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Hey Chef Jay, I've enjoyed your food photos and this is a nice one, but to me it seems just a little too close up to be appetising ...


Sydney! Looking forward to going there next month, and even more so after seeing this excellent photo. Will hopefully get out on the water to see some whales.

Some chestnuts in Richmond Park. It's certainly Autumn, but Saturday still felt like Summer.



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Beautiful lighting and nice image. It's hard to imagine why you needed HDR for this though. What does the normal exposure look like?

It's actually pretty close to the original image. I used HDR for 2 reasons. 1). Im practicing the technique 2). I wanted to bring out more texture of the brick and buildings

Very familiar with this venue--it's a couple of blocks from my place of work on Atlantic Ave. I'd love to see the original exposures too!
Greg

I will upload when I get home so you can see.

Um...why HDR? You have that awesome morning light, and then you flatten the heck out of it with HDR. I'm missing the point of the exercise. The image needs a bit more oomph and needs to lose the excessive color cast (probably introduced by the HDR). Yes, morning light is yellow, but leverage that wonderful light to get texture, soft transitions, a pleasing angle of incidence, and vibrant colors. Don't let the image look like a cat peed on it just to remind you how early it was. This one is too yellow and doesn't allow the blue of the boat to pop and contrast against the warm hues of the walls. The shot is well seen, but the processing isn't doing it any favors.

It's actually as "yellow" as it was in person, which is why I was drawn to the shot in the first place. I never saw such a golden splash of sunrise light like this. Believe me this is as close to the true colors as possible, I made it a point to not over do it. Also, the boat is truly that dulled down pastel blue color. There was no "popping" at the scene either. If I made it pop, it wouldnt be true to what I saw. I knew people would jump on this because I said HDR. Not all HDR images are created equally.
 
My wife and I heard all these fire sirens last night, turns out the sub next to ours a major home fire happened.
Normally I don't "gawk", but we know many of these people from school.
I drove by, stopped along M59, and took some shots and emailed to WHMI 93.5 .... I’m in web-print! Just don't call me "Jimmy Olsen".
Appears nobody got injured, they were out @ soccer practice.
The below is a direct feed off the website, my image was shot at ISO1600 with my Canon kit 55-250 zoom.
http://whmi.com/news/article/10955

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I’m into week two of my ‘ovine aversion therapy’, and, until your comment about “hot sheep”, I was really making progress. :(

Just a snap: sheep on top of an old limestone kiln...

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ewe in the middle! print it and better laminate it. :)
 
^^^ This is a bit special: beautiful, muted colour palette, soft lighting, and so much for the eye to enjoy that it doesn't need a single 'subject' or 'point of focus'. It would make a great poster for the wall...
 
Was trying to catch the sunset last night...This is not what I was going for, but I think it is actually pretty cool...
 

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I’m into week two of my ‘ovine aversion therapy’, and, until your comment about “hot sheep”, I was really making progress. :(

Sorry for being the little red devil on your shoulder…actually, no I'm not. More sheep, please! :D

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^^^ This is a bit special: beautiful, muted colour palette, soft lighting, and so much for the eye to enjoy that it doesn't need a single 'subject' or 'point of focus'. It would make a great poster for the wall...

But it does have a point of focus: the topmost rock that juts into the sky and has the most orange on it. The arc of the rocks leads from the foreground right out to that rock, which in turn directs the eye up to the sky--and there we find a convenient cloud formation that points us back down to the rocks, where the eye can return to its parking place on that one prominent rock again. It's a splendid composition and a truly lovely photo.

Which leads me to ask: where did you come from all of the sudden, otter?? My goodness your work is strong! Either you just started posting here or else you just started posting more frequently…or else you've been flying under my radar for a while and I've been missing out. I'm really enjoying your photos, so I hope you keep them coming! :)


It's actually as "yellow" as it was in person, which is why I was drawn to the shot in the first place. I never saw such a golden splash of sunrise light like this. Believe me this is as close to the true colors as possible, I made it a point to not over do it. Also, the boat is truly that dulled down pastel blue color. There was no "popping" at the scene either. If I made it pop, it wouldnt be true to what I saw. I knew people would jump on this because I said HDR. Not all HDR images are created equally.

I have no problem with HDR per se; it's a means to an end, and it can be very effective when employed judiciously. Had you not said a thing about HDR, I'd still see an image that is rather flat and that has an extreme color cast, the sort of thing that suggests an uncalibrated monitor much more so than golden hour light. Just for kicks, why don't you try taking the photo into Photoshop, applying a color balance layer, and then nudging the highlights more towards blue/cyan--just see how it looks. Try the mids a bit too--they seem to have too much magenta. You can leave in enough warmth to evoke morning light without having your whites so heavily tainted.

Ultimately, your photo is your interpretation of what you perceived, but presumably you also want to maximize its aesthetic appeal. Images tend to work best when they look balanced or else deliberately stylized; when they fall in between, they just look unresolved. I've certainly made that mistake with many of my own images and usually don't realize it until I come back to a photo with fresh eyes some time later. And one last point, sort of my hobby horse: don't be a slave to 'reality'…it doesn't exist in photography. ;)
 



Nice photo for a starter. Welcome to the forum. The colors and basic composition are fine, but the pier seems to be pushed off to the side to much. Give it some room and the composition will be more in balance.

Either go back to the first post of this month or use the Guide to POTD link in my sig. Check out the PDF tutorial I have on using Flickr to post. It has been recently updated. I have noticed some problems in using the lightbox on Flickr as a link. Use the one indicated in the PDF. I know it works.

Dale
 


Nice photo for a starter. Welcome to the forum. The colors and basic composition are fine, but the pier seems to be pushed off to the side to much. Give it some room and the composition will be more in balance.

Either go back to the first post of this month or use the Guide to POTD link in my sig. Check out the PDF tutorial I have on using Flickr to post. It has been recently updated. I have noticed some problems in using the lightbox on Flickr as a link. Use the one indicated in the PDF. I know it works.

Dale

Have to agree with Dale, it's definitely a great photo, but the framing is a little off, I'd say it's a little on the dark side too, but that's more nit picking to be honest, it's definitely a lovely starter, keep the photos coming, it's good to see new people jumping in with new photos.
 
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