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[Antonio Correia]

The Bokkedoorns, a dune landscape near Zandvoort. Freezing cold and not too much light. I was trying out my Nikkor 105mm.

Thank you Peter for posting here
Your images have a different treatment, which looks rather peculiar...
It is pleasant and the one I like best is the second one.

[Antonio Correia]

My turn now expecting your comments if you please.

[GeorgeM]

A view of Wenatchee, WA, USA


ridge view_DSC5293 by gmontjr, on Flickr

[GeorgeM]

My turn now expecting your comments if you please.

I have little to no experience with c&c. I can say that I like the photograph. The focus and dof are good. The view of the valley weaving through the hills is interesting.

[GeorgeM]

The Bokkedoorns, a dune landscape near Zandvoort. Freezing cold and not too much light. I was trying out my Nikkor 105mm.

i like the atmosphere of this set. You mention the freezing cold, but it could also be a hot, scrub-land.

[Nicola]

My turn now expecting your comments if you please.

hi Antonio
I'm quite embarassed commenting your work...
anyway, I try to explain my first impressions, I am going to watch again your photo and more accurately this evening. As George said, there are many good things in this picture.
But I've seen more beautiful pictures from you.
I think that is one example of image that a closer foreground is needed (I think this image isn't so similar to the one you posted in #253 ), or something that catch the observer's attention... perhaps something summarizing the more important features of that environment (a rock, a bush..).
Perhaps also the mid position of the horizon doesn't help to understand what is the subject (the sky or the desert?)
but these are just my opinions...
have a nice day
Nicola

[Antonio Correia]

I have little to no experience with c&c. I can say that I like the photograph. The focus and dof are good. The view of the valley weaving through the hills is interesting.

Thank you George
I'll posta nother one soon. This landscape was shot in Morocco.

[Antonio Correia]

hi Antonio
I'm quite embarassed commenting your work...
anyway, I try to explain my first impressions, I am going to watch again your photo and more accurately this evening. As George said, there are many good things in this picture.
But I've seen more beautiful pictures from you.
I think that is one example of image that a closer foreground is needed (I think this image isn't so similar to the one you posted in #253 ), or something that catch the observer's attention... perhaps something summarizing the more important features of that environment (a rock, a bush..).
Perhaps also the mid position of the horizon doesn't help to understand what is the subject (the sky or the desert?)
but these are just my opinions...
have a nice day
Nicola

good work Nicola
Please don't feel embarrassed commenting my photos. Go on tell me what you think about them. You are welcome
I kind of agree with you regarding the lack of subject in the foreground and the middle of the photo being ... just the horizon.
This is not indeed of my best I have to agree with you Nicola...

But here is another one which I hope you like best. Please comment.

[Antonio Correia]

I should have posted this one instead

[arith]

Cheers Antonio; I think the blue is because it is blue Ahhh actually it could have a bit to do with the deep blue filter. But here is one I haven't fiddled with yet :



It is gold, real gold.

[arith]

Thank you Steve for posting here I mean again
Your image is nice and of course it looks round. I think Donald was just pushing your leg, weren't it Ronald ?
What stroke me at once was the bluish light you have there which could be corrected.
On the other hand apart from small adjustments in framing I do like the image.
What do I mean for small details ? Well, for example you could have got the chandelier over a whiter area for example.
And if you have the opportunity just don't care very much about straightening the lines. If the dome is round, take advantage of it and enhance it not, disguise.
Something like: If you can't beat your enemy just joint him.

And: if you can shoot in there place your camera on the ground just underneath the chandelier (on it's vertical) and make a shot with the timer. I think you will like the result. Move your camera to the right, left, whatever and repeat the process.
Innovative points of view.
Example here

But I like best this one here
(both shot in India)

I like that one; but I lay on my back here, didn't want to lie right under because of a squashed spider and I was able to get this before a lady asked if I needed an ambulance.

[Antonio Correia]

Cheers Antonio; I think the blue is because it is blue Ahhh actually it could have a bit to do with the deep blue filter. But here is one I haven't fiddled with yet :

It is gold, real gold.

I have, I mean: We have been in Cambridge, UK and Oxford a long time ago and we were impressed how beautiful all is.
In your image I think you should step back a bit. To have a "complete" chandelier and - if you can - use a tripod and close your aperture to get some nice stars from the lights.
Excellent picture anyway. I would like to go back there some day
Thank you etc., you know...
Oh and dont' bother, if it is gold, then it's gold and it's just fine !...

