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Still life with shopping trolley..



Duck on the rocks



Water Depth 1.35 Mtrs



Some flowers I like

Love the still life... quite a bit to take in there!
Water Depth too is a great capture... but perhaps processed a little too flat?
Those Orange Trumpet vines are pretty spectacular this time of year hey !!!

I find the 1st and 3rd interesting pictures,
but I wonder if they need you to crop some
space around the main subjects.

Matt love "Water Depth 1.35", a very engaging photo which draws one in. You feel like you would like to know what the subject is doing and found myself searching for his facial expression. A part of me wants to ask him after all that if he could do whatever he is doing on the southern side of the pool to remove the shadow. Great observation by you to see the image.

the first looks almost like you staged it. not that im suggesting you did mind you. its ordered randomness. I like it very much.
the WB looks all wrong in the last, or maybe some reflections causing blue cast. something not quite right.

I like # three and I think the shadow adds another element to the image, I have noticed with many of your shots you leave the horizontal lines slightly off level, as shot, rather than straighten them in pp. Is the 'off level' a deliberate part of the composition or you just do not like straightening so leave it as it comes?

Matt,

I too love #1 and #3. And there's something special in #3 about the placement of the person, relative to the stairs as well.

CraigVTR

I must have 1 leg longer than the other....or perhaps my cameras viewfinder is not perfectly level, but yes, I almost always have my images slightly tilted to the left, as pointed out to me previously by members of this forum. The funny thing is....when I go to Europe I've noticed that all of my images are slightly tilted to the right. This makes me think that it might be connected to how water swirls as it goes down the sink. Or perhaps I've had a micro stroke, you know, how some people keep bumping into things on their left or right because they actually walk in a curved path. But I swear, whatever it is, I rarely do it on purpose. I think in a previous post about this phenomena I also explored the subject of how our heads are not theodolites and as we wobble around like the clumsy beasts were are, our heads tilt to one side or another and so then that is how we frame our vision....hence I may simply be capturing my view of the world as my tiled head sees it. I have put a spirit level on my computer monitor and my computer desk and the problem lays not there....so from now on I'm just going to claim artistic license and pretend there is no problem. In fact, I think dead level horizons in a photograph are somehow distasteful and reflect a curious obsession of some photographers to measure the worth of an image by its geometric precision in relation to trigonometry absolutes.
There. Now let's not speak of this again.

Rooz
You are right about the WB in the last image. Something has change from when I processed the pic to when it finally appeared of the forum. I need to go back and look at it. The colours in the original are much more vibrant and made the original interesting to me.

Matt. K wrote:CraigVTR

I must have 1 leg longer than the other....or perhaps my cameras viewfinder is not perfectly level, but yes, I almost always have my images slightly tilted to the left, as pointed out to me previously by members of this forum. The funny thing is....when I go to Europe I've noticed that all of my images are slightly tilted to the right. This makes me think that it might be connected to how water swirls as it goes down the sink. Or perhaps I've had a micro stroke, you know, how some people keep bumping into things on their left or right because they actually walk in a curved path. But I swear, whatever it is, I rarely do it on purpose. I think in a previous post about this phenomena I also explored the subject of how our heads are not theodolites and as we wobble around like the clumsy beasts were are, our heads tilt to one side or another and so then that is how we frame our vision....hence I may simply be capturing my view of the world as my tiled head sees it. I have put a spirit level on my computer monitor and my computer desk and the problem lays not there....so from now on I'm just going to claim artistic license and pretend there is no problem. In fact, I think dead level horizons in a photograph are somehow distasteful and reflect a curious obsession of some photographers to measure the worth of an image by its geometric precision in relation to trigonometry absolutes.
There. Now let's not speak of this again.

lol I enjoyed this post more than the pics. Gave a a big fat belly laugh.
Great stuff.

Rooz wrote:

Matt. K wrote:CraigVTR

I must have 1 leg longer than the other....or perhaps my cameras viewfinder is not perfectly level, but yes, I almost always have my images slightly tilted to the left, as pointed out to me previously by members of this forum. The funny thing is....when I go to Europe I've noticed that all of my images are slightly tilted to the right. This makes me think that it might be connected to how water swirls as it goes down the sink. Or perhaps I've had a micro stroke, you know, how some people keep bumping into things on their left or right because they actually walk in a curved path. But I swear, whatever it is, I rarely do it on purpose. I think in a previous post about this phenomena I also explored the subject of how our heads are not theodolites and as we wobble around like the clumsy beasts were are, our heads tilt to one side or another and so then that is how we frame our vision....hence I may simply be capturing my view of the world as my tiled head sees it. I have put a spirit level on my computer monitor and my computer desk and the problem lays not there....so from now on I'm just going to claim artistic license and pretend there is no problem. In fact, I think dead level horizons in a photograph are somehow distasteful and reflect a curious obsession of some photographers to measure the worth of an image by its geometric precision in relation to trigonometry absolutes.
There. Now let's not speak of this again.

lol I enjoyed this post more than the pics. Gave a a big fat belly laugh.
Great stuff.

I had great laugh too. Matt is not only great with images but has a great way with words as well.

Matt, if the only thing people can find wrong with your image is a crooked horizon than in my books it must be a damn fine image

biggerry wrote:Matt, if the only thing people can find wrong with your image is a crooked horizon than in my books it must be a damn fine image

TBH, the crooked horizon in the first image truly bothers me.

Matt, could you please do something about that?

Matt

That third image has it all. The particularly like how it plays tricks with the eye- the stris to what should be the "surface" then a man walking beneath with no stairs - great counterpoint. And I'm with Glen - perhaps you need a really bright flash for shots like this.