[aboekman]

This man is adjusting an old block print machine. It is an a gallary in northern michigan. Let me know what you think. I am really open to any suggestions as far as pp. I really liked the way the work lamp highlighted his hands and face.
-Andrew

[the_frog]

Nice, I love people at work.

He's replacing the ink cartridge, right?

[wicks]

Try adding vignetting and increase the red and green contrast by +50.
With the colors it would make a great vintage style photo!

[wicks]

Like so!
With this Gentlemans added age, I like the vintage look of the higher contrasts and vignetting.

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[the_frog]

Nice, it gives it more of the 50's technicolour postcard look.

But for the uninitiated, vignetting? Wassat??

[Rob Barron]

I don't like the admjustment to the colours, they look like playing for the sake of playing. But I do agree that a vignette would work nicely (vignetting = darkening around the edges and corners to keep the centre of attention in the middle of the picture and make the edges less busy, etc) to help us focus on the craftsman and his work.

The picture has got something very pleasant about it so would definitely be worth having a play with a vignette. The machine is not as sharp as I'd have liked, could be this was hand-held or might just be heavy compression, not sure. Is the original any sharper?

Cheers,
Rob

[aboekman]

Thanks for the comments. I agree that the manipulated pic doesn't really suit me.

I actually did do some very subtle vignetting on the right hand side. I also darkened all the space to the right of the man (it was overly bright and distracting due to some overhead lighting over there.) Beside that all I did was patch a few blown out areas in the background. Maybe more vignetting would be worth a try. Although I prefer it to be unnoticable.

It is a little soft isn't it. The lighting was very low and yes it was handheld. I was shooting at iso 1600 I believe with the apeture all the way opened up. It could try a little sharpening. I didn't do it at all because I figured that the image was already noisey enough.

I like the picture but I think that as it is it feels a bit lacking...not enough to stand on its own. Ever feel that way? Maybe the background is a bit busy. Maybe a little more processing could do the trick. Perhaps a well done mono conversion would be nice (I've never been very good at it.) I've seen some very good vintage looking images that had a rather gritty processing technique applied to them although I'm not sure how it was done.

[Whipspeed]

Like the original and it has been well captured, with lots of detail in the light and shaded areas. I rather like portraits of people at work.
The edited version doesn't work for me at all.