Ice floe 3
by Structor

Comment:
Bold. Striking. Those are the two words that immediately came to mind. Nicely done!

-= F l i r t a c i o u s =-
by jerowe

Comment:
Very pretty. And nicely photographed too. :-)

Definitely worth more than a 5.9!

Lucid
by jdannels

Comment:
Okay, judging by the low angle of the sun and all ... I bet he has one of the best "framed sunset pictures" sitting right there in front of him. :-)

Dipped in Gold
by sherpet

Comment:
I like it. It should have scored higher!

pears
by ErinM

Comment:
Very nice. I love the tonal quality here. It would be a fun one to try editing with Corel Painter.

Tranquility
by basicentry

Comment:
I bet a model would fit in this framework very nicely....

Temple
by dahkota

Comment:
Which temple is it?

Machu Picchu 1
by pamelasue

Comment:
Wow... I am SO jealous! Some day I wanna go there. Oh, and nice pic too! :-)

castle
by mamba

Comment:
The sharpening on this one seems just perfect. The edges are very distinct without much (if any) halo around them.

It still looks like a little bit of banding in the sky. I've also seen banding occur when applying a neat image or a gaussian blur to the sky (usually an attempt to hide noise). If you're doing either of these, you just need to keep it subtle and then the banding will go away.

edinburghblue
by mamba

Comment:
One other potential cause of banding is if you use the hue/sat adjustment and push only the blue, or only the cyan. You generally have to push both of them or you end up with banding.

There's also a slight bit of haloing showing up on the left side. I usually combat that by doing my sharpening, and then using the history brush at about 30-50% to paint out the parts that turned out too sharp.