Stills

Your wish is my command.................how far?


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There is no doubting that the colours are the first thing that strike one on seeing this. Very rich - very Olympus! One also should pay tribute to the Outer Isles for providing that very special light. The initial swirl of the ship's wake provides an excellent counter-balance both in colour and contrast. It's a strange phenomenon though: it's both uber-real and unreal; it's not often that one's sees man's mark upon water captured without the instrument that dealt it.

When one analyses the picture an imbalance can be discerned but it is not something that leaps out pictorially, perhaps because one is too taken by the other elements. I hope that this doesn't mean that you have terminated the series?
 

Interesting observation John. No it is not the end, well I think it is not the end, it is a symptom of having no methodology to cope with a large number of images.

I normally use XP's slide show to go through, say, a day's output and select the good'un and then prepare it for web or print.

I took over 900 images on Harris and over 300 on Skye and to be honest I am overwhelmed. The first thing to mess up what I might have called my system is that I appear to have taken more than one good'un every day. So at the moment my system is to take pot luck on a day, grab an image and do minimal preparation.

I still have images from my trip to Croatia where I produced a large 'glug' that could be good images for web/print but my 'method' is 'broke'.

I hope is rains a lot in the winter!
 

Different methodology! But there is overlap when it comes to rain - the recent weather means that finding time to process even a handful of RAWs is difficult. I look forward to the ferry returning then.
 

I'm impressed with the sharpness of this one, particularly given what looks like low light. Even more impressed if it was taken aboard a moving ship. The generally muted colours with a touch of golden light on the low hill to the right and the cold of the green/blue helps the image work. Can you smell the see and feel the cold? I can.
 

This sums up a time and place very well. If you've ever travelled by ferry to this sort of scenery then this photo evokes the moment - boat shuddering; diesel fumes; chilly (but definitely not cold); memories.

But as a stand alone photo I'm not so sure about it. This tells me that you were there and the light/weather was great, but nothing more.

On the other subject, I've found a surefire way of ensuring no backlog of images to process......I've had two cameras fail in this last week.