* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #847 / Revived #067 on 2024 07 10 *

@DanHasLeftForum
I calibrate my monitors with SpyderX Elite for 120 cd/m2.

I also use a Spyder but calibrate to 90 cd/m2 which gives me a very good match with my profiled printer.

I also use Perfx Gamut Viewer 3D to check the quality of the screen and printer profiles - ensure there are no missing or protruding chunks in the 3D view of the profiles.

Another possibility is that maybe your eyes and my eyes see some colours slightly differently.

It took me a while and some external discussion to work out what had happened here. Dan's version looks considerably sharper and more detailed than the original. How was that possible? Now I assume that Dan has downloaded and worked on the enlarged version and the enlarged version isn't only bigger, it has considerably more information in the image. Moral. Always look at the enlarged option for images on Dprevived.
Now the photo. The lead in time for a big event must be tense for a restaurant. It shows here. There is a sense of the scale. Everything is set up. There is just enough detail to interpret the woman as a waitress making a small adjustment. Visually I like the harmony between the road surface and the table tops. Together they produce converging lines that accentuate the scale of the event. Kumsal's angle picks up the careful placement of the table settings, glasses and chairs. The perfection creates a certain tension. We know the perfection wont last and soon there will be intense activity.
I like the suggested adjustment but not so much because of the table edge shape. The foreground glass and the left foreground chair are now closer to us. This draws us into the image. We become more part of the moment.

Yes, I always download the enlarged version of an image because it is the image file that was originally uploaded.

The default "thumbnail" you see in the actual posts is generated by the webpage's backend code from the uploaded image file after you click the "Upload file" icon. The backend code generated "thumbnail" is often slightly softer than the original image.

It's actually the larger second table that draws us into the image and we don't all feel like we are becoming part of the moment.

The front table, being separate, is more of a distraction for us.

Isn't he beautiful.
Your focus is perfect. You bring out the details of the entire boy fro the wing filaments to the little hairs on the head and legs. You need to get the angle exactly right to have the dof along the body to do this.
The composition is about as good as it gets. The twigs and leaves have the length and width to match our star. East/west and north/south, I wouldn't want to move a thing.
Quite perfect.

I wouldn't want to punch it up too much, I wouldn't want to apply the extra contrast to the entire image. The soft movement from front to back is essential here and has to be kept. Just a touch of micro contrast at the closest section of the sunlit field. Just a touch more contrast on the dark under edge of the top framing cloud layer.
It's quite possible that when I looked at these changes, I'd change my mind as well.

Can't agree. In your first suggested alteration, we feel as though we are sitting at the table. The foreground glass feels as though it is ours, waiting to be picked up by our hand. It isn't that one is right or wrong. In one version the viewer feels like a participant. In the other they become an observer. I prefer the participant response.

You have the option to make the edits you suggest and post it which might make what you mean clearer and easier for Fireplace33 to evaluate.

That's fine. The whole point of critique is different people posting their opinions.

We don't feel like we are sitting at the table with the foreground table in the scene. We feel like an observer in both versions.

Generally we expect to see half circle bridges like this, photographed to bring out the perfect circle when the photographer works to include a reflection. This version is refreshingly different. We see a vertical slice with only half the circle. I t doesn't matter that we don't see the lot, we get the idea, The dark green of the leaves on the right arrows into the golden shape. The walkway gracefully descends into the green and again the viewer's imagination fills in the details.
I like the colour alterations here. The stone comes across as warm and aged and the combination with the rich greens is sumptuous. Quite fitting for what feels like a royal garden.
The largish blue/purple area on the ivy bank didn't concern me. I didn't notice this until it was pointed out and even then I was comfortable with it.
The bluish patches at the top feel odd though. Was it smoke or some kind of park lighting?
Dan have you posted this image somewhere before? The shot looks familiar. I'm sure there are other photos of this superb little bridge but I vaguely remember the colour treatment and that is one of your trademarks.

It depends on how close it is to being an accurate documentary version.

In any case some photographers choose to enhance their landscapes for artistic effects - colour grading being a popular technique.

I posted the documentary version as well.

I have posted several times that I post online only photos that I don’t care about what people do with. They can download them, edit them, sell them, whatever.

I don't waste time worrying about people potentially downloading my online images or what people might or might not do with any of my online images.

They are free to do whatever they like with them.

I am very happy to have inspired you to find this wonderful specimen. Excellent DoF cross the whole subject with a nice variety of colours. I am also happy to pass the mantle of dragon master over to you. With regard to any apparent flaws, with a shot like this, I just don't see them - in that my mind only sees the primary subject.
We are in winter now, and I haven't seen any dragonflies for some months. I am patiently waiting for spring. They are by far my favourite subject...

I am enthralled with the depiction of the geometry in the shot of the tower. I am guessing you were somewhat constrained as to where you could take it but it doesn't matter as we can see the result clearly.
I have dabbled in the geometry of geodesic domes so the use of triangles here is food for my mind. The rotation of each level, while not giving the usual 4 flat sides all the way up the tower, allows a reduction of material in the super structure.
May I ask permission to copy the pic and post it on a forum related to geodesic structures that I am involved with?

None of that is what I was saying, The bluish tones referred to my response to the first post, Clearly it wasn't there once I saw the original. I make what I can of the image I am looking at.

Then I was asking if you had posted the image before. It looked familiar. Or are you suggesting that someone else has copied one of your photos and reposted it? In which case are you saying that you have posted it before and maybe someone has copied it? I don't follow what you are saying..
Do you have photos that you do value?

A general note. I'll be travelling in remote parts of Australia over coming weeks. Net communications up there are often very slow or non existent. There are likely to be longish gaps in my posts. But I'll be back.