weekly rpn's 2021 52 Photo Challenge - Week 52 SHOWCASE added **COMPLETE**

Great idea Stan (y)
 
Up close
Lots of detail and sharp in the right places

Personal
Was the out of focus area created on purpose, it's definitely add to the overall image.

Green
Lots of variation in the colour with shades throughout the image.

Snapper's Choice
Did you try different shutter speeds or were you successful with the first attempt. The horizon looks every so slightly leaning to the left, with my eyes anyway.

Looking down
A great album shot and something a bit different, I'm wondering what she is thinking.

Indigenous
According to a Google search, your grandson is left handed, the image made me wonder what side the Sgian Dubh should be and the general consensus is on your dominate hand side.
 
Cobra said:
Great idea Stan (y)
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Nostromo said:
Indigenous
It all works great. A proud nation.
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NickD said:
Giid thinking. The bottle really adds something!
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HelenC said:
Great idea for the theme Stan.
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StuartPearson said:
Up close
Lots of detail and sharp in the right places

Personal
Was the out of focus area created on purpose, it's definitely add to the overall image.

Green
Lots of variation in the colour with shades throughout the image.

Snapper's Choice
Did you try different shutter speeds or were you successful with the first attempt. The horizon looks every so slightly leaning to the left, with my eyes anyway.

Looking down
A great album shot and something a bit different, I'm wondering what she is thinking.

Indigenous
According to a Google search, your grandson is left handed, the image made me wonder what side the Sgian Dubh should be and the general consensus is on your dominate hand side.
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Thank you all for the nice comments. Apologise for not being able to reply individually life has been getting a bit hectic again. I'll try to find some spare minutes to comment on others' posts soon.
 
Plant
The green of the plant stand out well against the browns of the background. Nice light and vignetting.
 
It maybe gets a little too dark at the top for my taste, but I love the way the plant stands against the browns.
 
The shadows make for a very atmospheric image. You can almost feel the coolness of the shade.
 
I think plant is a wonderful image, the natural vignette frames the sapling perfectly and the colour combinations are really nice. fantastic image.
 
NickD said:
It maybe gets a little too dark at the top for my taste, but I love the way the plant stands against the browns.
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Thanks, Nick. Just a little too heavy with the vignette slider.


HelenC said:
The shadows make for a very atmospheric image. You can almost feel the coolness of the shade.
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Thank you, Helen.
 
FlyPhot said:
I think plant is a wonderful image, the natural vignette frames the sapling perfectly and the colour combinations are really nice. fantastic image.
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Thank you, Jim.

LC2 said:
I couldn't recall what you shot with, but on first glance at the shot I felt that had to be Fuji :)
The plant pops well against the background.
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Thanks, Tim. Fujifilm X-T4 was used for that shot. I still use a Nikon D800 and I would say 50:50 between the two cameras.
 
Allan.H said:
Communication tower for me looks very imposing
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LC2 said:
I think I slightly prefer the comms tower too.
I think because it's a cleaner shot with less distractions. (Maybe)
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Thank you, Allan and Tim. This is a new mast built in 1965, the original 1950s one was only half the size of the current one.
 
I do like a church, but I prefer the comms tower for the theme - looks almost evil, perhaps due to its starkness in B&W (no doubt some would say it is but that's for another type of forum :LOL: ) Both great shots though (y)
 
SimonH said:
I do like a church, but I prefer the comms tower for the theme - looks almost evil, perhaps due to its starkness in B&W (no doubt some would say it is but that's for another type of forum :LOL: ) Both great shots though (y)
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Cheers, Simon. It looks to me like a prop from the set of Dr. Who shooting with a wide-angle lens from this low viewpoint.
 
Two good shots for the theme. Religion sure ticks the box for the theme.
 
I think the communication tower is my preferred image too, I like the low PoV that you've used and it suits the mono pp
 
Dominating
Both are very dominating, both are very different from eachother. I do like the black and white communication tower.
 
Two nice shots. My preference would be the comms tower... it has more impact in my view.
 
A technique I've attemped only a couple of time previously in the early days of my photographic hobby. This was taken during a visit to an air museum yesterday. When I spotted this iconic aircraft with the nose angles upward the film title "Reach For The Sky" just pop into my head. Only afterward that I thought it may suit the HDR technique.


Week 30 Snapper's Choice and HDR Technique

Reach For The Sky by Stan, on Flickr
 
What a cool photo, bit of a nitpick here would be to crop out the background bottom left and the horizontal tail section.


Pete
 
^^^^ What Pete said. Cool shot and an angle I've done that works well for a static display!
 
Snappers choice
I also like the pov you've gone for. The hdr looks pretty good, not over doing it.
 
Kell said:
I like that.

I like the confidence to not necessarily show the whole plane.

And in this instance I think the HDR adds a little drama to the sky - although it’s hard to say how it compares to the original.
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Thanks, Kell. I found just part of some subjects makes a bigger impact than showing the whole thing. Here the SOOC (straight out of camera) shot.

 
seaodyssey said:
What a cool photo, bit of a nitpick here would be to crop out the background bottom left and the horizontal tail section.


Pete
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Thanks, Peter. I was two minds about cropping out the tailplane because I want to keep as much of the RAF logo as possible. Anyway, here is the cropped version

 
Nostromo said:
Snappers choice
I also like the pov you've gone for. The hdr looks pretty good, not over doing it.
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Thanks, Dominic. Trying my best to avoid being heavy-handed with the sliders.


Bebop said:
Love the spitfire Stan and the composition you have chosen. The HDR really does seem to add drama too.
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Thanks, Beb.
 
Very nice Stan (y)
 
That's tidy. Really evocative, pointing towards an angry sky.

I too favour the slight crop, just to lose the slight distraction in the lower left corner, but it's splitting hairs.
 
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