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LightandShadow replied to the topic Dylife in the forum Landscape Photography 1mo, 3wk ago
The softness in the clouds gives it a paint-like appearance. I’m always drawn to the opposing cliffs and a disappearing path.
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LightandShadow started the topic Thin places in the forum General Photo Chit Chat 1mo, 3wk ago
As we approached Old Sheldon Church, Leslie told me about the Celtic idea of a thin place, where the separation between the physical and the spiritual worlds is indistinct and permeable.
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LightandShadow replied to the topic Turn away in the forum General Photo Chit Chat 2mo ago
The base image is different from the original, eliminating the edge of the pot on the bottom of the frame. Here’s a quick change to b&w (1 click in Lightroom) plus a bit of added contrast, darkening the shadows as I almost always need to when converting to b&w.
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LightandShadow replied to the topic PAX in the forum The Shark Tank Feedback Forum 2mo ago
I really like the feel of this. I also don’t think the vignette helps a lot or maybe should be lightened some. The step at the bottom is a little distracting for me. All in all, a stunning image and my negatives are likely to be matters of taste.
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LightandShadow replied to the topic Late Fall Above Dubois Wyoming in the forum Landscape Photography 2mo ago
Stunning. Makes me want to walk into the scene or at least simply stop, stare, breathe the air.
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LightandShadow replied to the topic Brooks Lake Lichen in the forum Macro Photography 2mo ago
I think I see “The Thing” from Fantastic 4 in there.
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LightandShadow replied to the topic Framed Toraco in the forum General Photo Chit Chat 2mo ago
Interesting. The shadows in both are not overly harsh which helps with the framing you mentioned. I do like the 2nd one a bit better as far as the orientation of the shadows is concerned. Striking image and oh, that eye, that bill, that crest!
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LightandShadow replied to the topic Can a Landscape be Vertical… in the forum Photography Throwdowns 2mo ago
Whoa! This absolutely demanded your portrait orientation.
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LightandShadow replied to the topic Turn away in the forum General Photo Chit Chat 2mo ago
Thanks, all. Here’s a redo of the base image–color, less blur/softening effect on the blooms, possibly as @loki asked for.
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LightandShadow replied to the topic the wildlife of nyc in the forum General Photo Chit Chat 2mo, 1wk ago
Yikes! Run away!!
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LightandShadow replied to the topic Cropping for best composition in the forum The Shark Tank Feedback Forum 2mo, 1wk ago
I really like this. So different from the usual blooms images.
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LightandShadow replied to the topic Weekly Photography Challenge #684 Abstract Using ICM in Nature! in the forum Weekly Photography Challenge 2mo, 1wk ago
These are all great–inspiring even.
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LightandShadow replied to the topic Widlife Photography – Rainbow Lorikeet in the forum The Shark Tank Feedback Forum 2mo, 1wk ago
I agree with Beth’s comment about light in the eye. It even has a name: catchlight and some software has a setting to add it to an image–sort of the opposite of red eye reduction. I’ve not had much luck with it, though.
Something I’ve sort of learned the hard way is that the normal way for autofocus works produces unsatisfactory results. You may…[Read more]
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LightandShadow replied to the topic Cropping for best composition in the forum The Shark Tank Feedback Forum 2mo, 1wk ago
I have had trouble with my extension tubes. Focus with them is very very fiddly and they can demand you get extremely close to your subject. I’ve had best luck with the 12x one–and it’s mostly luck with me.
Today’s cameras do a remarkably good job with digital noise. One key is to get a good exposure to begin with. If you have to lighten your…[Read more]
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LightandShadow replied to the topic Cropping for best composition in the forum The Shark Tank Feedback Forum 2mo, 1wk ago
I do like the crop. It reduces the black blotches in the background (no longer go from green to black back to green). It make the small background green lower right of the bottom bloom appear almost as a framing object. I don’t think you needed all of the stems on the left. What you have left is quite nice, almost suggesting hair beads some wear…[Read more]
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LightandShadow started the topic Turn away in the forum General Photo Chit Chat 2mo, 2wk ago
Turn away, look down. Lenten roses with a subdued attitude.
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LightandShadow replied to the topic Still Life in the forum The Shark Tank Feedback Forum 2mo, 2wk ago
I like the idea and am especially grateful for the advice on diffusers. Shark Tank and its distant cousins provide so much benefit to the sideline participants as to the submitter.
To my eye and on my monitor, the reds and greens are too “loud”. So often, in still life images, the colors are in more muted tones that I like.
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LightandShadow replied to the topic Afternoon in London in the forum The Shark Tank Feedback Forum 2mo, 2wk ago
I should always include the “on my monitor” phrase when commenting on these sorts of issues. I have found that my histogram might show no blown highlights when an area has lost texture—it is truly unrecoverable—and further exposure attempts even in a small area simply darkens it, making it an ugly smudge.
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LightandShadow replied to the topic The rise of AI (Skynet and all that!!) in the forum Photography Throwdowns 2mo, 2wk ago
I suggest you view or re-view the film WALL-E. It has much to say about the possible effects of the transfer of effort from human activity to “machines”, even if we leave aside the very very real uses of AI for exploitation as described by Robert and even beyond the example he has chosen.
I wonder whether painters bemoaned the ability to buy…[Read more]
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LightandShadow replied to the topic Afternoon in London in the forum The Shark Tank Feedback Forum 2mo, 2wk ago
I especially like the pano view. There is 1 small blow-out in the cloud above the center of the bridge. When the large part was over-exposed, I didn’t notice the small bit.
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