Boat On The Water - A Fire In The Sky (abstract)
by Pixlmaker

Comment by glad2badad:
This is quite unique! Abstracts are accepted with a more friendly reception around here nowadays. You should jump back in, it's been what, 5 years? :-)

Fields Of Gold
by Pixlmaker

Comment by kiwinick:
what a nice summery image has been captured here I like it ..

vote5

Boat On The Water - A Fire In The Sky (abstract)
by Pixlmaker

Comment by bmartuch:
This is really interesting. This one made me look for a while.

Boat On The Water - A Fire In The Sky (abstract)
by Pixlmaker

Comment by illini75:
Just beautiful

Precision...
by Pixlmaker

Comment by tanguera:
I love these shots, where it makes me wonder if you were flying, too :)

Peace Bridge / Rough Waters
by Pixlmaker

Comment by hahn23:
The dynamic range between the shadow detail under the bridge and the sky highlights is large. Postprocessing a single image to show detail throughout will result in the halos...which appear at the edges of dark and light zones.. It's a good candidate for HDR Efex Pro 2. I think you may have improved the three dimensional appearance by including items of interest in the foreground. An aperture of f/18 is mightly tiny pinhole and could be on the edge of bending lightwaves as they enter the lens and reducing clarity and detail sharpness. I wouldn't go much tinier than f/16. Furthermore, f/11 or even f/8 may have given you adequate DOF to encompass your scene.

Peace Bridge / Rough Waters
by Pixlmaker

Comment by Mike:
i like the processing however be careful when pushing the clarity to not create halo or makes things glow. i'd also like to see a longer exposure as the water is blurred but not blurred enough. not that you dont have to follow stupid DPC editing rules, blur that water with a motion blur and smooth as you can. really make that bridge pop out.

Water Front
by Pixlmaker

Comment by ambaker:
Your bridge image is much stronger than this one. Again processing seems a bit much, the halo above the tree line on the far shore is an indication. The right side of the horizon looks a bit lower than the left. Could be lens distortion, or optical illusion.

I like the leading line of the shore, but they do not seem to lead the eye to a final subject/resting point. The block with fear tries to be a subject but the koine lines pull the eye away. Yet the. I dance of the word shore and box yank the eye back, in a never ending battle. I probably would have votes 5 or 6.

Edited to fix really bad spelling. Auto-correct can be a ruthless taskmaster.

Message edited by author 2014-08-02 17:13:31.

Peace Bridge / Rough Waters
by Pixlmaker

Comment by ambaker:
Overall I like the image, I am partial towards B&W images. I like the detail of the bridge against the smoother water. I would have taken off a point or two because it appears a bit over processed. If you look at the upper edge of the bridge, and under the nearest arch, there is a halo that looks much like a bit too heavy of an application of Topaz Adjust. I probably would have given this a 7 or 8.

Chive On...
by Pixlmaker

Comment by BrennanOB:
You really nailed the main subject, and have some nice bokeh going, but the placement of the second flower, just behind the one in focus steals a lot of the magic here. A slight move to one side or the other would have made a better image. Or just snipping off the flower.

Message edited by author 2014-08-01 20:32:13.