* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #861 / Revived #081 on 2024 10 16 *

... not to mention the stiffly starched feathers!

Thank you David for your opinion.

In the years since I took this photo it hasn't received anywhere near sufficient negative feedback to warrant me to consider altering it.

But it certainly gets people talking about my images, so it's Mission Accomplished!! 👍

Thank you Chris 😊

Actually, you're right!
This forum should also be about the craftsmanship of a photo.
It's just not like that!
Enjoy your time in this forum as long as you're in tune with the three saints 😄

I know 😀

You can't make it easy for yourself!
You're one of those people who makes photos worse in post-processing.
The chain usually starts with boring photos.
THE REAL QUESTION IS: DO YOU LIKE YOUR OWN PHOTOS?
IF SO, WHY SO MUCH POST-PROCESSING?

Thank you for your opinion Kumsal 😊

But from your photos you have posted I have no reason to place much weight in it.

** BLACK ROCK BEACH - CAPE SCHANCK **

This is a stitched panorama using Photoshop Elements.

Sticking out slightly behind the cliff on the left is Pulpit Rock. Walking all the way down is no problem, but I am getting too old to struggle walking back up. It's a long way and where this pano was shot is only about half way down from the carpark. Nowadays I would need an ambulance on standby if I attempted to climb back up from the bottom there.

Excellent shot and lesson in contrast. If one squints their eyes the buildings look like big pumpkins which is humorous. I like the dark sky as a background.

Personally, I would remove the cars from the equation, but it's up to image maker...

Like that panorama shot of a rugged coast. Wish there was more water showing, but...
Colours are great.

If we treat our photos like the people or landscape around us, you'll treat them harshly beyond recognition!
You can't get back what you missed when you took the photo!
By the way, if you look at the original forums, you'll see how much approval I get.

The problem is the lack of details.
The photo is not sharp and very blurry.

Thank you again for your opinion.

On my screen it is very sharp. The full resolution version (12320 x 4832px) is slightly sharper still on my screen.

Thank you Chris.

I have more photos to the left and right of this scene which I am still processing. We were down at Cape Schank only last week.

I will post more as I go through them.

So what?

I take into account all the feedback/opinions I receive from wherever my images are viewable, not just from a small handful of contributors here on dprevived.

Your thoughts/opinions are just one of many and carry less weight than most as described earlier.

The iPhone made a mess of the clouds in the image you posted earlier.

You often ramble on about images needing to look realistic to you and then you post images like you did earlier this thread which is very unrealistic with the clouds and leaning rooms as described earlier.

The drinksellers are key to photo one as well as two. In 1 they are established by the pink colours and central position. The two foreground figures give a line to that centre while adding easily distinguished clothing clues to the holiday atmosphere.
Number two, on its own, doesn't feel as successful. It lacks the party vibe that the crowd and blue sky brings to 1. The horizontal position of the solitary boat also makes it feel more passive.
Seen in series with 1 however is a different matter, it becomes additional information to a setting already established. As such, I think it needs the shadows lifted small amount to make the main character's face and the front edge of the boat a bit clearer. Not much.

I like the second one much more. It's pretty clear what it is without the first image which for me is too "busy".

But the second one looks a little too flat and dull on my screen for me. I feel it needs a bit of "punch" to make the bar stand out more.

Something like this works better for me.

Anyway, just some food for thought 😊

Sorry Chris, I replaced the image and broke your reply...

A project with lots of possibilities. Your choice of B&W is important. If it had been colour, I imagine (I sure don't know) that there might be colour sheens playing a part in the outcome. In B&W, lines, edges, patterns and tones are what we look at.
Number one doesn't interest me. Too much is out of focus for the main elements to convey much.
Not so 2 and 3. In both the oil/water mix is creating patterns and lines to be explored.
The curves and edges of the flower pattern in 2 are replicated in the bubble forms.
In 3, the drops become lenses of different sizes that give multiple clues to the nature of the bowl.

Bands of vegetation with differing colours and textures make good subjects. Photography draws our attention to easily overlooked details in grass and grass heads.
While I like the concept here, I don't feel it quite comes off. It needs to be seen large to bring out the details and edges in the grass. On my viewing, at largest size, the grass edges aren't quite sharp enough and further detail is lost in overexposed grass areas. It is entirely possible that this is caused by cropping and uploading.

A series with a difference. A puzzle is set up and then solved as we move down the images. That's one of the more original full moon shots I have seen. It must be tempting to cut the spider from the background in 1 and add it to one of the later shots- with a smidge of blur on the background...

Thanks, Mike.

The site is not displaying the image properly. If I click on the image, it displays too large on my screen, beyond the native resolution of the file. And does not look sharp.

If you click on the named JPEG file in my original post, download that, and look at it in Photoshop or other image editing program at 100%, it will be critically sharp, and quite a bit different from the way it looks as the site renders it.

Annoying.

Rich

There is much that I like in this photo.
It's unsettling.
A clouded sky and veiled moon. The inverted cones of light that leave the dark areas and the black shapes of the tree. It feels remote. Not a person in sight.
The cars are a feature. The repetition of shape and colour gives foreground/backgound visual movement. There are people here - but not many.
Bates Motel comes to mind.

There might be an issue with this site atm.

Kumsal mentioned the image I posted earlier looks blurry on his screen while it looks ok on mine.

Your image also looks ok on my screen so not sure what is going on.