Weekly C & C Thread #61 Give as Good as You Get !!

John Wilcock · Oct 14, 2009

Cropping the right hand side to make the moon less central would probably help this one, though I do also find there's just too much sky there - or that the moon is too high in the sky, depending on which way you look at it. The foreground has potential but is lacking in contrast - maybe a wide radius unsharp mask would do the trick there...
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ddan daniel · Oct 14, 2009

Excuse the multiple images. 3 shots from a series. All taken through the front window of various retail spaces in downtown San Francisco's shopping district that have no tenants. And for some strange reason, no covering of the front windows?

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BrianC · Oct 14, 2009

OOF grass aside, I love the main leaf........it almost looks like it is dancing, not your everyday flat boring leaf.

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Mike Hiran · Oct 14, 2009

from the Japanese Gardens in Portland, Oregon

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ddan daniel · Oct 14, 2009

Triangles. Very effective tools for organizing such shots. If you move two feet or so to the right a foot forward, and a bit lower, and put the lower rock to the left side, then you get a triangle between the lower rock, middle rock, and grass ball. Maybe even hide the black rocks behind the grass by the grass itself, since it is distracting me from the shape of the grass.

I think the coloring and rendering of the rocks and grass and foreground sand is great. I'm just missing some sort of structure or pattern to get my eye moving around.
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CrazyDan44 · Oct 14, 2009

I'd like to see the full image on this one. I think it would work better with the top of the grasses which look like they were just barely cut off. Other than that, I really like it, I like unique perspectives, and you captured one.
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CrazyDan44 · Oct 14, 2009

Winter Closing In

Da 10-17 at 10mm, ISO 100, f4.5, Bracketed 5 shots +- 2 stops for possible HDR conversion

Thanks for looking.
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iberg · Oct 14, 2009

Hi Mike, I like the effect of the coloured moss on the mono background - as an observation rather than criticism, an alternative may have been to zoom in or crop to make this a detail of a smaller part of the overall scene? I like it.
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iberg · Oct 14, 2009

1/50s f/4.5 at 35.0mm iso250, handheld, no filters.

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CrazyDan44 · Oct 14, 2009

Wow, that's amazing. I'd like to see it in color, but B & W was probably the right choice.
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Mike Hiran · Oct 14, 2009

wow, what a cool place! ok, bad pun, but I mean it! as far as the picture goes though... I like it and like how the hdr treatment has been handled, though I wonder if there is something that can be done with the part of the clouds that appear blown out. One thing that I'd probably do is crop off the bottom, out of focus rock. I think you may have been wanting the horizon in the upper third, but if it were in the center, I don't think it would detract from the image. On balance though, I'd like the crop a bit closer to the water without that rock.
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JanneM · Oct 14, 2009

BW is right for this scene in my view.

What I don't really care for is that you've put the white trees smack dab in the center of the image. How would this look if you cropped the leftmost fourth of the image, and the bottom right up to the reflected treetops on the right?

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rgmwa · Oct 15, 2009

Looks good on my monitor. Perhaps lacks a specific point of interest, but the reflections look great. Just for fun, I played with a crop of the whitish trees in the centre part of the frame and their reflections, but no other water or skyline visible. That looked good too.
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Adam Aitken · Oct 15, 2009

Hi Robert

The square format sacrifices the possible depth achieved with tht e rocks receding into the top right of the frame. But if that's not important then the focus is the texture of moss and lichen on the rocks, and the way the grass and the rocks co-habitate in this particular niche of nature. I'd try getting more foreground of grass and ofreground rock, so that the lichen really pops against the dark surface of the rock. I don't think you need to up the saturation if you get closer into the grass.

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rgmwa · Oct 15, 2009

Amazing cave. I might have pointed the camera a fraction higher to get a little more of the cave roof, and lose a bit of that dominant rock in the foreground, but that's only a minor point. Very impressive.
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Adam Aitken · Oct 15, 2009

I agree, the iron railing distracts from the interesting objects in the window and the reflection. I really like what you're trying to do with perpsective and street scenery however.

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rgmwa · Oct 15, 2009

I like the luminous moss against the monochrome background, particularly the range of tones in the moss. Don't think I'd change anything.
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Adam Aitken · Oct 15, 2009

John

I think leaves look better taken from above, as the DOF issues with this image distract from the colour and shape of the leaf. Texture is more interesting to me than DOF with this kind of flora.

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Adam Aitken · Oct 15, 2009

Brian I agree with Eric on all points. You have captured or created an intriguing colour pattern with the water. The leaf's curled up edge does make the leaf look a little "crumpled" though.

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Adam Aitken · Oct 15, 2009

Gerry, I like the composition and the way the light hits those distant buildings. Perhaps the sky could be manipulated a little to create a graduation of tone. I don't know your philosophy on pp though.

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