Six
by sherpet

Comment:
[dnmc crap removed] other than that, good composition, lighting is a bit harsh, note the blown spot on the dark yellow, DOF should have been deeper if possible, perhaps change the angle up a bit to help with that.

~ Bathroom Stationery! ~
by buzzrock

Comment:
you can write with your buttocks!?!?! sweet! in a nasty idonteverwanttoseethat kind of way. maybe like a footnote in Guiness, "oh, some dude can do that, TMI." nice comp, like th blur, black&white conversion needs some work, hard without advanced layers I guess. maybe add a hand for that personal touch?

Through a Glass Darkly
by raish

Comment:
one might wonder why in the world you chose to make this sooooo dark. your settings seem counter intuitive, f/25 and 1/1000th to lower the light, and yet placing iso1600 on to raise the light.. which in effect only raised the noise levels. I think you could have created something using this that still represented the idea, yet did not throw away all sense of proper exposure.

After looking about on the internet, the only thing I could think of was that you were trying to add noise to simulate the film grain of the Bergman film? In that case, black and white may have been in order.

Unfortunately, very obscure references don't really translate to the 2 seconds per vote crowd.

Almost Happy
by CalliopeKel

Comment:
You are the Queen of Outdoor Photography! All hail the Queen!! :D

BLASTOFF!
by dabidejpn

Comment:
you completely blew out the highlights through adding too much contrast is seems. the background is probably more distracting than additive. composition is lacking.

Fork
by alfresco

Comment:
This photo is interesting to me for more than technical reasons. Since I can't really give you anything as for technicals that you don't probably already know, I'll give you my impressions.

There's a harshness to this that evokes thoughts of hard times, a rough life. Disused items always have a questionable purpose. Why are they not used? Where is the owner? What happened here? The hard light from above suggests either an owner that has passed to above, or days of work in the hard sun missed and no longer to be seen again.

Every gritty detail is exposed here, begging the viewer to examine this object for more than face value, to look in to every nook and cranny of it's surface and imagine what was, and what could have been.

I suggest you rename it though, to something that strikes a chord of thought to increase the sense of mystery to this object.

Epilouge:

I am dealing with lots of things in life right now. Questions that have deep answers, questions that require deeper questions yet to get to the heart of the truth. Life is ever changing, and I have but to trust and have faith. The two hardest things in life that a person ever has in front of them, are my constant companions. Doubt and Trust, Hope and despair, fear and joy, always seem to happen in conjunction. I have to choose which ones I will let win over me every day. By the grace of God, I pray that I choose well.

Message edited by author 2006-07-03 20:39:23.

dunning_spring.jpg
by meyers

Comment:
Here is a nice, lovely waterfall, that you kind of missed the mark with. The level of flowyness to the water is good, and it's well exposed. But theres not really much to lead you in or out of the photograph here. The waterfall stands on it's own. There's a diagonal leading from the top right and down out through the bottom left with the water, but that's it. If you were to back up, and choose a spot that would make the falls a part of the composition, with leading lines and element that guide the eye through the picture, and lead them to rest ont he falls, then this would be very pretty indeed. I think also a bump in saturation for the trees and the moss would be a good call.

flower.jpg
by yanko

Comment:
Nic macro shot, I like the composition, and the duotone serves this well. I think fine-tuning the cropping here would help even things out, removing some on the right even though it would make it more rectangular. Also, consider sharpening the flower a bit more finely, there are some halo's around the centra part where it overlaps the white petals at the top. Overall a lovely picture.

Event Horizon
by Kronus

Comment:
L = love it.

"I wandered lonely as a cloud" -Wordsworth
by posthumous

Comment:
Okay, here goes.

I chose this one, because it speaks to me. The clouded, misty ground obscures the way ahead, which only leads to a darkening landscape devoid of comfort. The barely discernable structure brings no comfort, as it looks to hold within things more menacing than those without. One is drawn to risk the chance for shelter from the night, but fears what might be within. Night is coming, the storm is rolling in. You are alone and soon it will be dark. The story inherent in this picture really does tell a thousand words.

On a technical note, the processing is great, the placement of things take you from person, to fence and barn, to the sky, down the branches, and back to the person. My eyes and mind keep wandering over the picture, and are constntly entertained and absorbed into it.

The effect is that I am engaged, and I must find emotions and thoughts to describe what is here in front of me. Memories come back, things I had forgotten return, things I've feard, things I've wanted, but am too afraid of wandering into the world to go find them. To grab ahold of them and make them mine. I fear what is in the darkness, as much as I know my soul yearns to step into the unknown and find what I am lacking. But there is only one way to move forward.