Go West.... Live is peaceful there.... Go West in the open air.... Go west where the sky is blue :)
by Giles

Comment by Giles:
just had it validated :)

Not Tonight
by Giles

Comment by BrennanOB:
If you had cropped tighter, put her eyes closer to the top right, and had her hand with that big ring in the lower left (and widened up the DOF to get the ring in better focus), you would have lost all that lovely bar bokeh, but you would have lost most of those 3 and under scores. Prolly.

Not Tonight
by Giles

Comment by Giles:
double post

Message edited by author 2012-04-09 15:13:36.

The Long and winding road
by Giles

Comment by BrennanOB:
This is a lovely subject, but not processed to do well here at DPC. When looking into the sun you often get this sort of low contrast haziness you have here, but being true to what you saw only gets brownie points, not a good score. With a muted color pallet, you have two choices, crank up the vibrance, or convert to B&W.

The main subject is that windy road, but it gets a bit lost in the image, had you zoomed in and rotated the format to portrait so the road filled more of the frame and the sky was no more than the top third (it is a nice, but not spectacular sky) then the image would have the "pop" that is rewarded at DPC.

There was a thread on Graduated Neutral Density filters earlier in the week, and this image could be a poster child of a "without" image that a GND would have helped, that bright sky steals so much of the magic of the rolling landscape where all the tones have been squished down into the right side of the histogram, so they lack dynamic range and color information.

The Long and winding road
by Giles

Comment by hihosilver:
This landscape fills my eyes with gorgeous potential. The sky has appetizing drama and well-exposed clouds and sun provide beautiful filtered light. I'm beginning to fall in love. The road wends perfectly through the hills and stands out as a anchor to this image. I like the divided horizon in the middle because you break a rule here! Go for it! However, I gave this image a 6 because the green color of the hills reminded me of the color of over-cooked asparagus. And, there's only one place for anything the color of mushy vegetables...

Not Tonight
by Giles

Comment by Giles:

Originally posted by Cuttooth: I agree with Marco's comment. If her eyes had been brightend a bit so they'd have more of a pop, then I think it would been a stronger shot. They eyes are up in the corner too so possibly some of the people that thought it was DNMC, would've thought otherwise.

+1000 knowing nod to you good sir

Not Tonight
by Giles

Comment by Cuttooth:
I agree with Marco's comment.
If her eyes had been brightend a bit so they'd have more of a pop, then I think it would been a stronger shot. They eyes are up in the corner too so possibly some of the people that thought it was DNMC, would've thought otherwise.

The Long and winding road
by Giles

Comment by Cuttooth:
The location is beautiful.
I do think the tones make the shot as a whole, flat. nothing really anchors the eye except for maybe the bright side of the sky. Like mentioned, maybe if the road were dodged a bit and a crop that had a bit more land and less sky. I think it would be nicer if the sunset would be a bit more saturated too.

Not Tonight
by Giles

Comment by Melethia:
I gave this a 7. However, I tend to be pretty lenient with "meet the challenge." In truth, this doesn't. Some people can shoehorn at will and do very well. I'm not sure why.

A Short life times work, great uncle Albert's 1930-1942
by Giles

Comment by Melethia:
Yep, should have been a 6. Can't tell you why it isn't.