A bit of a “meta” question:
This thread is designed to get you out and shoot, and submissions should be within the last few weeks. I like this idea, but I often take several weeks or months before I get around to editing my images, so I’m often reluctant to post in this thread for fear of being branded a cheat
How strict are the rules for this thread? Or is it worth starting another similar thread, maybe more suited to the Showcase category, where we can post just one or two images that we’ve recently captured and/or processed (but not necessarily deserving of a dedicated thread)?
Not very strict. We don’t want to see your portfolio from 10 years ago, but I don’t think a few months old is at all bad.
I do the same thing, it takes me a good bit and several editing sessions before I’m happy to share things.
All of the works is deserving of its own thread. Its just that nobody ever does it, and this is the thread that gets the traction. I wish more people would post in showcase when they get something good. Its like everyone has imposter syndrome, but there are many many awesome shots in this thread. You lot are too modest.
Guilty as charged. I’ve only just started to get comfortable with sharing images in the last year or so.
But you bring up an interesting point: is it better to have a thread like this, which currently stands at 3,422 replies, or thousands of individual posts in the Showcase category?
I sometimes feel like sharing an image I quite like, but not one I’m especially proud of. In such cases, I would much rather add to this thread than start a separate one. I have only once posted to the Showcase category, which was my recent collection from London. To me, that’s more of a category for albums/projects, rather than one-off snaps.
However people are comfortable sharing is great. This thread was started to get people staring sharing stuff, and to that end, it seems to have worked well.
If you want to keep posting here, yes. If you want to make a showcase thread, also yes.
I wish people would post more work for critique, but I understand that not a lot of people want critiques, but I like giving them and I like discussing it.
I have requested critique on occasion by hanging a ‘critique’ tag on a post that I put in Showcase, for example. I benefited from that.
Mostly, the critique I see at pixls.us is what happens in the playraw thread, especially when the originator is trying for a particular look and inviting others to help get there, or suggest different framing or exposure settings.
This was taken from an observation (not fishing!) pier on a local man-made lake. The sky held promise and in fact, was better in places than this photo would suggest. However, the areas where it was good were obscured by the “roof” over the pier – One of those useless “roofs” with joists but no actual roof. So it doesn’t block the sun and doesn’t block the rain, but it does get in the way of photography. Grrr…
But I digress.
Anyway, there’s VERY little available compositionally from the pier but even less elsewhere. During the day the lily pads sport beautiful white blooms, but they’re all closed by sunset (darn it!). Surprisingly the mosquitoes weren’t too fierce so I hung around until all hope of color was gone. I was using manual focus and I (initially at least) had it nailed. But somewhere, sometime, somehow it must’ve been bumped a tiny bit because the image is a little soft.
Processed (mostly) in ART and AP (to blend sky and land layers)
Long time since i posted a image. One of my first frames taken with my wista 45 rf on hp5+ 120 rollfilm. Scans converted with Darktable and stitched with Hugin. I didn’t need to charge my battery though;-).
