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Jul 17 |
Comment |
Bill, thanks for posting a larger image. I like the composition with the trees framing the city scene and the seat in the foreground. Photographing at night can be great fun and also quite surprising in what the camera will record. To me, the two big features of night photography are the colour cast from street lighting, and the amount of detail recorded in long exposures. Here you have quite a lot of detail in the foreground which can be brought out by the use of the Shadows/Highlights adjustment in Photoshop (just use the Shadows slider as the Highlights slider creates haloes). You can also restore a more natural colour to the image using a Curves or Levels adjustment layer and using the mid-grey eye dropper on a part of the image which you think might be neutral in colour. I did this plus a few other local adjustments to reduce the impact of the background and highlight the seat in the foreground. |
Jul 20th |
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| 4 |
Jul 17 |
Reply |
I know it is really. I just have a wild imagination! |
Jul 20th |
| 4 |
Jul 17 |
Reply |
The general use in UK and Europe was for grinding grain, hence the term 'windmill'. However, in Holland where there is a lot of reclaimed land lying at or just below sea level, wind power was used to operate drainage pumps to keep the land from flooding. A low lying part of the county of Lincolnshire in England is called South Holland because Dutch engineers were called in provide wind powered drainage pumps many years ago. |
Jul 18th |
| 4 |
Jul 17 |
Comment |
Hi everybody, Erik sent me his version of my picture as he was having problems loading it on to the site. Here it is. Sorry it's been delayed but I've been away for a week. |
Jul 16th |
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| 4 |
Jul 17 |
Reply |
Alligators in palm trees. Scary!!! |
Jul 16th |
| 4 |
Jul 17 |
Comment |
Bill, the picture is only 307 x 230 pixels so it is too small for good viewing. Can you send it again at a bigger size, say 1024 pixels wide? |
Jul 16th |
| 4 |
Jul 17 |
Reply |
But you didn't flip it.... |
Jul 16th |
| 4 |
Jul 17 |
Reply |
Well the light does go round and round and round and.... |
Jul 10th |
| 4 |
Jul 17 |
Reply |
Thanks Erik. I didn't think about lightening the wall. It's great to have different eyes look at your images. |
Jul 9th |
| 4 |
Jul 17 |
Comment |
Excellent action shot, Ian. The boat gives the impression that it is about to get airborne, and I sometimes wonder if they are likely to flip over backwards when they reach this sort of position. The boat is well placed in the frame, and sharp - not easy to achieve with a fast moving subject. You are panning, keeping the subject in the right place, holding focus and trying to make sure you don't get someone's head in your shot just at the decisive moment! Great work! |
Jul 9th |
| 4 |
Jul 17 |
Comment |
This is an unusual angle on an alligator, and it gives it some added interest. The albino aspect is different too (for me at least). The image is sharp with the subject well placed in the frame and I would certainly not have guessed it was in a tank. Good luck in the contest. |
Jul 9th |
| 4 |
Jul 17 |
Comment |
Bill, you have made a picture out of a difficult starting image. The colours have been strengthened, and the composition has been made more interesting with the addition of the birds and the lighthouse light, even though it does not actually shine in that direction (as it is a painterly image, you can get away with that). If you want to make it totally surreal, you could play with the Warp tool in Photoshop. |
Jul 9th |
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| 4 |
Jul 17 |
Comment |
The b/w image is very dramatic with the strong contrast, well lit wind pump and heavy sky. It really comes over well. The colour image is much more gentle, in spite of the heavy sky, and portrays a quiet pastoral scene, bathed in lovely light. I like them both and would find it difficult to decide which would be my favourite. It really depends on the mood you are in, or want to be in. Erik's suggestion to crop a little off the left does tighten up the composition but I think I prefer it uncropped. |
Jul 9th |
| 4 |
Jul 17 |
Comment |
Well I too had to look up Calliope. Not just someone from Greek mythology, but a steam organ as well! A good detail from this piece of equipment with just the right amount of rust thrown in to mix with the bright coloured pipes and the heavy bolted pressure connections. It is sharp, colourful and full of interesting detail. Those two domes at the top make me think of intergalactic storm troopers! The one on the right even has two eyes! |
Jul 9th |
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