* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #864 / Revived #084 on 2024 11 06 *

The colour treatment with the diagonal striping, though weird and unnatural, does make the bug stand out.

Those are fun experiments with painting with light.
Once you start thinking about the technique, other applications will come to you.

Nobody will ever make anything better in that regard, than the Albanian photoprapher Gjon Mili's photos of Pablo Picasso literally creating a painting with light.
Photos made for LIFE magazine.
I had known the images, and learned more about Mili in his birth town Korçë while visiting Albania last month.
Google the combination of those names and be amazed.

You have just defined yourself as a true photographer: one who takes notice of the light, and how it enters a room differently on different times of day, and (bigger picture) on different times of day on different days in the year.
Nice shadowplay and geometry is your (and our) reward.

A ghost in the woods.

haha

I think I was editing my response while you were replying to it, so you probably didn't see these questions, which I will repeat, hopeful of discussion.

"And out of curiosity, I am wondering what you, its creator, feel like the color overlay effect adds to this image? What is your goal in using it? How did you choose the overlay? I use overlays fairly often, mostly texture but occasionally color, but differently, so I am interested in your ideas."

Proposal

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Acceptance

Please don't edit without permission

Good sequence!

Out of curiosity, what does the "a" in the file name signify? My G9 doesn't do that.

Thanks, Roel

I get about a "window" of one week this time of year in which the light hits this wall at this angle.

We have cloudless, blue skies and brilliant sunlight from the "Santa Ana" weather we're experiencing in Southern California this week, resulting in very sharp shadows (my favorite for this sort of thing) of the window muntins and mullions. With clouds the shadows can range from slightly soft to complete blur.

Unfortunately, the weather that's giving me ideal light in San Diego is causing raging wild fires north of Los Angeles.

Rich

A fine sequence of two beautiful birds making important life decisions as a couple! She said "yes" and they get about the business of home-buying. The birds are well captured in their exotic finery. What really makes the sequence shine brightly is the background. (Is that eucalyptus?) Ther rendering of that bark is amazing. There are hidden colors and tiny details in addition to the burled gateway to their home, but the subdued texture, colors and forms of that bark, with no other branches or background creates an almost abstract art frame for the birds. Excellent set.

Still working with my trip images. I shot around this location for 30 minutes, don't feel like I really got a complete composition. What am I missing in these?

Yes, we were typing at the same time because the timestamps on your edit and my reply are within a minute of each other.

As I have mentioned in previous threads my workflow always includes first making a close as possible documentary version of the scene and then where I see some potential I experiment with various "artistic" versions until I get something I like.

I use color grading to highlight a specific element(s) to draw viewers' eyes to it/them and/or to enhance colours aiming for a different look and feel to the overall scene.

To color grade I use one or more colour gradients with various blend modes and layer masks and/or various other adjustment layers like Selective Color and Color Balance etc.

Thank you Roel.

In the documentary version the beetle didn't stand out as much as I would have liked.

Thanks

Because I am back to using FastStone which doesn't save an accompanying file with edits, and I like to know what I have done, I use the filename which may end up as P1322553USM20R08C30S20H-15Shd10Crp1.JPG

I don't want to post such a filename so I make a copy and label it with a and then b, c if I make other versions.

Adjusted is good...