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COMMENTS THREAD for Random Photos LI

CabanSail · 2015-05-17 19:25:52

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17-05-2015 8:25pm

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This is where you can post comments about images in the Random Photos Thread.

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#2 17-05-2015 9:09pm

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posted by CabanSail:

the red text is very intrusive, but the underlying photo seems to be quite solid if a bit touristy.

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#3 17-05-2015 9:16pm

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Cheeky sod

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#4 18-05-2015 11:04am

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i suppose if someone wants specific feedback about their own photo, they could post it here themselves and seek feedback on specific points?

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#5 18-05-2015 11:07am

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anyway, i'll start with this one, a genuine one from cabansail:

i know it's partly due to me preferring to use a darker display, but i reckon brightening up the front of the recycling bank is worth a try; it's in shade and may not be immediately obvious as to what it is; it's a bit too much of a dark rectangle at the moment.

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#6 18-05-2015 10:11pm

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i just did that as a bit of fun. It appealed to me in a weird way when I say the recycle centre situated just below the graves in the cemetery. They look OK on the screen on my laptop, but I could do a bit of dodging on the bins.

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#7 19-05-2015 9:04pm

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I like it as it's a bit cheeky. Your typical Irish set up, landscape and auld recycling bins thrown in there. :P

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#8 20-05-2015 1:10am

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Maybe it's a bit subtle but the point was the two types of recycling going on in the image. One at the base the other at the top.

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#9 25-05-2015 8:43am

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Mystic86, your watermarks are awesome

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#10 28-05-2015 8:41am

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posted by mystic86:

nice photo, but unfortunately the square format has chopped the sides a bit tight; i think it'd look more balanced if you could see a strip of the yellow wall down the left and right roughly equivalent to what you can see above and below.

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#11 28-05-2015 12:10pm

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magicbastarder wrote: »

posted by mystic86:

nice photo, but unfortunately the square format has chopped the sides a bit tight; i think it'd look more balanced if you could see a strip of the yellow wall down the left and right roughly equivalent to what you can see above and below.

I agree. I recently, after a conversation with another user, have been trying to use only 12x8, 10x8, 16x9 or 1x1 aspect ratio's and so the sides are clipped. I should fix it and forget the aspect ratio

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#12 29-05-2015 11:50pm

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posted by the_monkey:

the processing is too flat on this. it seems to be more textural than photographic; there's no sense of scale or contrast.

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#13 02-06-2015 3:55pm

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posted by beth-lou:

i don't know whether the original image has the blown highlights, or whether they've been added in processing; but if they were already there, the processing has helped to make them more obvious.
but in general, the photo looks over-processed; would benefit from the sky being dialled back.

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#14 02-06-2015 4:24pm

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magicbastarder wrote: »

posted by beth-lou:

i don't know whether the original image has the blown highlights, or whether they've been added in processing; but if they were already there, the processing has helped to make them more obvious.
but in general, the photo looks over-processed; would benefit from the sky being dialled back.

Thanks for the feedback. I will give it a go.

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#15 02-06-2015 4:25pm

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beth-lou wrote: »

Thanks for the feedback. I will give it a go.

I see you took it on your iphone - had you done much post processing?

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#16 02-06-2015 4:28pm

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No. I just hit one of the photoshop filters for black and white. I might bring it in in colour and see where I go from there.

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#17 02-06-2015 11:01pm

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bluebell woods, posted by portlawslim.

those images are slightly radioactive. there's no richness to the colours.

i seem to have this thread to myself. maybe it can be named after me when i die.

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#18 03-06-2015 11:31am

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You're not alone.

I lurk here, trying to glean some tips from the comments. Feel free to have a crack at any of mine that I have put up here.

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#19 04-06-2015 10:53am

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magicbastarder wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=95734145&postcount=137

bluebell woods, posted by portlawslim.

those images are slightly radioactive. there's no richness to the colours.

i seem to have this thread to myself. maybe it can be named after me when i die.

Thanks for the C&C, I'll have to go back and look at them again to see if I can improve the colours.

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#20 05-06-2015 5:33pm

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Portlawslim wrote: »

Thanks for the C&C, I'll have to go back and look at them again to see if I can improve the colours.

Probably nothing wrong with the image itself, it's more likely to be the result of over saturation in post production.

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#21 15-06-2015 8:29pm

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I'll stick myself in here...

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=95889663&postcount=233

The swan on the right hand side (the white blob) annoys me - I'm tempted to remove it because it's not grey. There's a couple of other white spots, due to hard water contamination in my final wash - which gives rise to dark spots on the negative.

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#22 16-06-2015 5:37pm

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mystic86 wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek:
What exactly is this?!

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#23 16-06-2015 8:43pm

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Caterpillar? Check the green.

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#24 17-06-2015 2:16am

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Tiriel wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek:
What exactly is this?!

not sure, found him in my cornflakes this morning

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#25 17-06-2015 6:59pm

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Quite a luminous fellow you managed to capture there.

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#26 17-06-2015 8:48pm

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posted by Art Deko

it's a bit dark on the left, which makes it look slightly unbalanced, or 'spotlighty' in the centre.

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#27 17-06-2015 11:24pm

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Not a criticism, who am I to criticise, but I was just wondering did you do a lot of dodging on his eyes or something?

His head looks like a cardboard cut-out

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#28 18-06-2015 2:43pm

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mystic86 wrote: »

His head looks like a cardboard cut-out

Jaysus, I thought it was a cardboard mask and I was wondering who he was supposed to represent!

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#29 18-06-2015 3:00pm

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pullandbang wrote: »

Jaysus, I thought it was a cardboard mask and I was wondering who he was supposed to represent!

