Soft, dark red

[derekphil]

Double dahlia. Slight soft focus.

[Round Tuit]

Double dahlia. Slight soft focus.

I don't see a picture!

[Manfred M]

Beautiful and strong image Derek - no clipped reds either, something that can be tough with an image like this one.

A bit of sharpening to counteract the softening (which is pretty typical in a tight shot like this one) and some dodging and burning would unlock even more of what you have captured here.

[derekphil]

Thanks Manfred.
I applied a small amount of soft focus to remove some petal texture that I felt detracted.
Here it is beofre soft focus.

[Manfred M]

Thanks Manfred.
I applied a small amount of soft focus to remove some petal texture that I felt detracted.
Here it is beofre soft focus.

Thanks - I had not understood that you had done that on purpose.

Seeing the original now, that makes perfect sense, the image is just a touch on the "crunchy" side. Adding the blur tones that down very nicely. I do this in some of my work as well and will add around a 20% Gaussian blur that I apply at an opacity of around 20% as a starting point and will fine tune to get the effect I am looking for.

[Round Tuit]

Thanks Manfred.
I applied a small amount of soft focus to remove some petal texture that I felt detracted.
Here it is beofre soft focus.

I don't see this picture either!

[Manfred M]

Andre - if you paste this link into your browser, can you see the image?


https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/fo...7&d=1567880309

[derekphil]

Andre - if you paste this link into your browser, can you see the image?


https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/fo...7&d=1567880309

I find this site to be somewhat user unfriendly with regard to posting images. I had just got used to Tinypics when they stopped the service. So my postings today are via an album and then pasting into a thread post. If you can't see the post, I might have contributed to the problem. Hopefully I'll get better at this.

[Manfred M]

I find this site to be somewhat user unfriendly with regard to posting images. I had just got used to Tinypics when they stopped the service. So my postings today are via an album and then pasting into a thread post. If you can't see the post, I might have contributed to the problem. Hopefully I'll get better at this.

Derek - I am not having any issues seeing your posts, so I suspect there is a problem elsewhere.

I know that Sean, the site owner, has looked for alternatives to TinyPic for some time and has not found a replacement in his search, so when that site shut down, we all had to find alternatives.

A number of people have switched over to a free Flickr account, but even they have a 1000 image limit. Most of us seem to be making do. Being a free site there are limits, especially when it comes to storage and bandwidth.

[revi]

Andre - if you paste this link into your browser, can you see the image?


https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/fo...7&d=1567880309

Fwiw, I can't see any image from OP, and the quoted link gives me an empty page (and indicates a GIF image...).
But the image in your post above {#3) does show up.

[dje]

Fwiw, I can't see any image from OP, and the quoted link gives me an empty page (and indicates a GIF image...).
But the image in your post above {#3) does show up.

Same here!

[billtils]

A number of people have switched over to a free Flickr account, but even they have a 1000 image limit.

Not strictly correct. The free account has a rolling image maximum, but the Pro account has no limits (and costs approx 50USD per year).

[Round Tuit]

Andre - if you paste this link into your browser, can you see the image?


https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/fo...7&d=1567880309

I tried that and what I get is one white pixel on a black background gif image.

[Tom Barry]

I see nothing, except in Manfred's post. Has anyone at Cambridge looked into Pro Boards? I belong to an invitation-only photo-sharing forum that is hosted free by Pro Boards. I can post from Flickr or Imgbb. Even if I don't downsize when posting from Imgbb, the site downsizes it and the photos are as sharp as the originals. Here's a link:
https://www.bing.com/search?q=proboa...IymCcN&plvar=0

[Manfred M]

I can't see what the issue is and have escalated it.

Hopefully we will see some answers soon.

[Manfred M]

I received the following reply from Sean"

Yeah image issues have been a thorn in our side ever since tinypic started being phased out. I will dive into this in detail on Monday. Hopefully this one is relatively simple since it involves the native image hosting mechanism...

[Wavelength]

Terrific!!!