Beatiful One Day Perfect The Next
by BrianR

Comment:
There's some color banding going on here (watch the colors as they circle outward towards the edges). Most likely the image is shot in jpeg mode and then individual colors (rather than all colors) were boosted in a hue/sat layer (or equivalent).

Ways to fight banding: 1) Shoot in raw, edit in 16-bit mode, 2) boost all colors (or at least adjacent colors, e.g. both blue & cyan together), 3) don't boost the color so much, 4) sometimes NeatImage (or equivalent) can cause it, so watch the color output, 5) sometimes reducing the image size for web can cause it (best bet is PhotoShop's "Save for Web").

Hope the tips help...

Golden Indian Princess
by Neuferland

Comment:
Maybe you blurred it to soften it? But instead it feels out of focus and with too much contrast (her hair simply disappears into blackness).

Pasta Colorata Spirale
by pearlseyes

Comment:
Top 20 placement. Nice job Alecia!

Early Morning at the Capital
by khdoss

Comment:
I always love blue on yellow, or vice versa. No exception here. And the reflection just doubles my pleasure. :-) This has to have been a long exposure, so it's amazing how calm the waters were. Your subject is centered, rather than rule of thirds. Sometimes a no-no, but it works very well here with the trees framing the the reflection bringing overall balance to the image.

Just us three
by khdoss

Comment:
Love this. If it was posed, it's an awesome idea. Probably a candid moment though, in which case, way to go for being ready for the shot!

Ancient Storm
by wsteyn

Comment:
Wow, you got some nice light on the building and some wonderful clouds to compliment it. :-)

IMG_6088-01.jpg
by dwterry

Comment:

Originally posted by JRalston: I bet the bride fell in love with this shot the second she saw it! Excellent DOF control with beautiful, flattering, lighting.

On this particular shoot, her mother was here at the house. I already know that both of them were kind of "picky" and so I knew I had to "blow them away".

I had my camera hooked up to my projector. I was showing EVERYTHING I was shooting up on the wall. You should have heard the reactions!!! :-)

Windy day at the beach
by Arancha

Comment:
Even before reading your description, I thought ... Wow, cool lines! :-)

HK4.jpg
by Patents4u

Comment:
Hate to be a dissenter, but.... for me this is just too busy. Too hard to look at because there is so much going on in the image. It leaves the guy barely noticeable. Even worse, the buildings may be in sharp focus, but look at the guy's face - he definitely is not.

It might be fine as an architectural piece ... but not as a wedding album image, it just doesn't look like the story is about him.

Just my two cents worth (and you can see I'm not in the majority, so take it for what it's worth).

Message edited by author 2006-07-16 17:09:18.

Precious smiles
by puma

Comment:
Very nice, love the skin color and also the sharp eyes. Looks very natural/candid and very professional at the same time.