Over the Lake
by LadeeM

Comment by gruvin:
It's always interesting how two people see completely different things in a photo. For that reason, my own observations:

To me, the "overpowering glare" is spectactular. I love it. The inclusion of the three brances provides crucial reference to the upper left vanishing point and resulting perspecitve depth. I'm glad they're there. The silhouette of the person with no detail shown enhances the central subject - the wonderous glare on the water. The "over-exposure" in the clouds adds to a sureal effect making this photo tend toward art and away from a quick snap-shot of nature - yet not so much as to remove the reality of the pure beauty nature displays here.

Well done!

Flame
by LadeeM

Comment by nfessel:
This is cool. The composition is well done and the exposure is done well. I like how the flame is trailing out of the frame, to the upper right. Great detail you've capture in the torch as well. This is the best of the three. Here, I am drawn to the actual subject and not to the flaws in the exposure and composition, because there are no flaws.

Over the Lake
by LadeeM

Comment by nfessel:
Observations: There is no visible detail in the person. It is just a black silhouette. There is a lot of flare from the sun. There are a lot of blown-out highlights in the clouds. The tree branches in the upper right don't add anything to the photo and should have been taken out of the composition. I hope these observations help you when you attempt a similar shot again. Overall, I am drawn away from the subject and pulled more into the flaws in the image exposure and composition.

Message edited by author 2005-05-31 22:32:18.

Over the Lake
by LadeeM

Comment by twm122:
I like this shot. It stood out of the four. I actually like the light and didn't find it all that distracting. I like the "ray" of light. But I am also still pretty new to this.

Flame
by LadeeM

Comment by SJCarter:
Nice clarity of the actual torch in this one and I really like the angles & cropping. Very cool shot.

Over the Lake
by LadeeM

Comment by SJCarter:
Nice shot. The glare is a little overpowering for my personal tastes, especially when there is also a person in the pic. Have you thought about trying to balance the light with the visibility of the person a little more (i.e., I noticed the light on his shoes as pretty much the first detail about him)? Just a suggestion from someone who's fairly new to the biz... I do like the shot though.

A Spoonful of Sugar
by LadeeM

Comment by sabphoto:
would like to have the sugar more white if it is supposed to be regular white sugar. Too gray for my likings. I'm glad you kept from being a close up macro but the sugar lacks detail. Good luck

Daisy
by LadeeM

Comment by thatcloudthere:
Neat and kind of psychadelic looking. I wish you would have cropped out the blue 'blotch' in the bottom right (or perhaps burned it out). Neat lighting, though.

A Spoonful of Sugar
by LadeeM

Comment by rscorp:
For this particular pic I'm not too crazy for the b&w. The only other thing I see is it seems a bit underexposed, like the sugar should be more white.

A Spoonful of Sugar
by LadeeM

Comment by lumbardh:
I have that spoon!