Moments Before Purple's Conception
by lagavulin

Comment by graphicfunk:
Very inrtiguing and delicate.

Moments Before Purple's Conception
by lagavulin

Comment by kevrobertson:
Winner of the best title award
good luck
great clean image

Moments Before Purple's Conception
by lagavulin

Comment by gerdagrice:
Very clever and well done!

Moments Before Purple's Conception
by lagavulin

Comment by Bran-O-Rama:
Great idea! Would've liked to see a bit sharper focus as image appears a little blurry and soft.

Moments Before Purple's Conception
by lagavulin

Comment by dcano:
This was the idea I was thinking of. I am glad I did not make it in time!! Maybe your photo will score higher because of it. I alwasy had a penchant for these dispersion photos!
Good job.
dc

Small Kite, Tall Grass
by lagavulin

Comment by Maverick:
I think in this case, fill flash would work well. The woman is underexposed leaving the sky correctly exposed (though washed out). Putting some light on your subject would better convey your message. If fill flash wasn't possible, I would overexpose the shot (compared to this exposure). Losing the detail in the sky wouldn't detract, as there isn't much sky detail or color to begin with.

Small Kite, Tall Grass
by lagavulin

Comment by whagerbaumer:
This really cries out for a fill flash. A 4.

Small Kite, Tall Grass
by lagavulin

Comment by tyt2000:
I think some light reflected on the lady's face would have improved this photo...

Small Kite, Tall Grass
by lagavulin

Comment by FranziskaLang:
I'm sure you've already received comments that this shot is too dark. Looks like you took this during full sun and that's hard, the camera doesn't have the capability to capture light/dark contrasts in as wide a range as our eyes. A different time of day, or fill-flash may be the answer. Apart from that, a couple of things that may further improve your photo (in my opinion at least) would be to clone or crop that little bit of a branch (?) out that is poking in the frame at the top left corner. Cropping a bit more off the right side could improve composition (have the person off-center, in this case, her being center doesn't add to the image I think) and it would get rid of another set of distracting branches.

Small Kite, Tall Grass
by lagavulin

Comment by magnus:
Direct sunlight is just plain hard, you really needed fill-flash there. Or go with the silhouette look, but this just looks too contrasty with the white sky and under-exposed model.