* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #801 / Revived #021 on 2023 08 23 *

A fantastic rock formation with those clearly different white and orange colours !
I like the way you have the green, yellow and red trees in the shot too
It would be interested to hear if you (or anyone else) knows how such formations occur?
I saw something quite similar on a beach in Portuagal, early this year with the same colours, the light was a bit harsh as I was there.
Here's that shot, but I prefer yours :-)
Trevor

I really like your image - it's very effective and the composition and POV add a lot of interesting tension. Something about it was bothering me though... and after some thought I realized that it was the colors, particularly the blue tones. So I've opened the bigger version in browser (already a lot better) and then opened it in Photoshop... and it seems perfect as it is. Excellent work. 👍

Got nothing to add, but it made me realize (again, because someone here has already instructed me how to fix color-managment in my browser, which I absolutely need to try) that the quality of the small preview images on this site is abysmal. I think it only started recently, because to me images look WAY MORE compressed now. Need to ask Alan about that... if it's a cost-saving measure, I'm not sure that's the best thing to do honestly.

Hi Lou,
Wow, I am surprised at the improvement you achieved based only on a poorly processed JPEG! I was only going to start commenting this week when I get home on Sunday, but I can see the improvement even on my phone, so decided to reply to your post now. Thanks for taking the time to do that and for your positive comments.

Pete

Thanks a lot for your kind words! It is actually quite ripe and even sweeter than the red ones. They are just a different kind of raspberry.

Thanks a lot for your fascinating interpretation. Indeed, an increased DOF could be interesting. I don't remember if I attempted making one... The difference in color is real though, so as you've stated emphasizing its difference in addition by making the others as blurry as they are is not necessary, just a preference of style (I'm often not too sure about those things and usually trust my gut feeling if I made multiple versions).

My images are often a bit autobiographical... for some reason even those of raspberries. 😂 Just the way my mind works, I guess. Here's another one of the yellow raspberry, empasizing that:

Sunshine in a basket case by simple.joy, on Flickr

And long may it continue to do so - it brings joy (pun intended) to many of us

Tim

Your color-change magic works well on this one. The artwork, a simplified human-like figure, surveys the magic garden garden that surrounds and engulfs him. The composition has the figure nicely placed just right of center, and the lighting provides a clear path to follow as we weave through the garden. It makes me think of an illustration for C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy. I really like this one.

It looks like a festival of some kind, or a celebratory day in Leuven. You and Roel are giving us quite an in-depth adventure inside the city. The old architecture with its decorative features is well recorded in these shots, but the winner is the middle shot with the child hoisted by the stilt-legged twin "policemen". Great moment.

this feels more like I'm actually there in the field, appreciating the natural beauty and power of nature. I understand your mention of graphic elements, and Minnie's comments about study of color, but I guess for me, nature usually wins 😀

I knew it was a yellow raspberry variety, having enjoyed them in the past. Your single berry shot couldn't be more scrumptious! Have you ever done photography for a food magazine?

"Just the way your mind works" is a continuing gift to us all!

Thank you for indulging me. In my eyes, it's perfect now 😁

SimpleJoy's edit is so delightful, I'm tempted to show it to the restaurant's owners 😁

Thanks to all who enjoyed the post. Obviously, once I saw that name, I could not not share it!

Through the magic of raw file editing, I was able to coax some detail out of the structure on the left.

This version could have more distant detail as simplejoy demonstrated, but I prefer a bit less. It feels more like the day as I experienced it: glaring hot sun in my eyes, heading to "triple digits" temperature + that nasty haze (sometimes it's all smoke) we see too often in August.

I think this new edit is better for the challenge I was attempting: "background" - either adding information (sense of place, if you will) or blurred so as to not detract. I suspect that my first post is the one that evokes more comments about animal forms 😀 Maybe I can work that further into fanciful, so as to not be kind of halfway into each purpose?

Yes, it seems that given enough time, nature will reclaim what was hers in the beginning. Appreciate your comments, Chris.

Thanks Minnie! I'm not sure if Yakima County is considered part of the High Prairie. A quick Google search suggests it's a bit further south, towards the Columbia River.

No, you're not the only one who sees animals. I love those reactions!

Thanks so much for your time and efforts!

Indeed. Thank you for the delightful comment!

Mike, your comment about the shadow detail was what made me curious to see what I could find with a new edit. I was surprised there was anything there 🙂

Your observation about "tipping point" is thought-provoking, and your associating the tools with animal skeletons, like a few others said, is very gratifying! Many thanks for your time.

Very good.
9 minutes before countdown ,....
This reminds me of that great old Film
youtu.be/IUFtgep9sj4?si=ZcU5phQMf3wyuOAn

The day the earth caught fire

Thanks for the comments everyone. Here's a bit of an explanation. Simplejoy and Fireplace are correct. I was playing with ICM. It was late in the afternoon and misty, dusk was approaching but it wasn't yet dusk. I was trying different amounts and directions of ICM. To get slow shutter speeds, in the region of 1/10 sec, I was using F22. This brought out the sensor spots everyone noticed. I agree with Minniev about the edge of the jetty in shot 1. 1 is here to give an idea of the scene before the games started. 2 has both camera movement and PP colour/contrast experimentation.

Linda, I agree. The image at 50mm focal length looks less abstract than the one at 105mm. So more like "being at the scene." I just cut off the edge of the road in the lower left corner.

Rich

The rework looks right to me. I think it still retains enough animal shape to build on the visual metaphors with the other machinery.

Wednesday C&C Roulette is brave. When I run out of Italy shots I will have to try it.
LR tools are truly remarkable. Raising shadow details in the rocks framing the falls? The dynamic range to do that along with the water detail would have been nigh on impossible not too long ago.
Here, I think you got the water just right. Enough blur to give movement but it is still water rather than plastic.
Apart from the dynamic range, I like the figure 8 composition. The water constricts in and then expands out within a frame of rocks and foliage. It gives the sense of the falls. You can almost hear them. Then there is a contrast between the vertical lines and the broader horizontal lines across the base. Again, the contrast between falls and quiet water comes through.