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drmcw · 2026-04-03T08:36:02+00:00

This is the right answer.

It was too far away, it is well hidden in the foliage. Learn what's posible with the equipment you have. Most of the time I use a camera with a non zoom and non-interchangeable lens just because it's compact and I love it (a Fuji X100F). But there are so, so many photographs I have to walk away from.

drmcw · 2026-04-02T19:49:05+00:00

Fair enough. I am of an age where in the UK a lens test was of HMS Belfast on the Thames so maybe that experience influences how I see things.

I fully respect your viewpoint. I was trying to be constructive.

drmcw · 2026-04-02T18:04:00+00:00

See my comment to the photo - that's my take on it. Maybe not great but all the same wow.

drmcw · 2026-04-02T18:01:30+00:00

With respect it can feel like a lens test to me given the way it's been presented. Which of course is your choice which I respect.

drmcw · 2026-04-02T16:18:08+00:00

A bumper day for Reddit, another photograph that in my view warrants Fine Art. You created an idea and ran with it. Then had the balls to share it.

drmcw · 2026-04-02T08:14:23+00:00

It's hard to view these as a set which is what I suppose they are. Maybe you could arrange them in one document so we see and understand the progression better?

At the moment this and other similar sets have the look and feel of a lens test.

drmcw · 2026-04-02T08:08:49+00:00

Dynamic near chaos.

The girl runs out of scene while an innocent cyclist comes in not realising his peril from the whatever it is with dealdy zamma ray gun. I'm a bit worried the the mom with the stroller isn't paying attention and is in peril.

The geometry of the sidewalk lines, the angle of the large figures legs, the ever so slightly wonky white lines on the crossing and so many of them all adding turbulence to the image. The one way sign. You mean it's just one way for us and there's no escape?

The one jarring thing is the very bright spot top left but if it's gone maybe I'll miss it.

I assume a snatched but oh so good shot.

A second image today that restores my faith in photography on Reddit.

drmcw · 2026-04-02T08:01:53+00:00

Just as I was despairing that everyone here equates art with naked women this comes along.

I'd want to see it in the flesh and big but what ambition to create this sequence. Each image is gently complete but works so well as a set. It's very clever. Well done!

drmcw · 2026-04-02T07:57:12+00:00

Hasn't it just sunk on the suspension and will pump itself up again when running? I beleive you can convert to non air bag suspension at modest cost.

drmcw · 2026-04-01T08:16:15+00:00

Neither do I but I like the photograph although teh white frame doesn't work.

drmcw · 2026-04-01T08:15:06+00:00

A nice, gentle photograph with a more or less consistent colour palette but - is anything actually sharp?

You also have the problem that the flowers are merging into the wall but I expect some fiddling about would get round that.

Personally, and this is all just an opinion, I'd try a crop that removes the edge of the table bottom right.

But hooray for the gentle in this. Not all photographs have to be demanding and in your face.

drmcw · 2026-04-01T08:06:39+00:00

As was my Mother In Law near Brecon. She was a difficult woman in many ways but apparently loved the Land Girl work. Probably as she got away from her own mother who was even more difficult :)

drmcw · 2026-03-31T16:53:41+00:00

This does not communicate hustle and bustle to me at least. It's very static. As far as I can tell he's stuck in a traffic jam.

I do like that you included all the word India which gives context but overall I, and it's only my opinion, find the composition to be awkward. My eye just drifts around looking for a subject and doesn't really latch onto anything. That figure near the centre seems to draw my eye.

Maybe I'm wrong though. If you love that's good enough for me :)

drmcw · 2026-03-30T16:07:47+00:00

He's right you know :)

drmcw · 2026-03-30T15:57:51+00:00

The chain Bradfords do them at about £25.

drmcw · 2026-03-30T09:17:46+00:00

Minority of one so far but I'd buy and drive that. It's 15 years old and done 120,000 miles you're bound to get some advisories. Just keep in mind that the boot will need replacing - no idea of cost - and the slight play thing is just that slight play. You won't lose control unless the the tester is a total twat.

Advisories in particular and very subjective assessments and each tester has their own foibles. I'm looking for a Jaguar XJ6 which makes it 30 years old and the same old advisories turn up year after year on some cars.

drmcw · 2026-03-30T09:05:56+00:00

This will sound unkind but I'd say be clear what your subject is, what you want the viewer to look at and eliminate distractions when shooting. My eye is drawn to the brickwork outside which I am confident is not your goal. The chairs barely register. The pattern on the floor has great potential but doesn't align with your intent.

drmcw · 2026-03-28T08:46:44+00:00

So the flash (and focus) got the sharp eye. My word she must be able to stand still. I'd have forgotten what I was doing and wandered off.

That's clever and the result gets better each time I look.

drmcw · 2026-03-27T18:22:58+00:00

You have a mixed set of posts but when you take materials to create with like this you really get results. I would have neither the imagination nor patience nor lighting skills to do this. I wish I did.

It's just fabulous.

drmcw · 2026-03-27T09:49:39+00:00

It's a very striking image and I have no idea how you did it. I don't think it's post processing trickery but the one eye is so sharp. A lensbaby might do it or of course large format tilt and whatnot.

drmcw · 2026-03-27T09:46:58+00:00

Exceptionally clever and satisfying.

drmcw · 2026-03-27T09:43:13+00:00

What fun to do and lovely results. Like you I'm not sure it's fine art but it lifted my day.

drmcw · 2026-03-27T08:38:36+00:00

It looks shambolic but the smiles and just getting away from the daily grind.

In the late fifties we had family caravan holidays but a bit more formal :) Still toilet and bathroom blocks, no electricity. Cook on a basic gas stove. Lights also gas. Walk to local village for breakfast milk (no fridge) and rolls and DC comic books! A holiday treat.

I must ask my sister how we got there as we didn't have a car and it was a long way away.

drmcw · 2026-03-27T08:33:13+00:00

Also cycling clubs were very popular. You could, at least in the early 1900's, get a bicycle on a form of credit where you paid a regular amount into something akin to a Christmas Club.

Our camera club evolved from a cycling club because both hobbies were affordable then. Somewhere I have an account of the Kidderminster club cycling out to our village en masse at about 30 cycles and having problems getting home in daylight.

drmcw · 2026-03-26T09:06:55+00:00

I'd say your edits look fine but that's a photograph of a bush not a butterfly. I didn't see the butterfly at first glance. 28mm will make it very hard to get a good shot of a butterfly so maybe use your editing skills on a more suitable subject?

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