"Yellow Rose"
by sfarrell23

Comment:
A good idea but it looks like it might have been better had it been facing the incoming light. As it is, the details of the rose are fairly shadowy. I also think a white or other solid color background would help strengthen the shot.

Sunrise in Bora Bora
by doctornick

Comment:
I don't remember cameras being able to take photos this good in 2002! :)

Naughty paper cutout
by naomik

Comment:
Oh dear...!

Aspen Meadow
by dacrazyrn

Comment:
This is beautiful. Lovely processing.

Garden Statue
by Qwest30

Comment:
Como Conservatory, no? Been there a few times myself. The colors seem a bit different than I remember, though. ;)

Self
by Konador

Comment:
I hate it when people half my age are ten times as talented. But go Team SMITE! Except that this doesn't count for that. But at least your talents benefit me in some way. Nice shot. :P

shiloh_3520.jpg
by LKMote

Comment:
So tiny!

Blink Black
by hideout

Comment:
This has nice coloring but it looks ilke you just collected every black thing iny our houseu and dumped it in a pile.

I hear a Bee buzzing around...
by dassilem

Comment:
Hi Melissa,

I saw your post in the forums about wanting more comments. You've gotten some good advice already so I'm not going to comment about subject matter and setup, but instead about a few quick adjustments you could have done to this photo to help it a bit.

This is the histogram of your entry.



Ideally, you want to get as far to the right as you can without hitting the edge but this is okay. But you'll want each of the end pointers to be right under the ends of the histogram. If you hold your mouse on the one of the right and hold down the ALT key, the photo will turn black. Move the pointer to the left until just before you start to see some other colors appear (you'll have to move until that point and then back off a bit.) Likewise, do the same with the left arrow, except this time the picture will be white. The middle pointer you can move back and forth to adjust the contrast a bit.

Then, your histogram will look kind of like this and you'll see that your entry has a bit more "pop."



You can also use a little Unsharp Mask to sharpen it up a little.

Then compare the two.



Hopefully that helps a little. Let me know if you'd like me to take your stuff down!

Whitewashed
by alfresco

Comment:
Get some sun, boy.