lokbaintan Floating Market scene

This image has all the classic symptoms of a fine art oil. It's vibrance is stunning. It is so dreamlike and surreal. Well done. 7/7

it is amazing . its look like painting .

Look like a painting (He was :) I love the colours & kompotitinon. This one best of You. Agh.... Guru You're the best lah.....

Nice photo, interesting subject. The sky I do not like, too much colour (for my taste). Congratulation.

Marvelous!

I love the romantic elements in this photo - saturation, warmth of colors, water theme, portrayal of women. The lack of cropping doesn't detract from it for me, nor does the brightness of the sun in the composition. If called for a critical point, it would be the unnaturally saturated water that hints toward the color of sewage.

Everything is amazing about this image, the composition, the lighting, the colors, the subject...

This image, at least on my laptop's screen, is so surreal it looks like it could be a painting. Bravo!

WOW! Love it. But I agree with Harry Lichtman and others about that darn pesky sunlight that is a bit too bright in the sky. Happens to me often. Love the colors and tones of the photo. I asked this question with the photo of the week two weeks (it was the lightning with island pix) ago and the results were interesting. If you get a chance can you do a bw version and show us? You might be able to burn that sky in a little and I would love to see all the light and shadows. I always enjoy color more, but it is fun to see bw versions.

yet another example of why I don't delve into the pprocessing arena....it may have it's place elsewhere..... but this image, though reasonable to start with, to me comes across as phony and contrived. heck, why not sit at home, grab images w/a cam, then post process all you want......this one's not for me. ms

Wonderful images! Use photoshop or similar tools to show your vision. Great work!

Umm! The Elves are really goading us into comments on post-processing until the image surrenders all photographic merit, aren't they. Numerous comments here about this picture looking like a painting, and I agree - but what a cheesy painting. The swarthy girl with a flower in her hair, famous in its day, and still beloved by those preferring parody to art, has more merit. Come on photographers, stick to letting the seeing eye and the camera do the work, or take up CGI for a hobby, or buy an easel and brushes.
Regards
Keith

From an artistic viewpoint, it's an interesting image. From a photographic POV, it has way too much juice.

If Randy would not object to posting the original capture I would be very keen to view. I adore the content, composition, light and cultural ambience, and would not crop. However for me it is definitely overprocessed in terms of saturation, and way too much sharpening. The sharpening on this web res view almost cuts my eyes! This distracts from my enjoyment and makes me yearn to view the natural shot. I would only say this for an intrigueing photo, which I believe this would be (or is), without the over processed treatment. Nice shot Randy and well done.

Contrary to many of the previous comments I love this shot and if the bright sky was not included then there would be no intense reflection on the water. This shot makes me not only be there but to shop there! Fantastic.

Rick Rogers I agree that the bright sun was needed for reflection but that sun looks like a light bulb. Nothing that can't be fixed. I would of said maybe lower the camera angle a little for the shot but then the composition might not be as good... as in too much water in foreground.

Light... And this moment. Super.

wow!

 

the reflection and the boats gives the undying feeling and expression to me

 

 

i like the color that you managed to make here.

It is pretty.

But imagine you really woke up within a 17th century painting ... you look around your environment and discover that all reality now has a uniform texture resembling brush strokes superimposed on it. It would be freaky.

This image is like that; a lot is present - and absent - that was never there when the shutter opened and closed (if that's really what happened). Someone else referred to this in terms of a blanket.

Humans. Oh well.

 

Congratulations, you are a real impressive painter. A real master. How could you compose all the elements in this scene from a blank canvas? It is really amazing. Your technique as a painter is perfect and the realism of your scene is spectacular. Just do not care about those eccentric artists that exist nowadays, with all that abstract garbage. They just are not able to paint with your virtuous vision and perfect hand.

It is really good that photo.net opens its space of discussion to other areas of art. From the last experiences in the area of painting, now becoming a tradition in this forum, I can see a day in the future where in this same place, we would be able to talk about musical composition or about a clip of video made by one of us. I know that the original motivation of this website was discussion of photos, but for me is perfectly logic to expose the limitations of this particular art expression with other forms of art. Congratulations to you all.

Someone said to crop the foreground -- that the water adds nothing. That's often a valid criticism in that water is often uniform and boring, but in this image the water is half the subject.

The water provides depth (not a pun), context, visual balance, and in this case, with all the related broken plains, it is full of converging lines which serve to move the eye into the scene. Take it away and you lose that dynamic.

The water grounds this image.

If this image were a hot truck, the water would be its diamond plate.

Beautiful, intentionally painterly image. I see and agree with the issue of the sun. I tried cropping the image myself, and what happens (for me anyway) is that the bright reflection in the foreground water takes over, only worse because it is closer to the interesting subjects, and seems to have no source.
I think the composition of the boats and people is spectacular, especially since I assume that the image was not staged. A testament to exgtreme patience, luck, or the patience to make your own luck.
In short, I'm inspired by this image. Thanks.

Great image... I love the colors and how the light shines down on the water. I wish I could identify what makes this image appealing to me but I can't... everything just really good about it.

Randy Rakhmadany I would be very proud to of taken this photo. I don't care how a thing of beauty is created, instead I enjoy it.