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64 Jun 18 Reply Thanks, John! We all see different things (and similar things too) in each picture, which is why I love this group. Jun 18th
64 Jun 18 Comment I like this picture for its depth and texture. Alas they aren't the subject, the plant is. I'd like to bring its importance out. For mono I suppose the only recourse is lightening its dark shadows as Jerry suggests.

I also like single colour splashes in monos, but yes, then it's no longer a mono image. Also I find that this rarely floats the boat of judges. But hey, we do this because we like the results, not just to please others, so go for it.

I'm wondering if an extreme wide angle and being closer to the plant would have improved it? 18mm on full frame is pretty wide. But even wider would have emphasised the plant and the environment.		 Jun 18th
64 Jun 18 Comment You are a world apart, Abhijeet. In the UK, all public railways are protected by fences and trespassing on the land risks a hefty fine if you are caught as it's considered so dangerous.
I agree with John's comments, it's an excellent image as it is. Technically it's spot on. The low viewpoint emphasises the size and might of the train. The people ignore it (and the photographer) and the danger it presents. Does it suggest that the activities are more important than life? Or that space is so tight in such a big country due to the many people? I don't know, maybe all these things.
Brilliant, you have a great gift for such pictures. Keep them coming, please! 		Jun 18th
64 Jun 18 Comment Without the original to look at I'm not sure what the "control points" have done as I don't use Nik, but I think the result is good and very pleasing. My only quibble would be the statue - the figure is sort of camouflaged by the background which I find quite distracting, but I don't know how to get round that. Cropping it out loses too much. I'd leave the sky as it is - the dark foreground leaves and lighter sky adds to the sense of depth for me. I wouldn't like the sky to compete with the building, there's enough detail to make it interesting already.

As for the interior - wow! I didn't know you have architecture like that over the pond, I thought it was Europe's forte. We are just back from a month in north Spain and France. Cathedrals in Leon and Burgos are fantastic, but, I suppose, more in a historical sense. 		Jun 18th
64 Jun 18 Comment Wow, impact right between my eyes. The milky appearance of the water and texture variations are fantastic eye magnets I think.

Having looked at it for a while, the part I'm having difficulty with is the contrast between the mountain outlines and the sky. (Lack of contrast, I mean.) The most distant mountains are hard to distinguish from the clouds until zoomed right in. When there, I see white lines that appear a bit like sharpening artefacts - has it been over sharpened at some stage in the production?		 Jun 18th
64 Jun 18 Comment A good effort to produce an old-style picture I think with a suitable subject, I like it.

Given that style, should the phone wires be cloned out? Personally I'd flip it right to left, I think that is more restful as the picture is quite calm. Is the glow and strong grain due to over-sharpening? Grain like this on a Sony and with 100ISO seems quite unusual. Also, what's the horizontal line above the roof apex? - looks like a bit of displaced border. Can that be cloned out? The bright square plate is also an eye-drawer - darken down a little?		 Jun 18th
64 Jun 18 Comment I don't know the rules for PTD and PJD but I know the sort of thing you mean. I also know that some wildlife rules allow some modification of the picture for "improvement" provided it doesn't upset the depiction of the subject and its natural environment, and I've got to say that's the sort of rule I like. So, I would remove the antenna too, I think that pictorially it looks better. Jun 18th
64 Jun 18 Reply Actually that looks rather too dark here, the originals seem less so. Frustrating! I've added a curve adjustment now to counteract that. Jun 10th
64 Jun 18 Reply I think you extolled DxO previously, Jerry, and I will try it if I can. I'd tried DxO a year or so ago and preferred Affinity on the whole, but probably I didn't try its de-noise feature. In the revised image above I've applied Affinity's basic noise reduction. Previously when I tried it I thought that it softened the image a lot, but in this case it seems not to have lost much sharpness, so the de-noising looks better to me. What do you think? I've applied for another go with DxO and will try it if they let me. Jun 10th
64 Jun 18 Reply Yes, you're quite right Don. There seems to be a problem with Olympus raw files in Affinity at the moment. I made the focus merge directly from the raw files and it has done an imperfect job on it. Looking at the files again I don't see much benefit in the focus merge here (I was on holiday but we never seemed to have time to relax)so I've re-processed the closest-focussed file alone and got some detail back. Jun 10th
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