* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #810 / Revived #030 on 2023 10 25 *

Gorgeous boats! They remind me of the canoes of the Haida, and probably for good reason, since the Haida are more likely to be culturally and genetically connected to the Polynesian people than any other group - huge seaworthy canoes with carved and/or painted artwork of family/clan heraldry. A history lesson for sure, in grand colors.

A spooky, Halloween-y image. Though the colors are not realistic, your colors rarely are and that does not seem to be a concern of yours when discussing reality/fake so I don't know that color is what you're asking about. It does look realistic to have an in-focus moon amid blurred limbs (or vice versa) since it would be impossible to have both in focus without compositing. The limbs look appropriately ghoulish, like spiders' legs, or skeleton hands reaching for the moon.

A realistic moon would not be red, and if you wanted more realism in color you could tone down the reds especially over the moon using selection tools.

I love the lacework look of the foliage over the moon. You have lost a lot of detail in the moon's surface though. Is there some you can bring that back through editing? Shooting moons usually means significantly underexposing from what the camera wants, or even what makes sense to us. I've been told that you need the same settings you'd use for shooting the sun, but that is a bit extreme for me. I do have to go much lower in exposure settings than I would have imagined though, to get those nice craters and mountains to show up. Of course letting the moon go featureless can also be a legitimate approach, taking a more graphic-art type approach. Play with your image and see what you discover.

Interesting creative offering. I love the curvature of the rear view mirror capture. The lilac grass and orange sky are strangely compatible. I might have named it "A House For Open Cube". I've never explored color shifts but you two are showing us some interesting options.

Thank you .. I had a dead period there for a month or so and just put the fisheye on the camera for two or three days looking for motivation .. and this resulted. That isn't the rear view mirror but the side window and no I wasn't driving!!! ... There were more but they seems to be better as a sequence with narrative so they'll be over on Weekly but they weren't quite so colorful ....

WhyNot

Drop some money on a used lensbaby of your choice. You will never be bored with one at your disposal.

I looked at the many variations of those lenses over the years but so far none has made it's way to my toy box ... and I suspect won't .. but thanks for the thought ...

WhyNot

Although I am well known to not be a big fan of flowers and other similar images, I must say that I really really like this one.
It is pretty grand, in composition AND in processing.
For all the reasons already stated above here.

This offering reminds me of Edward Weston, and as far as B&W still life of vegetation goes, that is a BIG compliment.

I also own a very simple and cheap lensbaby.
I've not used it a lot (probably really not as often as I should).
But you can have real fun with them.

They get the creative juices flowing, maybe even much more so than the latest and greatest in lens design with autofocus, special bokeh blades and IS.

You should really give it a try.

I also like the experimentation on display.
For some reason, the colour shifts result in a (for me) sinister look, like something from a feverish nightmare.

Thank you .... I actually had Halloween in the back of my mind as I did this .. but it is continued play with some tools I rarely use but have been recently exploring to see how they might contribute to an interesting story .. And, your advise about the Lensbabies will have me looking at them anew ...... but when not in one of these dead periods I usually stay busy .. for me ...

"and together we're gonna wait around to die"

An idyllic location. The view will be appreciated, certainly by the visitors.

At first glance, it's the autumn colours that catch the eye. It's the repetition of pyramid shapes, some inverted, and one on its side, that make the shot different. A nice framing balance between the benches, top left and the reeds, bottom right as well.

One of those "the more I look at it the more I like it" images.
B&W was a good choice because of the importance of the lines. I very much like the angle you have chosen for the bloom, the fitting of this form to the globe and then the fitting of the globe to the square. The solarization edges lift the curves that make the shot.

100% agreement Roel. This plane is surprisingly large. Trying to take shots, I was hemmed in and couldn't get an angle that I felt did it justice. The story of the flight, the near misses, the ingenuity and casual bravery of the crew reads like Indiana Jones. They took many photos as well. The plane and the story are in a new adjunct to the Adelaide Airport. Not many people realize it is there. I took the shots on a busy night but I had this gem all to myself. It should have been placed centrally so that anyone arriving/departing in Adelaide couldn't miss it.

The ball of sun, the strong ray that runs from it and the horizon line are the key elements here. I feel that the lower house is distracting from them. If it was cropped out, Ithink it would feel unbalanced with too much sky so I'd consider taking an equal amount off the top. Thjis would strengthen the horizontal lines and make the slash of the sun ray even more prominent in the overall composition.