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Visually entertaining?
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Image Description
My most recent trip to my favorite driftwood beach yielded only this stump. 20 minutes kneeling on cobble was worth it. This kind of photograph is really great fun, maybe not great photography.
Technical Details
Canon R5 with and EOS 100mm f2.8 lens. f/29, distance 7.7 cm
This and all my other exposures were manually focused until the 2 triangles in the viewfinder aligned, then cable release. The part of the image that was in focus was not where I had selected, so Topaz Sharpen AI to the rescue. I wonder if the adapter between the R5 and the EOS lens messes with the focus detection algorithm.
Specific Feedback
We have other images of this sort in the Weekly Challenge, so I see that I am not the only one who find this entertaining. Hope you do, also. I can see that the yellow is eye-grabbing enough to make the grain and face seem secondary.
Critique Template
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I love this. It’s wicked cool and I just want to run my fingers over the smoothness and softness. Very tangible in terms of inviting touch. The sinuous shapes are fantastic and the bright bits of moss or lichen is a nice counterpoint. My only thoughts are to slightly darken some of the darker swirls of wood and maybe clone out the bit of moss at the very top. What a fantastic little scene.
Dick, My first thought is how great that would look as a table top. I see a lot of different things looking at the swirls.
My only nit is the black spot on the lower left side. Maybe make it yellow like the lichen or just remove it. Great texture shot.
Oh, yes, it’s visually entertaining. Just fabulous! I might have plucked out that little black bit in the LL quadrant, but it’s not a deal killer, for sure.
Dick, this is amazingly twisty and colorful. Well seen. I routinely use the canon 180 with the adapter on my R5 and I have seen no focusing issues. Note that the R5 manual (p426) says, “Higher Aperatures are more likely to prevent correct guide frame display.”
Dick. Deliciously textured image. I love the warmth of it and I agree with you. One can have no end of fun immersing onself in scenes like this. I often imagine textured images of bark like this as drone shots taken from on high. With this particular image although it gives it a completely different balance and feel with more added tension, I also like it as a 5x4.
Highly entertaining!! And wonderfully captioned. I chuckled before I even gave the image a full glance. The composition lets the eye swirl around and around, holding the viewer’s attention. I have no suggestions for improvements; I like it just as it is. Well done!
Edit: I just read the full description and my knees hurt just thinking about “kneeling on cobble”. Ouch! But as long as you came away with a winner…
