Daily Sarah's 365 31st December 2013 - The End! (CAN'T BELIEVE I'VE ACTUALLY FINISHED!!)

Couldn't you bump to boost the foreground and then either apply a grad HDR effect to the sky or just selective -VE exposure to the hot spots ?
 
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whipspeed said:
28th September 2013

Sunset at the locks.

Not happy with this one really, I seem unable to capture sunsets, exposure everywhere & colour noise etc, etc, etc.................. Not sure if it's me or the camera, might have to go on a landscape course.


28th-September-2013 by Sarah Brooke, on Flickr
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....Personally I rather like it as is and fear that you could lose a lot of its light and dark quality if you process the image too much. If you pull out more detail in the sky it could easily distract and before you know where you are it will be like shortening the legs on a chair. You've got the sun rays, what more would you want!?

I suppose that I am someone who favours the Cartier-Bresson approach that the creative moment is when you take the picture.

I don't think your picture needs rescuing, Sarah. You have already succeeded in capturing the detail in the shadows elsewhere.
 
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29th September 2013

New Beginnings

Might be Autumn now, but next years crop is in and starting to sprout. Went down this lane today intending to shoot a wood on top of a hill, but there was some kind of working party/ploughing competition going on, might have been interesting, but from the few cars that went past, it looked more like a dueling banjo scenario.
Bit happier with this one, took more care with set up I made a hash of last time, so that might help as well.


29th-September-2013 by Sarah Brooke, on Flickr
 
as ever it's beautifully captured Sarah but as an image it doesn't grab me I'm afraid...
 
I agree with Jim, it has everything except a hook. Not somewhere that I'd stop for a look at. Maybe that's the point, a record of the crop sprouting, somthing we don't usually notice?
 
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I agree with Jim too. It has really lovely colour but the subject is probably far too subtle for most people to appreciate via a photograph.

For me it records a glance of a very simple image of Nature's beauty, but more for private appreciation than public appreciation. It doesn't have that 'WOW!' factor, but why should it!?
 
Agree with the comments, but I do rather like a nice neatly furrowed field & trees, so was happy looking at the view. However, the view I had in mind was better, but didn't fancy the dueling banjo convention that was going on down the lane (some very feral looking individuals), so parked up here and made the best of it. I was out all of yesterday, so just had this 1/2 hour window on the way from one thing to another.

Still life today, in between doing the massive pile of ironing & a visit to a local camera club with a couple of mates to decide if we fancy joining.

I will eventually get the hang of landscapes if it bloody well kills me!! :)
 
Nice one Sarah - is there a thread(s) anywhere on here that you know that details local camera clubs? Would love to find one locally to me :)
 
whipspeed said:
Still life today, in between doing the massive pile of ironing & a visit to a local camera club with a couple of mates to decide if we fancy joining.

I will eventually get the hang of landscapes if it bloody well kills me!! :)
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....Landscapes are extremely difficult mostly because our human eye and brain 'see' and importantly 'feel' aspects of a landscape which a camera doesn't easily convey. Doesn't mean we should stop trying though. When I was a professional Art Director I sometimes worked with a pro photographer who ONLY shot landscapes - Much recce and many many hours, even days, of patient waiting were involved and he also used special cameras for it.

So, Sarah, why haven't you shot a self portrait of a steaming Sarah slaving over piles of hot ironing!? :D. Photos of freshly ironed materials might have a certain quality.
 
whipspeed said:
30th September 2013

Autumn Leaf

Had no idea what I was going to shoot today, but this leaf was sitting in the middle of the door mat when I came home, so I thought it would do.


30th-September-2013 by Sarah Brooke, on Flickr
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....Now THAT has the WOW-factor!! Stunning! Faultless in my opinion - Cool composition, very artistic and graphic.
 
Thanks Jim & Robin thank you :) this shot is much more in my comfort zone & the sort of shot I really enjoy doing. There is an ironing shot earlier in the 365, it was the day my huge great pile of washing fell over & landed on my poor long suffering husband who was desperately looking for some trousers :) I absolutely hate ironing, consequently it gets left until there is a huge pile, when doing it in smaller chunks would be easier!
 
I have to admit that as a newbe to both this forum and your 365 thread, I missed seeing your earlier ironing shot.

Am I to understand that your shot includes your trouserless man!? Perhaps it should be in the forum's Glamour section, or am I mixing up this forum with the similar one called 'PhotoForum'?

On the 'Autumn Leaf' shot, handheld but with some telephoto dialled in? Possibly while standing on top of another pile of washing waiting for ironing? Obviously no-one needs step ladders in your house.
 
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LOL it was ok, the ironing completely covered him, apart from his hand reaching out of the pile :)
The leaf was just on a coaster on a chair with the camera & macro lens on a tripod above. I think ironing piles are maybe a little too unstable to use as either ladders or tripods :)
 
That's lovely. Very crisply captured and a very 'interior design' piece.
 
Very nice indeed (cheater!) - background doesn't really look purple to me mind you - did you try it as a straight high contrast mono ?
 
I love the whole effect of using a purple background. It turns the whole image into graphic jewellery. Normally I wouldn't want to interefere too much with the natural environment of the shot but it works well in my opinion.
 
Thanks Robin, I'm the same, wouldn't normally change a background to this degree, but the spider had no consideration for the background of my images in this case or it would have built it's web in front of one of the glazed pots :)
 
Nice! :clap:

I love that I can tell it's a web without seeing the whole thing.

(but where is spidey hidey?)
 
Excellent color and clarity again Sarah - the droplets of rain on the leaf really round the image off nicely :thumbs:
 
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