Unable to Contain it!
by Tlemetry

Comment:
Nice concept. Can't say I care much for the yellow color cast... If you could get the white lace white, I would guess that the rest of this picture would really come into its own.

The Heat Of Summer
by danderson107

Comment:
Man, this is great... Right down to the brown speckling on the stem indicating that the flower is not in the best of conditions...

Only one real disappointment is that your reds channel is badly suffering from oversaturation. Please check your histogram before and after post processing. The pistils suffer badly here, but the edges of the petals are also affected. Nonetheless, for later, you could easily fix that, so I'll just pull it down a bit on technical merit.

Family Reunion
by scalvert

Comment:
AHHHHHHdorable!

and

AHHHHHHH the dreaded back-focusing issue. Might have been a bit tricky to pull this off with a deeper DOF due to available light, its hard to tell.

Other than that, it's extremely well done. the expressions on their faces and the arm over the shoulder is pretty damned close to priceless.

Cool, Tempting, Refreshing..... "HEY, Get outta my shot!"
by TCGuru

Comment:
Funny thing is, if you had given this a bit more exposure time, you might have been surprised that those people might have done a bit for the picture. Indeed, some might even have disappeared from the shot. The ones on the left would have smudged, the guy sitting there with his son would probably have not moved and been a stark, sharp subject, while the two playing in the water on the right would probably have blurred to near nothingness... F/16, solid ND filter and 2-5 seconds might be a fun place to start.

Reflection
by Patrol

Comment:
Seems a bit grainy... Looking at this more closely, I'm left wondering if this might perhaps be the Miramar in NeiHu?

Nuclear Holocaust
by NerdJNerdBird

Comment:
such a fun effect. sadly, I'm not a huge fan of sprawling citscapes since I live in an part of the world that has entirely too much. Additionally, there seems to be a lot of detail that has been lost in resizing. This has led to a somewhat unclear subject.

Still, I'll give it a bit of a push since I was once told 'DPCers are not generally fans of heavy color shifts... assuming that these are not the natural colors that is...

Just married
by Gordon

Comment:
You nailed this one! It almost looks like you put a tiny bit of softness via gentle gaussian blur on the left to soften the ladies while keeping the guys (in the same field of focus) sharp. If so, well conceived. If not, looks great anyhow. It's early yet, but tossing my first 9 at this one.

Me
by walrus451

Comment:
next time, ditch the cheap sunglasses? or clean them at least... They are extremely prominent in the picture and don't hold up at all well under the scrutiny at 720 pixels high.

City Reflections
by zaflabout

Comment:
Someone's been practicing the PS skillz. The only thing I saw that I don't like is the slightly exessive burn in the top right area of clouds and what appears to be bad edges in the middle right of the clouds with bright spots... There's a bit of smudgy grey directly to the right of the two towers as well. If its natural, no big deal, but it looks like you might have slightly overdone something in that area... On the other hand, there are some dingy tones in the clouds on the horizon on the left that I really like. Be careful with overdoing the processing on the sky, particularly when it is reflected in water...

Still quite impressive.

I also see some weird edging in the water... I wonder if this is not so much processing, but JPG artifacts. I had a quick look and your file size is 89K... that's pretty heavy compression for such a rich and large pic... I wonder if at 200k if these effects were to disappear completely...

Wicklow Mountains
by aznym

Comment:
I hope this isn't in Iceland... :)

On the left in the clouds, there appears to be some obvious burning edges.... Don't much care for the grey in the cloud on the top right, a bit more dodging might have helped that... The rest is pretty damned nifty though.