Encounter 1232
by bvy

Comment:
What do you call it? How about "Uh uh"/"Oh Jeez!"

I take a lot of pictures "from the hip" (where I'm not looking through the viewfinder), often with interesting results. :-)

You might consider posting this to te "Blur" thread and gallery ...

forest
by cgino

Comment:
Very nice artistic treatment -- a good use of the chosen effects.

02 - Hilton Falls Conservation Area
by VitaminB

Comment:
Good use of the HDR technique to make the photo look more like what we'd see if we were there than what the camera can capture.

Early Morning Flight
by glad2badad

Comment:
Interesting, my first thoughts for gallery categories were "Candid" and "Photojournalism" ... :-)

Quick thinking (and action) got you this great action shot.

Bench edit
by Melethia

Comment:
Pastel tones work well ... a very "calm" scene.

Bench negative
by Melethia

Comment:
I love playing with Curves adjustments to create strange colors -- by making the colors unreal, you the semi-abstract shapes get into the essence of their type of object, rather than trying to document some particular example.

Try dragging several points into arbitrary shapes (e.g. the letters "M" or "W") and see what you get, and also try inverting or distoring the individual color channels -- I create a new adjustment layer for each ... this also allows you to order them differently in the Layers window, as the order in which they're applied makes a difference. Have fun!

You can see some old examples of mine in this pBase Gallery.

Spider Lily '05
by Pug-H

Comment:
I think your crop and color adjustments work well, and shallow DOF is perfect; love the tiny details refracted in the water drop.

Compared to my camera, that's minimal grain, and in the soft OOF areas it is not a distraction at all for me -- I think people are usually way over-sensitive to it.

Beach-people-copy-Sand-boys.jpg
by jomari

Comment:
Nice transformation from what most would call a "snapshot" into a fine piece of candid portraiture. The border works pretty well; fits in with the concrete and sand.

Heat
by Hipychik

Comment:
I don't know what that "topaz" adjustment does -- to me it gives everything a kind of bright, "hard" look, almost like it's a piece of glazed ceramic sculpture. I guess my experience with rustic, wood-paneled rooms like this has been where it's much dimmer lighting, with a softer, moody look.

You might consider using a perspective correction; near the sides (especially the left) there is a noticable slant to the vertical lines.

Faces of Cancer
by cryan

Comment:
Good use of the selective desaturation technique. Too bad the melanoma mask wasn't twisted a bit towards you to get more light detail on the far side, but a powerfiul image anyway.