Journey Ahead
by PaulMdx

Comment:
Lens? I need to know what lens you've used for this :-) It looks slightly wider than my 18-55, and I quite like the effect foreground. Excellent composition in this shot, although i would have worked over the exposure more than this: I think you could keep that bright sense of the landscape without having to have the clouds' edges getting overblown so much - if not in raw conversion, then simply with large-feathered selection and the usual brightness tools. Though i like the intensity of the light: it's by no means a classical way to shoot such a scene, but it's effective, and a little different.

The Fisherman
by utro

Comment:
How to suggest that one might brighten this to give it some punch, without losing the intensity of those colours? I don't know: maybe I'm wrong, maybe it isn't too dark and the silhouette doesn't need to a little more definition - but that was my immediate thought.

Inner Tulip
by Cantique

Comment:
Intersting and different. You might, in my view, happily try calming down the exposure a bit - well, more than a bit, really, and then bringing the whites back to where you want them: that would give you a lot more punch in the yellows of the stamens (or whatever they're called), and lose some of the impact of the background.

Tangible light
by bpickard

Comment:
Reminds me of something this - not sure what. Something of the Frederick Evans about it, perhaps. The feel is gloriously suited to the mood and scene, though I might personally have tried to select and calm down some of the light a touch - it just goes a bit far for me on this monitor (but then the variety of viewing options is something we have to take into account). There could be debates about keeping the white wall image left, and about the height of your point of view - choices, I suppose, but not sure I could say anything else would be better.

Still Water
by fulgent

Comment:
Quite modern, I think; in the sense that your subject is not a classically gorgeous one, but is more about the real, the beauty of the mundane, the anti-beautiful, if you like, except this doesn include some more usual stuff. That very smoothness of that wate is exceptionally well done - those bubbles or whatever essential just to let us know it's there; the tones of the grasses work well with that blue also. can't imagine the masses going for it in any particular way, but it has appreciation from this quarter.

Morning Calm
by Stagolee

Comment:
Beautiful scene, not quite beautifully photographed, to my eye; you could happily have taken it darker, which would have brought so much more intensity to those colours, and richness. That would also allow you to be rid of those overhanging leaves: framing this way is not bad as such, but in this image I would think that the pelican and the horizon line and the clouds and the reflections would be enough. Lots of good stuff here, though.

Dog Fight
by SMW409

Comment:
Great photography, great processing. One so associates this toning with a find of reminiscent, sentimental photography, and this is the perfect antidote. You won't score well, but that's because of subject matter, rather a lot of blur, and unconventional composition, and a largely beginner-level audience; but you do from me.

Upside Down Snail
by Evaan

Comment:
Nice study. For myself, i would have toned down that edge of the leaf with some careful brush-work, and perhaps played with trying to bring the background exposure down some ... just to force the eye toward the snail that bit more strongly (those patterns and shapes there are maybe a bit too present?). Light and detail on the snail are great, the overall crop is spot-on to emphasise the location. Strong work, and those reservations really are passing thoughts only. Well done indeed.

Trash Can
by palmfrodur

Comment:
Great tonality all through - the grass colours are excellent. The unusual composition works well. After some time one starts to see figures in the white wall; I just wonder if it wouldn't blance better if you could have found more texture in the wall, or perhaps simply more graduation of tone, but that's just a passing thought. Neat photography, and interesting too.

Sunset Photographer
by ganders

Comment:
Some lens to hand-hold. The composition is good, though I do wonder if it mightn't have been more effective to go for the full-on silhouette treatment: this feels a bit half-and-half.