This weekly thread is principally intended for you to showcase your photos made with Canon cameras of all sorts: SLR, DSLR, Mirrorless, M-series, APS-C, film, etc. But any brand of camera will be accepted, including photos taken with your phone. We do enjoy reading an accompanying text explaining your photo and any special techniques you may have used. Comments and helpful criticisms on others' photos are also welcome: we can all learn something from each other. We look forward to seeing your contributions and new participants to this series of threads are always welcome!
A new thread for the following week will be posted next Saturday around 10 pm UK time.
Digirame and I will be active here and are sharing the hosting, but we are used to all joining in and commenting on others' photos.
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Review of last week
Lots of fascinating pictures from Digirame of the local Christmas parade -- a very American thing! He has continued with his HDR series, this week in Portland. The "Art Standard" setting produced results that were little unreal, but later ones with the "Natural" setting were more successful in terms of colour rendering. I wonder if "Art Standard" works better by day or in other conditions. It certainly worked for the landscape scenes.
Photobygms contributed an HDR image of a wrecked airplane, which looked very surreal.
Steve seems to have been innundated with starlings. As I recall, these are noisy birds; but the pics were fascinating. His photo of 2022 snow was excellent from all angles. And then the crows arrived! I wonder what attracts them. I see very few birds here in the big city. Time to take a trip...
Dunlin found sheep eating turnips and produce convincing evidence of this for us. We certainly learn something new here every week!
Mocha took a winter walk along his canal, with wonderfully atrmospheric photos along the way.
Ghundred, whom we have missed around here for a while, was photographing cars in what looked like warm weather.
I felt in need of a bike ride, and went on the Donau Insel. I confess that I cheated, as it was pitch black where I was, and that, combined with the need to underexpose by 2 stops to avoid burnout by the lights, may have been the explanation for the artefacts that Simplejoy noted. But I looked at the before- and after-processing files and, though PhotoLab applied a lot of noise reduction, I am pretty sure that the patterns in the river were caused by the high wind at the time.
Simplejoy's transformation of common objects from unusual angles never ceases to amaze me.
The pictures that you have created in 2023 are on an extremely high level of excellence. I have personally learned a lot from the interaction with the group and I hope others have. 2024 beckons and I am sure you will all meet the challenge of rising to even greater heights.
A Happy New Year to you all!
David
