A moody Mary Towneley loop on Saturday

[url=https://flic.kr/p/y3pkQ3]Follow the yellow brick road[/url] by Benman1980, on Flickr

Great selection geetee!

This from last night’s Edinburgh Festival send-off:

[url=https://flic.kr/p/y5tjmg]Virgin Media Festival Fireworks[/url] by Kit Carruthers, on Flickr

Great selection geetee!

Kind of you to say Kit 🙂 Many thanks.

[url=https://flic.kr/p/xbwJa6]Hall's Fell Descent[/url] by Greg.May, on Flickr

Crappy phone pic, but pretty much everything I love about fell running.

Descending a ridge from 850m in grotty weather with just enough kit to stay warm when you move fast.

Swaledale at dawn a couple of Sundays ago from the front door. Colours are as seen 🙂

[url=https://flic.kr/p/yaZeH2]MC3A1167_01[/url] by Paul Clark, on Flickr

Colours are as seen

As opposed to?

Ha…several people have asked ‘How did you get those colours?’. Suggesting I’ve tinted the image artificially.

Cheers
Paul

[url=https://flic.kr/p/xcriji]Untitled[/url] by Polarisandy, on Flickr

Suggesting I’ve tinted the image artificially.

That was my point; all photographs are artificial and all photographs have been ‘tinted’, either by the camera doing the procssing, by the photographer in post production or, indeed, by the film and the development process.

It’a all tint in so far as it’s all interpretation somewhere along the line.

^^

What he said.

I should add that the degree to which you’ve ‘developed’ an image should only be constrained by the overall aesthetics and your own personal expression, and while those two constraints might give considerable room for expression, there are still boundaries. It’s tough when you’re the only person that thinks the end result is aesthetically pleasing, but that shouldn’t stop you from creating the image that pleases you. It’s also perfectly OK to change your mind about these things.

I see some composite images that look amazing but when I see the amount of PP work that’s gone into them (far more than just adjusting colour, tone, light, shadow etc; you move into complex editing processes), I realise I just don’t have the skill to do that. I tell myself that creating a composite image isn’t true to photography; after all isn’t that what painting is all about? But then I realise that actually there’s no reason why it can’t be as valid a form of expression as anything else. If the end result is aesthetically pleasing then surely that’s all that matters?

On the subject of enhancing colour beyond what you actually saw, I’d reference the impressionist painting movement. They sought to convey the scenes they saw not by faithfully representing the scene but by faithfully representing the feeling it gave; the impression of the scene is conveyed to the observer in other ways. There’s nothing wrong with photography doing the same thing.

We should probably have a separate thread for that…more photos here.

FWIW, I agree. Grew up with film, developed my own B&W film, still think that each shot has an associated “cost” when I take out the bigger camera, phone not so much.

Either way, it’s the age we live in. How you take, and develop your photos is your choice – I tend to limit what I do to basic processing of the RAW file and then some spot removal if I’ve forgotten to clean a lens, or have a sensor dust issue.
Played with HDR and while I see why people like it, it does nothing for me aesthetically.

Yes, it is all interpreted(ive) in some way 🙂

Maybe I’m trying to convey some sort of realism?

HDR is usually not to *my* taste.

More piccies then!

Cheers
Paul

More piccies then!

[url=https://flic.kr/p/xTKF5P]Self Portrait[/url] by Greg Turner, on Flickr

[url=https://flic.kr/p/xyVki2]Blue Note[/url] by Greg Turner, on Flickr

[url=https://flic.kr/p/xtrtrm]Phelps[/url] by Greg Turner, on Flickr

[url=https://flic.kr/p/wPbfVH]Trike[/url] by Greg Turner, on Flickr

[url=https://flic.kr/p/x6TdnD]Pillow Talk[/url] by Greg Turner, on Flickr

[url=https://flic.kr/p/xi3pyy]Wasdale Head[/url] by Greg.May, on Flickr

Need a wider lens…

[url=https://flic.kr/p/xXq6oC]Langdale Beauty[/url] by Greg.May, on Flickr

[url=https://flic.kr/p/yf5i5D]Wasdale[/url] by Greg.May, on Flickr

Recent one from my tank

Marcel

God damn it Flickr…

Greg’s photos

[url=https://flic.kr/p/xi3pyy]IMGP0253-Pano.jpg[/url] by Greg.May, on Flickr

[url=https://flic.kr/p/xXq6oC]IMGP0268-Pano.jpg[/url] by Greg.May, on Flickr

[url=https://flic.kr/p/yf5i5D]IMGP0259-Pano.jpg[/url] by Greg.May, on Flickr

Boatshed? Shedboat? Blakeney Point, Norfolk.
[/url]DSC_0133 by Matt Knight, on Flickr[/img]

Maybe the Ultimate bike shed security…

Thanks Kit, me pressed something stupid in Lr.

A couple more recent ones from me…

[url=https://flic.kr/p/yieysr]Autumn meadow[/url] by jon bawden, on Flickr

[url=https://flic.kr/p/xHoVxJ]Night time rock pooling[/url] by jon bawden, on Flickr

from tonights ride

As with any photo of kids, is all random timing, but I like this one:

[url=https://flic.kr/p/y4cZmC]DSC_0362[/url] by ir_bandito, on Flickr

Bit of [super-]hero worship going on from my youngest son to my oldest. And varying degrees of nonchalance from 3 of my nieces.

Celebrating ‘er Maj.

[url=https://flic.kr/p/yrhFtn]Britannia Fireworks[/url] by Kit Carruthers, on Flickr

Phone cam pic from last night

Night ride consequences…

It’s not a technically amazing picture but Torridon was something yesterday 🙂

What a pitcher!

Only taken on my phone but I like it

One of a few from a local gig last weekend…

*edit
Well, it seems Flickr now let’s you post an image direct, rather than BB code – however, it’s destroyed the above image more than Facebook. Ffs

northernmatt – Member

Only taken on my phone but I like it

Is that Seaburn?

I’ll try again with a few more…

Points to anyone that recognises the guy in the 1st pic

[url=https://flic.kr/p/ytstf2]DSC09584[/url] by davetheblade, on Flickr

[url=https://flic.kr/p/ytsD7B]DSC09545[/url] by davetheblade, on Flickr

[url=https://flic.kr/p/ybdd5k]DSC09364[/url] by davetheblade, on Flickr

[url=https://flic.kr/p/ysHq3k]DSC09280[/url] by davetheblade, on Flickr

[url=https://flic.kr/p/xvFmwW]DSC09135[/url] by davetheblade, on Flickr

STW’ers fave pastime:

[url=https://flic.kr/p/yfmj81]Charity golf day[/url] by Kit Carruthers, on Flickr

[url=https://flic.kr/p/yy2bvG]Untitled[/url] by Polarisandy, on Flickr

[url=https://flic.kr/p/xxxKA5]Untitled[/url] by Polarisandy, on Flickr