Random Photos : Part 4

[chrismarr]

leggly said:

It's sensory overload oop yer at this time of year.
Ben Loyal by Squiffy1308, on Flickr

That is ace !!

I would crop the sky slightly if it was mine and be damn proud of it.

[leggly]

chrismarr said:

leggly said:

It's sensory overload oop yer at this time of year.
Ben Loyal by Squiffy1308, on Flickr

That is ace !!

I would crop the sky slightly if it was mine and be damn proud of it.

Thanks, I will once I get home but, with a stoneage laptop and broadband slower than 3G I thought I'd just share a rough edit.

[leggly]

Does this work? If not, it'll have to wait until next week.
Ben Loyal (2) by Squiffy1308, on Flickr

[chrismarr]

leggly said:

Does this work? If not, it'll have to wait until next week.
Ben Loyal (2) by Squiffy1308, on Flickr

Perfect !

[Gandahar]

Round, square and oblong

[Gandahar]

chrismarr said:

leggly said:

It's sensory overload oop yer at this time of year.
Ben Loyal by Squiffy1308, on Flickr

I would crop the sky slightly

Why? His eyes saw more than that and you are asking to crop it further?

Surely the photo should try tomatch what the photographer saw and tried to give a snapshot in time and space in 2d from the 3d experience.

I see he has pandered to your whim though. I would have told you to fk off and go up there and do your own shot, But that's just me

[Gandahar]

Sometimes you just have to look at an image and use what psychologists call "being there" as a moment in time rather than converting that instance further.

Hence my beer and unhealthy food shot. It's a random shot, you can probably guess the date and time and why I have no gastro-friends etc etc. The background story is the story, not whether the picture could be improved. Yet, I still spent more time actually putting that image of the beer on the computer to my liking than actually drinking the beer (I needed a crate to get it to my liking). Why? I have no idea, make it better? Better to who? I will probably not look at it again for years until I stumble across it. Unlike my mum who still gets out those physical prints of that holiday in Ibiza in 1976 where I had a funny hair cut and white legs and thought the Boeing 737-100 was the bees knees.

So I think something is slightly amiss here. To do an analogy with hifi land, - too much worry about if your speaker cabinets are on the best stands or on the best contacts to the floor and not enough love for what you are listening too.

Hifi land is like photoland like golf land used to be and is now carbonbicycle land is now..... men liking buying expensive kit and still not being happy. If women were only allowed to do hifiland or photoland or golf land or carbonbicycle land then Bowers and Wilkins, Canon, Callaway and Scott would all be royally fked.

Random photo should be just that. Random and then randomly just sticking it on a thread with no effort, for better or worse. At least it will be honest. It will tell us more about you than you and camera and your editing software.......

I will get off my soapbox now, the one highly recommended on dpreview.

Edited by Gandahar on Thursday 30th November 15:43

[leggly]

Gandahar said:

Sometimes you just have to look at an image and use what psychologists call "being there" as a moment in time rather than converting that instance further.

Hence my beer and unhealthy food shot. It's a random shot, you can probably guess the date and time and why I have no gastro-friends etc etc. The background story is the story, not whether the picture could be improved. Yet, I still spent more time actually putting that image of the beer on the computer to my liking than actually drinking the beer (I needed a crate to get it to my liking). Why? I have no idea, make it better? Better to who? I will probably not look at it again for years until I stumble across it. Unlike my mum who still gets out those physical prints of that holiday in Ibiza in 1976 where I had a funny hair cut and white legs and thought the Boeing 737-100 was the bees knees.

So I think something is slightly amiss here. To do an analogy with hifi land, - too much worry about if your speaker cabinets are on the best stands or on the best contacts to the floor and not enough love for what you are listening too.

Hifi land is like photoland like golf land used to be and is now carbonbicycle land is now..... men liking buying expensive kit and still not being happy. If women were only allowed to do hifiland or photoland or golf land or carbonbicycle land then Bowers and Wilkins, Canon, Callaway and Scott would all be royally fked.

Random photo should be just that. Random and then randomly just sticking it on a thread with no effort, for better or worse. At least it will be honest. It will tell us more about you than you and camera and your editing software.......

I will get off my soapbox now, the one highly recommended on dpreview.

Edited by Gandahar on Thursday 30th November 15:43

And they say the drugs don’t work!

[singlecoil]

Gandahar said:

Sometimes you just have to look at an image and use what psychologists call "being there" as a moment in time rather than converting that instance further...

Yes, but only you were there. We weren't there and that image isn't going to take us there and it isn't going to make us feel like we would have wanted to be there.

[chrismarr]

Gandahar said:

Why? His eyes saw more than that and you are asking to crop it further?

Surely the photo should try tomatch what the photographer saw and tried to give a snapshot in time and space in 2d from the 3d experience.

I see he has pandered to your whim though. I would have told you to fk off and go up there and do your own shot, But that's just me

At least use my full quote eh. If it was mine. I didn't tell him to do anything, I said what I would do.

[The Dangerous Elk]

chrismarr said:

At least use my full quote eh. If it was mine. I didn't tell him to do anything, I said what I would do.

So you admit to using Passive Aggressive pressure on the poor sod

[The Dangerous Elk]

DibblyDobbler said:

Note the

What address for the Parrot ?

[leggly]

There are a lot of touchy people on here at the moment.

[DibblyDobbler]

leggly said:

There are a lot of touchy people on here at the moment.

You're right - I'm going back in my box now

[Jimmy No Hands]

Utter novice with a very tatty D60 and a smattering of very basic post processing.. feel free to hate or critique, I apologise for your eyes.

[singlecoil]

Jimmy No Hands said:

Utter novice with a very tatty D60 and a smattering of very basic post processing.. feel free to hate or critique, I apologise for your eyes.

Get a Flickr account, the pictures on here will look noticeably better, and the link will show the title of the picture

First picture has potential but looks dull, it needs better post production

Second might have been better if you had got a bit lower so that your subject's head wasn't lost in the clutter at the waterline

Third picture same problem as the first. Plus some context such as where it was taken would help.

[Jimmy No Hands]

Thanks; to be honest first two are from probably the third time I ever picked up a DSLR. All Western Australia circa 2014-2017. Will do on the Flickr also.

[The Moose]

A few from tonight and our super moon!

The Judge

Super Moon

Marco Christmas Tree

[leggly]

It was as cold as it looks.
A Cold Day on the North Coast by Squiffy1308, on Flickr

[The Dangerous Elk]

I like that a lot ....good job Sir !