* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #798 / Revived #018 on 2023 08 02 *

I like it - it's a very interesting and effective composition. I also like the bright look, but feel liket he window is a little bit too bright. If the intention was to make it feel 'aetherial' it's fine, but then it would perhaps need to be slightly more blurred in my opinion... Either way, a wonderful image with lots of room for interpretations.

Oh, and speaking of 'inspiration': If you haven't added some of your sources of inspiration in the thread I created for that topic a while ago, I would be very interested to know:

dprevived.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-inspirationsmotivation-boosts/4292/

It is indeed a great portrait. I was wondering why it wasn't among the favorites I mentioned in the other thread you posted a couple of those portraits in... and after some thought, I realized that it's the colors. It's only very minor tweaks (and I guess colors will always be very subjective) but for me the color of the shirt plus the yellow above it doesn't work very well, particularly because it's missing some balance in my eyes.

Here's how I would change it:

That being said - I already realized when opening the file in photoshop, that the colors on display in the browser are ways off from what the file contains, so it might have a lot to do with that as well...

You certainly got a great feeling for strong colors, as many of your landscape/architecture shots clearly show! 👍

I set my Firefox with help from this page:
gregbenzphotography.com/photography-tips/how-to-setup-proper-color-management-in-a-web-browser/

The colors are Ok now.

Thanks for the comments. Yes, the idea was to keep the window ethereal. It was deliberately kept blurred when I took it, and brightened in post. I will have a play with your idea of blurring it further.

Glad you pointed that out and I will add to it, although my time is taken up with amusing and herding young grandchildren at the moment, so won’t be just yet!

Pete

The viewer can track the journey ahead. It winds down and through and around. It hides then comes out again. It goes through clefts, then clouds and finally a major challenge lies ahead. I like the depth as each layer becomes more indistinct. We can only see a small part of what is in front of us.
You can't resist a vista like that. We want to join the walker.

I think you did pretty well here Linda so I'm going from there. It's complex, big and bold yet despite that, the structure is remarkably light and airy. I'm guessing but I suspect that the architect would be satisfied that these are our responses. The photo shows all this as analyzed by Linda.

Hi Roel,
a very nice vista in portrait mode. I don't know if you waited for the mist to clear or found it that way, but the mist clearing around the central ridge adds a lot to the scene.

Hi Chris,
lots of lines, lots of angles, lots of shapes. The darker building provides good contrast to the lighter buildings. Nice capture

Hi Linda,
the b&w version has higher contrast in the hills which helps, but I think I like the coloured version better. I don't know if it is possible to bring up the colours in midground, but I think that would add a lot to the scene.

Fortnight Lily, African Iris (Dietes iridioides) or Fairy Iris (Dietes grandiflora) I can't tell.
It was a bud yesterday, opened today so not sure about tomorrow. There was little sunlight left so this was the best I got. Hopefully there will be more in days to come.

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I like both but while I appreciate the higher contrast of the B&W version, the one with color provides a very nice balance between green and grey tones. I'd personally add a little bit more contrast overall, just like @Bryan suggested as well. Really beautiful and atmospheric shot though - excellent work!

I like it - great detail and color in this beautiful color. For my personal taste the background is slightly distracting. I assume you already took this wide open (EXIF says f/2.8?), so I'd do some slight processing/color-adjustments on the background:

The photo exudes speed and flight and technology. There's the hard, smooth reflective polish of chrome. A tilted winged shape suggests banking at speed and it heads to a black hole like vortex. The oranges have the heat of suns and reentry vehicles and the blues the ice of space. The relatively empty area to the right convinces that we are heading from there to a destination of significance.
Once again, I have no idea what simplejoy has photographed but the resulting is full of power and associations of our time.
I wonder how it might have been interpreted to a viewer in the Middle Ages?

Hi Bryan,

How the low clouds presented themselves was pure luck.
On such a day long walk, there is not really an option to plan where to be when, nor to wait for circumstances to change.

The day before we were on the Zugspitze (2960 elevation, by cable car).
And there we did spend some time because upon our arrival it was not only cloudy but also raining.
The weather forecast convinced us to wait around a bit and we got rewarded.

But that is different.
Being on a peak for the experience and the views (and for looking at other people visiting) is kinda static.
A walk is dynamic and must move forward.

Ragged, End of Season
Everything gets raggedy at the end of the season including me. Due to a family crisis I don't even know where my camera is but these are the last two I took before everything got out of hand Saturday.

Raggedy, indeed. Circle of life.

Good luck with that family situation.

Rich

1980-81. A foggy morning in an industrial part of Santa Ana, CA.

Kodachrome 25 (ASA 25), Daylight. Olympus OM-1 SLR. Zuiko 50mm/1.4. Unknown exposure. Drum scan.

A trick with transparency film in low contrast situations was to under-expose by 1/3 to 1/2 stop, then compensate in the scan, increasing saturation, sometimes dramatically. But it never looked forced.

Factory wall and door

Rich

From the title and opening, maybe a crack in windshield glass from a pebble thrown by the tire of a speeding truck as it passed? 😁

Your imagination is infinite.

btw, thank you for including a link to your inspiration topic. I wouldn't normally comment in a topic a month old, but it's a subject of great interest to me!