Nature & Development (colour) - C&C are welcome

[Tejal]

Dear All,

Kindly give your feedback on my below images on suitability for the theme - Nature & Development, where the photograph could illustrate that nature and development can co-exist.

Regards,

Tejal

Color (4) by Tejal Imagination, on Flickr

Color (5) by Tejal Imagination, on Flickr

Color (3) by Tejal Imagination, on Flickr

Color (2) by Tejal Imagination, on Flickr

Color (1) by Tejal Imagination, on Flickr

[chauncey]

Like them all...especially your PP

[Shadowman]

Color (4) could use a little less sky.
Color (5) nicely composed, the foreground boats are nicely anchored with the visible cast shadows, the midground boats are a bit lost in space, might consider cloning out a few.
Color (3), (2), and (1) nicely done.

[Tejal]

Like them all...especially your PP

Thank you for your feedback.

[Tejal]

Color (4) could use a little less sky.
Color (5) nicely composed, the foreground boats are nicely anchored with the visible cast shadows, the midground boats are a bit lost in space, might consider cloning out a few.
Color (3), (2), and (1) nicely done.

Thank you for your feedback and noted your suggestions. Will work on it.

[bnnrcn]

Nice set and good PP work Tejal

[Geoff F]

Pity about the blurred foot in #1.

Maybe #4 could lose a bit of sky and go to a more panoramic size to concentrate on the fliers. But the current image doesn't really bother me and you certainly don't want to lose anything from the sides.

All the others look good.

[Tejal]

Nice set and good PP work Tejal

Thanks Binnur

[Tejal]

Pity about the blurred foot in #1.

Maybe #4 could lose a bit of sky and go to a more panoramic size to concentrate on the fliers. But the current image doesn't really bother me and you certainly don't want to lose anything from the sides.

All the others look good.

thank you very much for your feedback .

[Dave Humphries]

Hi Tejal,

I am writing this having also viewed, but not yet commented, in the later thread: Nature & Development (B&W) - C&C are welcome

I have slightly amended the title of this thread to match the other, I hope you don't mind, but I think it will help people becoming confused between the two (or perhaps it's just me).

Talking of confusion, I find the numbering of the shots in these threads, probably based on your order of processing, very confusing; here we have (4), (5), (3), (2), (1) in order of 1st through to 5th in your post - and the other thread is a simpler (!) reverse order; (5) = 1st, etc.

I'm not sure how this arises in your workflow and I appreciate that Flickr's link generation method doesn't help, but it would be really nice (in future) if you could manage to do what many do here: just have a simple numbering where the first image is number "#1", the second is "#2", etc. when requesting C&C.

I ask because if I say "#4" in my comment, I suspect half the readers will think I am commenting on the fourth image while the rest might have read the link and realise it is the first I am referring to. As if to prove my point; while John has commented in order, using your bracketed numbers, Geoff refers to a "blurred foot in #1", but clearly means the first image; numbered "(4)". In other instances, the subjects in the two 'confused' photos might not be so easy to differentiate, causing more head scratching (unwise at my age!).

I appreciate this will mean a change of your workflow, or more 'work' when posting here, but I think it will help everyone, yourself included.

Please don't be discouraged by my raising this, it is because I find your photography so engaging that I want to comment, so please do keep posting.

I'll do separate posts with my thoughts on these images (in both threads) later today.

Many thanks, Dave

[Tejal]

Hi Tejal,

I am writing this having also viewed, but not yet commented, in the later thread: Nature & Development (B&W) - C&C are welcome

I have slightly amended the title of this thread to match the other, I hope you don't mind, but I think it will help people becoming confused between the two (or perhaps it's just me).

Talking of confusion, I find the numbering of the shots in these threads, probably based on your order of processing, very confusing; here we have (4), (5), (3), (2), (1) in order of 1st through to 5th in your post - and the other thread is a simpler (!) reverse order; (5) = 1st, etc.

I'm not sure how this arises in your workflow and I appreciate that Flickr's link generation method doesn't help, but it would be really nice (in future) if you could manage to do what many do here: just have a simple numbering where the first image is number "#1", the second is "#2", etc. when requesting C&C.

I ask because if I say "#4" in my comment, I suspect half the readers will think I am commenting on the fourth image while the rest might have read the link and realise it is the first I am referring to. As if to prove my point; while John has commented in order, using your bracketed numbers, Geoff refers to a "blurred foot in #1", but clearly means the first image; numbered "(4)". In other instances, the subjects in the two 'confused' photos might not be so easy to differentiate, causing more head scratching (unwise at my age!).

I appreciate this will mean a change of your workflow, or more 'work' when posting here, but I think it will help everyone, yourself included.

Please don't be discouraged by my raising this, it is because I find your photography so engaging that I want to comment, so please do keep posting.

