Nice Photos.

I very rarely crop - but this time I had to. This is the view towards Hardanger on the west coast of Norway.

Mr Fjeld posted:

Kevin-W posted:

Night-time Shadows:

That's lovely Kevin!

Thank you very much Christian!

Quiet Harbour:

Spent yesterday cloud hunting in Wales.

Your move.

Azimuth

          Gimmee Shelter

          It's hot out there...

Into the Light:

Is that they?

JamieWednesday posted:

Is that they?

It is J.

On another note, I'm in love with your cat (or the cat that features regularly in your photos). Can I adopt him/her?

Mr Fjeld posted:

I very rarely crop - but this time I had to. This is the view towards Hardanger on the west coast of Norway.

I crop nearly every shot. I rarely find the default aspect ratio to actually suit the image.

I also dislike the standard ratio in a more general sense, finding it aesthetically unattractive.

winkyincanada posted:

Mr Fjeld posted:

I very rarely crop - but this time I had to. This is the view towards Hardanger on the west coast of Norway.

I crop nearly every shot. I rarely find the default aspect ratio to actually suit the image.

I also dislike the standard ratio in a more general sense, finding it aesthetically unattractive.

There you go. We see it differently and there is no "right" answer to this. 

Out of curiosity - which format do you use? I find "full format" to be close to the 35 film format which I'm used to before digital photography and that's perhaps why I prefer not to crop.

On the telly I prefer 16:9........

Haim Ronen posted:

Tow in line

I am loving the angles.  Great pic!

Kevin-W posted:

Night-time Shadows:

This is a common subject, but you have given it an eerie, almost sinister quality.  Very effective!  Well done.

fatcat posted:

Spent yesterday cloud hunting in Wales.

That is a most bizarre reflection.  I am not sure why but it is disconcerting.... I really like it.  Well done.

fatcat posted:

Your move.

Lined up perfectly, but not on the squares, which is odd.  Good picture.

Haim Ronen posted:

 

Azimuth

Incongruous.  That expensive looking bike would last 30 seconds in London, then you'd never see it again!  It strangely reminds me of the famous picture of a raw egg in a filthy workman's glove that had taken the shape of the hand*.  I love incongruity. 

*It was the glove that was filthy, not the workman, though me might also have been.

Atom/Iota/Kan Stands posted:

This is a common subject, but you have given it an eerie, almost sinister quality.  Very effective!  Well done.

Thanks very much, [@mention:75342530992722360] x

Atom/Iota/Kan Stands posted:

fatcat posted:

Your move.

Lined up perfectly, but not on the squares, which is odd.  Good picture.

Thanks.

It was taken in a place where things are not always as they appear, it’s an optical illusion. I cunningly achieved it by getting very low to the ground. I've had a bad back ever since.

Afternoon play at Cal Anderson Park

count.d posted:

seakayaker posted:

South Park Bridge

Lovely shot seakayaker. How did you produce the slight black glow around the shadow detail?

If memory serves me right I was using one of the HDR effects in the NIK software tools. NIK was a small company that developed digital software tools that Google had purchased. Google has since sole the rights to DxO. A blurb from their website,  "Nik Collection by DxO is a series of 7 creative plugins for MacOS*, Windows* and Adobe CC, providing filters, rendering and photography retouching tools to create stunning images."  When I bought the software years ago it was a couple of hundred US dollars, google offered the software as free download for awhile, DxO offers the package for $69.00 and a fun tool for folks who enjoy photography. 

Nice, 15 July 2018.

Quite the atmosphere

Shot 1 is trif!

JamieWednesday posted:

Shot 1 is trif!

I'm with Jamie - it really is terrific!