Last catch of the day

[ionian]

[Kaye Leggett]

Interesting processing. I'd like a little more room at the top of the photo. I'm also interested in where they are taken and so where RX is in the UK, Rochester ?

[IzzieK]

I was watching a photography challenge video the other day and it says something about "Camera Tilt" as one of the assignment. It is how to photograph something like a miniature by photographing way up high. Is this the case here, Simon? This needs room at the top...

[ionian]

I'm trying to push my own processing boundaries - I'm looking to create a style that uses filters that replicate older cameras but with a very digital clarity in the main subject. My recent picture of Canary Wharf handled this well, but this may not be as successful. It's all part of the learning and experimenting experience.

The top of the harbour was cluttered and distracting so I've tried a panoramic crop, but I agree that I'd prefer more space above in an ideal world. It wouldn't work with this image though as taken. I didn't shoot for a miniature - I think this is a bit close for that - but I could try it with some added Gaussian blur in post.

This was taken in Whitstable, Kent - RX is the registration for Rye in Sussex.

I hadn't done anything with the pic since taking it, but I'm active on a different forum and I recently used the image as a post-processing challenge for the members there. I thought I better have a look and see what I would do with it as well. I'll post a link to the challenge once it's complete if anyone is interested.

[Dave A]

I really like the processing on this image. The boats really jump out at you.

Dave

[ccphoto]

I sort of have this weird thing about titles matching photos and in this case (processing and framing aside), I see no connection between the two. I do see fishing boats, and the appears to be waning, though it could just as easily be rising..but I see no fish, no cleaning on nets, gear or any other activity associated with fishing...

I still work a lot in the older processes, chemistry, papers, etc and whilst you do catch the tones in a carbon print, even when these processes were at their height, getting that bright of a white with the detail you've managed to keep would have been quite difficult. I would tone down the whites a bit to stay more in character with the tonal values older chemistry would have been able to capture.

[ionian]

Thanks Cris - I can be flexible in titles, this isn't one of my stronger images so didn't get a lot of thinking time on the title tbh. You are welcome to suggest an alternative of course

With regards to the processing - I take your point but as mentioned above the idea was not to be sympathetic to and old film image. As I said, im not sure it has been hugely successful here but I think there's a style worth pursuing in the idea somewhere...