• Members 855 posts
    Nov. 11, 2023, 2:25 p.m.

    You got some good concert shots here! These are my favourites, where the light beams work really well.

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    Nov. 11, 2023, 2:28 p.m.

    Fully agree! As someone who has played in a band for a long time I‘d be delighted to have those shots taken by someone. Excellent work!

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    Nov. 11, 2023, 2:29 p.m.

    The two forest shots look nice and somehow inviting with that deliberately soft looking processing, especially the first one

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    Nov. 11, 2023, 2:35 p.m.

    I like this shot! Even just considering the technical aspect, it is an excellent photo. But I am also sceptical about the EXIF figure of 1/25 sec. At 60mph, a car moves 88ft/s, in 1/25s it moves 3.52ft. The light trails look at least 10ft long. Is it possible that the phone camera has combined a sequence of shots?

    David

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    Nov. 11, 2023, 2:35 p.m.

    Great tour. My faves...

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    Nov. 11, 2023, 2:36 p.m.

    This is a cool structure. Well captured, I read you want to take a second version to avoid "clipping" the leaf on the biulding, that sounds good, but probably best not to remove the buildings completely as they give an idea of the scale and size of the sculpture overhead.

  • Members 867 posts
    Nov. 11, 2023, 2:36 p.m.

    The epic scenery in the first and also the last for me.

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    Nov. 11, 2023, 2:41 p.m.

    Wow - such scenery from your house? Lucky thing!

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    Nov. 11, 2023, 2:43 p.m.

    Just as you said a nice contrast of foggy and sunny conditions. I like it when it's like that, it's like two trips in one :-)
    In the last two shots I have a feeling you could make the white balance of the second a bit warmer.
    The presumably black road is looking quite blue and the grass looks a tad blue/green

  • Members 867 posts
    Nov. 11, 2023, 2:44 p.m.

    I believe my mobile uses a technique similar to Olympus' Live Composition, it takes a base exposure then adds moving objects to it. So 1/25 would be the base image.

  • Members 855 posts
    Nov. 11, 2023, 2:51 p.m.

    Two good shots, I like the B&W processing in number 2!

  • Members 855 posts
    Nov. 11, 2023, 2:57 p.m.

    This last one is my favourite. The tower is enjoying the sunlight.
    It has a nice layout with foreground, midground and background to give a nice feeling of depth

  • Members 619 posts
    Nov. 11, 2023, 3:59 p.m.

    Alpine Choughs 😀 Possibly - probably - my favourite bird 😍

  • Members 619 posts
    Nov. 11, 2023, 4 p.m.

    I think I like the foggy ones best, especially this one.

  • Members 619 posts
    Nov. 11, 2023, 4:05 p.m.

    I can understand why it's a favourite place. The first shot is wonderful.

  • Members 124 posts
    Nov. 11, 2023, 4:28 p.m.

    Slowly. With my fog lights on. There was very light traffic on Skyline Drive. You could see far enough to know what was ahead.

  • Members 124 posts
    Nov. 11, 2023, 4:38 p.m.

    Thanks for the feedback! I see that you are right. I will correct the white balance.

    I did like the variety of weather I had on this trip. I have driven the Parkway a number of times but on this trip I saw it in ways I had never seen it before.

    The morning of the fog in Shenandoah, during the late morning, I arrived at a gift shop/restaurant just as it started to rain heavily, and it was pretty cold.

    The restaurant was selling hot apple cider, which I bought and sat at a window table and enjoyed very much as the warmth went through my body while I watched it rain outside. It was one of the most memorable experiences of my trip when I might have been disappointed that I couldn't do other things because of the rain.

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