....this adds the cone back into color, to give it a little more width and action.....thoughts?

 

http://i976.photobucket.com/albums/ae245/bmwohio/2014%20Solo%20Nationals%20pics/kale-8b_zps7a1dc5ac.jpg

 

this

[bmwohio]

I feel like this picture is the best description of how you feel when you are out there....just you and the cones, and everything else is blocked out of your mind....

[zeitgeist57]

Love it. The colored cones, definitely. I agree 100%; focus on the car attacking the corner. Almost pulls the cones out from the picture, giving it a 3-D aspect.

[ImUrOBGYN]

Asshole. Not I'm not sure. The newest one is pretty good, too.

[wagner]

Ok....LAST option, I promise.....this adds the cone back into color, to give it a little more width and action.....thoughts?

 

http://i976.photobucket.com/albums/ae245/bmwohio/2014%20Solo%20Nationals%20pics/kale-8b_zps7a1dc5ac.jpg

 

This is a good picture and a great edit. This is also something you don't see made into a poster very often.

 

Get a custom frame done for it and call it a day

[bmwohio]

Yea....I think we have a winner :fuckyeah:

[Dr. Pomade]

Only way to improve it is to put my abs somewhere in there - but then no one will know there's a BMW in the picture. I voted #3, which is what 9 other incredibly intelligent and handsome people picked as well.

[zeitgeist57]

^^^ "26-percenter"

 

ELITIST

[Dr. Pomade]

^^^ "26-percenter"

 

ELITIST

 

I PUT THE L337 IN ELITIST

[Geeto67]

just my worthless wooden 2 pennies:

 

you want to crop the dead space out of the photos. The sky for one, but also that hundred feet of just dead space in front of the car. I get that you want to put the cone in the pic frame but why? because it shows racing? I think the background blur and the race stickers do that enough. If you insist on it being in there try to photoshop it closer to the car then but I don't really think it adds to the narrative of the photo and just serves as a bright orange distraction. The car at speed is what you want, focus on that.

 

As a personal pet peeve, I think artificial black and white looks awful. If you want black and white photos shoot black and white film, otherwise it ends up looking too flat because the filter tends to compress details and depth out of the image. Maybe it is good for the background stuff like you have above since you don't want too much distracting detail in the background but...eh... I think the whole pic just looks more alive in color.

[Otis Nice]

I voted #3, which is what 9 other incredibly intelligent and handsome people picked as well.

 

Also voted #3. Sorry to drag down the "handsome" quotient. :fa:

[Otis Nice]

...blah blah blah film blah blah blah...

 

I'm sure he has a plethora of black and white film lying around.

[mmrmnhrm]

Ok....LAST option, I promise.....this adds the cone back into color, to give it a little more width and action.....thoughts?

 

http://i976.photobucket.com/albums/ae245/bmwohio/2014%20Solo%20Nationals%20pics/kale-8b_zps7a1dc5ac.jpg

 

I'm a fan... the car, the cones, and who gives a shit about the people watching the background. Reducing them to grayscale reduces the distraction, and yeah... the car and the cones is what this pic is all about.