• Members 887 posts
    Nov. 26, 2024, 10:57 p.m.

    L1071333.jpg

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    JPG, 1.2 MB, uploaded by Daneland on Nov. 26, 2024.

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  • Members 4184 posts
    Nov. 26, 2024, 11:10 p.m.

    Personally, I would have framed the shot to include all of the station name sign or none of it or crop/clone it out.

    Being partially chopped off is a distracting eye-magnet for me and detracts from the image.

  • Nov. 27, 2024, 9:43 a.m.

    Very dynamic and interesting image.

    There's such strange thing that when image (or any other artistic creation) does not cause any interest then no one will say anything of it. If people are interested, then they may comment either positively or negatively - but they will comment :) I recall some end-of-year music top table, where journalists did build two tables - ten best and ten worst songs of the year - [not so] surprisingly 8 of 10 were the same songs in both tables :)

  • Members 1713 posts
    Nov. 27, 2024, 10:18 a.m.

    Ok I will try again.

    When, I and I presume most other people post a picture. We have considered the way it looks both with framing and tonally. I post pictures which are to my liking after PP and reframing.

    It maybe is just me, but I find people criticise how others could have presented a picture, with suggestions for doing it differently, cropping here and there, bumping up the saturation and such, very irritating in certain circumstances. If sombody asks for suggestions, that is quite different of course.

    By the way it is presented, Daneland knew exactly what he wanted to show when he posted this picture. Personally I quite like the dynamic offbeat composition. Others may not like it and maybe think it could have been differently. In that case try and think why the picture was composed this way. I see lots of pictures that do not work for me. I just move onto those that I do like, without further comment.

  • Members 887 posts
    Nov. 27, 2024, 2 p.m.

    I don’t have a problem when people give their opinions about my photos. After all, it’s their opinion, and it might even have a valid point. This is especially true for genres like architecture, landscape, macro, etc., which require technical qualities and adhere to established norms and expectations. Critiques in these areas are often easier to make and understand.
    However, for street photography, I believe it’s much harder to provide meaningful feedback. Most of the feedback I read tends to be either cliché (“no story,” “no fleeting moment,” “nothing interesting,” etc.) or completely unrelated to the photo. Your feedback falls to the second category. This photo will not be any better or worse with the name of the station captured or not; but I get it, it irritates you but this is life, there are too many irritants around us. Just try to ignore them, it helped me a lot.

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  • Members 531 posts
    Nov. 28, 2024, 10:10 p.m.

    In my teens as a resident of "sahfeest" London, that scene looks quite familiar to me ... irrespective of a partial, full or no station sign.

    Good one, Daneland !!

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