Totally agree. Cuba is a photographer's paradise. The decadent and decaying architecture in often decorated with crayon box colors like the building in the background, and festooned with interesting clotheslines. Here you've framed all that in boxy geometry arrayed along a nice diagonal, with other leading lines quietly carrying us around the scene.
I'm still holding out hope I'll be able to go back some day, now that my cousin has taken up permanent residence in Havana.
Nicely composed and captured, this is a really beautifully caught photograph. The color rendering has excessive reds for my taste, as they are bleeding a bit too much into the blues and whites on the right side for my eye to accept. Otherwise, lovely.
These are beautiful mountains, pictured in such a way that they hold the visual magic you probably experienced there. The clouds are gorgeous, and the rocks, roads, paths and fences provide leading lines and focus elements to help a viewer move through the frames. The vastness and space are emphasized. Magnificent set of landscapes.
You have outdone yourself with this exotic little fellow. He is so unusual and so colorful he could almost be one of those AI birds that float through social media these days. But it's pretty clear he is a real live bird, brilliantly colored, tack sharp with a tiny little catchlight in his beady eye. His peevish expression only adds to the pleasure. The background is nicely blurred. The blurred background branch on the right might be something I'd try to get rid of simply because the rest of the image is so very perfect, but if it didn't work, it really isn't that much of an aggravation.
Nice shot but I wonder if a more suitable title could have been "Say Ahhhh" 😊
Thank you minniev 😊. In post I was going for a sort of golden hour look for the foreground to help differentiate it more clearly from the background.
What did you do to fix it?
Alan
Using Photoshop Elements this is the luminosity histogram of your image as posted.
As you can see there is plenty of luminosity headroom to the right of the data, so using a Levels Adjustment Layer I moved the white point slider to the left until the luminosity histogram came close to the right side and then moved the black point slider slightly to the right to make sure there are at least some strong blacks resulting in more overall contrast.
Not too busy.
Pedestrian walkway in downtown Toronto
Just pure joy on the face of a child says it all. Great moment and well captured.
It's all about contrast - in colours, people, setting. Well seen.
Raw nature at it's best. like the tonal difference.
City life goes on. Great background for this station.
As I mentioned elsewhere, LOVE that shot. The road is like a pencil drawing on a canvass.
It may be small, but certainly makes the impression. Colours galore.
Great fan. Like the colours and texture.
I like that corner. The setting is perfect.
