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Angles: well spotted, it's spot on Just this weeks theme to do now!
Thanks. Well spotted on the tram cables.Loving the colours of the sweets in greed - DOF works here - I also think a wider DOF would have also worked well to get them all in focus - framing might have had to be better though.
Great shot with the angles, think the vertical poles running through the shot strenghten it and give all the other angles something to work off of, even the cables running through the shot contribute another angle
Values the reflection have been mentioned nice interpretation of the theme though
greed nice colour in the sweets needs a tighter crop
Angles plenty of them there, would also have liked to see them straight on, I have started to count them will get back to you sometime
Angles: well spotted, it's spot on Just this weeks theme to do now!
Thanks. It was a tricky one.Hi
Catchup time for me.
Value - like the idea. The edit works well and is an improvement. I think that there is probably too much going on to make it easy to focus and would have been tempted to crop it almost as a square leaving the flag top right, the drum bottom right and then up to and including the first grenade (?). That would strengthen the connection to the theme IMO by emphasising, country (flag), discipline ( the beat of the drum) and power/aggression.
Cheers, might redo this with a bit of a crop at some point.Greed - good colours and well thought of. Tighter crop and more dof have been mentioned and i agree
Thanks.Angles - very good shot, well worth going back from the stop. Good desaturated colour and lots in the shot to hold the interest all round. Good composition with the stairs segment slightly off centre and drawing the eye from bottom to top.
Cheers.Rustic -as you say, straightforward, nice composition, easy on the eye and on theme
Is it poppy season already? There's a big field of them I can see from my office at work but don't recall seeing it this year. Hm, this requires investigation.Quick catch up, I'm afraid
Rustic, nice building and composition. Field full of poppies would be cracking.
Cheers.
Thanks Iain, that was the idea.Good work on rustic Ray,
A simple but very effective take on the theme, the whole scene has a lovely calm feel to it, good work.
Cheers Lynne. I'm sure it's country living at its best, would be nice if it were mine.Hi Ray
lovely take on Rustic....country living at it's best , very calming
Thanks for the feedback.The B&W conversion and selective colour has come helped alot.
Rustic nothing to say but perfect.
Cheers!Rustic - You Nailed it mate. Well done.
Ta muchly.Nicely rustic its all been said
All feedback is good. Yeah it's not the crop I was expecting, but I didn't like it as I originally intended. Dunno why.loving the scene for rustic, struggling a bit with teh low and wide crop though, not sure if its the 50% grass in there (great colours though) or the fact that there doesn;t seem to be enough sky...
I'm in a minority it seems so it;s probably just me.
Thanks. I do too.Beautiful shot, agree poppies in the field would smash this shot.
Wish that was where i lived!
Thanks Andy. Always a struggle to get myself to narrow down that apeture but but had to be done, maybe should have even gone down to 5.6 but never mind.Yup, crowbar indeed
DOF just about right to isolate him. Nice colours and the FG people do frame him, but they are a tad distracting.
Cheers, Chris, we all fall behind at times it seems.Ray, Ive been lazy with comments of late, so I have even more catchup than youve had to do! Some really nice pics here.
Thanks. Not too happy with it myself, but as a first go at macro it could have gone worse. Blurry at the back as you say, underestimating the DoF issue.Juxtaposition: really great textures, and I like the black background. The back of the image is a bit out of focus which is a bit distracting (I found the oof bits at the top of the cheese more distracting than the chalk). I had a bit of a so what? feeling when I looked at this (in terms of composition) but then I realised there are plenty of situations where this kind of shot is just necessary and perfect; I was thinking in my own box, not yours!
Thanks. I live in a crappy old town, nothing lines up properly.Letter: well spotted, and others have commented on the traffic light. Theres an interesting set of near-verticals here; Im not sure if it detracts or adds to the quirkiness of the shot, but I do like it.
True, not a classic by any means. Being without a computer - and by extension, ability to work with photos - for several weeks hit my motivation, and it was conveniently on-topic, so meh.Electric thats a sad story, but this feels to me like a documentary shot, again not something youd consider hanging on your wall. But in a 52, youve got to go with what you get sometimes!
Yeah that's been bothering me a bit since I last looked at it too. Looking back at my last few weeks photos I'm seeing a few bad calls on processing. We live and learn though.Direction: yes, like the black and white, and the angles of the arms all add to the shot. As noted, a separation from the chimney might have helped (or might not, I cant quite visualise it). I found the oof tree behind the sign distracting in its odd busyness, maybe this is where that word bokeh comes in?
Cheers!Tacky: I didnt like this at all when I first saw it, but its grown on me! IMHO its the diagonal set of bricks bottom left that lifts it and turns it into a composition from a snap!
That pesky polarising filter again! Next time I'm down in Essex I might have to rememebr to bring one with me and redo this shot. Main reason for mono TBH was the horrible mixed lighting (some sunlight, some incandescent, and a fair bit of flourescent that couldn't be fixed by flash due to it all being behind glass.Value: sharp intake of breath, OMG thats a bit scary, is it OK making comments on these pics then a more sensible re-think! It shows for me how an image can cause a totally irrational reaction I wonder if the reflection could have been conquered 9at least a bit) with a polarising filter? Some suggested colour because of the couloured flag, but Im guessing pretty much everything else would be pretty monochrome, and it seems to me likely more menacing the way it is.
Thanks.Greed: yes, love the colours, pity about the elbow, otherwise not quite sure theres enough in this shot.
Angles: I really like this! Subtle composition, muted colours and tiny blue highlights speckled about. Great catchup.