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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 4 |
Feb 22 |
Comment |
I had some canal boating holidays when I was young. VERY realxing and VERY sedate! |
Feb 17th |
| 4 |
Feb 22 |
Comment |
Ian, I have driven past the Lymm Services on the M6 many times but never realised there was such a nice little town nearby. The image portrays a quiet, idyllic scene that makes me want to go there for a long, lazy weekend. The boats are versions of "narrow boats" from the days of commercial barge transport on the canal network They were called narrow boats because they had to be no more than 7 feet wide to pass throgh the narrow locks on the network. This distinguishes them from the wide barges of 14 feet beam used on the wider canals mainly in the north of England. Both types were 70 feet long. In the early days, the narrow boats were pulled by horses walking along a path beside the canal, called the towpath, and towpaths are protected rights of way to this day. In the occasional places where there was a tunnel to take the canal through a piece of high ground, the horses would be unhitched and walked over the top to the other end of the tunnel, while the remaining two crew members would lie on their backs on the top of the boat with their feet on the low roof of the tunnel, and literally "walk" along the tunnel roof taking the boat with them to the other end. Some tunnels were quite long, and there is one I know of that is 1640 yards. Quite a walk!
Back to the picture. The lit up house connects well with the boat at the lower right, with the other boat adding context but not being obtrusive. I am happy with the railing at the bottom right, probably because it is so typical of the scene, and makes me feel more secure as it prevents me from falling into the canal! Exposure is just right - not too dark and not too light. And yes, I remember Sooty and his doggy friend Sweep!
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Feb 16th |
| 4 |
Feb 22 |
Comment |
Erik, we have come to expect nothing less from you! The action has been perfectly caught and the birds are sharp. Exposure is just right to retain detail in the birds' plumage, and the pastel shades of blue and grey in the water are very restful. This is not just a superb nature shot; it is a top class pictorial image too. |
Feb 16th |
| 4 |
Feb 22 |
Comment |
Vella, these birds are new to me. They are both attractive and disticly untidy looking! As for the fifth bird, I think I prefer your version with only four birds. It is more compact and cuts out a lot of the background clutter. After all, Nature doesn't worry about photographic judges, so why should you have to have an odd number?
Of course, if the fifth bird had been looking the other way, back towards the group of four.......! |
Feb 16th |
| 4 |
Feb 22 |
Comment |
Beautiful light, Bill. Composition is great too, with the two trees holding us in at the sides, and the superb light tempting us into the image, across the fallen trunks up to the middle at the right. This is a shot that many of us would simply have failed to see. |
Feb 13th |
| 4 |
Feb 22 |
Comment |
A good take on life in Habana, Isaac. The image tells a story; one that could not be seen now in our highly regulated western society. And yet this is quite normal in this location. I think your inclusion of the arm on the person on the left makes a great improvement, but I think you may now have trimmed off a bit too much at the top. |
Feb 13th |
| 4 |
Feb 22 |
Comment |
Gary, I would really have enjoyed being there with you. You have chosen a very pleasing view of this building and picked out an excellent composition. There is interesting tension in the composition, ranging from the soft clouds, through the curves of the windows and structure on the left, to the hard shapes of the reflective metal panels on the right. The lines in the structure take the eye from the bottom corners up to the soft clouds at the top. Also, I am in Ian's camp with mono, in that I too tend to go for more contrast. I like what you have produced, but I also like Ian's version. |
Feb 13th |
| 4 |
Feb 22 |
Reply |
Good idea, Gary. Thanks for the idea. |
Feb 13th |
| 4 |
Feb 22 |
Reply |
Thanks for the improvement Isaac. |
Feb 9th |
| 4 |
Feb 22 |
Comment |
I forgot to add that I was using a 10-stop neutral density filter to slow down the exposure. At ISO 200 it would have been about 4 sec which would have been too long, so I took the ISO up to 400 to get about 2 sec. I wanted the aperture to stay at f/8 to get the depth of field. |
Feb 8th |
8 comments - 2 replies for Group 4
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8 comments - 2 replies Total
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