Chaz Photos
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Trying out some different PP not sure how its working
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boy 32 views and not one comment.. what happened to this site.
Thanks you for your thoughts, as for detail in the shadow I think if there need to be detail then have it BUT at times there is no need for detail if it has nothing to add to the image, I know if your at camera club may judges will say things like that BUT as a Judge myself you not hear it from me, unless I think it would add to an image.It seems strange that you should complain that no-one has commented on your photo after only two hours, and thirty-odd views...why?
My thoughts; I like to composition the way everything starts/finishes top right but I don't like the PP, too much loss of detail in the shadows.
boy 32 views and not one comment.. what happened to this site.
Sorry Chaz I have to completely disagree there. You can't count views against replies for a start as 1 view count does not always equal 1 person looking, that's why we removed it.
As for 'What happened'....well, at the risk of being incredibly blunt....I think its because it's, IMO, not very good.
Overkilled with post processing if I was to be brutally honest. However, going from past experience when you've been informed of what others would describe as a visual assault on the retinas, you've just come back completely ignored what people have said and repeated your own opinion.
Photography is subjective, and I'm all for everyone's opinion being valid, but when your name hits the top of the list of RTM's that usually start with "OMG, my eyes, what's he done to that photo?" you have to wonder.
Personally, for this image, the over contrast kills it, in particular the dead black area. It doesn't necessary need detail, but it draws my eye to it, and I'm no longer looking at a peaceful beach scene, I'm staring into the abyss of a black hole next to a fence and I just can't look away
Could well be whenever I comment on your pics you get all grumpy and tell me I don't know what I am talking about and I should get my already calibrated monitor calibrated. :shrug:
Again with this one, my personal opinion is that you have once again overkilled the processing by bunging all kinds of sliders / whatever to the max, instead of subtle changes.
At the end of the day there's not an awful lot of interest in (the content of) it, and I am frankly struggling to categorise it as a landscape - other than it is orientated that way and has some land in it.
It's people walking along the beach with little or no foreground composition, and whilst I don't abide by the "rules of photography" as it is all subjective, as overarching guidelines and principles I think a lot of them hold true - it just isn't working for me.
I'd love to see the original before you got to town on it, and for you to talk us through what you did and why.....
Lynton