Post your favorite shot, that gets no love...

D Cox said:

ZodiacPhoto said:

It looks like this shot has everything in it - a glacier, mountains, reflections, and even a duck with ducklings ... Yet something is missing to make it whole - I don't know:

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I think this is two photos, the bottom and top halves. They might work together as a big print, but the glacier is out of focus. If you had taken a second photo immediately, with the glacier in focus, you could focus stack them.

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Is this one better?

D Cox said:

As it is, my feeling is that you should dump the top half. The duck family is good on its own.

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I tried that with some different crops and I am not sure it works for me. How would you crop it - included the trees and reflections in the frame, or just the ducks?

Thanks!









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ZodiacPhoto said:

It looks like this shot has everything in it - a glacier, mountains, reflections, and even a duck with ducklings ... Yet something is missing to make it whole - I don't know:

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Ya' know, I looked at this last night on my phone, and it didn't do much for me... But looking at it now, on my 4K monitor, I thinks its a beautiful photo I wish the sky had something more in color / clouds. But still, its a nice shot.

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absquatulate said:

Which I think encapsulates the Bresson technique of capturing the "decisive moment". Now I have to admit the head looking down wasn't anticipated, so I have to wonder how many of those "decisive moments" are genuinely anticipated or just serendipity/good fortune? Either way, it works for me and I always take good fortune where I find it.

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Not normally into people shots, and yet I still like this one a lot. I'm actually surprised that it doesn't get more attention, from people who love people shots in the first place ?

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ZodiacPhoto said:

D Cox said:

ZodiacPhoto said:

It looks like this shot has everything in it - a glacier, mountains, reflections, and even a duck with ducklings ... Yet something is missing to make it whole - I don't know:

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I think this is two photos, the bottom and top halves. They might work together as a big print, but the glacier is out of focus. If you had taken a second photo immediately, with the glacier in focus, you could focus stack them.

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Is this one better?

ZodiacPhoto said:

As it is, my feeling is that you should dump the top half. The duck family is good on its own.

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I tried that with some different crops and I am not sure it works for me. How would you crop it - included the trees and reflections in the frame, or just the ducks?

Thanks!

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Not nearly as good. Too desaturated. And your crops lost the glacier, which is a very big part of the image IMPO.

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Papa48 said:

That is one great image!

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Thank you

Fishchris said:

absquatulate said:

Which I think encapsulates the Bresson technique of capturing the "decisive moment". Now I have to admit the head looking down wasn't anticipated, so I have to wonder how many of those "decisive moments" are genuinely anticipated or just serendipity/good fortune? Either way, it works for me and I always take good fortune where I find it.

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Not normally into people shots, and yet I still like this one a lot. I'm actually surprised that it doesn't get more attention, from people who love people shots in the first place ?

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Thanks, to be fair it's fairly old and way back in my Flickr account, I might post it on your favourite platform, instagram and see how it goes ;-)

D Cox said:

Just Tim 4 said:

Fishchris said:

Do you have a shot you really like, for whatever reason, but you feel like your the only one that does ?

I do. Even my GF is like... Eh... Therefore, I have never printed it. And although I do print the stuff that I like, first and foremost for myself, I also hope to sell my prints at some point also. And by the reaction (or lack thereof) for this one, it would probably be the last one to go.... Hmmm.

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Bright, saturated orange trees under a leaden, heavily desaturated but distinctly green/blue sky reflecting luminous brown in the water.

Genius, but the missus says it doesn't go with the sofa.

Sorry, what do you expect me to say other than... Perhaps they're right?

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It looks better full screen, and better still at 100%. So perhaps it needs a really big print.

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Especially on a 4K monitor. In my full sized version, I was actually able to give the BG a little more sharpening as well, although I'm the first to admit, that was a little bit of a fail on my part in the first place. I sure wish I had stepped back about 10 or 15 ft, them zoomed in more, for the same width of framing. Not only would have it been easier to keep it all sharp, but I would have been able to bring that big, old majestic Cypress on the other bank in closer. Oh well.

D Cox said:

The composition is probably too complex for it to work as a small image that can be seen at a glance.

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Tony Beach said:

Fishchris said:

Do you have a shot you really like, for whatever reason, but you feel like your the only one that does ?

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Kind of looks like something smokable lol

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Labe said:

Here’s my favourite from this year..

. Infrared gets very little love

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I love it ! Appears tilted down in the left just a touch, but still. I have always enjoyed infra red stuff. Do you have a camera just for IR ? Don't remember if I asked you this before ?

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absquatulate said:

Fishchris said:

absquatulate said:

Which I think encapsulates the Bresson technique of capturing the "decisive moment". Now I have to admit the head looking down wasn't anticipated, so I have to wonder how many of those "decisive moments" are genuinely anticipated or just serendipity/good fortune? Either way, it works for me and I always take good fortune where I find it.

