* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #962 / Revived #182 on 2026 09 23 *

Welcome to the Wednesday Comments and Critique (No Theme & No Brand) thread!

We are dedicated to continuing the great tradition of this C&C thread because we are convinced that looking at, and talking about images is vital for better photography.

Our tried and tested concept (15 years and running!) is a weekly "peer-to-peer" photo comments & critique encounter, in which you GIVE and RECEIVE.

The idea is simple: you post a photo or photo-based image that you have made and get critique on it. And in return you give other people your honest but constructive opinion of their images.

Any Theme, Any Camera, Any Style, Any Subject.

We are still figuring out how to create the convenience of threaded view on this new forum.
For now, let us agree that you post an image or essay with a title and short explanation, and that all comments include the image as a quote.
Replies to comments may or may not include quotes.

THREAD GUIDELINES – THE SHORT & SWEET VERSION
• This thread does not care about brands. It’s not about the tool, but the image.
• Post one image or essay that you have made and would like to get comments on.
An entry can either be a single image or a short essay. With an essay we mean not a collection of random images without any connection, seeking C&C on more than one of them. We mean instead a limited number (3 to 10) of connected images that together try to tell a story, create a fuller picture of a situation, event or location, etc.
• Add a clear title to your post to distinguish your entry.
• Look at the other images/essays and give your comments on at least one of those.
• For comments, try to go beyond a simple pat on the back or a short dismissal.
• Do you like an image (or essay) ? Try to explain WHY it appeals to you.
• Negative feedback is OK (we all want to learn), but be polite and constructive. Try to explain why the image (or essay) does not appeal to you and how it might be improved.
• Please stay on topic, i.e. concentrate on the image and the photographic comments, without getting into politics or other distractions. No non-photographic arguments.

The critique you give is vital.
What was your first impression? What catches your eye about an image? Why?
What do you like, and what distracts you? What would you change?

Fiddle with the image in your head - composition, perspective, color balance, exposure.

PLEASE NOTE CLEARLY:
Unless the original poster specifically states (for every individual posting offered for C&C) that they do not want their image(s) to be downloaded, altered or reposted, it is understood that within the context of this thread, other participants are free to download and alter the posted image and repost it in a reply for C&C purposes. That reposted image may remain permanently within the week's thread, or you may remove it after a short period of time if you prefer. The downloaded and altered images are not to be used for any other purposes nor uploaded anywhere else than within the context of the C&C in this thread. No copyright disputes here!

Encourage - it is a scary business putting your work up for other people to judge!

More general feedback is also welcome.
Do you know something about taking the same sort of image that would make matters easier - share your own as an example in your reply.

Have fun, be respectful and let’s stick together!

POSITANO (almost 360°)

I've been moving/deleting photos, panoramas and video's from my iphone in order to free up some memory.
Copying images to my desktop made me rediscover a lot of impressions and souvenirs from the past 10 years.

Here is, for instance, an image of March 2018.

We were in Campania (Napoli and then down to the Amalfi coast) to celebrate Els' 50th birthday with Italian friends.
One of our stops was the outrageously picturesque coastal town Positano.
I remember we had a room in a hotel a bit up the hill behind the church.

I went down to the pebbly beach early one morning to catch early light crawling over the hilltop onto the village.

But while there, I also made this almost 360° panorama with my iphone (seems like it was the SE model at the time):

Of-fence taken! by simple.joy, on Flickr

I've been experimenting with what is sometimes referred to as "bokeh panorama", which is just like a regular panorama shot, but close-up, so you got a lot out-of-focus and stitching can be quite demanding for the software. So it's not always working like it should, particularly if you add in very old lenses with heavy field curvature... but when it does work out it not only gives you a significantly bigger image/higher resolution but also a wider field of view and in some cases a small taste of what shooting on large format might look like. It's fun, but also kind of saddening to see on what most of us are missing out on by not using that initial (and in some ways vastly superior) type of photography anymore. But I guess there are lots of good practical reasons, why photography evolved in the way it did...

I'll think about this image and panoramas in general in response to simplejoy's panorama