From inside the Dogfish Head Brewery in Milton, DE

[dellplain]

This is a 5 exposure HDR with my 5D Mark II and 16-35/2.8 II. I was very appreciative of the staff there, they essentially allowed me to walk around on my own after the beer tour ended to grab my shots. Great people, outstanding beer.

http://www.brianmatiash.com/files/dogfish.jpg

[Scottes]

Pretty cool.

[Hot Bob]

Beer good!

Nice HDR too!

Bob

[jgrussell]

Nice shot!

[td67mustang]

good use here

[kirkt]

Please email me a case of the 60 minute IPA at your earliest convenience. Thank you.

Try a crop where you trim from the right edge up to the vertical support tube to the right of the white bucket, and from the bottom about the width of the hose. I think that crop might work better compositionally. THe red hose is a pretty powerful element and it is nice that it flows from the foreground into the image to get your eye moving around the network of piping. You may want to consider toning down the saturation on the yellow elements (the wet floor signs, etc.) that really don't add to the image - the monochrome piping runs as a backdrop for the red hose are a nice contrast - the yellow bits take away from that. The green elements (motor housing, etc.) are nice as a complement to the red hose.

Also - the image you posted has a ProPhoto RGB profile embedded in it, which may cause slight color shifts when viewing in some web browsers. Easiest to change the embedded profile to sRGB for web viewing.

Kirk

[polarbare]

Hahaha.. I saw this and said "wow, this looks a lot like Brian's work".. then I looked at the poster username.. haha

IMO one of your best recently.

[dellplain]

Hahaha.. I saw this and said "wow, this looks a lot like Brian's work".. then I looked at the poster username.. haha

IMO one of your best recently.

Thanks, Bradlius! I really appreciate that.

[dellplain]

Please email me a case of the 60 minute IPA at your earliest convenience. Thank you.

Try a crop where you trim from the right edge up to the vertical support tube to the right of the white bucket, and from the bottom about the width of the hose. I think that crop might work better compositionally. THe red hose is a pretty powerful element and it is nice that it flows from the foreground into the image to get your eye moving around the network of piping. You may want to consider toning down the saturation on the yellow elements (the wet floor signs, etc.) that really don't add to the image - the monochrome piping runs as a backdrop for the red hose are a nice contrast - the yellow bits take away from that. The green elements (motor housing, etc.) are nice as a complement to the red hose.

Also - the image you posted has a ProPhoto RGB profile embedded in it, which may cause slight color shifts when viewing in some web browsers. Easiest to change the embedded profile to sRGB for web viewing.

Kirk

Hey Kirk, thanks for the thorough critique. I agree and will bring down the saturation in those yellow elements. In terms of cropping, are you saying to crop it to more of a portrait orientation or just tighten up the landscape look?

Hmmm, that is odd that the photo has ProPhoto RGB embedded. I mean, I use ProPhoto RGB when working within LR but have it configured to apply the sRGB profile when exporting out as a jpeg (and to Flickr, for example). Thanks for the heads up, I will definitely look into this.

Thanks again!

[kirkt]

Yep - tighten up the landscape crop to more like a 10 wide x 8 high aspect ratio. Here is a screen shot of a 10 x 8 crop overlay - I know you don't have "Image Editing OK" turned on so I do not want to actually make the edit, but showing the crop is more straightforward than trying to describe it. Hope you don't mind - You probably can't see it ( Ha! ), but I put a big red "x" through the image to emphasize the crop and to prevent someone lifting the intact image from my screenshot.

As a 5D user (old school classic) I know it's not easy to lop off a hunk of the image.

Kirk

[dellplain]

Yep - tighten up the landscape crop to more like a 10 wide x 8 high aspect ratio. Here is a screen shot of a 10 x 8 crop overlay - I know you don't have "Image Editing OK" turned on so I do not want to actually make the edit, but showing the crop is more straightforward than trying to describe it. Hope you don't mind - You probably can't see it ( Ha! ), but I put a big red "x" through the image to emphasize the crop and to prevent someone lifting the intact image from my screenshot.

As a 5D user (old school classic) I know it's not easy to lop off a hunk of the image.

Kirk

Ahhh, I see. Yeah, I agree with you that this crop does make for a more aggressive composition. I'll try it out when I get home. Normally, I always crop to scale to retain proportion (in case I go to print) but I really do like your recommendation. I'll repost tonight.

Thanks again for the critique!

[polarbare]

I like Kirk's idea for the crop, but just a hair looser to get that vertical pipe more into frame.

[mlotfi]

awesome, I like it.

[kirkt]

Thanks again for the critique!

You're welcome. I just got email response from Paypal - they say my account can handle up to 4 cases of 60 Minute IPA without the sender being charged. I'll cut you a break and only charge you 2 cases.

Mmmmmm, beer.

Kirk

[bsmotril]

Very nice. All that's missing is Doctor Evil.

[dellplain]

You're welcome. I just got email response from Paypal - they say my account can handle up to 4 cases of 60 Minute IPA without the sender being charged. I'll cut you a break and only charge you 2 cases.

Mmmmmm, beer.

Kirk

:)

How about instead of 6 x 60-Minute IPAs, I really punish you and send 3 x 120-Minute IPAs. Oh man, my head is swirling just thinking about it.

[IShootThings]

i really like it. awesome.