beauty
by presley

Comment by ciaeagle:
Oh, too bad on the DQ. This is quite nice. Especially for a side of the road spot.

beauty
by presley

Comment by littlemav:
Love your DOF and the lighting!!

beauty
by presley

Comment by tanguera:
A b/w pastel. Love it

Colorado Snow
by presley

Comment by spiritualspatula:
The vignette is a little heavy for my taste, but I like the swoop of the trees over the scene and the descending line of trees from the left. Pulls me nicely into the scene.

Colorado Snow
by presley

Comment by hahn23:
Hard to find Colorado snow in February. Good luck!

rose
by presley

Comment by crayon:
the focus work here needs some improvement.

rose
by presley

Comment by Titox:
Could have done so much better

rose
by presley

Comment by Greyscale:
Perhaps, life is what happens when we're focussed on something else. Like your style.

rose
by presley

Comment by bob350:
The flower has a lovely form, and the implied diagonal of dark negative space shapes are good, but the very bright light presents a difficult techincal challenge. Having black shadows with no detail at the same time as white flowers blown out with no detail tells us that the dynaimc range here exceeds what a digital or file camera can capture in a single shot. This requires either combining multiple images at different exposures (to compress the exposure range -read up on HDR, which can't be done in basic edit rules), or using manual settings to eliminate even more of the dark range, or on camera filters to help with that, or setting up something to shade the flowers, or using a dark cloth or different positioning or picking the rose (to remove the white flowers from view and isolate the rose) - anything to compress the dynamic range. Reducing exposure might have helped reduce that harsh color band on the petal edge (saturated red can be overexposed even when the camera's light meter thinks things are ok), and could have improved the white flowers if kept in the image. Looks like autofocus got hold of the leaf behind the rose (which may have some motion blur too), leaving the rose itself a blurry mess. Would have been much stronger with the main flower in focus. Consider using manual focus and a tripod and faster shutter speed, or whatever other technical control your camera allows for you to select where focus will happen and produce an image with exposure and sharpness worthy of your subject. Would predict a low score but a good learning opportunity.

rose
by presley

Comment by allisonh:
good colour but not in focus