Are the 'rays of a sunstar' parallel to each other??? Do railroad tracks actually converge at 'infinity'? Seems like the same effect to me as a line along the shadow to the sun is straight as is a line along the reflection to the sun is also.
In any case, it is lovely image and the rest does not change that fact!
Andrew, the other one.
Thank you minniev. I posted now a correct image.
Thank you Chris
Tnank you Fireplace33. Yes, it was something special especially for me, since I am afraid of height.
This is a wonderful story and a very fun image.
On one hand we have hysterical fun fair colors, a famous but fake building and a cool corrugated fence. On the other hand we have engaged children having fun while they, very focused on the task, steer their plastic boats in all directions. A lovely memory and I don't know how it could have been better. It certainly paid off looking for another better angle.
Thank you for looking and commenting! I certainly appreciate it as I wasn't sure anyone would care after my own c&c on other's work earlier.
This is the second version of the image which really is a stitch (or pano) made from four images. The first one got some funny stitching error in the part with reflections. I actually liked it a bit better but it certainly wasn't easy to comprehend or understand. In was in fact impossible to understand if not having been at the place so it had to go.
It doesn't need the Taj. This shot would be meaningless in B&W. The colours of fun in India. Kid's toys, sweets, cakes, carnivals. whatever.
An edit. I didn't say that very well. I didn't mean that the photo didn't need the Taj Mahal, What I meant was, I didn't need the Taj to know this was India.These are the colours of fun in Idia.
He's/she's beautiful. This time it is the intricate body markings that we can study at leisure.
The blade of grass to the right is interesting. My first response would be to remove it. And yet, and yet.......it has a delicacy and curve that's entirely appropriate. What dies everyone else think?
Just the right amount of transparency on the spectral vision. A threat? A promise? A meeting with change.
Choreographed with the precision of a Chorus line.
Posted my response a few minutes ago, then read yours.
Pare back the details in the various blocks of colour, or squint your eyes a little while looking at the image, and this might be a Georges Braque composition. It's the mix of angles and curves and the colour palette.
I like photographing old workshops too and regret that I can never include the smell.
That's an extraordinary building. It intrigued me enough that I searched for more images of it and found some. You have used the light to bring out the metal planes that are the feature and the reflection adds to the puzzle in trying to figure out how this building works.
Can we see more of your No people series please?
The smell! Oh, the smell!
Thanks Mike!
Rich
There is no problem at all in being blunt here with critique Jonas. Critique is meaningless without honesty. You were also polite and respectful.
We recognize that every person who looks at an image brings something of themself and their experience to the interaction. Appreciating that images do this and sharing our varied responses is all part of the process.
Keep them coming.
Roel has said what I wanted to say. The eye contact is especially good, as it is with more than one member of the band.
Close inspection suggests that maybe Topaz (or similar) was used to recover the blur, especially of the faces. I wonder if that was the reason for your cryptic‘I am convinced.‘ comment, Mike? If so, I agree with you. It is only noticeable if you study the image in detail, as the important things in the image are sharp, and the rest not blurred enough to bother and in keeping with the movement of a marching band. In fact I actually like a bit of motion blur.
I just wanted to add a vote to Minnie‘s vertical crop suggestion. You wrote that your interest was the structure and to show its size, and that the view was of secondary interest. The vertical crop draws more attention to the structure and actually accentuates the sense of size. The figure also becomes a more important part of the image.
The view is high key, which reduces the amount of detail and avoids distracting from the main subject, but leaves enough details to make it interesting.
This week I have been adding to previous comments, and this time I think you have made the best comments yourself!
The trees are a delightful change to the usual sporting backgrounds and the choreographed movement of the players have been captured at the decisive moment visually, which makes a change from the usual capture of a sporting decisive moment, such as a shot at goal or a foul.
The building really is strange, but in a positive way. Your decision to photograph at night and to keep the resulting image dark was excellent. A straightforward, well lit shot by day would possibly be scanned and passed over too quickly by a viewer, but this way, the viewer is forced to look at the large version and study and discover details, if they want to see what the image is about. The darkness also cuts out potential distractions, leaving the building and its reflection as the objects of interest.
What I like most here, are the colours and the sense of depth. That tall building in the hazy background, barely visible, is a good vanishing point for the eye that has travelled through this street, caressing the building façades like the sun does too.
I don't care much about the car in the foreground, and losing a bit from the top would be no disaster.
I would consider a square crop, just above the car roof.