Colours of spring
by vcosma

Comment by JPR:
Greetings from the critique club:

There's not much to say here other than emphasize the other comments already made. You got a really good score with this and people gave you excellent advice so that you'll get an awesome score if you shoot it again. (This should be saves as an example of how DPC really works well for people!)

First off, the most distracting thing is the blur being in the front and not the back. I would say that you should use a very large DOF and get everything in focuse here; it would look better against the perfect blue sky in my opinion than a tighter DOF focused on one area. Which brings me to the next problem, the lack of a strong center subject that draws the eye. If you had a large DOF I don't think it would be necessary in a shot like this, but if you decided to go with a smaller DOF, or the one you chose, it is important to choose an area. This is difficult with the busy composition you've chosen. It might have been better to shoot from an angle, crop, etc, to find an area where all the tree limbs were going in one direction.

Overall, a quality photo of a beautiful subject that you could easily get a lot of nice pictures from. It would be cool to do a "study" of many pictures on the tree, including some macros of individual blossoms and a shot of the entire tree. What a nice find!

Keep up the good work.

After the storm
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Comment by Galina:
Watch that horizon.

After the storm
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Comment by dacrazyrn:
Nice seascape. Great contrast. Too bad the waves weren't a lot bigger

After the storm
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Comment by frisca:
ah, I love it! lots of movement in the waves and the clouds. maybe a person or a bouy or something to give us a subject, but its still pretty nice as is. :)

After the storm
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Comment by kiwiness:
An excellent photo to depict weather! This pic tells me everything, good!

After the storm
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Comment by STEINR:
pic seems to be on a slight slantwhich would make all the water flow down hill and presumably to the south pole

After the storm
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Comment by Damitriel:
Keep the horizon level.

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Comment by Fiver:
Good Shot. Should have rotated it a little, and cut out the sand.

After the storm
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Comment by gowf67:
great shot, would like to see a level horizon though

After the storm
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Comment by crabappl3:
Your horizon is leaning, other then that this is a nice warm shot. Very pleasing to look at. Good job.