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Thanks, that's probably the most flattering compliment anyone's ever paid my photos. I was gonna write something here that was pretty wanky and decided against it, but I do appreciate you saying that greatly.

I'd love to hear your own thoughts on your compositions because I also think they are great and currently for me it is really hard to get good composition - maybe 1/20 photos turn out in a way I like.

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Curious how other people see the black levels of this photo in browsers -- in Edge it looks fine, but in Firefox or Chrome there's a lot of blocking on the statue.14195245_1282473351763423_47295552611750

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The status are solid black for me. Left side of the base has someeee definition but not a lot. Chrome.

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The status are solid black for me. Left side of the base has someeee definition but not a lot. Chrome.

What OS?

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Windows 10

EDIT: Tried in Edge and it looks the same to me!

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That kind of shit will drive you mad. Color profiles, monitor calibration... Everything is always wrong.

Different applications handle things totally differently. A jpeg may look one way in your editing program, then totally different in your photo viewer, and then again in a browser. I'm getting stressed out just thinking about it.

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Now I'm thinking I might be better off with a crappier monitor, then I wouldn't rely on details that won't show for other people :)

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So I took my a few pictures of my niece before her first day of preschool tomorrow, she has decided to become completely obsessed with taking pictures. I let her play with my old k1000. I also let her use my d7200 for a bit and she loved it, it was adorable. 

 

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Really great stuff as always, everyone.

Erkki, your blocking woes reminds me of the time I lost my mind over some weird colour effect I was getting on one browser on one computer. I still don't know what caused it, but it basically introduced nasty mottled banding into skin tones, with the shadows being an unpleasant green shade. Anyway, the shadows in your picture look fine to me, though that is something that always worries me when playing around with black levels.

I went to Sweden in the summer. I took loads of photos, some of which I quite like, but I still haven't found the motivation to go through and process them all, particularly since I'm still often frustrated by my limited skills in that department. But in the interest of making a start, here are a couple that stood out to me:

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I'm really pleased with the second one, though it's a shame I clipped off the edge of the roof on the left. Still, it's a different style than what I usually do. I think it's rather fun.

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I think I got lucky with this one, and it only starts looking good in B&W after cropping & curves adjustment.

 

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Also I like this one because it makes me think about "Stand by Me"

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Yeah, that black and white one is incredible, Erkki.

That's some lovely light in yours, Osmosisch. Have you experimented with cropping some of the black area on the left and bottom at all? Or perhaps that adds to the moodiness.

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I recently went with my girlfriend to Colorado with a new 35 mm prime focus lens and got some like, real fun photos. Man, that thing is a portrait machine. 

 

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I like! PS. I just got a slightly different portrait machine: 75mm (150mm equiv.) F1.8 -- cost me quite a bit, especially compared to previous gear, but it looks great, I think.
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How much, if at all, do you post-process these? The colors look amazing.

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I don't know very much about post-processing, but I would have thought that the lighter area around the horizon and edge of the skyscraper suggests that he's brightened the foreground in that picture.

Anyway, yes, you do have a knack for bringing out the colours and clarity in your images, Architecture. I particularly like the intense blues that figure in a lot of them.

That bricked up door picture is particularly fantastic. With the three red elements, it's almost like it was deliberately staged just for the photograph.

My backlog of pictures to be processed isn't getting much shorter, but here are a few I took of a friend's dog last weekend that I have got around to doing:

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Not particularly inspired, but she's an easy subject. That last one is how she relaxes in the car. Pretty laid back.

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