Live photography comments - page 8

Dang......I meant to give you 5 thumbs up and forgot. I will do this on another of your photos OK?!

Yes, I understand however the reason why my brain doesn't calibrate the image is quite basic. There is within this photo a visual weight imbalance, meaning everything is to the right (patterns and all) and it is outside of the frame making me think it will tip right out and all those patterns on the edge just take my eye right out of the photo.

In our photography courses, our prof once told us to worry when NOBODY mentions a thing about your picture. So, your photo generated thought and discussion and I thank you for that, I just wish this kind of exchange would happen more often on this site.

Shows why Wikipedia is NOT a reliable source, although Golliwogs do have racist roots.

Thank you

Actually, it did... thus the initial question. I didn't mean people would sit and consciously contemplate about it for hours (or even minutes, or seconds). But the mind decodes data by looking for patterns it has seen before. If it's something completely new, it tries to manage meaning and make it make sense (not always successfully). If it's something kind of familiar (like a plate of food) but doesn't easily fit, it wonders, get's agitated, or whatever, making it ask, "I wonder why it doesn't do X?"

Awwwwww he's not bad, he's just doing his job and he is sweet. Nice photo

They like to snack too! Thank you.

They are sweet potato...the ones with purple skin....and these will break your teeth...but are good. Vietnamese product . Thank you.

I appreciate you telling me that ....although I do not agree it has made me think! (a good thing for a change).

Thank you for your comments. There is a posterize filter I applied slightly to the entire sh-bang.

I was hoping you noticed it! Thank you for your comments, which I appreciate.

fattening

I think the fly adds to the shot

Nice DOF. I like how the colors between foreground and background interact as well.

Obviously not American, or they'd be "fries." Nice, shot, though.

Thank you

Thank you

Yeah, they're good. But don't put too much honey (like in the picture ). I cropped it like that because a normal crop would just be a picture of a plate of food, but by cutting off a little it creates dissonance and makes you look longer, with your brain wanting completion.

Good! Even if the fly makes it a little less appetizing …

I like the focus, nice ...

interesting..

great shutter speed, great photo.

Top notch. Lovely

This time I think if I crop the photo becomes vertical and I don't love it very much..but thanks for your attention !

I thought so, but why? What was your reason for doing so?

Thanks (cropped it like that on purpose)

Thank you

YUM YUM YUM I would buy this in a heartbeat and the mug too! I would have liked a tighter crop to eliminate that black line up top but that is just me...it is a great snack photo. Thumbs up.

LORD stop the beating of my heart! I have to try this when I get home. I would have liked to see more but you cropped it off

I want to DIVE right into this...errr, these. Blueberry melons, the newest Japanese invention....Love THIS.

Yes fair comments

Nice action shot this

Thanks! I would really like to come there

Yes, I use Photomatix also and also Nik software for HDR....so much out there now. By the way, the flight from Rome to Bangkok is about 9 hours! We are waiting for you. (Chiang Mai is another hour flight north)

Thanks Olga
I used 3 shots, exposure 0, -2ev, +2ev (see the sbs), blended in an old free version of Photomatix.
You too live in a very beautiful place, I would like to visit the Far East, perhaps one day, if the ailments of old age will allow me.
I'll be waiting for you in Rome, I'll be happy to be your guide

I like the monochrome for it is well done with good tonal ranges. I do think that the umpire lacks a certain sparkle, standing like a telephone pole showing no emotion at all with back to us. Technically you have a huge dust spot by his cap and that needs to be removed. Formatting him into the rule of 3's helps but doesn't save the image.

Your high dynamic range is well worked and gives the image depth without that "overcooked" feel (which some of us love). What EV exposure did you use? The pundits recommend a +2EV and -2EV. And what software did you use to blend your images? You are lucky to be living here inside a living museum. I loved Rome and the people were wonderful to us....we must go back there one of these days while we are still on this side of the grass

Your high dynamic range is well worked and gives the image depth without that "overcooked" feel (which some of us love). What EV exposure did you use? The pundits recommend a +2EV and -2EV. And what software did you use to blend your images? You are lucky to be living here inside a living museum. I loved Rome and the people were wonderful to us....we must go back there one of these days while we are still on this side of the grass

Your high dynamic range is well worked and gives the image depth without that "overcooked" feel (which some of us love). What EV exposure did you use? The pundits recommend a +2EV and -2EV. And what software did you use to blend your images? You are lucky to be living here inside a living museum. I loved Rome and the people were wonderful to us....we must go back there one of these days while we are still on this side of the grass

Painfull

Agree, it is a bit pastel looking. Sometimes the softness of pastel soothes the beating heart. .......

When I took the hotel sign out he looked misplaced so I chopped him out too!

Think I ment that its a bit pastel looking and the colours needed to be stronger,you might agree or not

but wheres the man,only ment the sign

thank you all

Thank you Brian. I'm in touch with Sri Lanka....our "son" writes to us but never mentions the bombings.

Thank you Brian.

Cropped the beegeebees outta this one. Thank you.

I "ooooomphed" it with a glow filter (see all those fine white lines?)...and added more saturation. Put a texture on it too...ahhh sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I will re-visit this work of art to see what else I can do within the contest criteria. Thank you.

I "ooooomphed" it with a glow filter (see all those fine white lines?)...and added more saturation. Put a texture on it too...ahhh sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I will re-visit this work of art to see what else I can do within the contest criteria. Thank you.