[Vandenberg]

The usual Vanderberg. The usual good and coherent work
The only but is the small tree at the right.
Am I nuts or I have seen here two images a wile ago ? It must be the age...
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Music on the background from your site in another window. I will go and have a look later.
Thank you etc.
There must me something not going right here about the images you have posted. I see two on the text but one in "real"

they are new, so you can not have seen before, indeed a bit of a tree on the left
dont know what you see, but i see 2 pictures i posted here

thx for the c&c

[arith]

I have, I mean: We have been in Cambridge, UK and Oxford a long time ago and we were impressed how beautiful all is.
In your image I think you should step back a bit. To have a "complete" chandelier and - if you can - use a tripod and close your aperture to get some nice stars from the lights.
Excellent picture anyway. I would like to go back there some day
Thank you etc., you know...
Oh and dont' bother, if it is gold, then it's gold and it's just fine !...

Caught you It wasn't Cambridge it was Lichfield, to the right and above this window. Was using a tripod and it is HDR and there was a 50 foot drop right next to me. I could do with a wider lens than 17mm.

[Antonio Correia]

they are new, so you can not have seen before, indeed a bit of a tree on the left
dont know what you see, but i see 2 pictures i posted here

thx for the c&c

I see two images. But yesterday I was seing two pictures and when I posted I could only see one.

It's OK now. I can see two images Vandenberg

[Antonio Correia]

I like that one; but I lay on my back here, didn't want to lie right under because of a squashed spider and I was able to get this before a lady asked if I needed an ambulance.

Good Steve
In fact I was almost missing your post...
Thank you etc.

[Antonio Correia]

Caught you It wasn't Cambridge it was Lichfield, to the right and above this window. Was using a tripod and it is HDR and there was a 50 foot drop right next to me. I could do with a wider lens than 17mm.

Well done
Perhaps a bit more saturation just on the window... I don't know but you could make it denser, more "present", standing out more.

[Letrow]

good work Nicola
Please don't feel embarrassed commenting my photos. Go on tell me what you think about them. You are welcome
I kind of agree with you regarding the lack of subject in the foreground and the middle of the photo being ... just the horizon.
This is not indeed of my best I have to agree with you Nicola...

But here is another one which I hope you like best. Please comment.

Post 279 looks better you think? The colors are more vivid for sure, but this landscape looks beautiful as well with its pastel color.
I would have cropped it slightly, taking away a bit of the sky. Just as in my landscapes (post 266), the sky has almost no detail (just a bad sky day I guess), so I would have emphasized the hills a bit more.
Did you tweak anything, like saturation, or curves? The colors are great and there is good depth in the photo, so this one has a lot of potential.

[Nicola]

good work Nicola
Please don't feel embarrassed commenting my photos. Go on tell me what you think about them. You are welcome
I kind of agree with you regarding the lack of subject in the foreground and the middle of the photo being ... just the horizon.
This is not indeed of my best I have to agree with you Nicola...

But here is another one which I hope you like best. Please comment.

Antònio,
I really like the 278 one: the colours and haze create a nice DOF despite the use of tele (I suppose that as I can't see the exif at the moment), and the composition is good at my eyes.
But over all, the picture represents well the scenery:
the harshness of the landscapes, the diffused light makes me easily imagine the hot day, with low warm wind and pine-tree smell, (all things I found very often, as are common in mediterranean environment, so I have very clear in mind). Personally, I feel myself in that place (Marocco?).
Perhaps it's not what you see in that picture or isn't what you want to show, but everyone have different experiences, and these experiences let him reacting in a different way than an other person...
(I hope that my thought is clear... damn my incomprehensible english!)

I like also the picture in post #279: it is more impressive, for sure, but in my opinion is also more standard: today the pictures with high saturation are quite common, since the use of PP techniques let the photographer transform an august-hazy-noon-beach picture as clear and saturated as one taken during the golden hours on a morning of October (I mean the better light conditions). This kind of pictures, in my opinion, are always more impressive and more interesting at first sight, since is not so common to see so saturated colours, but for the same reasons, sometimes they have less things to tell to the viewer, I mean, they are sometimes less expressive.
I think it depends on the subject and to the photographer intent…

I hope I haven’t annoyed you with this long reply…
Best regards
Nicola

[GiantTristan]

Stormy morning at Torres del Paine, Chile