I'll do separate posts with my thoughts on these images (in both threads) later today.

Many thanks, Dave

Thanks Dave for bringing this thing in my notice. I will take care of it for sure . And will be waiting to hear from you on my pics.

[davidedric]

All are good Tejal, but I find the colours and composition in the last one (boats and gulls) exceptional.

Dave

[Tejal]

All are good Tejal, but I find the colours and composition in the last one (boats and gulls) exceptional.

Dave

Thanks Dave for your feedback .

[mknittle]

All very good Tejal, I can't pick a favorite. PP is really good on all.

[Dave Humphries]

Hi again Tejal,

I didn't reply yesterday to this thread in part because I didn't see the images matching the theme so well, let me expand ...

In the first (4), I see a lot of development and hardly any nature, so as to the theme, this doesn't really work for me. On a technical level, the image has some lateral CA, especially noticeable on the left hand side.

The second (5), fits the theme better, esp. if I consider the distant pylons and towers to be the 'development' and river to be the 'nature'. This image also has some lateral CA. If it were mine, I'd clone out all the boats crossing the frame edges. There's probably also some lens barrel distortion going on (e.g. not corrected in LR/ACR).

The third (3), fits the theme well, but would also look far better if the CA had been fixed.

In the fourth (2), I agree with the suggestion to remove a bit of sky by cropping the top edge, although in a series, it does usually help to maintain a constant aspect ratio. It arguably shows how development is detrimental to the landscape, but is fascinating to study none-the-less. It is probably my favourite of this series.

Tell me, did you take this from land, or were you also in the air? There is some CA (which is so easily fixed), but it is not so much an issue in this shot.

The fifth (1), my overwhelming thought was the tightness of the crop on the right hand side to that boat's bow, if possible, crop a little looser there, or extend the canvas and fill it by clone-extending what's at the edge of frame.

If mine, I'd consider cloning out one of the gulls, to make their number five (an odd number), I'd lose the one that's third from left (with only one wing clearly visible).


I hope those thoughts are helpful, having made you wait while I walked to get the shopping in and had lunch.

Cheers, Dave

[Tejal]

All very good Tejal, I can't pick a favorite. PP is really good on all.

Thank you

[Tejal]

Hi again Tejal,

I didn't reply yesterday to this thread in part because I didn't see the images matching the theme so well, let me expand ...

In the first (4), I see a lot of development and hardly any nature, so as to the theme, this doesn't really work for me. On a technical level, the image has some lateral CA, especially noticeable on the left hand side.

The second (5), fits the theme better, esp. if I consider the distant pylons and towers to be the 'development' and river to be the 'nature'. This image also has some lateral CA. If it were mine, I'd clone out all the boats crossing the frame edges. There's probably also some lens barrel distortion going on (e.g. not corrected in LR/ACR).

The third (3), fits the theme well, but would also look far better if the CA had been fixed.

In the fourth (2), I agree with the suggestion to remove a bit of sky by cropping the top edge, although in a series, it does usually help to maintain a constant aspect ratio. It arguably shows how development is detrimental to the landscape, but is fascinating to study none-the-less. It is probably my favourite of this series.

Tell me, did you take this from land, or were you also in the air? There is some CA (which is so easily fixed), but it is not so much an issue in this shot.

The fifth (1), my overwhelming thought was the tightness of the crop on the right hand side to that boat's bow, if possible, crop a little looser there, or extend the canvas and fill it by clone-extending what's at the edge of frame.

If mine, I'd consider cloning out one of the gulls, to make their number five (an odd number), I'd lose the one that's third from left (with only one wing clearly visible).


I hope those thoughts are helpful, having made you wait while I walked to get the shopping in and had lunch.

Cheers, Dave

Oh this is wonderful.... so detailed.

Many many thanks.

[Shanghai Steve]

Hi Tejal
I tried to comment yesterday but my tablet signal dropped out. These are strong images with good colour and composition. I'm glad to see the half-boat cropped, but it still seems that the horizon is a bit skewed. As for your theme, I'm not sure it fits so well. When I think "Nature and Development" I automatically think of monkeys stealing from foodstalls and elephants walking down the road beside taxis etc. But these might be cliches in India.

[Tejal]

Hi Tejal
I tried to comment yesterday but my tablet signal dropped out. These are strong images with good colour and composition. I'm glad to see the half-boat cropped, but it still seems that the horizon is a bit skewed. As for your theme, I'm not sure it fits so well. When I think "Nature and Development" I automatically think of monkeys stealing from foodstalls and elephants walking down the road beside taxis etc. But these might be cliches in India.

Thank you very much for your valuable feedback.

[Shanghai Steve]

Stop being so nice Tejal! I bet if someone commented
"Tejal, I think you should stop doing photography as you have no talent"
you would reply "I will try to take your advice on-board."