Is There Anybody Out There? (View Large)

Telephone poles to where? Last rays of the setting sun (at about 7:40pm) in the Southern Cascade Range in the far North of California. Cinder cone in the distance is a smaller vent of Mount Shasta.

"Rating without comment is prescription without diagnosis and is considered malpractice." -Howard Dion-

I assume Philip that you have got sick of the threes so have excluded ratings! I was beginning to wonder with some of mine and I'd given up submitting then I spied the protest the other day. In the futureI may submit for critique only but that does limit exposure and therefore probability of constructive comment.

 

To your photo, I like it, particularly the power lines drawing you into the cinder cone. The clear skies remind me of where I work and mostly photograph. It's difficult to get even sky gradient with digital images in that environment. I notice a slight mottling in the smaller image but that goes when viewed large. Is it smooth in the original image and the effects are only from down sampling?

This is a high resolution image which is not particularly served well as a downsampled image. I re-uploaded it a couple of times because I too noticed the mottling that appeared after uploading on the web on the smaller images which was never present in the image at full size. I thought maybe I had missed something after I flattened all the layers for a web version. I've noticed that the best finished web images seem to be those that are created as JPEG images from the start and not those converted from RAW image formats to start. A lot of my Fuji S7000 images are originally recorded as (6) or (12) megapixel JPEG's. Those seem to have the best web appearance of all the images uploaded and they have never been tweaked by layer for printing. Natively they are also created in the sRGB color profile which works better for the web without much tweaking.

I think that unless I'm uploading a nude image, I'm not going to submit anything more for rating. It seems these are the only type of image that gets a high rating now. Images I have re-submitted for ratings which have formerly had only sixes and sevens for ratings are now getting three's when submitted for anonymous rating. So, that won't happen anymore. Thanks for stopping to comment, I concurr with the ridiculous ratings allowed by anonymous raters (payback for critique on their images or just idiots loose in a world in which they don't have a clue!).

What I like about this is that the poles and lines don't just go off to nowhere, but to an anchor in the frame, the distant mountain. wonderful golden hour light. nature's own saturation! thank you for not feeling obligated to trick the sky with a gradient filter. very nice. regards, J.K.

A picture of and about power lines that works! And of course they're complimented by the beautiful golden hour. My recent posts were some of my first ever RAW files and they seem to edit and download to PN with lots of detail. I don't use layers (yet) and so therefore don't have to flatten an image, what little editing I do doesn't seem to degrade the image quality for posting to PN. I wish you'd just ignore the ratings and post for critique so your wonderful photography would get the coverage it deserves......I know I know, I get my share of them, the 3's suck and are, usually, undeserved, it's just a game and some people don't play nice.