Talk Thread, iPril Foolishness 2018

Day 14 comments
pegelli - I'm a sucker for industrial heritage. I like the symmetric composition and the texture of the rivets.
maewpa - The pink umbrella really helps anchor the whole image. What a great fun shot
stresskiller - Very moody scene created by the grainy, low key tones. Very evocative.

gregja wrote: Day 13 comments darosa - The glowing illumination coming from the left and sense of extreme grunge create an image with heaps of character. Also a fan of the frame-within-a-frame composition.

Thanks for your comment Greg, glad you like it!

Day 4

cschubert - Dawn, still water, pagodas: The right ingrediants for a mistyc picture. Well done.

gregja - Your pictures are usually very punchy. While I don't feel that this kind of post processing is always a good match for your subjects, I think it is in this case. Only criticisms are the colour noise (visible in the background, I'm surprised this happened with this camera at the chosen ISO value) and the long post to the right leaning a bit to the right. I guess you had to tilt the camera slightly to keep the white fence or what it is parallel to the bottom edge.

Fred_S - Gotta love this! The colour version in the outtakes too, by the way. Good composition, good technique .

Darosa - Good capture of leading lines and a suitable contrasty black and white conversion.

rovhazman - Again a good portrait of a child. I wouldn't be surprised if it worked well in combination with the previous portrait in blue tones.

skm.sa100 - Well spotted and well converted to a striking black and white picture. If presented outside of this challenge I would crop the right edge ever so slightly to make it 100% symmetrical.

onsplekkie - I like the composition, the panorama format, the scenery, even the cloudy sky. The only thing that I don't like is the subdued atmosphere that was probably created during post processing. This is too much of a good thing, in my opinion.

ffrolvaag - Love the subtle and black and white convesion. Is this a result of the way the camera captured the image or is it a result of your post processing? This is, along with the watering pot from Fred_S, my favourite of the day.

Day 15 bigsi "May" - Wonderful pet portrait. Well composed and captured.

Wilu wrote: Day 3 Snegren - Continuing in the same manner. This is even better than the first. Not just some kind of funky bokeh, but a real addition to this picture. In order to achieve this, the subject had to be placed very carefully (or was it just luck ). Perfect.

It took some effort to find the right distance to subject and angle, but I think I understand the workings of this little lens pretty well and that helps.

some comments on the first week (days 4-7).

Day4:
Snegren: the Mayhem is a successfull one too
Gregja: the Goalpost is a different view - but one that caught my eye.
Dopol: i see competition against the farmland - and it'll be a hairy battle indeed.
Rovhazman: The light doesn't co-operate in this image when we forget this - it's very well done. And with kids in the play-yard they decide not the photographer (and we're not strong enough to move the toys either). A nice one.
Onsplekkie: I'm missing the steaming jaccuzzi in that harbour (you'll have to use google to find my picture about that one).
Wilu: nice contrast between the colors

Day5:
LAbernethy: thinking...
Mickey2000: you froze the action (and it won't be the last time i assume)
MariusZlo: nice tints of yellow/orange in the flowers
Alpha_in_exile: my grandmother also had such a yale lock at home - and the Yale is nicely sharp
Wilu: the light give it something special - it creates some kind of pattern.
Maewpa: big risk you took there, funny, B&W does work out here.

Day6:
Onsplekkie: We where waiting for that kind of portrait
cschubert: 7 tints of applegreen-blue - this color does it.
Alpha_in_exile: i'm thinking of a happy bird at the end of the month
Wilu: a bubble fiesta indeed.
Maewpa: i thought you lived in Spain/Texas for a second.

Day7:
LAbernethy: 99 tints of brown - on of your best pictures i've seen on the first week (and we hope others may follow) - i like this one.
CSchubert: another one that cought my eye.
Darosa: so much structures into a tram stop - amazing.
Bigsy: the Hurlers is a great picture, i enjoyed it.
Mickey2000: he's dreaming of recreating Frozen on Dyxum - that's for sure.

If you allow me I will catch up a bit for last week by posting some shots from that weekend and some a couple of shots I managed to take and PP this weekend for the Day Prime challenge. Situation with mother in law still difficult. It is all taking a bit longer than we all expected but still likely to come to an end in the near future.