2018 Project 52, First Quarter, by Joe Small (Joebranko)

[joebranko]

Thanks Manfred. I will look again at these points and make adjustments. Your input greatly appreciated.

[joebranko]

I generally agree with Manfred--and bravo to you for moving into more learning about Post Processing. As Manfred said, cropping the left needs to be thought about carefully as the strength of this image is the current placement of the tree and the balance of the tree with the space to the left.

Hope you are having fun!

Thanks Judith. Appreciate your input.

[joebranko]

Thanks for your encouraging words Sandy

[joebranko]

I have made some adjustments: Cropped a little from the top, re checked black point and white point, slight increase in exposure & adjusted the haze

[Geoff F]

Looks good to me now, Joe.

[skitterbug]

Hi Joe - I like the work you've done with the B/W version but I have to say that when I flipped back through the presentations of this scene, I found myself enjoying the one in color (Post #19) the best. It just seems dynamic the way you have it there.

[Manfred M]

I like this version a lot better than your original posting.

[Shadowman]

I have made some adjustments: Cropped a little from the top, re checked black point and white point, slight increase in exposure & adjusted the haze

Nicely processed and edited.

[joebranko]

Looks good to me now, Joe.

Thanks Geoff

[joebranko]

Hi Joe - I like the work you've done with the B/W version but I have to say that when I flipped back through the presentations of this scene, I found myself enjoying the one in color (Post #19) the best. It just seems dynamic the way you have it there.

Thanks Sandy. The reason I went B&W was to try out a feature of Photoshop. I was trying it regardless. But I too like the coloured version. Thanks Sandy. Your comments always encourage me to keep trying.

[joebranko]

I like this version a lot better than your original posting.

Thanks Manfred!

[joebranko]

Nicely processed and edited.

Thanks John.

[joebranko]

I finally got out to take some pictures. After not posting for so long, I forgot how!! Finally figured it out using Flickr.

This is the Grist Mill in St.Catharines, Ontario. Morningstar Mill is a rural industrial heritage site owned by the City of St. Catharines and operated in partnership with the Friends of Morningstar Mill. It features a working grist mill rebuilt in 1872, and the home of the Morningstar family restored up to 1933.

[Manfred M]

I finally got out to take some pictures. After not posting for so long, I forgot how!! Finally figured it out using Flickr.

This is the Grist Mill in St.Catharines, Ontario. Morningstar Mill is a rural industrial heritage site owned by the City of St. Catharines and operated in partnership with the Friends of Morningstar Mill. It features a working grist mill rebuilt in 1872, and the home of the Morningstar family restored up to 1933.

Nice shot in a somewhat challenging location.

I visited there last summer and struggled to get a good shot because of the location and setting; we were staying at a B&B just up the road from the mill. The mosquitoes seemed to enjoy me feeding them as I was out shooting during evening "golden hour" and "blue hour".

One suggestion would be to shoot even wider in order to get a bit more foreground (there were some reeds there when I was shooting) and to get either the whole old or new mill building into the shot.

[Wavelength]

Both these images are fine

[billtils]

One suggestion would be to shoot even wider in order to get a bit more foreground (there were some reeds there when I was shooting) and to get either the whole old or new mill building into the shot.

Lovely shot - quite a contrast to the earlier ones. +1 to what Manfred says, and also crop or clone out the distractions at the very bottom of the image as framed here.

FWIW, I have been using flickr to "post" images here for some time now. It's way more reliable than tinypic and is much simpler.

[joebranko]

Thanks Manfred. I plan to return and take this shot again, with a wider composition.

[Manfred M]

Thanks Manfred. I plan to return and take this shot again, with a wider composition.

Just to hijack your thread, here are two I got at this site. The light was nicer while I was there, I think.

[joebranko]

Very nice Manfred. Thanks for sharing these.

[joebranko]

From Confederation Park, Hamilton.