LightandShadow

Crop 2 as others have said. These moon shots are about the only time I am tempted to learn how to do focus stacking.

I agree about the distortion. The wide angle not only added a lot of extraneous bits calling for a tighter crop but also made the verticals non-vertical and the horizontals seem to want us to walk on the right side of the boardwalk.

very nice, early nostalgic. One of our group used to arrange these sorts of figures outdoors, adding….not quite realism but another dimension to it.

I used to avoid square as it was said to be static. One of my favorite Youtube landscape photographers uses it quite often so I stopped avoiding it.

Welcome. I look forward to seeing your show and tell–to my mind, the easiest avenue to changing our work.

Thanks for all that. Good general advice. However, it doesn’t deal with the actual conditions of the shoot. For example, there’s very little place to stand that would put me at eye level with the participants. There is one place but it is taken by another photographer and requires a bit more scrambling over wet boulders than I feel comfortable…[Read more]

I really like this, especially the first one. The strong central subject and position of the moon and tree working together in my eye rather than standing apart from each other is something I find appealing. Dusk colors add to it and, of course, the single bird awing and the other perched add to it. You might consider a crop from the top of the…[Read more]

Welcome. Look forward to seeing what’s on offer.

With 25 seasons of murders, be careful out there.  At least they all get solved.

Or maybe something like this…

I agree. There is enough context to make this other than a portrait.

Thanks for the feedback @patrickw-2 @admin-2 @retiredgrunt

Here’s a revision.

As to equipment, the initial post is very close to uncropped. My Canon R6 (the original) seems to provide sufficient detail for my uses even when the image has a severe crop. Few of the…[Read more]

I have tried the delete buttons and none of them have actually made the post disappear.

I have a separate collection of family favs, many involving the track (athletics) and cross country activities.

Thanks for your feedback. I’ll wait for other feedback before posting a revision.

This year, I chose just over 100 general interest pictures as Favorites. By that, I mean just that: not prize winners but catches my eye months later and that I am somewhere between not embarrassed and proud to have others see.

Thank you. As with almost all Raw images, there’s added c0ntrast but no selection for light or color in this one.

Thank you. I was surprised and pleased at that as well.

Thanks for commenting @tersha. The water was higher than usual though not much faster than on previous events. I wondered whether the organizers had gotten the power company upstream to open the sluice gates on the dam to increase the flow.

It was actually the background on this misty day that attracted me to the scene. I have several in the…[Read more]