* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #845 / Revived #065 on 2024 06 26 *

Just watched the trailer to that film. Looks interesting, thanks !
You've posted a fun shot here. With the lady placed in the center she's thankfully not distorted while the rest of the building is. I've never used a fish eye and usually try and avoid distortions ;-) I guess the trick is to embrace the effect and use it to the full for fun shots.

He certainly has an impressive stare! I wouldn't want to annoy him. Nice shot

Interesting to watch them grow, but a relief when the building work finally stops. Good opportunity for some shots.

It's a magnificent shot. The sky is amazing those clouds seem to eminate from the snow covered mountain peaks. Lots of wide open space here.
The lakes with the reflections of that young forest add in the midground details and they are all lit with some nice warm light.
For more depth that bright grass in the foreground work very well. And you even have a "Bob Ross style" tree trunk that he always used to add in when the painting was almost finished :-)

Very detailed shot. Nicely processed to show all the craters and the old lava fields in the darker areas. It must have been a very clear night when you took this.

Cold & Warm

I think Dan is correct and he spotted it well. It's a longish story. I have tried for a front on shot of an emu like this for some years. You don't get too many opportunities. I caught this last year with my previous camera that doesn't have the eye focus AF capability of my new Sony. The bird was interested in me and tending to look at me but was all over the place in movement, especially the head on the long and wobbling neck. What I caught has the focus mainly on the body. The head was slightly blurred both from movement and being a little out of focus. So close to the shot I wanted but not quite. Damn. A chance I might never get again so I turned to Topaz. Sometimes Topaz can perform minor miracles with AI in correcting both motion an lens blur. Topaz also has the capacity to identify faces and apply its magic selectively to different parts of the image. That is what has happened here with the fine feathers of the head perimeter as the program worked overtime to change almost complete blur to something approaching individual strands. If we look carefully at the feather perimeter below the area Dan has selected, it's happening there too but this time Topaz has colours closer to the feather background to work with so it isn't as apparent.
I'd like to show y'all the original so you can see what Topaz has done but I can't. The originals weren't worth keeping and I was so pleased to have got a shot something like I've wanted for a long time that I scrapped the original files.
In a couple of weeks I'll be back in central Australia. This time with my fast eye af camera and if an emu cooperates, I'll try again. I'm happy with this shot but you never stop trying.

Well spotted. Ref my lengthy explanation following Roel's post.

No problem. Your explanation makes sense.

The good news is that if the fringe is undesirable you can remove pretty much most of it, if not all of it.

Fwiw this is a quick and basic hue/saturation adjustment that cleans up most of it but it still needs some tidying up. But it already looks much better on my screen.

C&C is not always a string of admiration about postings.

This one is just not my idea of good photography or creative effort. It’s forced, garish and ill-conceived.

I’ve seen such scenes actually lit by lighting like this. At best it’s cartoonish in a bad way.

I don’t have any suggestions about improving this other than not to do it.

Rich

Thank you Chris. I'm glad you like it.

But I am fascinated by your interpretation of the image - "It seems this rapid river is bathed in wonderful beams of sun". Your interpretation is the first of that type that I have seen so far. I assume you are referring to the yellowish white caps.

Hopefully it is obvious to most people that this is an "artistic" impression of the scene and not a documentary version but it doesn't really matter if it isn't. The camera settings used is normally a good clue that the image is not a documentary image.

I took the original photo in broad daylight. Yes, watching the rapid was interesting but only for a few minutes before I continued along the river. As I mentioned a few times now, my normal workflow is to create a documentary version of the scene and where something piques my interest I experiment with different ideas to create an "artistic" version. The original documentary image didn't really do much for me and hence the "artistic" version. I aimed to create a sort of night scene lit by colored spotlights.

Fwiw, below is the documentary version.

Thank you for your thoughts Rich 😊

This type of image is not everyone's cup of tea. Some will like it and some will not but it gets people talking about my images, as you have done here, so "Mission accomplished!!".

I consider feedback from all sources where my images are viewable and I am happy with the overall feedback so I will continue to create these types of images when I feel it is appropriate.

But sometimes it does help to actually take heed of the feedback.

I have now given you the benefit of the doubt, after my previous edits of this post, and assume the above is what you meant to post. Next time make sure you get your quote tags right. It's not hard.

All you need is an opening and closing tag for each quote in the post's conversation.

Stuffing them up once can be an honest mistake. Doing it again will be considered deliberate.

In any case, regarding your second comment I do take heed of the overall feedback from all sources and contributors, as I said, and hence "artistic" versions of my images 😊

Wow!!!!!! That's an amazing and fantastic photo given the difficulty in outputting a sharp image of a full moon because of the harsh and flat light striking it from the sun.

It's way better than the best I have been able to come up with since getting my 150 - 600mm lens. The only suggestion I would make, and I am knit-picking because of personal preferences, is to maybe add a little more contrast and see how it looks if you haven't already done so.

Anyway, fwiw below is amongst the best full moon shots I can get but it's not as good as yours.

Well done and thank you for sharing 😊

I like the variety of lines throughout the scene which help to move my eyes throughout it.

But I am a little confused. Is the structure in the foreground part of the new development or is the subject of the photo the construction in the background?

If the development is in the background here, hopefully it might be possible to move to the other side of the foreground structure and experiment with the lines and rectangular shapes of the construction to come up with interesting compositions playing with those lines and shapes.

Anyway, just some food for thought.

That's an amazing landscape 😊 I like the sky, colours and lighting very much.

The only thing I would change is remove the annoying eye-magnet of a stump, at least to me it is, which doesn't really add to but only hinders the scene.

Just some food for thought and thank you for sharing 😊

Fwiw, I removed the stump using content-aware fill and some cloning. It would probably need a bit of tidying up but this looks better to me.

Very nice series. I like this one the most. For me, the silky look doesn't quite suit the scene, but that's just my 2c worth.

Thank you for sharing.