* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #810 / Revived #030 on 2023 10 25 *

I agree - lots to like about this one, even though it's not a shot that grabs my attention immediately. What I like best about it, is the feeling I get of a symbiosis between natural and artificial aspects - makes it really interesting and worthy of taking several looks! Very well done. I'm saddened to hear it was inspired by or coincided with something so tragic and I'm sorry for your loss.

The bare limbs climbing out behind the foreground tree doesn't appeal to me. The colours don't grate enough for me to feel disturbed by the shot in a Halloween kind of way. The birds are lost against the darker background so they don't contribute to my total response. If the sky had been a little less dark and the foreground colour less comforting, this might have been more unsettling with a Hitchcock feel.

An outstanding photo for all the reasons minniev has given.

I appreciate your problem in trying to find an angle. The Vickers Vimy photos I posted this week had the same shooting problems but I had a bit more space than you to work with. Looking at the image, I don't see any other way that might have given more of an idea of the scale or lines of these craft.

If this photo was just of the house tricked our in those colours, I probably wouldn't have liked it. Seeing the house and the rear vision mirror changes everything. Echoes of Norman Bates and The Rocky Horror Show. That's one house I'm glad to be seeing after we have been passed.
Fisheye compositions rarely appeal to me.I like the multiple curves withing the rectangle.

I feel this image, as processed here, could be used on the cover of a novel.
It's simple , no distractions, and has plenty of space for the title text :-)

This image as posted by Linda could also be used to "tell a story" :-)

"Plenty of space for text..." You made me smile!

I'm very, very grateful for all the attention this photo generated! The final point I'd like to make is that extreme edits that turn a posted photo into something else entirely can generate interesting discussions, but they aren't "critique."

IMO what helps in learning are the fine-tuning edits, such as cropping, tonal changes, blurring etc. Not only with my own photos, but others posted, it's like magic to see what can result from someone else's keen eye and experience.

Thank you all so much!

"Against the wind. Still running against the wind."

EDIT: Can someone explain what I can do so my preview pics won't look like they were made by a potato?

Thank you, Mike .... I appreciate your comment ....

A period when nothing was really working well so I used the Fisheye to try to generate something that might interest me .. this has limited appeal for me but seems to have me out again and has given me some new ideas for curtain tools that I hadn't spent much time with ... I really wanted to get the entire window curve to frame the pictures I was taking in passing but just couldn't get far enough back without moving into the driver's seat!! .... but maybe I got enough to capture the idea ....

Thanks for the comment ... much appreciated ..

WhyNot

Have no idea what you mean "potato." Check how you are compressing, and reconsider your "72 ppi" step. Pixels for web (DPI, dots per inch, is a printing term): www.photoshopessentials.com/essentials/the-72-ppi-web-resolution-myth/

I think the forum software is compressing the images for the preview size and deminishing the quality in the process. However I feel like some images suffer more from it than others, but I've seen pretty devastating examples as well, where I thought some image had significant IQ flaws or would need some serious color-corrections, and when I opened the original uploads in Photoshop it became clear that it was just due to that compression. Perhaps it's an auto conversion to a different colorspace or some additional JPEG compression, but it did look pretty bad in some cases.

EDIT: Here's my attempt at showing the difference:

Full-size link: live.staticflickr.com/65535/53295095431_71b12a8162_o.jpg

I'm aware that there's some Browser-specific color-management in place which can be altered, but my images look pretty comparable to my Photoshop previews on flickr (at least they don't stray in the same way as here), so I don't want to adjust my Browser just in order to have preview images on dprevived match up...

Wonder if this this why Adobe defaults to 96dpi on the jpeg export.

"Like drowning and loving it."

Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe?

Not in particular.

I don't see any potato made thing in your picture. The leaf is a bit oversharpened and there's some sensor dust visible, the worst at left of the leaf.
But This picture looks good in my eyes.

You don't see the weirdness around the leaf edges? Another sensor I gotta clean...

I do not see any weirdness looking at original size.

Sorry for not being clear, in the thumbnail.