The Double D

The colours on that new camera seem very off.

1. It wasn't taken with the new camera.
2. The natural colours (sky, water and vegetation) look right to me. The artificial ones were all a bit shabby and faded, and look here as they in fact were. Should I have enhanced them?

They have that orangey-brown cast, which looks very unnatural to me.
www.ipernity.com/doc/286827/51545960

The reds aren't natural. Old red paint, when it fades (and becomes dusty and dirty) does become orangey-brown. I could brighten them up digitally, but on this shabby, rusty old houseboat they'd look garish and artificial.

I'm talking about your camera, not the boat. It's the same with a lot of your recent pics.

I used to regularly go for walks by the Grand union around Rickmansworth and there was a barge that looked exactly like this. Maybe it could be the same, moved here for a change of scene (or lower mooring fees?). Anyway I agree with you that the faded reds look natural.

What faded reds? We all seem to be talking at cross purposes here.

Before I had my cataracts removed, 5-odd years ago, everything had a dull, brownish cast to it, as though seen through a dirty net curtain. But I cannot see (on my monitor or iPhone) any such cast in my pictures. Except that the most recent were taken in low, early-Autumn sunshine, which is warm-coloured, and in two of them, the overall colour balance was deliberately warmed a bit more to produce an oil painting-like look, which (whether you like the style or not) was the objective, and not a technical fault

It must be your fiddling with the colour balance then. The more you contrive your pictures, the more contrived they are likely to look.

True. But I do not contrive to make them look natural. With my pictures, natural-lookingness isn't a goal. To me, photography is an art form and not merely a means of recording reality.

So you keep telling me, and yours seems to be the art of ruining a good picture: an example being your recent amendments to a picture of mine from 2007. I don't pretend it's a brilliant picture, but it was pleasing enough in its naturalness, until you worked your 'art' on it by messing with the reds (initially even harsher) and unbalancing the whole composition by moving a boat.
www.ipernity.com/doc/286827/51605032

There's gratitude for you. Sorry for upsetting your boat.

And as I also keep telling you, you may equate pleasingness with naturalness, but others may differ. And as a life-long Conservative, I'd never mess with the reds.

I'd like to mess with the NHS though, having just traveled up to London and back for nothing. The computer had gone down 2 hours before I arrived and no more blood tests (which I'd gone for) could be done today.

I'm afraid you're messing with the reds whether you like it or not, as all mainstream parties, including the Conservatives, are infiltrated with marxism under the guise of woke culture.

But that doesn't explain why, in the name of art, it was necessary to move my boat.

I've just seen your addendum and it's very unfortunate, but I fear this kind of thing is going to happen more and more with the reliance on modern technology.

Interesting that you travel 'up to London' when you already live there.
Or is Ealing still in Middlesex?