good luck?

[theman]

This is what my color mixed with black and whites look like. How could i make it better? What do you all think about the picture in general?

[PaCiFiSt]

Thats neat. How did you do that?

[Barb42]

The color draws the eye down and to the left making the rest of the image a waste. The color spot on a B-W is quite difficult to pull off. Keep working at it. You did a good job on the color technically, it just doesn't work well on this particular photo. What else do you have on hand? I'll bet you have a great image that would work well. A car would work well, or a house front with a great doorway. Maybe one with flowers around it. Or a little girl with a teriffic little coat or jacket.

[tim]

What Barb said. Try making the clover in the top right green as well, or add some other color back in.

[tbird]

But , Tim, isn't the point of this pic to isolate the 4-leaf clover? If you "balance" out the pic by colorizing another clover don't you take away the photographer's entire aim? Perhaps if theman faded the color-highlighted clover somewhat it would bring the photo into more of a balance by lessening the contrast between elements, yet still getting his creative point across. Or he might even crop out some of what Barb42 called "wasted image" therefore keeping the theme yet lessening the "waste"....I like it! Very creative and such a sharp eye by finding the good luck clover in the first place. Reminds me of a pasttime I had as a boy.

[Belmondo]

If everyone follows a 'formula' for how things should look, the resulitng work ceases to qualify as creativity, and all our photos would look the same. In this case, I don't think it makes a lot of difference where the green clover is. The eye will be drawn to it. After that, the normal thing is to look around and see what you've missed in the rest of the photo---it almost forces you to. Then, the difference between the green clover and the others becomes evident.

I like the photo, and think we should caution ourselves against becoming too analytical where art is concerned. Any picture that makes you pause to study it has been at least a partial success.