Starry night
by Patents4u

Comment by graphicfunk:
Congratulations on your 17th placing. A cool reflection.

Starry night
by Patents4u

Comment by Turtle:
Interesting

Starry night
by Patents4u

Comment by ADGibson:
This is a cool idea!

Starry night
by Patents4u

Comment by OFreasier:
This is the second of only 2 that I'm giving a 10 in this challenge. I love the star reflection on the wall (how'd you do that!?) and the tree is just lovely!

Starry night
by Patents4u

Comment by snackwells:
Ohh....very pretty. I like the backlighting and most of all the shadow of the star. Very tastefully composed.

Detracting issues:
- Appears to be a horizontal (to axis of sensor) banding noise pattern reminescent of a Canon 20D probably due to the use of a faster ISO setting.
- Image has a lot of detail, but there is significant jaggies due to very strong edge sharpening. Consequently, overall image integrity has been compromised to a degree.
- Colors are just a bit flat. Could have been spruced up with a quick saturation adjustment. I like the colors and the warm color balance...this is really a minor issue.

Overall, this is a very good submission. I will rank this as one of my top picks.

Starry night
by Patents4u

Comment by Bear_Music:
I'd love this if the window weren't there, but it's a bad eyetrap for me.

Starry night
by Patents4u

Comment by Koriyama:
The window, wall and border don't really help this image. Nice idea, though.

Starry night
by Patents4u

Comment by blanceric:
Great idea but window in the background is distracting.

Starry night
by Patents4u

Comment by ahaze:
Beautiful- though I might have done away with the window ;)

Elegant Overlap
by Patents4u

Comment by OneSweetSin:
Critique Club

Excellent image. Of course it meets the challenge and very well done I might add. The only problem I see with the entire image is the lighting in the black portion of your background. There is an area where the lighting is much stronger than the rest of the image and it does distract slightly from the entire composition. A little touching up there and you will have not just an excellent image but a fantastic image.

Anna