Steve Walker

The cloud storage version has always seemed to me a no go for the more serious. 20 gb? That goes really fast leaving you with the option to rent a bigger cloud or downloading the pictures-which you could have bypassed with classic. The attraction of the cloud is the ability to show and edit at home or away/mobile. This seems designed for the…[Read more]

Thank you. Somehow, sharing makes it more real to me.

Thank you. The models didn’t even demand a fee for their cooperation.

Thank you. I often look for frames within the frame.

Camera in hand and mind attending to light and shape quiets the demons.

Thank you. You can hardly go wrong with a foggy/misty background.

Thank you, @admin

Newby and a good image as in “even a blind chicken sometimes finds the kernel.” Straight out of the camera, it was stark but several years of post processing experience enhanced the details that I only then became aware of–that beckoned to me from the original developed image. And, as I said, that commenter from years ago told…[Read more]

There are times I feel that I’m almost cheating, just using Lightroom’s masking functions. Still, I have seen many images with exposure that an AI would almost certainly judge to be wrong wrong wrong or scenes the AI would probably fail to identify as “of interest” within a large scene. On top of that, many of us derive pleasure from employi…[Read more]

Thank you. As I said in the profile, getting out is the challenge. Foggy conditions are among my favorite. As you say, they desaturate–especially appropriate during our Winters–and mute the background noises of our urban environment.

Lunar eclipse, May, 2022

Love it when you (and I mean anyone ’cause I’ve never been able to get to the right place at the right time) can get a clear area and have the right timing to include elements that ground the moon like this. Well done.

@frogdaily, I love that you were able to get the moon to pose so that the foreground details could frame it.

thank you.

Spanish Moss on the trees. Green on the boulders on the left is the more ordinary sort.

Usually, you get advice about including people to add interest and scale. I agree though. This one sort of goosed it up a notch.

that you for this and the other mention as well.

Thank you. Shortly after I posted this to an online forum active way back then, someone told me I should study this picture and try to replicate it. I was still so new that I had no idea what he meant or why I would try. It took me a while to figure out he meant that I should identify the elements and try to replicate those in different images.