Welcome to Caedes!
I just stopped by at your first upload and wanted to leave you a little welcome message,
I hope you'll enjoy this site as much as I do

Welcome to Caedes.

Hind sight is 20-20. I agree I should have killed the red to simulate the old ortho films, THEN converted to gray scale. The sky would have bleached and I could have controlled the shadow detail better than cranking up the contrast.

Instead, I converted to gray scale, leaving me with a panchromatic rendering. I'll be certain to put that in my notebook, for future reference.

I was going for an anachronistic feeling more than a tonal correctness.

The old tractor has passed its time and is now relegated to the ages, no longer in step with the world, but falling further and further behind.

If that is the feeling you got, then I succeeded. Otherwise, it's back to the drawing board.

Thanks for your valuable comments. They are always welcome.

don

Hello. I read your comment on 'Looking Over The Hill (RW)'
Maybe you are right. You know, when you try to enhance a photo, sometimes you go to far in the settings.
That's funny, because I began a thread about that...:
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Welcome to the site!

Hi ~ Thanks for your comments & input on "No Two Are Alike". They are greatly appreciated. Sherree

Thanks also for "Foggy Trilogy".

Thanks for your nice comments! They are appreciated.

Aloha Moss
thanks for the comment on "sedona"
hadnt seen it like that.. but thats an interesting interpretation..
peace
vlad

Howdy from Arizona! Thank you for checking in at 'New Year's Resolution #1 - it's actually in Hawaii, taken earlier this year. Hopefully I'll be able to fulfill at least my first resolution this year!

Thank you very much for your comments on 'Wai O'pai 6:06pm' I am so glad that you like it.

Hi S,
Thanks for your nice words on "Me to You", they are much appreciated,
Glad you liked it,

Thanks for stopping by
Best regards
Tim

thanks for commenting on haystack rock. your words mean a great deal to me. i just want you to know that. jen

Hello Mr. Moss....

It is very nice to meet you....and welcome to Caedes....I hope you enjoy your stay here....you will meet many very nice people on this site....so please have fun....

Many thanks to you for joining me at the 'Snowfall'...very happy you visited my galleries....I wish I knew your first name...it is much more fun to connect the name with the writer...whenever you are comfortable doing so....

I liked your suggestion...that the angle the shot was taken...was responsible for the blue in the photo...I thought that I may have over saturated it....I have tendency for doing this.. and quite often...Lol!! That makes me feel much better....;o)

Thank you again....

Marilyn

Hi again - thank you for visiting 'Winter Wonder'! If you like hummingbirds, you might also like one of the other 15 hummer pics in my Caedes gallery.

Thanks for your comments on Chinese Puzzle. They are much appreciated
../R

Thank you for your very nice comment on 'Nature's Window', much appreciated. Kate :)

Thanks for leaving a comment on "Angels ...". I appreciated your suggestion,
Rob

Thank you for your comments at summer sunshine. As far as saturation, I did use a slight tonal adjustment in the mid-tones, but no additional saturation. What you see is a bright yellow flower shot in strong sunlight.

Thank you for your comment on "Simply Green"... I guess the banding came from converting jpeg to png format..:)

Thankis for the comment on SD city!

Glad you liked the pelicans too!

thanks for your comments about "Closer To The Fort". It's a wonderful Georgian Building with loads of interesting detail. I agree about the sky. i not really certain what to do about it though!

Hello Mr. Moss,
Thanks for your comment on my 'In Flight' image. Appreciate this kind of support very much.
Regards, Cornelius

Thanks so much for your comment on Mossy Feet. Greatly appreciated.
Ellie

Thanks for your kind words.

Thank you, Sir, and welcome to Caedes. I don't believe I have had the pleasure of meeting you before. This shot was an afterthought. I had taken a few shots of the individual riders and had a couple of frames left over. I timed the rotations at 10 rpm. There was a concrete post at hand to set the old FTB on and I had a short cable release handy. Six second count at f/16 using Kodacolor 400 that I later force processed at 1600 allowed most of the traffic to pass without leaving much of an artifact. One person hesitated in the middle of the other frame, but I only got a couple of ghosts in this one.

I'm pleased you enjoyed it as much as I did shooting it.

Take care and God bless,

don

Yes, I didn't mean to leave out the other L, but my haste to post sometimes does that. Glad you liked it!

Hi Smo! :)
I like the way you described "The Music of Nature" as intimate :) I hadn't thought of it that way before, but yeah, you're right! Thanks, and pleased to make your acquaintance :)
'Lisa

Hello, thanks for stopping by and commenting on "Cold Glow" It's being returned. :)
Sandi♥

Welcome to Caedes and thanks for nice words on Eagle Cloud. I'm glad you saw the illusions also.

