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[weltweit]

I'm no photographer, this is just a picture I took that I like. No technical criticism required
Approaching Djenne mosque, the largest mud built building in the world.

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Hi ringo, I must have missed you posting this. I have been admiring online photos of the Djenne Mosque for a number of years now, it is an amazing building. Must have been great to have seen it live as it were. Did you not take any snaps of the building itself?

 

[ringo]

Yes loads. On my portable disk, not phone, but I'll dig some out.

The cliff houses of the Dogon travelling from Mali to Burkina Faso were extraordinarily photogenic too.

I'm no photographer and it wasn't an expensive camera, but the light and the subject lent any image great beauty.

 

[ringo]

BTW I've only got pics of the outside of the Djenne mosque, no part of it allowed non-Muslims.

 

[ringo]

And it is awesome to behold in real life. Astonishing and Unbelievably beautiful and impressive.

 

[weltweit]

BTW I've only got pics of the outside of the Djenne mosque, no part of it allowed non-Muslims.

Yes as I understand it a French magazine made a fashion shoot inside, of scantily clad women, and since then non muslims have been excluded. Shame. But understandable.

 

[ringo]

Yes as I understand it a French magazine made a fashion shoot inside, of scantily clad women, and since then non muslims have been excluded. Shame. But understandable.

Wow, that's pretty insulting.
I went in 2005, I wasn't aware it was ever open to non-Muslims.

 

[brogdale]

Was at Two Temple Place for the (free) John Ruskin exhibition...

 

[gawkrodger]

which of the three below do people prefer?

 

[gawkrodger]

I prefer the top as I like the canal reflection and curve, but I've had someone else say they feel their focus is taken away from the mill and prefer the second

 

[Tankus]

top for me too

 

[Me76]

Middle for me, but I have no photography experience

 

[teuchter]

Middle.

 

[Ponyutd]

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

Come on then guys!

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

which of the three below do people prefer?

Either top or bottom, top has focus on the area you are taking the photo from as a way of contrasting/framing the misty background but the bottom totally envelopes you in the mist, just 2 different angles.

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

Here's one I took at the weekend View attachment 129370

Awesome! The journey from my now 11 year location to the place I still call home is straight down the north east coast of Scotland so see loads of oil rigs and that, I could take pictures of similar scenes all day honestly- I like the modren(sic) mixed with devastating natural views

 

[karanight]

which of the three below do people prefer?

I don't like the line on the bottom of the bottom photo, it's too distracting
the top photo looks like a record shot
My favourite shot is the middle one, being zoomed in gives more atmosphere and lightens the blackness of the foreground.
Also the buildings in the top one are a little lost, it's like you were taking a photo of them for the sake of it, that's what I mean about it looking like a record shot
Back to the second shot, as it's zoomed in, the buildings take a more positive roll in the photo and also the mist is more defined. Compared with the top one where the mist could be mistaken for maybe smoke, the second one shows clearly that it's misty, and in turn gives it more of a mysterious quality

 

[karanight]

Which one would you hang on your wall and why?

 

[RoyReed]

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Which one would you hang on your wall and why?

If I was getting that printed it would definitely be the one without the pink cast. And I think I'd probably crop it to a square, particularly to lose the out of focus blade of grass on the left. And I think you could afford to lighten the image slightly, particularly the mid-tones and shadows.

 

[karanight]

If I was getting that printed it would definitely be the one without the pink cast. And I think I'd probably crop it to a square, particularly to lose the out of focus blade of grass on the left. And I think you could afford to lighten the image slightly, particularly the mid-tones and shadows.

Having looked at it again I think you're bang on with the pinkish one, and the adjustments you've made with the other works will
Thanks

 

[albionism]

which of the three below do people prefer?

Top, by far.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

I think for the first time ever on a boat shot with a phone, I managed to get the horizon more or less horizontal.

 

[TopCat]

Me, ill, thinking of jumping in.

 

[Pickman's model]

Me, ill, thinking of jumping in. View attachment 180711

reminiscent of the great caspar david friedrich painting the monk by the sea

only with a load more action and a pier

 

[teuchter]

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I think for the first time ever on a boat shot with a phone, I managed to get the horizon more or less horizontal.

The verticals on the boats are however distorted and skewed by the upwards angle of view. Something that can be corrected if you can be bothered.

 

[TopCat]

Shit, this Is the FEB photo thread.

 

[Pickman's model]

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Come on then guys!

 

[Pickman's model]

Was at Two Temple Place for the (free) John Ruskin exhibition...

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and only now i find out about it

 

[brogdale]

and only now i find out about it

Sorry to hear...& I know it won't help to say it was rather a fine exhibition for free.

 

[Winot]

Playing with new iPhone 11 Pro