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8 Jun 18 Comment Hi Snehendu and friends in Group 08. What a coincident. I have similar object (Car Museum) posted in my Group 70. One of my group friends referred me to see your post. Frans Gunterus Jun 17th
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70 Jun 18 Reply Thanks Lamar. Jun 27th
70 Jun 18 Reply Lamar, would it be okey to remove distracting objects like vertical wires, side light rays in Travel Photography contest? Jun 19th
70 Jun 18 Reply Thanks Lamar. Jun 18th
70 Jun 18 Comment Judy, you have such a unique question. If I understand you correctly. You were among the crowd of photo shooters and has no choice due to space constrains you could only capture the pony and the rainbow as it is in your original frame.

During post processing, you purposely crop tight and by using LR, you try to attract your photo viewers (by brightening, your term is burning and dodging) your 1st, 2nd and 3rd POI (Pony, Tree, Rainbow then back to Pony).

My answer to your question. Yes, you have successfully draw my attention to the 1st, 2nd, 3rd POI and back to the 3rd (the Pony). It was all because you gradually staggered brightness of the 1st, the 2nd and the 3rd POI. This was a basic concept of post processing techniques.

However, I also agree with Charles, my eyes were expecting to see some space at the right of the pony. To me, this would be be alright if the pony happened facing to the left of the frame. :)

I appreciate your hard work during post processing.

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70 Jun 18 Comment This is an excellent shot. You successfully trap my eyes in to your POI, i.e. the 'storm brewing' then move to the left on partially bright cloud with some obvious part of rainy skies. This a perfect timing. Nice work Glen! Jun 18th
70 Jun 18 Comment Hi Charles. You have perfectly spot the right angle to capture this image. It balance between the fall, the brown trees on the right and the green moss with rock background on the left. Soothing and Relaxing. This image is good for wallpaper.

I have to agree with Pierre, Judy and Glen that concern about distraction of the leaning trees on the right. It's an inherent distortion when using wide angle lens. The picture was taken with 16 mm wide angle lens, while Fish Eye effect started to become obvious from 15 mm and less.

Lightroom, Photoshop or any kind of of post processing software like DXO Pro Optic are able to compensate the distortion, but it would all in the expense of loosing essential part of the key elements in the picture.

I have no issue with Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM with my APSC Body Canon 60D (Crop Factor 1.6). But I waste a lot of shots due to severe lens distortion the first time I used this lens on my Canon 6D (full frame body). Now, I am using Canon 24-105 mm L IS USM as my walk around lens. However due to my past experience, I always anticipate extra space in my shooting frames to allow lens distortion compensation and post cropping.

I found, this video is good in explaining concept of lens distortion with various wide angle lens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0FdW4qzxD4

Jun 18th
70 Jun 18 Comment Pierre, I imagined you must have been waiting for the sun to rise until certain height. To me, you shot it just within the right time.

My suggestion, I think, the composition will be stronger if you positioned the sun, right behind the tree stem, then crop the image accordingly. The shot would much appealing if the tree is wet so you get rim lights among the tree brunches.


I appreciate your effort for this shot. 		Jun 18th
70 Jun 18 Comment Lamar, I agree this IR is indeed awesome. People tends to wow when they see things they have not seen before. My guest, the composition will be stronger if shot from different angle to make the high palm tree stands in-front of the black sky background. Jun 17th
70 Jun 18 Reply Hi Glen. Let me be very honest and 'confess' to you, I never realize that star burst effect is a result of small diaphragm opening or high aperture setting until you comment it. My aim for high aperture setting was solely for broad DOF (Depth of Field). Was it, again, a luck factor?

After you comment it, I learned a number of resources in internet and found this link give us best and concise explanation about star burst effect:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0TYdHax7TM

Thanks Glen, thanks group I learned a lot from you guys.		 Jun 17th
70 Jun 18 Reply Hi Judy. Wow, you are very observant about waiting for cars to move when the light is green :) I believe a luck factors happened also in photography. I can not predict the traffic and I have been waiting almost half an hour for the bus to come expecting combination of light trails from high to low. I bracketed my shots in burst mode and found this frame to be the best among them.

By the way, I also visited Group 08 as you suggested and invite them to observe my image.		 Jun 17th
70 Jun 18 Reply Pierre, thanks for your input about the three vertical lines. That was a rotor-crane slinks standing on the left of this building. I was hesitate to remove it as I also prepare this image to follow Travel Photography contest. Indeed, they are distracting. My question to all: would it be okey to remove this kind disturbing objects in Travel Photography? Jun 17th
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