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* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #844 / Revived #064 on 2024 06 19 *

RoelHendrickx
June 19, 2024
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    MikeFewster
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    June 20, 2024, 2:12 a.m. June 20, 2024, 2:12 a.m.
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    Carnival

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    Carnival 1.jpg

    JPG, 976.7 KB, uploaded by MikeFewster on June 20, 2024.

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    minniev
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    June 20, 2024, 2:34 a.m. June 20, 2024, 2:34 a.m.
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    @RoelHendrickx has written:

    HAVANA COLOURS

    Another older image this week. One from the trip I made to Havana for guidebook photography.
    While I was checking off the spots on my list (shops, restaurants, hidden cultural gems), I kept my eyes wide open for the million opportunities that Havana has to offer the photographer around every single street corner.

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    Totally agree. Cuba is a photographer's paradise. The decadent and decaying architecture in often decorated with crayon box colors like the building in the background, and festooned with interesting clotheslines. Here you've framed all that in boxy geometry arrayed along a nice diagonal, with other leading lines quietly carrying us around the scene.

    I'm still holding out hope I'll be able to go back some day, now that my cousin has taken up permanent residence in Havana.

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    minniev
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    June 20, 2024, 2:42 a.m. June 20, 2024, 2:42 a.m.
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    @DanHasLeftForum has written:

    Surf Rolling In


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    Nicely composed and captured, this is a really beautifully caught photograph. The color rendering has excessive reds for my taste, as they are bleeding a bit too much into the blues and whites on the right side for my eye to accept. Otherwise, lovely.

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    minniev
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    June 20, 2024, 2:44 a.m. June 20, 2024, 2:44 a.m.
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    @PeteS has written:

    One or Two Worlds?

    Blackfriars Railway Station in London must have one of the best views of any railway stations in the world. It is built on a bridge across the Thames, with a view from the platform of St.Paul's Cathedral, and down the river to the Tower of London, Tower Bridge, the iconic modern buildings of the City financial district amongst other things. There is no pain at all if the train is a bit late.

    Pete

    Two worlds indeed. The green underworld, like a hive of worker bees busy in the night time. And classically designed ornate buildings in the above-world. Interesting contrasts of color, style, and function.

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    minniev
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    June 20, 2024, 2:52 a.m. June 20, 2024, 2:52 a.m.
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    @Fireplace33 has written:

    Some wide angle views of the Nockberge in Carinthia
    Spent a week hiking with my wife in the Nockberge in Kärnten, Austria. Pretty good hiking conditions; not too hot and not too cold :-)

    It was good opportunity to try out a new lens I just bought for my Z7
    The Viltrox Z mount 16mm F1.8 has had some pretty good reviews so far and I bought it to try some Astrophotography, haven't had that possibilty yet, but here are some first shots in the meantime of the Nockberg mountains
    It’s a beautiful area with natural parks and fairly gentle, often grass covered, round shaped mountains, more like hills than the more rocky Alps.

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    ...and here's one more taken a few days later with the Z14-30 F4
    It's the Nockalmstrasse road, and I also posted this last week in the another weekly thread.
    It's a 34km long curvy road, that’s loved by motorcycles and sport cars, and snakes it’s way through the area up to a height of 2042m. I searched the map for a good place to get a photo. Then we hiked to that spot, it’s off the beaten track but we found it !

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    These are beautiful mountains, pictured in such a way that they hold the visual magic you probably experienced there. The clouds are gorgeous, and the rocks, roads, paths and fences provide leading lines and focus elements to help a viewer move through the frames. The vastness and space are emphasized. Magnificent set of landscapes.

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    minniev
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    June 20, 2024, 2:56 a.m. June 20, 2024, 2:56 a.m.
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    @Bryan has written:

    Rainbow Bee-eater

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    You have outdone yourself with this exotic little fellow. He is so unusual and so colorful he could almost be one of those AI birds that float through social media these days. But it's pretty clear he is a real live bird, brilliantly colored, tack sharp with a tiny little catchlight in his beady eye. His peevish expression only adds to the pleasure. The background is nicely blurred. The blurred background branch on the right might be something I'd try to get rid of simply because the rest of the image is so very perfect, but if it didn't work, it really isn't that much of an aggravation.

