* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #808 / Revived #028 on 2023 10 11 *

I actually wondered about that new feature for this image. I'm sorry to hear it didn't work well. I was hoping it would give a more natural result than fiddling with box blur on layers the way I've always had to do it in the past. This looks like a perfect image for trying it out because it's so darned detailed (and pretty!).

Welcome back! It's homecoming week! Another of our long lost citizens has found his way home!

And what an amazing image you are sharing. The Great Bear Rainforest has long been one of my dreams, and I now am pretty sure it's one I'll never get to live out, but these beautiful bears and their gorgeous environment have captured my imagination for a long time. I am terribly jealous. This is an outstanding nature image, well composed and perfectly exposed, in great focus. The diagonal tree trunk places the bear in the perfect position, and at a nice 3/4 angle, The detailed view of those claws is pretty wonderful. And the yellow of those few leaves along the top border are a great touch to include. Excellent work, as usual.

Real photos, not AI, that let us marvel at the real world we cannot see. That's something AI can't do, unless it merely piggy backs on real photos. The magic of water droplets frozen in time.
I also liked looking at even bigger sections of these in enlargements. Your selected angles and lighting brings out the edges and that is exactly what is wanted in shots like these.

Science spends multi-millions to get shots of the interior of molecular structures. Well done!
The feeling of speed along the electron paths that comes from the dof is simply great.
The composition balance between the interlocking tracks to the framed "nucleus" is also beautifully controlled. The nucleus will be revealed as our intrepid scientist masters the technique and gets to the heart of all things.

Sometimes I don't see point in your colour treatments. This time I do. A couple who look at the world through their own reality. They enjoy their view.
It may not have been your intention but I see this as a political comment and laugh. The world of those who see and interpret events through their own news and media bubble.

Golly! The Loch Ness monster of Attala County. There's nothing like a Nessie to bring tourists. It needs to be viewed large to give a bit more detail to the monster. This may or may not be something to be considered when the collection is assembled. I'm looking forward to seeing the next options.

Thanks Minnie!

To Manuel,

Thank you very much for your comments. I really couldn't get much more DOF in this shot. It was taken with a 24-105 zoom at 105mm at f/8 on an APS C, 6 MP camera. At this close focusing distance, even at f/8, DOF is very small. I wouldn't have achieved much more at f/11 and would have gotten diffraction effects that I particularly didn't like with that lens.

Rich

Thank you. I didn't know that Croatia had such a building.
Number 3 is my first choice as well. The clean lines don't compete with the curves of the building. Similarly with the simplicity of the B&W.
The foreground figure looks like a Fellini character and setting.

I am so getting in trouble at the photo Olympics this year. 😁

That makes three of us. 😈

Whew boy. So I'm gonna hope you zoomed in and saw the full because it does look extra bad on the thumbnail. What I think is going on...the camera kinda sucks when you start pushing things, and then throw in the fact you accidentally shot it on a non-base ISO and things start getting bad fast. Throw in a mid-grade at best kit lens....yeah imperfections are going to pop up. One day I'm gonna have $1000 to spare and get a medium format set to full spectrum, but not today.

I believe this is a Hoya r72 filter with colors pushed out in post processing.

I will give it another try tonight and see what I will be able to come up with. This is a new feature and I have to get a handle on it, bu t it looks interesting.

I agree with everything Minnie said, including and especially the warm welcome back!

I totally love this image, although it also puts me in a pensive, almost sad but mostly nostalgic mood. That is what that very humanlike pose of the bear i suggesting to me.

Three stooges

Clever naming for for a well taken shot. Best viewed large :),

How about now

First impression was that it really pops now. I went back to compare the original to see if you had altered the flowers. But no, just a slightly tighter crop and the blur effect. A good lesson (for me at least) in how other elements in a photo alter one's overall perception of the image.

I also darkened the background.