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Post by tonyw on Jan 8, 2023 22:08:56 GMT
Scared a few Canada Geese today while walking round a lake: Tony
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Post by jackscrap on Jan 8, 2023 23:23:10 GMT
New garden ornament
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Post by pontiac1940 on Jan 9, 2023 4:51:34 GMT
Two shots of the previously posted tree. Oldman River Valley, January 8, 2023 I prefer the one with the wavy clouds.
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Post by hmca on Jan 9, 2023 17:14:23 GMT
It is always interesting to read different thoughts on the same image. And of course it's what you like that counts.
As someone just comparing the two images my preference would be for the second one. I like the placement of the tree in the frame. I also like the fact that the clouds aren't drawing my eye away from what I see as the "star of the show". Nice post to generate some thought, Clive.
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Post by pontiac1940 on Jan 9, 2023 17:36:01 GMT
As someone just comparing the two images my preference would be for the second one. I like the placement of the tree in the frame. I also like the fact that the clouds aren't drawing my eye away from what I see as the "star of the show". Nice post to generate some thought, Clive. Thanks Helen. Ideally, I'd like the second composition with some of the cloud features of the first image. The sun was shining on the tree in the lower image. I get what you mean about the clouds, but I love these kinds of clouds. Perhaps they could have been used to frame the tree better. Fun stuff.
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Post by tonyw on Jan 9, 2023 21:47:23 GMT
I'm with Helen - I prefer the second as I thought the tree should be the focus point and in the first shot the clouds distract. A tighter crop to emphasize the tree in #1 might well change my 10c . Nice to see blue sky though - we haven't had much recently but finally did today.
Tony
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Post by Jim on Jan 10, 2023 23:33:14 GMT
I prefer the one with the wavy clouds. From just an emotional standpoint, I like the first one best too. The second one's drabness drags my spirit down a bit although both make their own kind of statement. Either way, there's always something special about a lone tree in a photo.
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Post by pontiac1940 on Jan 11, 2023 5:03:12 GMT
...there's always something special about a lone tree in a photo. Agreed. This is not quite so dramatic from an arty composition aspect. And it is not today's photo. It is today's 49 photos!! I walk with my telephoto and (as noted before) sometimes want to take a scene or some cool subject that will not fit into a 200-mm window. (I shoot with a 200 to 600-mm lens.) This old plains cottonwood begged to be photographed today. So I clicked away in a grid and used 49 photos to stitch this image.
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Post by Lillias on Jan 11, 2023 10:37:37 GMT
This is not quite so dramatic from an arty composition aspect. Looks beautiful and arty in its own way to me. Just love the play of the sun on the tree and the distant hills.
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Post by hmca on Jan 11, 2023 17:05:38 GMT
So I clicked away in a grid and used 49 photos to stitch this image. You are soooo good at this! Do you do this one picture at a time or sweep the image top to bottom?
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Post by pontiac1940 on Jan 11, 2023 17:31:27 GMT
Do you do this one picture at a time or sweep the image top to bottom? We are straying a bit from Today's Picture ( ) so I will start a new thread in "Photography and Techniques." Here.
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Post by cjt on Jan 12, 2023 2:07:22 GMT
i.ibb.co/zf0X0SV/IMG-0244.jpgI paid about $70 for this 512 GB micro chip. I remember that in around 1988 I paid $200 for a 5 /14 inch floppy that held ???KB And I remember an external drive for an Apple GS that held 500 MB for $500. Insert own preferred adjectives now.
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Post by whippet on Jan 15, 2023 19:15:12 GMT
I received a Christmas card today. I am not sure if it is late for 2022, or early for 2023. It travelled six miles. Better still, I received mail from a business which is ten minutes walk from my house. That letter took three weeks to arrive. First class postings are supposed to arrive next day - not next month. I have never known a post delivery on a Sunday, either.
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Post by hmca on Jan 15, 2023 19:19:38 GMT
Puzzling for sure, Margaret.
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Post by whippet on Jan 15, 2023 19:34:06 GMT
Not really, Helen. Most of the Public Services are carrying out strike actions, including Emergency Services. A relation of a friend, managed the ambulance to hospital. He was then left on a trolley in a corridor for 14 hours.
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