Glad I was already in my car before the heavens opened. It went incredibly dark, but it didn't last for very long, and the sun was soon out again. I've only once got caught in heavyish rain while still in my wheelchair. I got wet, but my wheelchair was fine. I was very worried about its electrics, but nothing happened to it.
These are a highly endangered species, and the rescue center has this young male tiger, which they hope will breed with their already existing female Malayan tiger.
A new arrival at the rescue center. She was very friendly and very flirty, rolling about on her back and meowing, then staring at you as if she might be hungry. A magnificently beautiful animal
A small group of red kites were flying above my head, so I pointed my lens up, took a few shots, and hoped for the best. I got two decent shots out of it.
Down on the waterfront this morning, tide was out, Heron were sitting along the water fishing. There was a boat coming across the water from Bremerton heading into Port Orchard.
Kalama Eagle Sculpture: Kevin Stone
Mr. Stones website: https://www.kevinstonemetalart.com/
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Hi Sir! The black adds mood, drama. In the other hand it occupies about half of the frame. Quite a lot. And nothing but black visible for me. A bit moo much 'nothing' for me. A bit texture of the trees could remove the nothing.
If I made the changes you suggest, it would no longer be my photograph. We all have different tastes, and this expressed exactly the feeling I wanted it to. I'm perfectly okay with the fact that you don't like it, but I don't change what I do just because people don't like it. I am sure you would be the same about your work.
I do have a mentor, and they will point out a mistake that I missed. I posted a picture yesterday, and once it was up, I saw it magnified. I realized there was a part of the picture that was awful and couldn't be fixed, so I just deleted it. That isn't the case here. This is how I wanted it to look.
Hi Colin. I am an advocate for producing work that reflects your own self, and the qualities that make each and everyone of unique as artists.
I also appreciate that you can respect different viewpoints, which I encourage as some may see changes that we ourselves may have overlooked.
At the end of the day we each need to create the work that reflects who we are, and be happy with what we produce.
Whether others like it or not is really secondary to our own connection to our work.
Ciao Colin!
Thanks for your kind reply! I do have no personal problem with your decision - it is your way of seeing and expressing. There are 2 different opinions about. Not more.
I keep looking at this photograph. Yes, it is very dark, but it is not without texture. You can see the tree quite clearly, particularly the closer one gets to the clouds. I'm wondering what you viewed the picture on, because that does make a big difference. If you see it on a phone, I can imagine it's just going to look like a black blob with another white blob next to it. You do need to see it on a larger screen, and the larger the better. But you can see texture of leaves really quite clearly. When I first read your comment, I wasn't really sure what you were saying, and I think I now understand you're saying that you can't see any texture within the tree. I think that's down to what you're looking at it on, because there is plenty of texture there, and I have no trouble seeing it on a 16 inch MacBook Pro screen. I used to use Windows. But I changed to Mac about twenty years ago because I was selling a lot of hand painted yarn, and I could never get my colors right. It would take ages for each photograph. To look like the one I'd shot, and then the person who bought the yarn didn't get what they had seen. Not one of them complained, and not one of them wanted their money back. Fortunately, for me. So I thought that maybe I needed to change systems. I spoke to Apple and my nearest Apple store, and they suggested that I took along a USB with unedited raw files on it and have a look at what they looked like on an Apple computer. And that's exactly what I did, and I was totally shocked because they stuck the USB in, the photographs of my hand-painted yarn appeared, and they were all exactly as they were in real life. I don't know if that actually makes any difference in this particular situation, but it is what came to my mind. I would hate to be doing my editing, etc., on any other sort of machine than the one I use because I know I get good colours. When I print, I get exactly what I see on the screen. As I said, I do understand that not everyone's going to like this Chiaroscuro style of photography. But if you can't see the texture in the tree, then I really think that it's whatever you're looking at it on that makes you unable to see it, because it is very clearly there. Yes the closer to the right you get, the blacker it gets and the less texture there is, but if your eyes travel to the left, the texture is clearly visible. In the end we all have our own likes and dislikes, but I thought it might be helpful to point out that it could be the screen that you're looking at that isn't showing you the texture. That's if I understood what you were saying in the first place. Even if you could see the texture, well, you still might not like the photograph and that's fine by me. At least you weren't insulting and that I very much appreciate.
Thank for the hint! Indeed, I was viewing & commenting on the mobile. And checked again if I can see details using them (google Pixel 4a + 8, max brightness): No. Taking the advice to use a screen (my one is calibrated), a 30" (should be not too tiny): Still I can't see details in the dark black. Maybe it's "compressed-away" by the upload algorithm? It's a guess, as you can see these details (which file ever you are using) , while I can't see details in the online version.
Then I'd like to end this discussion here- we don't have a benefit for growth. I see the risk to move into a discussion about which PC / OS / monitor is "the best". That's not worth our time.
I think we may not be talking about the same thing. On the left-hand side of the photograph, you see all the clouds and the dark sky. As you move towards the right, you see branches and leaves, dark but well defined. The further right you go, the blacker it becomes, and you see no detail at all. That is precisely how I wanted the photograph to look.