April Monthly Challenge - "Your Pick"

Birth of ..........

Inspired by a famous painting, I couldn't resist introducing this 25mm tall little bunny to the world.

(Sorry about the dirty paws and nose, I told him not to play in the sand )

 

Tonytee, Excellent bouquet of carnations reproduced with beautiful colors.

 

Craig, Awesome report from the festival with a complete overview of the activities from the train to the marching band, including the various gardening, wildlife, and other stands.

 

E-Man, Great photographs of the night and of the starry sky.

 

Caladina, very good image perfectly framed.

 

Tonytee, the flower covers the entire shot and with its spectacular colors, creating an attractive image.

 

Thumbnail, both photos are nice to look at, the first one: nice collection of seashells,

 

Thumbnail, lovely image that reminds us of the spring we are in.

 

right, since Topaz insisted I should upgrade and it's expensive for the service it provides. I hope you like it

On my terrace in Barcelona, I saw a tiny garden spider that had woven a web between the inflorescences of two cacti, and I suppose it was stalking whatever passed by. I edited the photo in Capture One, but since I had cropped quite a bit, I spent a lot of time dealing with the focus and noise, which I couldn't get

 

On the 19th, we went to eat at my sister's apartment, which has a privileged view of Torredembarra beach. Every time I go there, I'm always thrilled with the views. This time, I took my camera with me, and throughout the meal, I went out several times to take pictures.

There were quite a few clouds and a breeze, so the sky was beautiful to photograph. I was surprised that they put up a red danger flag for potential swimmers, because I didn't think the circumstances were right for it, at most a yellow caution flag.

Taking advantage of this circumstance, I photographed the stretch of sea and sky, cutting it off by the flagpole with the intention of giving it a minimalist look, but I don't think I succeeded.

I hope you like it and any comments you may have are welcome.

 

Taking advantage of this, I'm sending you two photographs that I took and edited from that evening, of various aspects of Torredembarra beach.

 

@José Mª. I notice that both the shots around Torredembarra beach have a very heavy blue colour cast which is distorting the true colours of the scene. In the Exif data I see that you have the camera White Balance set to Manual(1), I have no idea what this setting is but I suspect it is responsible for the colour cast. Hmm, I see the spider shot was also taken with the same white balance setting so perhaps that too needs some adjustment.

If you saved these exposures as RAW files, then the problem is probably recoverable, if you only saved them as JPG's, then it will be difficult to correct them unfortunately.

 

Love the macro of the spider and it's web, José.

 

Just to add what Kieth has said, I do not know much about Topaz but in Photoshop, you can change the white ballance setting in a raw file, Topaz may have a similar function. If that is not available , Increase yellow to the colour cast in the image, all the best with it.

 

Kieth, in your previous image you said "boredom, frustration and photography do not make good bedfellows." It clearly was a good learning execise though, as you have come back with a more imaganative shot.

 

Just another thought on this months or later assignment. reflections. on water, windows, chrome on a bumper etc.

 

Greatly appreciated there, Jose M. ) Tony