Thank you Michel for tagging me. Here is Crop Challenge 10.

- You must crop the image.
- The crop can be any size you want.
- You may do other edits if you wish.
- Then post your photo on this thread for all to see.



This is a larger size file (1.7MB)
http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?pictu ... tqpO51HfAp

This was taken in 1963 in East Tirol, Austria - very close to the border with Italy. I have not sharpened the image, leaving that to you after you decide on your crop size.

Rusty

I'll start us off with the obvious crop.

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Nice detail...

here's one from me

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We are off to a start, I expect more will join in as time progresses...

Kim - you say "obvious", but it is well done.

Michel - I was wondering who was going to steal "my crop"; not surprised to see it was you. That woman is the reason I took this picture and like it so much. It amazed me to see a woman walking out to work in the field with a 500 year-old vintage wooden hand rake. (Maybe even older than 15th Century ... not sure)

Suzi - you grabbed my second choice - nice job to use a paint effect to compensate for loss of detail on such a tight crop. Just in case you didn't know, those buildings are typical for a small village, in this location, at this time. Those are barn/house. The ground floor is the barn, a haven for the animals in winter; the second floor is the home of the farm family. I guess it can get aromatic at times but the body heat of the animals rises to help heat the home.

Rusty

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Oooooh,
Sunny, that is great

Rusty

We are off to a start, I expect more will join in as time progresses...

Michel - I was wondering who was going to steal "my crop"; not surprised to see it was you. That woman is the reason I took this picture and like it so much. It amazed me to see a woman walking out to work in the field with a 500 year-old vintage wooden hand rake. (Maybe even older than 15th Century ... not sure)

Rusty

I can understand why you were attracted by the sight of this woman; human and moving subject in a quiet landscape, plus the unexpected rake...
When I downloaded the full size image, it appeared slowly at full resolution in my browser and at one time, I had my crop full screen. That was a shock. I had to render that fugitive sight. Vignetting plus a mix of filters: paint daubs, poster edges and stylize/diffuse anisotropic made for a Cezanne look.

Thanks, Rusty. It was a fun crop.

Because Michel "took mine" I tried something else.
Had to flip the image to get what I was after.

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Used Anita's sketch with accented edges rather than poster edges.

Rusty