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    DanHasLeftForum
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    June 20, 2024, 4:36 a.m. June 20, 2024, 4:36 a.m.
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    @MikeFewster has written:

    Carnival

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    Nice shot but I wonder if a more suitable title could have been "Say Ahhhh" 😊

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    DanHasLeftForum
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    June 20, 2024, 4:40 a.m. June 20, 2024, 4:40 a.m.
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    @minniev has written:
    @DanHasLeftForum has written:

    Surf Rolling In


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    Nicely composed and captured, this is a really beautifully caught photograph. The color rendering has excessive reds for my taste, as they are bleeding a bit too much into the blues and whites on the right side for my eye to accept. Otherwise, lovely.

    Thank you minniev 😊. In post I was going for a sort of golden hour look for the foreground to help differentiate it more clearly from the background.

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    AlanSh
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    June 20, 2024, 9:49 a.m. June 20, 2024, 9:49 a.m.
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    @DanHasLeftForum has written:
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    Flowers after the rain. Taken when out on a walk with my camera club.

    Very nice subject but on my screen it looks a bit flat because of the overall lower contrast.

    This version below, with some contrast added, "pops" a lot more on my screen and looks better. YMMV 😊

    Anyway fwiw, below is the luminosity histogram for the version below.


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    What did you do to fix it?

    Alan

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    DanHasLeftForum
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    June 20, 2024, 11:59 a.m. June 20, 2024, 11:59 a.m.
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    @AlanSh has written:
    @DanHasLeftForum has written:
    @AlanSh has written:

    Flowers after the rain. Taken when out on a walk with my camera club.

    Very nice subject but on my screen it looks a bit flat because of the overall lower contrast.

    This version below, with some contrast added, "pops" a lot more on my screen and looks better. YMMV 😊

    Anyway fwiw, below is the luminosity histogram for the version below.


    dprevived.com/media/attachments/41/ed/yDA2dn00fsZNZ1gNCzTSjYKc2Nt1WrjP2v25fMew1cKuZMyzhI102yavcmxvMBHz/flowerafterrain.jpg

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    What did you do to fix it?

    Alan

    Using Photoshop Elements this is the luminosity histogram of your image as posted.

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    As you can see there is plenty of luminosity headroom to the right of the data, so using a Levels Adjustment Layer I moved the white point slider to the left until the luminosity histogram came close to the right side and then moved the black point slider slightly to the right to make sure there are at least some strong blacks resulting in more overall contrast.


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    JPG, 151.2 KB, uploaded by DanHasLeftForum on June 20, 2024.

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    JPG, 16.8 KB, uploaded by DanHasLeftForum on June 20, 2024.

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    ChrisOly
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    June 20, 2024, 12:36 p.m. June 20, 2024, 12:36 p.m.
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    Not too busy.

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    Pedestrian walkway in downtown Toronto

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    JPG, 4.0 MB, uploaded by ChrisOly on June 20, 2024.

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    ChrisOly
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    June 20, 2024, 12:40 p.m. June 20, 2024, 12:40 p.m.
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    @MikeFewster has written:

    Carnival

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    Just pure joy on the face of a child says it all. Great moment and well captured.

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    ChrisOly
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    June 20, 2024, 12:43 p.m. June 20, 2024, 12:43 p.m.
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    @RoelHendrickx has written:

    HAVANA COLOURS

    roelh.zenfolio.com/img/s/v-10/p590375273-6.jpg

    It's all about contrast - in colours, people, setting. Well seen.

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    ChrisOly
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    June 20, 2024, 12:44 p.m. June 20, 2024, 12:44 p.m.
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    @DanHasLeftForum has written:

    Surf Rolling In


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    Raw nature at it's best. like the tonal difference.

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    ChrisOly
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    June 20, 2024, 12:47 p.m. June 20, 2024, 12:47 p.m.
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    @PeteS has written:

    One or Two Worlds?

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    City life goes on. Great background for this station.

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    ChrisOly
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    June 20, 2024, 12:50 p.m. June 20, 2024, 12:50 p.m.
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    @Fireplace33 has written:

    Some wide angle views of the Nockberge in Carinthia

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    As I mentioned elsewhere, LOVE that shot. The road is like a pencil drawing on a canvass.

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    ChrisOly
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    June 20, 2024, 12:52 p.m. June 20, 2024, 12:52 p.m.
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    @Bryan has written:

    Rainbow Bee-eater

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    It may be small, but certainly makes the impression. Colours galore.

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    ChrisOly
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    June 20, 2024, 12:55 p.m. June 20, 2024, 12:55 p.m.
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    @Rich42 has written:

    Palm.jpg
    Will the Rain Hurt The Palms?

    Kodachrome

    Rich

    Great fan. Like the colours and texture.

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