There is always "ONE" in every crowd
by riley

Comment by beautyqn25:
Cute capture!

There is always "ONE" in every crowd
by riley

Comment by nordicgirl:
Its very nice... but it have lots of blue and green tonalities.

The Trail
by riley

Comment by digitalknight:
selective desat kills this for me, such an amazing photo, would love to just see it b&w still ranked you highest

There is always "ONE" in every crowd
by riley

Comment by RulerZigzag:
cool composition...nice exposure

There is always "ONE" in every crowd
by riley

Comment by puma:
This photo has an almose 3-D effect to it. Well done.

The Trail
by riley

Comment by nordicgirl:
Well done... i like the blury effect but not sure if i like those red jackets.

There is always "ONE" in every crowd
by riley

Comment by NathanWert:
seems a little blue to me. ... and the one on the left is missing a leg!!!!!

The Trail
by riley

Comment by ccasey:
I love this--would really like to know how to get this effect. Good luck!

February Thaw
by riley

Comment by Imagineer:
:: Hello from the Critique Club ::
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Nice work capturing the subject in unusual conditions. The icicles add much interest here.

Composition is OK, but the horizontal is at odds with the arrangement, so I'd have taken the shot either more square or much more obliquely. I'm sure that you may have found a view that showed less background, but closer icicles and water detail. Perhaps standiung under the bridge to the left may have yielded this, with enough the bridge to show it's a bridge and plenty of other details to look at.

I agree that the desaturation serves little purpose here since it is mainly used to draw attention the itme selected, and I can find now reason for doing this to the rail.

Cheers
Jon

The Trail
by riley

Comment by e301:
I like this, despite it consisting of a number of things I have little time for - perhaps rather, I should say, because of that: the hyper-smoothness is taken so far, the selective de-sat is so almost arbitrary, the sharpenin artefacts in the trees (and their associated wonderful effect in the image right trees. That halo-ing around the branches image left is the only thing that stops me thinking this is rather a work of acccident than genius. I shall, if i have time, have to comback to it to decide what I really think.