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Not normally into people shots, and yet I still like this one a lot. I'm actually surprised that it doesn't get more attention, from people who love people shots in the first place ?

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Thanks, to be fair it's fairly old and way back in my Flickr account, I might post it on your favourite platform, instagram and see how it goes ;-)

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Honestly, the fact that it is a square crop in the first place, + the fact that it doesn't really have too much that "has to be seen" up close, in fine detail, I think it would do great on IG.

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I use an 11 year old full spectrum bridge camera made by Fuji with a selection of filters.

Nobody seems to like this genre of people.







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ZodiacPhoto said:

D Cox said:

ZodiacPhoto said:

It looks like this shot has everything in it - a glacier, mountains, reflections, and even a duck with ducklings ... Yet something is missing to make it whole - I don't know:

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I think this is two photos, the bottom and top halves. They might work together as a big print, but the glacier is out of focus. If you had taken a second photo immediately, with the glacier in focus, you could focus stack them.

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Is this one better?

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Yes, I think so. It would now work on a big screen or a big print.

ZodiacPhoto said:

ZodiacPhoto said:

As it is, my feeling is that you should dump the top half. The duck family is good on its own.

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I tried that with some different crops and I am not sure it works for me. How would you crop it - included the trees and reflections in the frame, or just the ducks?

Thanks!

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I would include the trees, and also make the distant edge of the lake level. But it's your picture, you have to decide. Art is decisions. ;-)

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Fishchris said:

ZodiacPhoto said:

It looks like this shot has everything in it - a glacier, mountains, reflections, and even a duck with ducklings ... Yet something is missing to make it whole - I don't know:

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Ya' know, I looked at this last night on my phone, and it didn't do much for me... But looking at it now, on my 4K monitor, I thinks its a beautiful photo I wish the sky had something more in color / clouds. But still, its a nice shot.

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Very few photos will look good on a phone. Close shots of faces or flowers, maybe. I think A4 (210x297mm) is the smallest size that works for the great majority of photos.

Shots like this with a lot going on need A2 or larger, really.

Opinions may differ on this.

Fishchris said:

absquatulate said:

Which I think encapsulates the Bresson technique of capturing the "decisive moment". Now I have to admit the head looking down wasn't anticipated, so I have to wonder how many of those "decisive moments" are genuinely anticipated or just serendipity/good fortune? Either way, it works for me and I always take good fortune where I find it.

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Not normally into people shots, and yet I still like this one a lot. I'm actually surprised that it doesn't get more attention, from people who love people shots in the first place ?

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I think it would be good, but the face merges into the background. Some skilled PP might bring it out.

I just love this shot, and it seems I'm the only one who does.







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Tony Beach said:

D Cox said:

Tony Beach said:

Tony Beach said:

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It looks better full screen, and better still at 100%. So perhaps it needs a really big print.

The composition is probably too complex for it to work as a small image that can be seen at a glance.

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Good point, and something I've experienced as well. However, looking at this one at a larger size doesn't reveal the fine detail I appreciate.

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LOL ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

So take an image with a slightly green cast, tone map it to oblivion so the tertiary colour tends towards grey. Is that the best way to make orange stand out? No, so the orange is pushed to near 100% saturation and now stands against a green/grey sky, a foreground with a green cast and water with a luminous brown glow. Do you even know what I'm talking about?

If you're going to edit colour to the extreme then it's logical that you learn a little about colour editing and harmony, it's not rocket science. Instead we end up with an image that not only shows a lack of understanding of how to use colour, but actually shows some pretty awful colour combiations that no right mind would hang in their living room.

So what do we do when we get this criticism, do we listen and maybe learn a little about colour, see where we can improve? No we start a thread to convince ourselves that we don't need to and that the images are good. We teach ourselves to ignore what is bad in our own images. Instead we talk about *composition* and how it should look better in a big print.

Who knows, perhaps the next thread will be telling us that we have our finger on the pulse of taste and we know what people like. Remember this thread is all about what people don't like and our willingness to ignore that... ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

Think about the contradictions here.

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I cannot see why this shot should get no love. It has a beautiful feeling that you could just walk into the beach. Quite fine indeed. WIsh the sun / Moon "dot" was larger.

Imho, other people must be blind!

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tony field said:

I cannot see why this shot should get no love. It has a beautiful feeling that you could just walk into the beach. Quite fine indeed. WIsh the sun / Moon "dot" was larger.

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See...that might be the problem...this was taken in near total darkness. Those are street lights in the very far distance.

Lee Jay said:

tony field said:

I cannot see why this shot should get no love. It has a beautiful feeling that you could just walk into the beach. Quite fine indeed. WIsh the sun / Moon "dot" was larger.

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See...that might be the problem...this was taken in near total darkness. Those are street lights in the very far distance.

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Would it be reasonable to add a not too large Moon to replace one of the dots??