* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #869 / Revived #089 on 2024 12 11 *

Thanks for reminding me Alan.
You're right!

I am also very active in DPR forums.
Very pleasant, few photographers with ambitions and no skills.
Although there are loads of them here!
Time to say goodbye next week.
Just one last photo and then I'm off!

I have never been arrogant, I have only offered honest criticism.
That is the point here: honest criticism.
Your statement is the highest level of arrogance I have ever experienced!
Throwing a vase against the wall every week with the most expensive cameras and lenses is a waste of money!
I am more for real life.

I had a bit of a chuckle but I like this one because of the tree growing out of the top of the boy's head.

What I like in the first here, is the atmosphere contrast between golden field and menacing sky.
The second just makes me want to walk through that field, caressing the golden, almost shining and radiating plants with my hands and dreaming away.

I don't see how anyone can find this image boring.
Sure, there is nothing "happening", but the geometry in itself is enough already.
And then there is the main attraction: the sideways light and how it shows us the micro-texture of a wall that would seem plain white with any other lighting condition.
So what the image really does, is that it shows us the light itself.
It is an action photo of light.

You could also call this image "Connection".
The ratio is totally out of the ordinary, creating tunnel vision and giving us a close-up view of what is seldom shown: the connecting grid between two railcars.
There is connection there, and it contrasts with the lack of connection further down (or further up) our view. Isolated passengers.

Like horizontal panos with excessively high aspect rations this photo doesn't sit comfortably with me (I know this is not a vertical pano). The concept you are portraying is good but there is too much "dead space" at the bottom notwithstanding the grid between the two cars. Imho a square crop from the top would be a much better composition highlighting the perspective and passengers much more. It would also by coincidence put the vanishing point on the bottom third horizontal composition guide helping to make a better composition.

A friendly reminder. In this thread you need to post an image before you begin posting about the images posted by others.

Thanks Roel and to everyone who has commented about this image. I'm sorry discussion spiraled into a bit of vitriol in the last several days. I let my annoyance about a negative comment toward Minnie's post spill over and then things got personal and went a little downhill. That won't happen again.

There are some with whom I feel there is no need for any future interaction.

Rich

Ok, I have read the "fine print" in the op now. I see we are also allowed to post edited images unless in the post it says not to. That is good to know because it helps explain c&c. I will dig up a photo I need advice with and post it here.

Given we are in pantomime season I think we are long overdue for a chorus of:

"Oh no it isn't..."

"Oh yes it is..."

Caspar,

If you want help with an image, that’s ok. But getting, or needing help is not the primary purpose of the thread. It’s sharing and discussing images.

Rich

It's just a photo to meet the requirements of this thread because photos in other threads don't count apparently.

But what was the advice you needed with it?

Thank you David. I haven't been back there since the time I took that photo approx 20 years ago now.

Thanks :-)