A Storms Serenity
by shabbychic

Comment:
First, congratulations on your ribbon. I find curtains of rain quite interesting.

I'm sure the gloominess of the image is probably what you were going for however I am feeling the image is slightly under exposed as I think the fence should be white rather than a shade of grey (I'm just guessing though). Selecting a point on the fence as the white point when applying curves would be a way of getting the fence to show more as white. Just a thought.

Keep shooting.

Yellow
by Rikki

Comment:
What works: colour and background, great contrast

What doesn't work: Even though the stem is coming from the corner and leading the eye into the image I feel that there is too much stem and the flower itself should be placed more in the lower left of the image.

Also, the image feels a little soft on focus and possibly slightly underexposed though strong colours are hard to get right, mainly reds and yellows of which orange is a derivative.

1957
by KaDi

Comment:
This image would make a very good high key image and has a good start to that end. However, I believe the transition between bright and dark areas of the image is way too harsh giving it the feel of overexposed rather than high key.

IMO, for high key to work all important detail should still be present with a nice even flow from bright to dark kind of like fading.

The break
by ramevi

Comment:
I like the perspective however I feel it needs more contrast. Using curves and using the white and black point droppers may help in that regard.

Hard Rain Over Coney Island
by Nikolai1024

Comment:
The composition seems to work however the bright area in the top left is very distracting as is the underexposed tower. Exposing more for the tower and cropping out the upper left corner I think would have worked better.

Between Bright and Dark
by tonyv

Comment:
Totally agree with phinbob's assessment of this image however I feel that the sense of depth in the image could be exploited more if the image was horizontal rather than vertical.

Feline Eyes
by jenesis

Comment:
He's saying 'Don't Mess With Me'. Good colour and contrast. Maybe a little too shallow on the DOF.

Trist Falls
by JeremyFleury

Comment:
What works: colour though saturation of the red bridge could probably be increased, flow of the water, contrast and texture

Very serene.

What doesn't work: horizon seems slightly tilted to the left, dead weeds in the foreground are a bit distracting, focus seems a little soft

Message edited by author 2005-08-09 11:27:47.

Lifeline
by Neil

Comment:
Congrats on the ribbon.

Hut
by aznym

Comment:
The change in lighting is probably a bit too drastic between the lit part at the bottom and the shaded area. If it were more gradual, leading to the texture of the roof area I think it probably would have done better. On some monitors there may have been no detail to be seen in the middle.