Dam - put together with ICE and painted in FastStone

Dam - put together with ICE and painted in FastStone

Does this picture "speak" to you

 Does this picture "speak" to you ? Does it imply a story to you, or do you hate it ? I'd like to get your take on it. Even if it's a simple, "Meh"...
 It was a dreary and drizzly day and I was starting to feel my inner "fine art photographer" emerging. If only I had dried off my lens this shot might have worked.
 It was washed out, out of focus and unusable. Obviously, a perfect candidate for "sketching"  I tossed it out long ago, but google kept a copy in my photos. 
I used GIMP to emboss it and then layered a posterized copy on top. I boosted the colors and contrast and set it at about 80%. Then I used the stained glass filter in G'MIC several different way that I hated. After a few tries I managed to  get this.
Feel free to critique from a processing or artistic position all you want. Write a story or ask a question. Original image available below if you want to play with it yourself.   
https://goo.gl/v7Te3Q

Resurrecting an idea from the previous RawTherapee forums: PlayRaw!

Originally shared by Patrick David

Resurrecting an idea from the previous RawTherapee forums: PlayRaw!

Making raw files available for everyone to practice and share their results on! This first try I am releasing my Mairi Troisieme portrait raw file for the community to play with. Come get the file and share how you might approach processing it!

elizaBETH

elizaBETH 

Originally shared by ted kelly

Here's an example of a slower vs a faster shutter speed. The slower speed looks dreamier and the quicker one shows more detail on the water drops. If you were taking a picture of fireworks and had the shutter set very fast, you might not get the entire shot since it takes maybe a half second or so to see the trails of color.
I read this over a couple of day recently and thought it covered a lot of ground in an easy to digest sort of way. I bookmarked it and read a page or two every day as a sort of refresher.  You should take a look at it, there are some cool pix and a cool way to think about images.
http://photography.bastardsbook.com/toc/

Here's an example of a slower vs a faster shutter speed.

Here's an example of a slower vs a faster shutter speed. The slower speed looks dreamier and the quicker one shows more detail on the water drops. If you were taking a picture of fireworks and had the shutter set very fast, you might not get the entire shot since it takes maybe a half second or so to see the trails of color.
I read this over a couple of day recently and thought it covered a lot of ground in an easy to digest sort of way. I bookmarked it and read a page or two every day as a sort of refresher.  You should take a look at it, there are some cool pix and a cool way to think about images.
http://photography.bastardsbook.com/toc/

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