Photoreception
by JPR

Comment:
Simply stunning, and with a 602! I love your other recent urban work... you're on a roll!

Message edited by author 2004-10-04 07:15:55.

Hall of Steel
by BobsterLobster

Comment:
Graphicfunk, don't worry about it!
Thanks everyone, it's been interesting to revisit an earlier shot and see if I could improve on it. I was never that convinced by the centered composition of the last one, but it seems that people prefer it that way. I've also learnt to keep to ISO50 wherever possible. You can't see noise here because I NeatImaged it out, but it certainly doesn't have the detail of the previous shot.

Water Bearing Through Time
by labuds

Comment:
This shot doesn't do much for me, the stopped water droplets are nice but I don't think you've made the most of them. I think the main problem for me is that in major cities you can see statues like this everywhere, and there's nothing in this photo that makes me see them in a new way. To me, this is a bit of a snapshot photo. I don't think the grimy colours and textures on the arms help. 4

The Guitarist
by timj351

Comment:
I don't see any guitarists here. I'm not into your crop, I'm not sure where you intended the pof to be. Grain in b&w gig shots can work very well, but it hasn't done it for me here, maybe because there isn't enough tonal contrast here for my liking. There is loads of contrast on the arm though, but this stands out too much against the rest of the picture. I feel that the face is where I want to rest, and it's just not clear enough here. I think that the bass player would have looked like this throughout the entire gig, and you haven't captured him at a key moment. 4

Granite Totems
by rcrawford

Comment:
Nicely polarised sky... not much here to keep my interest though. Looks like it was composed with rule of thirds in mind... but other than that I'm not quite sure what you were wanting to achieve with this. Some VERY bad JPEG artifacting... the photo is only about 90k, you could have saved a 150k file. 4

Breaking Through
by muur88

Comment:
You've captured some nice light, but the PS work looks very unconvincing. If the sky were really that dark, there's no way the sea and land would look that light. I also think the shafts of light are too overexposed to work well here. The colour of the sea is a bit dull... I'd have fixed that in PS. 4

Haystacks - A Tribute to the Impressionist Master
by Coley

Comment:
I'm not really a fan of Monet's haystacks... maybe this is why when I look at this photo and admire the long shadows and rich colours I wish I were there to point my camera at something else! The haystacks don't really stand out enough against the ground for the composition to really 'wow' me, and it's a shame the wispy clouds on the left don't really add much interest to the sky. The greens in this photo are a bit dull... I'd have livened them up a tad in PS. I think the main problem with the composition is that there is no clear POF... my eye doesn't really know where to settle and where to flow to. 4

"Back" Cover Girl
by DougPaz

Comment:
This must have taken you a few goes to integrate the magazine with your model so flawlessly. I have to say though that this photo doesn't really do a lot for me... I see a well taken snapshot. I don't know why, but the edge of her left arm is grey... what did you do in PS that resulted in this?! 4

First Light
by autool

Comment:
Nice shot, reminds me of one of my shots from Scotland(!). Horizon well placed, breaking the frame into 3rds. Left hand edge of frame is too burnt out for my taste, and I don't like foreground diagonal leading my eye out of the right hand side of the frame. The foreground textures look a little soft... some sharp sand textures could have added some 'wow' to the shot, if you're using a DSLR you probably would have needed a tripod for the dof. Horizon on the right of the shot looks a bit cluttered. The footsteps are a nice touch, but are a bit too subtle. Some dodging and burning could have cured this. The sky could have done with a polariser, which may have solved your burnt out highlights. 5

The Beacon
by alanfreed

Comment:
This shot doesn't really do a lot for me... it's the composition that I feel really lets this down. The Beacon looks like it just happened to end up somewhere near the middle of the frame, and there is no clear pof... there are too many cluttered distracting elements here. The foliage looks oversharpened. I like the fact that it looks like you used a polariser. 5