Palm Sunset
by aboutimage

Comment:
The horizon is not level. If you want to maintain the vertical orientation of the palms and level the horizon, do this: drag down a guideline to the horizon so you an see true level. Then "select all" and choose edit/transform/skew and actually skew the image up on the right side until the horizon levels out. Crop as needed.

This iamge, too, is seriously oversharpened; you can see distinct haloes around the dark/light intersections. You need to fine-tune your shartpening process. One thing that helps is to blow the image up so a light/dark intersection is prominent at significant magnification; then you wille asily be able to see when the haloing starts. It also helps to create a new layer from BG, name it "sharpen", and do your sharpening on that layer; youc an then fade the layer as needed to get the perfect amount of sharpening, if you oversharpen a tad to allow fading. It's what I do.

R.

dpcBorrego.jpg
by Bear_Music

Comment:

Originally posted by rikki11: I personally think that the building is a tad too small. Foreground is good but the plant on the left is a bit distracting. I would love to see how the interior shots came out. Did you ever take long shots at an angle so as it isn't a straight shot elevation of the building?

Yeah, we had like 50 shots of this project. This was one of the "environmental" ones; we had others with less distracting plant elements. Unfortunately I lost ALL my portfolio, and all my negatives, in a basement flood while we were on vacation, some years ago. This is one of a few prints I scavenged from former clients as keepsakes. I have no interiors of this one, sadly. We shot a ton of them, I just don't have copies...

Fisherman at Dusk
by Bear_Music

Comment:

Originally posted by ubique: Originally posted by lots of folks: "Too purple, too pink, blah, blah, blah ..." Bullshit. Why should every photograph exhibit colour fidelity? This is dusk. Dusk is evening. Evening is velvet. Velvet is this colour. I don't want to go over the top here, especially as Robert says it's a bit of a throw-away shot for him, but PLEASE have a look at a couple of Van Gough paintings ... do you imagine Vincent's colours and textures are high-fidelity?

Agreed, in principle but not int he specific instance; after all, I'm well-known for extreme color-throwing (I wish it were an olympic sport), but this is SUCH a botched-up job. I got no problem with the colors per se (they are pretty much what I wanted) but the execution is abysmally bad IMO.

Cottage Dreams
by Joey Lawrence

Comment:
Good grief. Apocalypse redux. Where others see beauty and serenity, Joey Lawrence finds intimations of bloodshed and terror to come in the dark night of the dying soul.

Just
by Joey Lawrence

Comment:
and he's OFF to the RACES! Thank goodness this is illegal processing :-) Nice to see you doing somethign right out of the box that you couldn't possiblky do with the other camera. Remarkably low noise here.

Three Bamboo
by aboutimage

Comment:
blown-out highlights and afressive oversharpening make this image a little harsh for my tastes. The compositon is nice, and the sense of "circular blur" on the BG surface is really sweet.

Hall of Shadows
by aboutimage

Comment:
Very tidy! I know that arcade well :-) Consider cloning out the little black protrusion on the right pillar, and maybe try to bring the rear light ficture out of the shadow a tad more, an easy fix. The image feels alittle oversharpened as well; see the haloes around the light fixtures. This kind of stucco is a pretty soft stuff, visually, so I'd back off a tad on the sharpening I think.

Very nicely composed.

flying free
by ursula

Comment:
I expected a higher finish for this wonderful shot. Congrats on top 20.

Breaking the Binds
by Prime_Time

Comment:
Yah! That's great, top 10 for you. I liked this very much.

Flight
by mpemberton

Comment:
I'm very glad to see this do so well. Stunning capture from a seldom-shot angle LOL.