[Joanna]

Thank you for your thoughts, Dahlia!
On showing more of the car: Following this shot, which was my first in this series, I shot one that showed more of the car. Unfortunately the sky had already changed at that point and I liked the sky on the first image best. I am including the second for reference.

Please find my feedback on your other comments in the separate comment underneath.

[Joanna]

Thank you so much for your feedback, Dahlia and 3CPO! Just using Lightroom I have been trying to follow some of your suggestions and came up with the image underneath. I am now a lot more pleased about the reflections on the car, but I still feel less sure about the bottom part. Although I like my landscapes to show some layers, I am not sure if dodging the grassy edge was the best choice here?

[Joanna]

Thank you so much, Dahlia! I am very pleased with this feedback because transferring the feeling was what I was after. Still learning on how to do that.

[Joanna]

Thank you so much for your feedback, Bruce! Always interesting to hear what other people think that works in an image. As an amateur I keep on learning a lot from feedback like this!

[Joanna]

Hi all,

First of all I want to apologize for not coming back to you earlier. Frank, a special thanks to you for your elaborate advise.

Above all, it reminded me – once more – that when one’s after a good photo, one needs to take time and think it through. Which I didn’t do and which is such a pity because I deliberately went to this place looking for its skeleton trees!

What got me sidetracked back then is that I took this trip with a newly found love, who was not at all accustomed to a companion with a camera. So every time I halted to take a picture, he was off again after 2′ tops and I felt rushed. Note to myself after your feedback: Next time decide whether you’re going on a photo trip or on a dating trip, but definitely don’t mix the two! 😀

In the meantime he’s gotten used to me taking my camera on trips, and we have learnt to express our expectations up front 😉

Anyway. I have just returned from a 4 week summer trip in France and I’ve come back with quite a few photo’s that I’d like to share and have your comments on. So you’ll see some stuff appearing over the next couple of weeks 🙂 Thanks again!

[Joanna]

And one more. 20′ earlier.

[Joanna]

Such beautiful, soft colours, Dave!
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[Joanna]

Thank you so much for your elaborate comment on the composition, Graham. It’s very instructive to have words put to something I approached intuitively!

[Joanna]

Wow. So subtle, elegant and masterful!

[Joanna]

Very delicate!

[Joanna]

Thank you, Holly!

[Joanna]

Thank you so much for your reflection on this, Pat!

[Joanna]

Hi all!

It’s been about 6 months since I was last here, I think. In the meantime I had a lot on my plate.

It has changed the images I do somewhat, and I have one from last weekend that I like to show here.

I was in Charleroi (BE), a city in Belgian with a poor reputation for its living conditions. As an industrial city, it has roared until the 60’s and 70’s. Nowadays it is left with an obsolete steel industry in decay, poverty, dirt. I did a tour through the city to try and grasp the atmosphere in images. I deliberately went for limited sharpness to recreate the atmosphere of analog rather than digital times. I am not entirely sure if that was the best of choices.
More on flickr.

[Joanna]

Interesting… I would have been tempted to crop from the bottom right corner and I think it would have made the mood in the picture very different. Not better or worse, but different.

I would have cropped from the bottom right corner because
1) I liked the relationship between the room and the garden with its trees as seen from all three windows. So I wouldn’t want to loose that.
2) It would have created a nice dialogue between the green dress of the dancer and the garden behind the window that seems to attract her.
To me, the resulting mood would have been quite ‘uplifting’, somewhat spiritual, a feel of surpassing one’s reality somehow.

With your crop, Graham, the abandoned mattress gets more attention, which makes the mood quite different. To me, with this crop, the resulting mood is melancholy and despite the happy moment a tinge of sadness over lost glory. It sure offers an interesting juxtaposition between the actual state of the room and the memories it elicits in the dancer.

[Joanna]

To me this second one shows a horse’s head and neck. As a consequence my mind is not quite sure how to process the light lines in the rocks underneath.

As for the first one: after the billy treatment, I could see it hanging in my house too 🙂 I could also see it being printed on canvas like a billion times and being sold at Ikea’s. And I mean this in a respectful way.

[Joanna]

Sunset over Le Corbier (French Alps), 8 Feb 2019, Huawei P8 Lite, no filter, no edit

[Joanna]

This is not what I posted! (it seems to be a repost of Tom’s…)
@admin: please delete. I will try again.

[Joanna]

I thought so too! Thanks, Kent.

[Joanna]

Nature understands a thing or two about surrealism too!

[Joanna]

Really nice one! Was the frame there or did you put it there?

Since this is ST: I wonder if I would like it even better if the frame was at a perfect 90° angle (which it isn’t now I think, although I could be mistaken)

 

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