Thread: which one do you prefer

It's just a goofy little macro testing out a new lens, but I still kind of like it. It has a retro vibe that like. So the first one here is pretty much SOOC except for a slight crop and messing with the tone curve a bit. But after I loaded it up onto flickr, the top line going off at an angle kinda looked weird to me.

Grundig radio by Lukinosity, on Flickr

So then I took it into Photoshop and leveled off the Grundig, but now I feel like it's a littl odd because I feel like there still enough context for the eye to understand that this was shot at an angle with the radio "going away" from the lens so it kinda looks weird to me now that the top is parallel to horizontal. So, it doesn't really matter....it's no great shakes....just a throwaway image eventually, but now I just can't tell which one looks more "right". What do you thebrilliant minds of SC think?....#1 or #2?

Grundig macro by Lukinosity, on Flickr

I cast my vote for numero 2!

I prefer the first one. The second seems distorted. The Grundig logo looks square on to the lens while the speaker is at an angle.
So leveling up the logo imo, maks the image look false.

This won't help, but to me they both look a little odd, as though the top half is at a different angle to the bottom half. Some sort of optical illusion, or my eyes are more screwed up than I thought. #2 is odder than #1.

Barrie

Don't worry Barrie. There is definitely something else going on here and I can't quite put my finger on it. Can you people even guess whether the letters are indented or embossed? The first time I looked at it, I kinda freaked out. Because it appears to the the opposite to what it really is. At least to me.

But then, I like images that unsettle a little bit.

embossed

Originally Posted by grebeman

embossed

that's the way it looks to me as well. But it's not. I'll have to take another shot with the aperture stopped down with everything in focus and see if that clears up the weirdness going on, but I really like the shallow DOF here.

I'm definitely getting a weird gestalt-effect looking at both images...with the tight blurring and very few other clues it's difficult to tell which side is closer/farther away. Even with the shadow on the grill it almost looks like the silver is sticking "out" rather then "in."

Is not the difficulty of making it look "right" to do with the planes of radio and sensor not being parallel?

Can't speak for any embossy effect as I'm viewing on a 'phone

Originally Posted by pdh

Is not the difficulty of making it look "right" to do with the planes of radio and sensor not being parallel?

Can't speak for any embossy effect as I'm viewing on a 'phone

But then I couldn't have the text pass through the plane of focus (although I suppose I could get a tilt shift lens ). I knew one of the "get it right in camera" crew would show up to give me a proper ribbing. But alas, I'm a modernist who enjoys playing with software to cover up my inadequacies with the camera.