* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #882 / Revived #102 on 2025 03 12*

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ChrisOly
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March 12, 2025, 6:50 p.m. March 12, 2025, 6:50 p.m.
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@JonasB has written:

Railway

Hands down the best interpretation. Bright enough to be enjoyed with just right amount of light. Excellent effort.
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ChrisOly
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March 12, 2025, 6:53 p.m. March 12, 2025, 6:53 p.m.
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@ChrisOly has written:

@AlanSh has written:

Railway

Hands down the best interpretation from Alan Sh - Bright enough to be enjoyed with just right amount of light. Excellent effort.

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ChrisOly
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March 12, 2025, 6:59 p.m. March 12, 2025, 6:59 p.m.
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@LouPhoto has written:

aground

Great b&w image with some drama in the sky. Rope on the beach ties nicely with the boat. Very intriguing capture.
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JonasB
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March 12, 2025, 7:41 p.m. March 12, 2025, 7:41 p.m.
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@AlanSh has written:

It's a great picture that, to me, just needs a little bit of life added. So, I took your picture and messed around with the exposure, colour and clarity a bit. Turned down the purple and put more emphasis on the entrance area. And got this. I don't know if that's what you were looking for, but to me it's a bit more welcoming. [Of course, I could be all wrong]

Hey Alan, you are not wrong at all. I think you are pushing me in the right direction and I can see I have been too defensive or passive when leaving the entrance as it was. Great work with lighten it up, Then of course i can't agree about everything. You have dragged the clarity a bit long to my taste and i have to think about the sky.
Overall, thanks again, really appreciated as you made the image interesting again!
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AlanSh
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March 12, 2025, 8:08 p.m. March 12, 2025, 8:08 p.m.
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@JonasB has written:

@AlanSh has written:

It's a great picture that, to me, just needs a little bit of life added. So, I took your picture and messed around with the exposure, colour and clarity a bit. Turned down the purple and put more emphasis on the entrance area. And got this. I don't know if that's what you were looking for, but to me it's a bit more welcoming. [Of course, I could be all wrong]

Hey Alan, you are not wrong at all. I think you are pushing me in the right direction and I can see I have been too defensive or passive when leaving the entrance as it was. Great work with lighten it up, Then of course i can't agree about everything. You have dragged the clarity a bit long to my taste and i have to think about the sky.
Overall, thanks again, really appreciated as you made the image interesting again!

No problem. I think the sky should be a bit darker, but I didn't notice that until I'd published it here.

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JonasB
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March 12, 2025, 8:23 p.m. March 12, 2025, 8:23 p.m.
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@AlanSh has written:

No problem. I think the sky should be a bit darker, but I didn't notice that until I'd published it here.
Alan

Now this became a work in progress again. I'm half there, maybe not have the sky really this dark and maybe turn down the purple a bit more again. One difference compared to the first version is that i added some sharpening this time, I usually don't do that.

Well, I may slowly get there... The No person-series is interesting to me so I'll keep working on it.
Cheers!

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Rich42
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March 12, 2025, 8:51 p.m. March 12, 2025, 8:51 p.m.
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Lily

Pow!

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ArvoJ
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March 12, 2025, 9:16 p.m. March 12, 2025, 9:16 p.m.
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@JonasB has written:

@AlanSh has written:

No problem. I think the sky should be a bit darker, but I didn't notice that until I'd published it here.
Alan

Now this became a work in progress again. I'm half there, maybe not have the sky really this dark and maybe turn down the purple a bit more again. One difference compared to the first version is that i added some sharpening this time, I usually don't do that.

Well, I may slowly get there... The No person-series is interesting to me so I'll keep working on it.
Cheers!

Let me try too :)

I chose different approach. As far as I can see, it is more early night than late day scene, thereby I attempted to bring more of entrance into light, made it a bit warmer and decreased sky intensity; also made purple illumination, neon sign and clock more intense. Perspective correction (DXO automatic) and very little sharpening are applied too. (I started from the first uploaded jpg image.)

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Fireplace33
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March 12, 2025, 10:33 p.m. March 12, 2025, 10:33 p.m.
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@PeteS has written:

@Fireplace33 has written:

The last sunset of 2019

No photo trips this week for me :-(
So it's good to at least be able to pick something from the archives for C&C.
Now that I've installed a NAS, and have all my photos in one place, it's easy to look through and find things :-)

These 2 were taken on the last day of 2019, during our trip to South Korea.
Managed to get some shots here of the sun setting over Busan, just before driving off for a special New Year's Eve dinner.

Wow, the first one is superb. The orange sunset colours reflected in the modern buildings against the darkening purple sky complement each other so well, and the graceful curved lines of the buildings on the left are attractive too. The exposure is good, as you have avoided blown highlights without the whole thing looking flat and artificially manipulated.
The second doesn't really work for me, I'm afraid. I think the horizontal black bands across the frame stop a natural flow through the composition, and in doing so, emphasise the expanse of water in the foreground. However its main problem is being displayed alongside the first, which would make most photos pale in comparison.

Thanks Pete. I agree :-)
Both photos were taken in the same place. The second photo was taken first, I was standing on a small pier with a few others waiting for that "last" sunset of the year..
It went down just a few minutes later and then nearly everyone left the pier.
Often after the sun has set the colours are even better. As in this case, looking in the opposite direction, 30 minutes after the first photo was taken, the magic really started, and it lit up those fantastic buidings for the second photo :-)