Happiness is an Action word
by amsmyth

Comment by Shannon:
I personally don't care for the crop of the shot, I think it would be better with more of the dogs face in the picture.

Exhuberance
by amsmyth

Comment by casualguy:
Bright and colorful, very sharp. Critiques: May be over-sharpened. Overall the shot is a bit to centered, background is distracting (could background have been composed out of the shot?).

Exhuberance
by amsmyth

Comment by LindaLee:
Beautiful color, and an amazing shot. I don't care for the very "centeredness" of the subject, and find the many "elements" in the shot to be distracting.

DSC02961second.jpg
by amsmyth

Comment by Harz_Joerg:
Like this version a lot more: less nervous, almost tranquilling. It's now an image working with shape and lines. Therefore the crop is better then the on I did: keeping the upper part of the ice complete works way better.

Exhuberance
by amsmyth

Comment by Jaguar:
Nice, but the leaves are showing a little bit of a visonary anomaly. Meaning, it doesn't quite let my eyes work right. It makes me work too much to view it.

Exhuberance
by amsmyth

Comment by wingy:
I like the big x pattern that this makes, but this really isn't close enough or detailed enough to be very interesting. I'd recommend that you try to get closer, get sharper, and maybe try more unique angles or setups.

Exhuberance
by amsmyth

Comment by Shannon:
background seems to have alot of noise in it.

DSC02961an-edgecontrast.jpg
by amsmyth

Comment by Harz_Joerg:
Just saw your altered version and I like to comment on it.

Acctually now the water surface is too nerveous IMO.
One likes to see even more whats below the surface, but it's not possible. So darkening it more would be better IMO.

Here's my try on your image:

It's also strongly croped, leading to a nice effect I didn't notice before: the lines on the ice do lead to the bright spot at the tip.
It's of course a little narrow on the right side, but maybe the original file allows to move everything a little further to the left, to achiev some negative space effect.

Exhuberance
by amsmyth

Comment by MrAkamai:
Nice DOF image but the background is a bit distracting.

Exhuberance
by amsmyth

Comment by christyrack:
Wow.....what on Earth is that? It's beautiful!!!! 10