*** This Week Through Your Eyes 2023.11.18 ***

I tried to give an abstract look to the bus. Yes it is better to be out even cant take a good shot.

I would try light trails, slow shutter speed, BW and hire a cycle crew coming down from the hill :) or combinations of them. And I definitely want to try much lower POV.

Alice Cooper, Marilyn Manson, Kiss...just pick a weird rock band and they probably stole something from him.

It looks like an alien came and left its seal :) Nicely seen and captured.

Another good set of not my cup of tea kind of music.

Last one is my pick.

Another beautiful set, with wonderful colours and compositions. The best one is the first one for me.

This is one of the values of this forum. I expected this one to be the least popular of the three I posted this week. Very educational to hear the comments.

O.K., I'm seeing that now. Then just burn down this area in post so the light points towards what she is looking at without having a bright beam of light leading away from her (your foreground object of interest).

Just my opinion, of course, but I wish there were more of these types of discussions in this forum. I'm enjoying the back-and-forth on Fireplace33's hairpin bus photo, as well.
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For me, the colours are a large part of what make this shot so attractive. The patch of pale turquoise water at bottom right, together with the apricot and violet colours in the sky make a colour triad that really sings. Lose that turquoise (or darken it) and you risk losing this effect.

These are my picks. I rather like the violet shades coming through from the sky, especially in the last one, easily making up for the loss of yellow leaves.

The Black Kodak

I'll go along with that :-)
... the elegant young lady here in this photo might have been enjoying a party in a beach house, and has perhaps just stepped outside for a few minutes to enjoy the sunset view. She is still lit by the lights from that that beach house. The bright part is explained and the image works for me too ;-)
We know, from Wormsmeat's description of how of how the photo was made, that's not really the case, but for an innocent viewer of the photo, it could be

For me, the colours are a large part of what make this shot so attractive. The patch of pale turquoise water at bottom right, together with the apricot and violet colours in the sky make a colour triad that really sings. Lose that turquoise (or darken it) and you risk losing this effect.
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I'm with you, that pale green turquoise patch is a plus point in my eyes. And I can't be bothered to edit the HTML to get the quote highlighted properly!

Actually, the mobile only lit her. I like it too. The bright area was indeed caused by a beach floodlight or something. Here's a screenshot of an unedited version with no mobile torch used (and with tripod shadow still included).

Men in Black!

cool!

Oh yes, you have nailed it! Man of colour vs white one with b&w pp. 5 stars!

Exactly my choices . The rest is absolutely fabulous as well.