**MINI CHALLENGE #794** Your Favorite Compositions

[hwvlover]

I hope these fit the theme

Regards,
David
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened - Anatole France.

 

[Birddogman]

These are very interesting photos, is the painterly effect on them a camera setting or your post-processing or both?

This one looks so much like a painting that it is a little off-putting, but I almost like it a lot.

Framing a distant subject with closer objects sometimes works well. Here we were (very thankfully!!) sailing back into Ocracoke harbor and its distinctive lighthouse after (just barely) surviving a sudden, unexpected gale at sea on our little boat:

Yup. I enjoy post-processing and creating "painterly" type images of some subjects. Not everyone's taste - and that's OK.

Greg





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[Kchrpm]

Yup. I enjoy post-processing and creating "painterly" type images of some subjects. Not everyone's taste - and that's OK.

Greg

My brain really wants it to be a movie scene, where the light house is glowing/pulsing in an eerily magical way. It's trippy. I dig it.

 

[Birddogman]

Thanks, Kit. As noted, I'm NO expert, just tried to work with the theme of the Challenge.

 

[Birddogman]

Yup. I enjoy post-processing and creating "painterly" type images of some subjects. Not everyone's taste - and that's OK.

Greg

My brain really wants it to be a movie scene, where the light house is glowing/pulsing in an eerily magical way. It's trippy. I dig it.

Thank you, kind sir!! I think I kissed the dock that day when we finally tied up, still alive.

 

[travelfoodphoto]

Hi Kit,

Thanks for the kind words and taking the time to better understand the photos. Often photos I view from others, as well as some of my own, require more study and reflection than my first viewing can provide.

Enough from me, enjoy the weekend.

Den

 

[digitcallous]

David, both pictures are excellent. They share one common feature of a lit spot in the middle which instantly draws my attention to the location. These definitely fit the theme.

Kit

 

[digitcallous]

Den, I've recognized one thing now about the picture of the boy in the window, and that is he is looking straight at the photographer, and that is you. I, as a viewer, can't help but look directly back at the little boy because that a normal human reaction. Once I locked eyes with him, I'm in his world. That makes yours a great photograph.

Kit

 

[hwvlover]

I am sure I heard Kate saying "Water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink."

And that circa 13th century castle, the ruins being the subject, hooray for hyperfocal focus.

Regards,
David
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened - Anatole France.

 

[Ab S]

Instead of making pictures from above, from below the perspective is more impressive..

Cully (Switzerland)

New York city



Something in the front and a background that is not fully blurred

Lake Geneva (Switzerland)

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Ab

 

[digitcallous]

Ab, thank you for sharing your photos and tips. My favorite is the picture with a leaf floating on a lake. I have actually been to Lake Geneva.

Kit

 

[Val Bueno]

I love this composition of low fog on the surface of Lake Hallstatt with the red and orange color of fall on the slopes reflecting on surface of the water.

All images I post have post-processing done to them. I straightened the horizon and cropped it to put the brightest part of the image on one of the Rule of Third lines. I boosted the red and orange saturation to really bring out the color then added the tiniest bit of vignetting.

Aloha,

Val

 

[digitcallous]

Thanks, David. Upon studying your first exhibit, I form a concept of using texture as an element in composition.

Kit

 

[digitcallous]

Val, your picture is beautiful! I've read before that one should never put the horizon in the middle of a photo. You proved that one should not strictly stick to a rule because you created a wonderful example to the contrary.

Kit

 

[dtop]

Not necessarily my favorites, but they are modifferent from each other.

My wife at the Downtown LA Disney concert hall.

"Shadow Man with a Hat". I like the sort of modern-art look of this one. It's a shadow cast by a guardrail onto the sidewalk, on a bridge crossing a stream near my office. Took this with my phone while on my noontime walk. It turns out that this particular shadow is only present in this position on two days each year.

I like taking candid "street photos" of people while traveling. This elderly woman was in a seat facing me on a train coming out of the Swiss Alps.

Fun with perspective. Here is a rain basin several feet in diameter and about 5 inches deep near my house. The camera was set at the edge of the puddle with the lens nearly touching the water.

On the hill behind our house. The smoke from several SoCal brush fires was so heavy on this day that our street lights turned on. Probably shouldn't have been outside exercising.

Bandon Beach, Oregon.

The dance floor of a music venue in SoCal. My son's band was playing there that night.

 

[BIJ001]

Thanks for commenting.

 

[BIJ001]

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Iván József Balázs
(Hungary)

 

[elliottnewcomb]

Composition is everything,

3 entries

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Elliott

 

[digitcallous]

Dtop, thank you for adding your excellent compositions, I like them all! Your b&w shots are outstanding; how do you process them to get that 'moody' feel?

Kit

 

[digitcallous]

Elliott, thank you for sharing your excellent Compositions! You all are making my job tough.

Kit