Dreamy Eyes
by gsal

Comment by AP:
I like the off composition

Dreamy Eyes
by gsal

Comment by SnapperL:
beautiful portrait

Dreamy Eyes
by gsal

Comment by Iraklis:
I like the intimate candidness of this...

Dreamy Eyes
by gsal

Comment by DrAchoo:
Freckles are timeless. Like the look and the B&W conversion. I normally like image grain, but you don't have that, you got yerself noise in the upper left. I'd have ditched it with NI and kept the NI away from her face. 7

Dreamy Eyes
by gsal

Comment by LevT:
nice portrait!

The Look
by gsal

Comment by ErinM:
Such intensity in that face. Nicely processed.

Winter Wonderland
by gsal

Comment by chromeydome:
Technicals, Aesthetics, etc.. Thread

This image is wonderful, and I gave it a 7.

The choices you made here, what you saw and the composition, technicals are very well done. If one were to scrutinize it for additional post-processing options (if one wanted to do that), it might be worth a try at cloning out the distant tree line at the left, and it might be worth similar efforts on the bits of growth that reach the edge of the frame. (note the emphasis on might, :-)

Winter Wonderland
by gsal

Comment by yanko:
Technically a very competent photograph. There's a serenity here despite the somewhat cluttered foreground. The reason it works is the foreground elements fit into the composition fairly well and help guide the eye into and around the photograph. For example, the remains of the fence/dock act as a pointer to the skiff, which leads you to the pond, which leads you to the weeds angling off to the left and upward toward the mountain range in the distance. It is by no means a perfect path, the tightness of the crop impedes it somewhat, but it's there and it makes all the elements in the photograph feel as if they belong.

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Message edited by author 2008-11-13 21:31:49.

Winter Wonderland
by gsal

Comment by Nocturnal_Delusion:
Beautiful scene, strong technicals, great capture. Aesthetically I find the snow covered water to be too much negative space, in my opinion the image may have benefitted from a slightly lower camera angle bringing the horizon down to around the top 3rd so there is more background interest. A masked curves layer to bring some more contrast into the boat/pond and some of the foreground items might have made things pop a bit more. Had I voted in this challenge I would have given this image a 7.

Technicals, Aesthetics, etc.. Thread

Winter Wonderland
by gsal

Comment by walrus451:
Wonderful capture. So many interesting places for the eye to go in this photo.