fireworks_01.jpg
by meyers

Comment:
Very pretty! They look oddly like feathers :)
Nice and sharp, gorgeous colours, nice composition.

fireworks_00.jpg
by meyers

Comment:
Ooh, shiny. Very pretty shot. I think you've got the technique spot on - the patterns are very sharp, there's no noise in the sky, it works really well. Then it's just the case of taking hundreds of photos and picking the best ones (exactly what you did). You've officially got fireworks photos nailed.

acen06_black.jpg
by meyers

Comment:
Fantastic portrait. I love the evil facial expression. And I might be biased because I used to dress like that :)

pp suggestions: use a small healing brush to fix a couple of the dark patches on her face, and slightly darken the red in the background in the top left corner (it's blending into her hair). Otherwise perfect.

acen06_circle.jpg
by meyers

Comment:
Very cool! I love the colours, and the composition works really well. Fantastic costume.

Again, the background isn't great - just fix it using burning or something, and it'll totally transform the shot.

acen06_butterfly.jpg
by meyers

Comment:
She's very cute. And I'm extremely jealous of her outfit (it would go ever so well with my username).

The background is distracting, which is a shame. I'd be tempted to shift the light in pp (add a couple of highlights to her face, and darken the background).

Urban Predator
by maxaz1

Comment:
Hey!

Here's the edit:


The idea was to use USM to get rid of the blur, while using multiple layers to get rid of the traces of oversharpening.

-Layer via copy.
-USM at 6pm, around 75%
-Use an eraser to delete the bits of the image obviously displaying an oversharpening halo.
-Repeat again with USM at 1.2px, around 60% to sharpen the finer details.

I also cropped off a bit of the bottom, increased the saturation a notch (+10), and decreased the saturation of the yellows a bit (-8).

The whole thing is a lot easier to fix by selectively applying noise reduction, rather than playing with it later to fix it though.

Exploring
by Greetmir

Comment:
That's very cute!

I would've been tempted to cut off some space on the left, and leave a lot more empty space on the right and at the top to really give the viewer a sense of movement and exploration.

The colours are nice, but the goat could do with some sharpening.

DSC_5719.jpg
by griz210

Comment:
This is really cool. I love the fact the leopard is staring straight at the camera, it's a good capture. Lovely golden shades of fur, nice complementary background colour, good level of detail present, and the bokeh worked well too.

Downsides: the obviously cloned out bars (yeah, zoo shots are tough), and the fact that the leopard's face is in the shadow. The latter is fixable to an extent, and here's a tutorial that tells you how to do it. It's the most useful thing I've read in weeks, therefore I'm recommending it to everyone...

Anyway, good shot!

Princess & Pea
by xianart

Comment:
This is a really cool shot. Especially with the title, it actually makes a very good story.

There's a nice contrast here - while the title is a fairytale one, the picture is a very gritty, grainy, realist one. It makes you wonder whether the princess would still be so delicate if she was homeless and sleeping in the snow... So the picture could easily be used as an illustration of social inequality (though I assume it wasn't intended that way?).

Interesting subject matter, very good pp, works very well in B&W with all those nice shades and textures. Well done :)

Spring!
by Elaine

Comment:
Wow, I love this! Beautiful colours, and I love the contrast between the vivid colours of the flowers and the gray/brown fallen leaves around them. Although it's a bit confusing conceptually - a strange struggle between autumn and spring.

It seems a shame that the lowest flower is in shadow, maybe moving the leaf would've helped? Otherwise a very good image.