Waiting for Charlie
by ellamay

Comment:
Are we talking class A drugs here? Slightly mad shot, more mad model :-)

Lago Titicaca
by beamsclan

Comment:
A wonderful scene, but I think let down by your processing, I'm afraid. Some noise in the sky, the highlights in the mountains, the clouds could use more contrast, the foreground hills could perhps use less ... oh hell, it sounds like I'm just being down on you, but it's because I really think this had major potential, and more care in the processing could have put this right up the top.

Storm is coming
by Arancha

Comment:
Great green. The clouds and the far distant hills seem artificially softened - like you could just set your depth of field to limit at about two miles! Good punchy colours, though perhaps the browns and ambers have been taken a touch too far for me. It's the light across the middle-distance that really gives this shot it's impact.

Jurassic
by megryan

Comment:
Other than some background noise which gives the impression of the thing being in front of glass, this is fine work. Good light, good capture thereof. There's an odd sense of lacking sharpness that goes as soon as one focusses on any area, so that may only be the light: or perhaps a lack of the true black that one expects in such a technically perfect image. But excellent detail, and some sense of texture too.

Japanese Cherry Blossom!
by jmlelii

Comment:
In my view you could certainly pull all the levels across the entire photo down a good deal: all the colours are badly washed out. The greens have become very bland, the blossom colour is almost nothing, the leaves remain almost indistinguishable. I'm not sure you have a great image even beneath that: as far as there is a main point for the eye to fall on it's the grass - the trees seem almost secondary, partly because of that largely grey colour, partly simply your placing of them in frame. It looks like you have good light though, it's just your capture of it - try placing those clouds of blooms on a stronger line visually, such as a diagonal from corner to corner, or a converging pair of lines that draw the eye into a focal point and out again; from what i see here, I would think a few steps forward and a few to the right, and shooting along that far line of trees, would give you a far more successful image.

Waiting for The Sunrise Over Half Dome
by TDCollins

Comment:
There's some good stuff here, but the down-side is perhaps stronger I'm afraid: that hugely burnt-out sky, some lack of detail in the trees (this perhaps is as much to do with too much local contrast - note the sense of halos around the edges, which means that there is a good deal of work for the eye to do to make anything out in the details), and strange contrast in the trunk of that nearer tree. It's a pretty good shot of a familiar scene froom a compositional point of view, but I think your processing has let it down, and perhaps allowing that sky to get so over-exposed in your original shot.

Saddell Castle
by tomlewis1980

Comment:
Ah, familiar territory; I've stayed at the lodge/gatehouse/whatever it's called. I love this place.

Downtown
by clenny

Comment:
San Diego, huh? (Not hard, seeing as there's a bunch of shots like this floating round a thread right now). A neat shot, and I especially like that red line. the sensation of a slight tilt goes away after a moment, so I'll presume that's an optical illusion.

Free Range Chicken
by platy123

Comment:
:-) First thought was that it's a little overdone on the contrast, but actually it really suits this mad kind of image. All the detail is there, anyway. I see some noise in the 'sky', which really des not suit such a scene - it's no big thing, just something to add even more style, but it could so easily have been smoothed out - careful selection and blurring, or Neatimage (but used carefully!)

Paused
by movieman

Comment:
Nice shot, great detail, strong composition. That high-key backgroudn is well done - doesn't seem to have the smack-you-in-the-teeth whiteness of some, which spares the eye a little.