Dark and heavy with ornamentation that suggests the building has seen better times. Chris's angle emphasizes"'weight" and height. It exudes a sort of grim power.
Colours and an angle that Batman illustrators and set designers would envy.
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The lens certainly looks like a good choice for walkaround. A useful range and based on this image, sharp with nice colour rendition and a fine star effect.
I'd like to have seen the star positioned somewhere els in the image though. Under an armpit feels wrong in the context. Given the roofline I can see that it might have been difficult to set up but perhaps out to the right where it would suggest some heroic goal or achievement would have been more fitting with the purpose of the statue. -
The buildings are the same. The one on the left has been rejuvenated. The one on the right awaits.
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My choice wasn't completely accidental.My thinking had been somewhat guided. I recently saw another photo of Roel's that reminded me of another photo I had taken.
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Biting into your blueberry might not be such a good idea. It looks the part though. The fork is a nice touch. It gives scale and suggests eatability.
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With the aid of your title and your reply to another commentator, I viewed large and discovered the air conditioning units. Those represent the compelling story for me: one more jarring example of man's impact on Mother Earth.
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No doubt I'm influenced by your title, but viewed very large I interpret the dog's expression as pure bliss 😀 The photo also interests me because of the coffee-colored water. If I don't examine the dog's face closely, the lack of water clarity adds a little unease to the scene. Is there danger lurking below? Several layers of interest here!
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I feel sad that the dog has to swim in such polluted water.
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Nicely spotted, framed, captured, presented, and titled. Sometimes titles become a necessary element of an art piece, and can even distinguish between a documentary photograph and a fine art photograph. This is one of those images.
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There is so much detail here that the blueberry doesn't even look real. It looks like a metal sculpture with a fork behind it. Of course, with all your tricks and connivances, it could be! and I'm someone who grows blueberries and photographs them often. Either way, it is a great study in detail, with the edges finely demarcated, lovely interplay of light and shadow (and of course bokeh), nicely composed.
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Though yours and Mike's offerings are similar in architectural and geographical provenance they are quite different beyond that point. While Mike's tells a story of culture, yours is certainly dominated by geometry - lines, angles, shapes, and the interplay of those, set off by the color contrasts. Well spotted and nicely chosen perspective.
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It's Old Building Week! And finally one I've seen with my own eyes. It's a wonderful piece of architecture, and you've chosen a unique way of framing it that I didn't think of when there, nor have I seen elsewhere. It forms an enormous "W" when set against the light blue sky, and that "W" leads the eye across the frame to find all the elegant details. Well done.
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The statue alone against an empty blue sky would not have been a nice sharp documentary capture but the inclusion of the backlit spiderwebs and the sun star turn it into something else altogether. It becomes somewhat whimsical, quirky and far more interesting than it would have been otherwise. A reminder that how we choose to capture an image can be wildly different than someone' else's, and have a totally different impact.
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Having done some aquarium photography last weekend, I know this capture was either very skillful or very lucky or both. Dealing with the lighting, the other visitors, the glass fronts, and the moving fish are quandaries to solve onsite, often with little time and little opportunity for advance preparation. The murky water (probably feeding time) in this one works to advantage, helping isolate the spotted ray from the school of fish and the background critters. The fins and are caught in alignment, creating a wonderful compositional opportunity. The scene looks almost surreal because of how the conditions rendered it, and my first thought was AI, but after looking at it more closely I was quite sure it was entirely real, and I consider it an exceptionally good image.
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Had the opportunity to try some light trails.
Supported on the rail of a ship. IBIS paid off here I think.
What elements could have made this composition better?
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you have very deep shadows with little discernible information.
Night photography works best shortly after sunset (in the twilight when there is still some light in the sky).Manuel
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I love the richness of the greens in these backlit leaves. I'm always attracted to them when toting a camera, but can't always capture them in a way that reveals their magic this way. Well done.
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Cute portrait of a cute little Honda, in eye-catching red color and at a nice angle. On the other, the light trails, I am the last one who would be competent to assess light trails since I've never tried them myself. But I will say that while the IBIS was probably a good helper, the image still isn't quite sharp. Tripod would probably be helpful here though most of us are not trudging through unfamiliar cities with one in hand and I'd have tried the same. Maybe less light and a smaller field of view would have helped get more focus on the light trails? And might have hidden softness of the surroundings? The architecture is interesting but it sounds like that wasn't your main focus. I hope someone who really knows how to do this right will chime in since I'm not one you would really want technical advice re: light trails from.
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I already love your dog, who has so much personality in addition to being very cute. A picture of a dog swimming with that look of concentration on his face would be nice enough, but the milky water is so unusual, it forces us to think about what exactly we are seeing. I do like the wake of his marvelous tail.
