Take care of yourself, gordo!
Thanks Sue! Will do my best.
Take care of yourself, gordo!
I remember doing a si January one year and having muscle spasm in the middle of my back, unable to walk and reduced to submitting shots of my medication.Well, missed day 9. Wasn't feeling well, so didn't go out, and couldn't think of anything interesting to shoot inside the apartment. Depending on how my issues continue to present, there may be a lot more inside stuff than outside for the rest of the month.
SiJy 2019 - Day 11
Moar wild and woolly weather along the Bass Coast today...
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I commented on the following image in Day 11 from Troy, aka NoSeconds in which I said I thought it a little too dark. Our brains expect surf to be white, so to illustrate my point I've taken the liberty to edit Troy's original by a quick edit in GIMP adjusting curves to make the surf white.
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Once again I hope you don't mind me doing this to your original image.
Barrie
No dramas with the constructive criticism mate but in viewing your edit vs mine on my iPad (with brightness less than 50%), the whites in the surf look very similar but the water is brighter and the sky is blown out...
Mind you, the last black and white canvas print I had done was very dark, most likely my preference for moody high contrast editing to blame...
No dramas with the constructive criticism mate but in viewing your edit vs mine on my iPad (with brightness less than 50%), the whites in the surf look very similar but the water is brighter and the sky is blown out...
Mind you, the last black and white canvas print I had done was very dark, most likely my preference for moody high contrast editing to blame...
The original might be a little dark for me, but the edit seems a bit bright and the sky definitely has a few spots that are blown out. Maybe if they were done on a RAW file they wouldn't be? The edit also doesn't give me the dark and moody feel of the original.I am viewing this on a calibrated monitor that is optimized for printing (which means the white point is set at 90 cd/m2) which is darker than most non-calibrated monitors. Barrie's version would probably be more correct for printing. However, there are two clearly blown out sections of sky that would have to be tamed somehow. If I were to process the photo (an excellent photo, BTW) I would work on these two spots in the sky and make the overall image slightly brighter than Troy's original.
The original might be a little dark for me, but the edit seems a bit bright and the sky definitely has a few spots that are blown out. Maybe if they were done on a RAW file they wouldn't be? The edit also doesn't give me the dark and moody feel of the original.
I'm viewing the images on a calibrated (if a bit sub-par) LCD; I think that adjusting the white point was helpful, but as an image, I like the original just as well as the minimally processed image. As has been noted, I'd have liked the clouds to stay well-defined, but maybe that could have been achieved using the RAW file. As it is, I think the blown-out regions take away from the impact of the image - they draw the eye, but don't add to the overall look. That said, I think there could have been a tad more shadow recovery applied. But I for one don't see any real downsides in the original edit - if (and I think we can assume that) it looked as intended, I'm fine with it.Here's Troy's image with the white point adjusted and no other adjustments made, hopefully this has preserved the moody atmosphere of the original. It's all very nuanced but makes a considerable difference to the appreciation of an image.
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Barrie
I remember doing a si January one year and having muscle spasm in the middle of my back, unable to walk and reduced to submitting shots of my medication.
It's not compulsory to make life miserable for oneself, you know The "push yourself" part is optional - but many of us do something like this in order to get those creative juices flowing. As long as you enjoy shooting and find it worthwhile, participation is a personal success. So, in my book, you're spot on with your choice ...I'm really wondering if I shouldn't have picked one of my other options. It's not that I'm not enjoying using the X70, just the opposite. But if part of the challenge is suppose to be pushing yourself with something less familiar, I think I've failed.
It's definitely hard. But I like to think it'll ultimately be rewarding and I'll be a bit better.The "push yourself" part is optional