Spring has Sprung
by missinseattle

Comment by KarenNfld:
Pretty flowers but I think you oversharprned it to try and fix an out of focus photo. It is grainy and noisy and not appealing. Your border does not add to the photo, sorry.

Spring has Sprung
by missinseattle

Comment by liltritter:
I think I would have liked this image better without all the post processing. To me it took away from the natural beauty of the flowers. 6

Spring has Sprung
by missinseattle

Comment by jmsetzler:
Borders like this seem to work well in scrapbooks. In a contest, they seem to draw attention away from the subject of the photo.

Buster Brown
by missinseattle

Comment by DeniseL:
Very beautiful photo. The color, composition,clarity, and expression are outstanding.

Buster Brown
by missinseattle

Comment by Greetmir:
I LOVE the tones and bokeh on this shot a LOT and I am a CAT ... NOT a dog person ... but the soft focus on your subject killed this image IMO.

Some PP sharpening and spot healing on hot pixels/dust/whatever could half rescue this shot to be good ... but only half, IMO.

I don't know if you have PhotoShop CS2 or what editing software you may have ... but everything on this image (except the focus and hot pixels or dust or whatever) so appeals to me that I would be willing to play with it in CS2 to send you back an example of the best this shot can be, IMO, if you want to send me the original at Greetmir@yahoo.com ...

I hope I am not being presumptive, but if you do not have these tools, I thought you might like a sharper image of your dog that is otherwise a gorgeous portrait of him.

Message edited by author 2007-03-02 10:27:34.

The Cobbler
by missinseattle

Comment by tiggermo:
kind of boring...needs level adjustments... crop is off. sorry.

The Cobbler
by missinseattle

Comment by aimeethetoo:
I love the dark sepia tones and the different subject matter. Back to bump you up to 8. BTW - My Grandpa was a cobbler - thank you for bringing him to mind. He has been gone a very long time.

The Cobbler
by missinseattle

Comment by e301:
I think there are a couple of immediate problems with this shot: but first off, I should say that detail, processing and tonality are pretty good. I have an issue with the very direct-seeming flash lighting - it flattens the whole image of the man, leaving very little sense of texture or of form in three dimensions. Secondly, the composition lacks some grace I think: what appears important to me is his expression and his hands - both of which are contained in one small area of the image to the mid-left - and the rest serves little to emphasise anything not contained there. The historical dress is plain from the sleeves of his shirt, and what you have included of background makes little addition to the image.

The Cobbler
by missinseattle

Comment by whiterook:
too dark

The Cobbler
by missinseattle

Comment by Cantique:
The background is distracting here. I think it would work better if you cropped down so the focus was on his hands and face. Interesting subject.