:)Tick

Hello
Thanks for stopping by my picture Glendalough 2. yes i did use slow shutter speed to create the water effect, that was what I was going for. I think it gives the water a nice silky feel. Thanks for the comment
Michael

Ever Forward...If you look at some of the past submissions in this series, you'll find that I've "re-rusticated" the image components to give the overall theme a "realistic" feel...I just don't always feel like taking the extra time...The entire series is meant to be more humorous in nature, rather than a show of photo-editing skills...Thank you for your comments, however...and thanks for taking the time to visit...

Hi, and thanks for the comments on the Curbar Edge photograph. I took lots of photographs yesterday as the conditions were perfect and I do have a photograph with the rock higher, so I will post that at some time. Thanks for taking the time. Patti

Hey, thanks for your comment on my 'Banda-It' picture. You did that rare thing on Caedes and gave me an honest appraisal, which I really appreciated. I only wish there was more of it. Thanks for taking the time to let me know your thoughts.

Thanks for commenting "Hidden Tokyo".

I appreciate your wonderful comment on
"Back home" Thanks a lot

Hi Mr Moss, thanks for the lovely comment on "Closebourne House", it's lovely to see someone still enjoying one of my old pix. Best wishes, Kelcey.

Thanks for commenting on Emerald Elegance. I'm glad you liked it!
Joanie

You are so right SMoss. I was taking the trash out and there was the Circle of Life. One never knows. Thanks for the succinct comment.

Tick

Thanks for the comment on Mountain lake. I agree I could have taken some more time to make those mountains a bit more realistic looking but I kind of got attached to the way they were, kind of leaves at least something to the imagination. With a render time comming close to 20 hours it's not always top priority to make changes to final images:P

Also thanks for comment on Settling Down, you are right with the sharpness of the trees, although they are fairly close to the camera they do need a bit of blur. I kind of think that the focal range of a picture is limited by the technology of the camera lense and our eyes lense but is not a factor in computer generated images so why implement it but sometimes it is a must to give the illusion of depth that can be so hard to get a handle on in computer art. Easy fix in PS

Oh and BTW thanks for the critical comments, they are worth a lot more to me than someone telling me "It looks nice" when they really think it sucks.

thanx for your nice comment on 'BeautifulEnd':))

Hello There
Thank you for your kind comments on "Pretty" I do appreciate you stopping by:-)
Deborah

Hello Again
Thank you so much for expert advice on "Pretty 2" I do appreciate it so much. I am defintely an amateur still finding my way around the different aspects of photography but I do enjoy it and my favourite topic at the moment is flowers.
Deborah

Thank you very much for your comments on "Lonely Tree" and thanks for your advice!

Thank you S for the very nice comment on "Acantha", I really appreciate it! I do like your suggestion about adding another abstract on a layer in the background. I am going to take you up on that and perhaps post another version of it here, thank you!

Thanks for the comment on 'Heart of Darkness'. Sorry it's a bit dark, but the title does give it away a bit lol.

Thanks for looking at the tutoria; 'the frame trick'. It was heavily simplied but I'm glad it caught your attention. I have used it a little too much perhaps but that hasnt stopped me using it again on recent posts to demonstrate it can be an effectve way to separate an image from the world. Thanks a lot. Good Luck with your own work. +tmy+

Thank you Moss,nice comment on "Calm and quiet"

Thanks for your kind words on "Schoenbrunn 1".

Thanks for leaving a comment on O Happy Day. I had lots of fun with that.

Hello Moss...Many thanks for taking the time to have a look at (GOLDEN DAFFODILS)and for your comments,they are very much appreciated...I used a circular polariser and ND 8 graduated filter...I then took a metering from the sky and focused just under a third into the shot with a small aperture to give a good depth of field and the result is what you see...Thanks again Moss....Allthe best....Mick

Hey, Moss - thanks for the nice comment on "Road to Nowhere" - I truly appreciate it -

tee

Thanks for the comment on 'Fireball'. It's most appreciated.

Thanks, for you nice comment on "Flowers and butterfly":)

Thanks bud for the nice comment on "The Golden Flower"

Thanks for the feedback on 'Arizona Skies' Drak! Ill try to do some rework and see if i can pull in some more color to the terrain and layed the clouds a bit. Really appreciate your time! thanks m8!

Hi S,
Thanks for the comment on the picture Early Morning Snow 2. You know, I also have one with a view of the steep hill in the road, but I haven't decided if I want to post that one. I am thinking about it.

