Thank you Sakitson,
I love see them growing up together. And they sure bond as well. They will rule for sure :D

Thank you :)
I am preparing some Christmas gifts wich I think they will love

Out in the woods with my boys, and I saw my possibility to take some shots.
Meet my boys:

Ludvig 4years old, 15kg
Filip 5,8 years old 23kg
Bejamin the St. Bernard 6 months and 48KG

Nikon D750+Sigma 50mm 1.4A , 1/640 f/7.1 ISO 1600

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lovely sweet picture :)
Thank you for posting. I learn a lot just by watching what others see and how they compose.

Hi Pilot6,

I don't want to sound negative, and unreasonable, but this does not give me anything, besides struggle. Is there a market or a guy paying an instrument? My pupils are like in a very fast auto-focus mode that struggles to find "A" subject. Since it's named "Saturday Market", I would expect to be able to see something about it, and the way it's capture it does not show much. Everything is out of focus, and no subject to follow. Maybe the effect would have worked in an another situation. I've seen other photos made using same technique, but not where places and people are photographed. But this is my personal opinion, and I've never experimented with this kind of effects since it's not in my taste.

Cheers
C.

cute little birdies and beautiful capture of them.
I favor the first Robin picture. So lovely :)

Hi Oneillj,

Not sure I can answer to your test, but what I can say is that I've learned my LightRoom from Youtube. In one of those episodes, it was advised to apply all correction before Noise Reduction. And that's what I always do in my normal PP. Also I've learned using the masking slider when sharpening. Sharpening also will give some more grain, and not using masking will cause parts of the photo to gain more noise. For example the background looks OK, bokhen fine, whatever, nut want to reduce noise on the main subject: A face for example. Using the maskin allows me which part of the photo the sharpening will apply to. This way I can leave the background alone, and sharpen face area.

At least that's how I do it.

who knows , maybe they were sleeping
Can't imagine throwing pumpkins to leave that mark :D

hehe .. still I love the creativity in this one.
immediately it got me thinking about Iron Maiden's song "Moonchild" ..

as a passionate angler myself, these photos make me dream away.
The first one gives me sensation of being in those waders, feeling the excitement when that fly hit the water surface.

Beautiful Regis

Hi Gravedigger611,

to be honest, for a such a beautiful view of this river and the surroundings, it's shame I can't see more details.
I am drawn to the purple sky a lot, it attracts my attention. But when looking at it, I do not see the reason for why is purple. Having that straight line from the graduated filter you applied (I'm guessing that's what u did) takes my focus away and makes me forget about floating down that river :)

Maybe it would have worked better if the purple would follow the dept of the sky's. But that's my taste and I hope this is a constructive honest opinion.

Cheers
Catalin

Hi wrk1234,
From my view, I like the first one a tad more. Maybe cause of the colors as you also wrote, but also the composition.
The second shot I like it also, I find it appealing and very nice. I guess you could add some more light into it, maybe that's what I am missing.

Besides that I like them both.
well done
C.

Hilarious, genius, original :)

Thanx G Manos,
Definitely something to check out , both me and Photobill71 who started the thread.

basically , I want to try it myself before spending $170, cause it has lot's of potential. For a home studio that would be perfect.