Blacksmith Comments?

I shot this scene yesterday at a tiny blacksmith shop.
Would appreciate your C&C on composition, exposure, pp, etc.

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Nice, I really like the slight desaturation of the image!

Barbara, A ton of potential here! I love the idea of this shot. I really want to look at the blacksmith and then at the area he is working. But the window brightness is pulling my eye away. As is the tripod structure in the left half of the image. I am thinking a crop to loose the window on the left and most of the tripod.... but leave in the drill press in the background. Then if there was anyway to tone down the window you would have a killer image. Like the pp here, done just right. I think maybe if a reshoot was possible, maybe a different time of day, or a different angle to exclude the windw? ? ? Or maybe move him to be in front of the window to block most of it's brightness as I also see some of the 'irons' hangin on the wall that are behind him in this shot would be nice to see more of in a different shot.

Thanks for your ideas, ViciousCircle & Dermit.

I like the idea of a crop.
I'll try cropping & toning down the light at the window.

Anyone have additional ideas?

this would be great in hdr

nice

I tried a crop combined with some work in PSE to reduce the brightness of the window.
This is what I ended up with.

Better? Worse?

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Can't obviously tell what's to your left but if you'd taken five big steps that way you'd have been able to avoid the windows altogether.

The 'smith, rimlighted against the bricks (which would have been behind him) would have been a much better image.

As was mentioned above, tons and tons of potential and (if possible) this cries out for a re-shoot...

Much better. A somewhat easy fix would be to clone out the light falling on the floor on the bottom left as well. Another thing to try if you can go back to the location is to shoot that window with the same angle but exposing for the outdoors and try to copy it into this shot... of course the best thing would be a reshoot, but short of that the window as it currently is just kills an otherwise stellar shot.

This is great.. modern a old look
Im pretty new to PP and PS, would you be so kind to share a bit how you did this FX?
Lovely picture capture a moment

how this would of been if it was an HDR with some sparks

nice picture btw

The windows looked too empty

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Dermit wrote in post #6659103
, A ton of potential here! I love the idea of this shot. I really want to look at the blacksmith and then at the area he is working. But the window brightness is pulling my eye away.

i concur.

lol nice one i like