I thought it looked a little like a sad Bill O’Herlihy mask

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#30 18-06-2015 9:23pm

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penev10 wrote: »

Very dramatic subject. I probably wouldn't have made the effect quite so strong while editing, though. Sepia and sharpening are fine, but what looks like HDR (might be wrong) seems like it could be pushed slightly too far. On the left hand side of the picture, there is a "halo" effect around the car, for instance. The fact that someone's carved "I love sex" into the side of it really adds to the image, I think, so I just feel like you could convey that kind of grimy atmosphere a little more if the post-processing was sliiightly more subtle. Overall, striking image, though. Well done.

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#31 18-06-2015 10:21pm

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JamJamJamJam wrote: »

Very dramatic subject. I probably wouldn't have made the effect quite so strong while editing, though. Sepia and sharpening are fine, but what looks like HDR (might be wrong) seems like it could be pushed slightly too far. On the left hand side of the picture, there is a "halo" effect around the car, for instance. The fact that someone's carved "I love sex" into the side of it really adds to the image, I think, so I just feel like you could convey that kind of grimy atmosphere a little more if the post-processing was sliiightly more subtle. Overall, striking image, though. Well done.

Thanks for the feedback I have a tendency to over cook images in processing as I experiment and then never reel it back in enough!

No HDR just brought out the detail in the shadows and reduced the highlights. I upped the contrast on the "I Love SEX" region so it stood out, wasn't sure if anyone would notice it at 800px so glad you saw it! I think the halo is from over use of clarity? Will need to show more restraint.

Thanks again for taking time to comment.

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#32 19-06-2015 6:46pm

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magicbastarder wrote: »

posted by Art Deko

it's a bit dark on the left, which makes it look slightly unbalanced, or 'spotlighty' in the centre.

Art decko my advice would be to disregard the above!

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#33 28-06-2015 10:32pm

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This thread has gone very quite!

I don't feel qualified to criticise on here, but I'll give it a go this time for these two pics in the hope that the thread might become a bit more active...

swingking wrote: »

Rougey Coast, Bundoran

For me, I think I'd probably crop out the stones in the foreground, I think it looks cluttered and doesn't add to the photo, for me the photo is about the lovely sky and the two headland things leading towards it, so I'd probably cut down to the sand, but hey that's just me.

obrano wrote: »

Sisters at Play

Nice subjects, interesting faces, I just think perhaps the shutter speed and aperture might be a little off..? I think 1/50 of a second on a 50mm lens is probably too slow and I think you can see a bit of motion in the photo..? F4 might be a little open too for 2 subjects?

Just my opinions, I'm only a noob myself so sorry if I am wrong/offend

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#34 29-06-2015 9:07am

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mystic86 wrote: »

Just my opinions, I'm only a noob myself so sorry if I am wrong/offend

bollocks to that. stop apologising.

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#35 29-06-2015 9:27am

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magicbastarder wrote: »

bollocks to that. stop apologising.

Jeeze, ok.

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#36 29-06-2015 9:31am

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that was intended light-heartedly.

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#37 29-06-2015 4:31pm

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magicbastarder wrote: »

that was intended light-heartedly.

lol, look how many thanks your 2 comments got!

*hides in corner*

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#38 01-07-2015 12:55am

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Where was this taken?! Woah!

Iancar29 wrote: »

-Bolts from above-

hi res version

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#39 01-07-2015 2:54am

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Tiriel wrote: »

Where was this taken?! Woah!

Link says south dakota in the states

Stunning shot.

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#40 01-07-2015 2:56am

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.Longshanks. wrote: »

Stunning shot.

Self congratulatory :P

I agree though by the way

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#41 02-07-2015 10:50am

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mystic86 wrote: »

Self congratulatory :P

I agree though by the way

I'm not sure what you mean by self congratulatory?!

Art Deko wrote: »

Untitled by Greg Matthews, on Flickr

That made me laugh, super timing!!

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#42 02-07-2015 10:51am

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Tiriel wrote: »

I'm not sure what you mean by self congratulatory?!

oops, thought it was the same guy who took the photo :eek:

Sorry

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#43 03-07-2015 10:48am

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.Longshanks. wrote: »

I just love the colours in this. Gorgeous.

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#44 04-07-2015 10:49am

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Modern buttons and lights aside, it reminds me a bit of one of those shots you'd see of an American bus from decades ago.

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#45 04-07-2015 11:29am

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Iancar29 wrote: »

-Bolts from above-

hi res version

What was it like to see this in person?!

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#46 04-07-2015 7:19pm

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posted by art deko:

i love the composition, but it's a bit contrastier than i would reckon is optimum.

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#47 06-07-2015 11:24pm

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^ Looks fine to me, very little loss of detail I'd imagine.

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#48 07-07-2015 3:01am

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^ Looks to have too much sharpening applied for a screen image. Probably OK for a print though.

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#49 13-07-2015 10:12am

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'Nothing amiss' by slowcyclist:

apart from the horizon, that is...
the haloing around the mast is a bit too obvious too.

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#50 13-07-2015 11:52am

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magicbastarder wrote: »

'Nothing amiss' by slowcyclist:

apart from the horizon, that is...
the haloing around the mast is a bit too obvious too.

Thank you for the feedback Magicbastarder. Both observations spot on, I was editing a number of photos from the Dun Laoghaire Regatta and missed the obvious.

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#51 20-07-2015 2:14pm

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Lambsbread wrote: »

Youghal Diving Rocks by AindriúH, on Flickr

Really lovely shot but I'd love to see more of the steps - make them a bigger feature!

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