Jim

OK...I looked at it again, thought about it for a little while, and decided to post it. Let me know what you think. I cloned out three stop lights, and a light pole in the picture. They were distracting. It should be on the site sometime tonight.

Jim

Hi S,
Thanks for your comment on "A Bright New Future - my take", it is much appreciated,
I tried different settings, but I still prefer this, more serene, tint, it is my personal view, but I do appreciate other opinions,
Glad you liked it,

Thanks for stopping by
Kind regards
Tim

Thanks for your comment on my photo Falls Flameless Fires.
cuddly_panda (Irene)

Thanks for your comment on my photo Blue oxygen. I'm glad you liked it. I have it as my desktop right now! I liked it as my wallpaper so much that I decided to share it with others. Thanks again.
cuddly_panda (Irene)

Hello and thanks for the comment on "chunkies" I did change the catagory. Your the only one that caught that!
Sandi♥

Thanks for commenting on "Cooling Hills", no problem about sharing it, it's my pleasure! Really pleased you liked the processing.

I know what you mean, sunsets and sunrises are the 'magical' time to take photo's, but you can see too many sometimes can't you ;)

Thanks for having a look at The Frame Trick. I agree there is a need for a proper tutorial on framing though my own skills in that department are demonstrably lacking hence my development and use of the afforementioned 'trick' or like most ignoring the problem all together. Long ago arguements with painting tutors about where and how an images finishes fill me with student dread all over again! When any of my work is actually printed and not just seen on a screen I let someone else frame for me. Pure cowardice. Regards. Tommy.

Appreciate the comment on "Coming down"

Thank you for visiting "Sweetness". I'm really glad you enjoyed it. Your nice comment is so appreciated! Kalyn

Thank you so much for the very kind comment on "The Splash", very much appreciated! To get the effect I first converted the photo to B&W and increased the lighting and contrast. I added a blue tone to the image and then started to play around with the filters in PS. I used Dry pencil, Plastic wrap, Diffuse Glow and Accented edges. I played around with these until I got the effect I liked. Hope this is of any help.

Hey Mr Moss, cheers for the comment on my recent sunset pic, peace out, Kelcey:)

Thanks a lot for your comment on "Sunset at Nordsea". I like the sun setting over water too. It reflects the beauty of nature the best, I think.

Have a nice day!

Hello Moss...Many thanks for taking the time to have a look at (UPSTREAM)and for your comments,they are very much appreciated...A lot of planning,patience and camera angles went into capturing this scene...Thankyou again Moss....All the best....Mick.

Sort of not really, it just sort of came about, adn I left it like that. Thanks for the comment.

Hello Moss...Many thanks for viewing (STONEHENGE UK)and for your comments,they are very much appreciated....I always like to photograph the Stonehenge during sunset/sunrise...Thankyou again Moss....All the best....Mick.

Hi there... Thanks muchly for your comments on my pic, "the color of beech trees"... You are correct about the dim light, i.e. late in the day and overcast. I drove down to Provincetown on three consecutive days last week and each day, despite a forecast for sun, the day clouded over. After the rain and wind we're now having the leaves will probably be scattered... so I posted the best image. There's always next year! ;-)
mary

G'day Mr S, just wanted to say I really appreciated your taking the time to have a squiz and comment on "Red Reeds". Your feedback was really thoughtful and has given me some things to consider in the future. Thanks again, Kelcey.

Hi, Thankyou for your comment on Waterdrop 2.... In total i took 1175 frames but after i got rid of the blurred ones i was left with 230 ish.... a few more are up in my gallery should you wish to have a look :)

......the shot needs some serious color correction/level rebalancing. otherwise a decent shot with nice flow, lines, and decent framing......))

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Thanks 'Mr S Moss', for this honest comment, on "Country road 2"
Though it is a manipulation, I,m not very happy with the
result too !, but I keep trying!
John

Thank you very much for commenting on my picture, "Tiger Gallery".

:)

Thank you for stopping by on 'Colorful Tulips' !
Very much appreciated !
John

Thank you for your kind comment on 'Austria'.

Thanks for taking the time to comment on my photo "Here we go again" Glad you liked the male downy woodpecker.

I'm so glad you liked Flight of the Meadowlark so well you stopped & commented on it. Thank you so much !!! ;-)
Lauren

Thank you indeed for your kind comment on 'Bodyguards'.

Hoi,S, Mos !
Thank you for stopping by, and your nice comment on my
image "Mr & Mrs Mandarin" !
Kind regards !
John