Which is better?

Those 2 shots, which one do you prefer? and why if so.

Image 1

Ignore the dust

Tareq wrote in post #10557122
Those 2 shots, which one do you prefer? and why if so.

Image 1
http://img571.imagesha​ck.us/img571/4464/img0​1k.jpg

Image 2
http://img35.imageshac​k.us/img35/5346/img02q​b.jpg

Neither, to be honest. It's too "dreamy" if you are trying to be accurate (product info or documenting a pipe problem). If you are trying to be artistic, I would not have shot the pipe head-on, nor put it square in the middle.

Anyway, if I must choose one, Image 2 looks slightly better to me -- the pipe jumps out more (assuming that was your intent by blurring the background so much). The neon-green colour was probably not accurate, but helped it look less mudane.

(If the intent is to be artistic, I would go nuts on the saturation and maybe even try solarizing the photo. Or try as a black-and-white with different settings on the colour mixer.)

Hope my honest opinion did not offend.

RetroBlader wrote in post #10557815
Neither, to be honest. It's too "dreamy" if you are trying to be accurate (product info or documenting a pipe problem). If you are trying to be artistic, I would not have shot the pipe head-on, nor put it square in the middle.

Anyway, if I must choose one, Image 2 looks slightly better to me -- the pipe jumps out more (assuming that was your intent by blurring the background so much). The neon-green colour was probably not accurate, but helped it look less mudane.

(If the intent is to be artistic, I would go nuts on the saturation and maybe even try solarizing the photo. Or try as a black-and-white with different settings on the colour mixer.)

Hope my honest opinion did not offend.

In fact i wasn't so clear about it here, i was just meaning about which color or better quality of both in color or details, not asking about which one is good as a pic or quality as art or work, this shot is just sh..t and it is just a test, nothing to do about art or masterpiece or whatever, only a test shot and i want to see the difference between the two for a conclusion reason later.

Which ever replicates the color of the scene when shot.

Tareq:

Image 1 is better, at least to my eye.

Richer colors, and better detail, especially on the re-bar reinforcing the pipe.

There's not enough difference for me to prefer either and it's a really unattractive composition. I don't really see the point of it. Is it some kind of test?

windpig wrote in post #10558081
Which ever replicates the color of the scene when shot.

And that means?

Belmondo wrote in post #10558105
Tareq:

Image 1 is better, at least to my eye.

Richer colors, and better detail, especially on the re-bar reinforcing the pipe.

I prefer the colors of #2 a bit, but the details to my eyes is going for #1.

condyk wrote in post #10558139
There's not enough difference for me to prefer either and it's a really unattractive composition. I don't really see the point of it. Is it some kind of test?

Yes, it is a kind of test, later i will tell what kind of test.

Tareq wrote in post #10558154
And that means?

Which shot comes closest to the true colors of the subject as you looked at them with your own eyes at the time the photo was taken. Otherwise I'm not sure what we are trying to opine about.

windpig wrote in post #10558185
Which shot comes closest to the true colors of the subject as you looked at them with your own eyes at the time the photo was taken. Otherwise I'm not sure what we are trying to opine about.

Almost both came out so close to the true colors of the subject, in fact the both shots are one shot the same exact.

Tareq wrote in post #10558240
Almost both came out so close to the true colors of the subject, in fact the both shots are one shot the same exact.

From the outset I assumed they were the same shot, only PP'd differently.

Tareq wrote in post #10558240
Almost both came out so close to the true colors of the subject, in fact the both shots are one shot the same exact.

On my screen, they are not close at all! The colours are very different.

So, one picture must be closer to what your eyes see than the other -- unless you are looking with one eye at a time (most of us have slightly different colour perception in our eyes).

Belmondo wrote in post #10558105
better detail, especially on the re-bar reinforcing the pipe.

I agree that Picture 1 has more detail.

However, when I commented I assumed reproduction of detail was not Tareq's main intent, since most of the pipe (nor the re-bar) was not in focus/inside the DOF.