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

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.

Let's keep this going as a conversation. I agree with minniev and I'd leave all the lines and poles in. Beyond the edge, another world, clear (well, as far as we can tell here) beckons. A prominent sign suggests that he should turn aside. The man's up right stance, with a small hint of a step makes me think he has made his choice and wont be looking back.
I can see this as a "motivational" picture, complete with an appropriate phrase, hanging on a wall in a public space.

This stumbled out thanks to various suggestions.

Hi Mike
Thanks for your comment. By the way, no solarization PP was used in this image. I also need to give you some clarity on your question from last week. I couldn't answer your question because the photo was taken at a very sad moment. Sometimes people leave this life at a very unexpected moment. I think I should leave it at that.
LouFoto

Wonderful - I like it!

I agree - lots to like about this one, even though it's not a shot that grabs my attention immediately. What I like best about it, is the feeling I get of a symbiosis between natural and artificial aspects - makes it really interesting and worthy of taking several looks! Very well done. I'm saddened to hear it was inspired by or coincided with something so tragic and I'm sorry for your loss.

The bare limbs climbing out behind the foreground tree doesn't appeal to me. The colours don't grate enough for me to feel disturbed by the shot in a Halloween kind of way. The birds are lost against the darker background so they don't contribute to my total response. If the sky had been a little less dark and the foreground colour less comforting, this might have been more unsettling with a Hitchcock feel.

An outstanding photo for all the reasons minniev has given.

I appreciate your problem in trying to find an angle. The Vickers Vimy photos I posted this week had the same shooting problems but I had a bit more space than you to work with. Looking at the image, I don't see any other way that might have given more of an idea of the scale or lines of these craft.

If this photo was just of the house tricked our in those colours, I probably wouldn't have liked it. Seeing the house and the rear vision mirror changes everything. Echoes of Norman Bates and The Rocky Horror Show. That's one house I'm glad to be seeing after we have been passed.
Fisheye compositions rarely appeal to me.I like the multiple curves withing the rectangle.

I feel this image, as processed here, could be used on the cover of a novel.
It's simple , no distractions, and has plenty of space for the title text :-)

This image as posted by Linda could also be used to "tell a story" :-)

"Plenty of space for text..." You made me smile!

I'm very, very grateful for all the attention this photo generated! The final point I'd like to make is that extreme edits that turn a posted photo into something else entirely can generate interesting discussions, but they aren't "critique."

IMO what helps in learning are the fine-tuning edits, such as cropping, tonal changes, blurring etc. Not only with my own photos, but others posted, it's like magic to see what can result from someone else's keen eye and experience.

Thank you all so much!

"Against the wind. Still running against the wind."

EDIT: Can someone explain what I can do so my preview pics won't look like they were made by a potato?

Thank you, Mike .... I appreciate your comment ....

A period when nothing was really working well so I used the Fisheye to try to generate something that might interest me .. this has limited appeal for me but seems to have me out again and has given me some new ideas for curtain tools that I hadn't spent much time with ... I really wanted to get the entire window curve to frame the pictures I was taking in passing but just couldn't get far enough back without moving into the driver's seat!! .... but maybe I got enough to capture the idea ....

Thanks for the comment ... much appreciated ..

WhyNot

Have no idea what you mean "potato." Check how you are compressing, and reconsider your "72 ppi" step. Pixels for web (DPI, dots per inch, is a printing term): www.photoshopessentials.com/essentials/the-72-ppi-web-resolution-myth/

I think the forum software is compressing the images for the preview size and deminishing the quality in the process. However I feel like some images suffer more from it than others, but I've seen pretty devastating examples as well, where I thought some image had significant IQ flaws or would need some serious color-corrections, and when I opened the original uploads in Photoshop it became clear that it was just due to that compression. Perhaps it's an auto conversion to a different colorspace or some additional JPEG compression, but it did look pretty bad in some cases.

EDIT: Here's my attempt at showing the difference:

Full-size link: live.staticflickr.com/65535/53295095431_71b12a8162_o.jpg

I'm aware that there's some Browser-specific color-management in place which can be altered, but my images look pretty comparable to my Photoshop previews on flickr (at least they don't stray in the same way as here), so I don't want to adjust my Browser just in order to have preview images on dprevived match up...