Day 3
by xianart

Comment by noraneko:
Clean that sensor, girl :-) Great composition with sunburst - you did a good job of nearly totally avoiding flare - you must have underexposed? Not surprised about the tiny aperture. This photo definitely works very well as total package and needs very little editing.

Day 3.1 - Black and tan
by xianart

Comment by noraneko:
Yep, great composition and I like your choices with colors here. Your processing rocks the house, BTW. You are a PS guru!

Flare
by xianart

Comment by Bruce_the_Robert:
Nice processing; I like how the convergence I felt in the last image is maintained. Did you consider cloning out the buoys? I find them a tad distracting (but I'm easily distracted tonight).

Day 3
by xianart

Comment by Bruce_the_Robert:
Great image to play with; does the dust show so much because of the brightness of the scene? I like the composition here. The tilted horizon doesn't bother me, but I'm pretty alone in my tolerance for tilted lines in images (here I think it's balanced some by the lines of the dock, with a nice right to left motion driven by the slight convergence).

Flare
by xianart

Comment by cogerox:
Oh, you talented, talented girl. It's artists like you that keep me comin' back in the belief that if I hang around long enough...This photo has it all - richly detailed subject in the foreground, middle ground expanse/negative space, distant horizon with beautiful sky - all obeying the rule of thirds. Throw in a starred reflection and a cool border and, voila!, wonderful lesson. Thanks.

Day 1.2 - Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
by xianart

Comment by cogerox:
Nice crop and pov. The diagonal lines contrast nicely with the grid on the floor. Great color combination, too. I just took and peak at the pp, and I gotta say I like the original better. I think the simplicity of the shot gets lost with all the effects.

Day 1.1 - Peggy's Cove
by xianart

Comment by cogerox:
I love the starkness of this photo. Nothing unnecessary. And, what a great exposure. Perfect detail in the cabin - even in the shadows beneath. I really don't know what you can do to improve this. I'm going to go see what you did in pp. Wow. OK, I stand corrected - there was plenty. Nice rich tones and even more detail. Masterful. And, the border is a nice touch, too.

Day 2.2 - Row
by xianart

Comment by Bruce_the_Robert:
You have such control over processing -- thanks for providing so much detail and not keeping it your little secret. I don't understand very much of it, but once I do I'll at least know what you've done. I actually almost feel a bit bullied here: "Look at this part. Oh, you're looking over there? Stop it, this is what I want you to see." It's an interesting reaction to have to a photo!

Day 1.2 - Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
by xianart

Comment by Bruce_the_Robert:
An awful lot going on here, but the exposure and lighting lead you nicely across the lines.

Day 2.1 - Dock
by xianart

Comment by Bruce_the_Robert:
In a word: wonderful. Or delightful. So much subtlety brought out by the processing. I would have had such a battle with myself not to crop this down a whole bunch (probably about half the white space, and I would have lost); I would have told myself how well it works as is, and how important space can be to an image, blah blah. And then I would have cropped it out.