Hilltop
by tcrock41

Comment:
Landscape class exercise "analysis" (more critical than the usual DPC comment):

Hits: This is an almost perfect shot. Good color, composition, perspective, beautiful scene.

Misses: The only issue here to me is that the horizon is tilted to the right. Easy to fix in an editing program.

Next Time: A UV or polarizer filter might give more depth and pop to the clouds.

The Sea
by tcrock41

Comment:
Landscape class exercise "analysis" (more critical than the usual DPC comment):

Hits. Good colors, good depth of field, good sharpness. I like the use of foreground here to bring the viewer into the photo.

Misses. However, in this case the background elements are small/far away and the foreground dominates instead of leading in. Perhaps if that one big rock weren't there, or you shot from a slightly different angle to exclude it, it would have been a better use of foreground lead-in.

Color Me Beautiful
by tcrock41

Comment:
This is a really nice shot overall. However, while the color pops, and the clouds and trees are great, there's something about it that doesn't click for me. In the spirit of our "landscape class", I'll try to explain, but here I am having more trouble than usual isolating it, so I'll free associate a bit. At first, it looked a bit unclear, but staring more, it's reasonable for this size. The building edge seems more out of place, but I do like the trees on the bottom right. The left lower side of the shot is perhaps a tad too dark. And something about the clouds in the upper left--their color, or perhaps it's that they appear a bit blurry here and they are somewhat dominant.

Actually, I think analyzing this photo would be a great "class" exercise, because I'd love to see how others break it down in hits and misses (often, I break down photos this way...this aspect is a hit, this is a miss, etc.).

Twilight's Last Gleaming
by Neil

Comment:

Originally posted by traquino98: Originally posted by cpanaioti: For more interest though I feel the need for some lights in the houses on the far shore. Agree. I do really like the rest of the photo however, especially the dock and clouds. What post processing did you do for this image?

Thanks, both to you and Colette. The funny thing about this is that one of the things I did in postprocessing was to burn in the lights across the shore to more or less eliminate them. I wanted the focus of the shot to be the sky. Other than that, I cloned out a buoy, and if I recall right, used a gradient adjustment layer to bring up the light in the water slightly and deemphasize the dock (as I recall--I also was using a GND filter when shooting, upside down, but I'll have to check to see if this is one of those or if it was done in software). The soft feel to the water is due to the long exposure.

I'll see if I can dig up the original and post it in the landscape forum thread.

Enemy Within
by moodville

Comment:
All I can say is WOW! Great shot.

A New Addition
by HawesPhotoKC

Comment:
Very good idea!

Bond
by Tranquil

Comment:
Nice portrait, but to me this fairly frontal pose needs full DOF.

Don't Just Lie There, Mom!
by cloudsme

Comment:
Very funny, very cute--watch that hand young man... I could think of many funny captions for this.

Where is dad?
by garlic

Comment:
Great work! Love the grittiness and contrast here. Very holga-ish. Top marks.

Planning My Future Family
by JayWalk

Comment:
Now that's very funny! Well done.