reflection
by rosieapple

Comment by Retroesque:
This image lacks impact to me. I love reflections as a rule, but the lack of contrast and crop too I think makes is a lackluster.

frosted
by rosieapple

Comment by tnun:
I find this rich and delightful. I'm halfway there to entering the shop out of the cold to breath in the colours.

frosted
by rosieapple

Comment by Melethia:
Nice natural overlay!

frosted
by rosieapple

Comment by bergiekat:
This is very nice! Love the ice on the windows. It give the shot a totally different feel.

frosted
by rosieapple

Comment by jpverkamp:
It took me a bit to figure out what I was looking at, but if I'm correct, this is a really interesting shot.

frosted
by rosieapple

Comment by Yo_Spiff:
A really interesting contrast between the ice and flowers. Good eye for noticing this.

It seems a little soft on the detail, so I looked at the file size. There is some excessive JPEG compression taking away some detail. Your file size is only 65k and you could have used up to 150k for this challenge. Compression kills detail. Always use the least compression you can get away with an still come in under challenge limits. Most image editors have that ability to adjust compression somewhere in the file save dialog. Here is how it works in Paintshop Pro, along with more explanation of compression, if is is of any help:


I also copied this into PaintShop Pro out of curiosity, and found that some easy and basic image adjsutments like levels, curves, saturation, contrast and sharpening really helped this to pop.

frosted
by rosieapple

Comment by SusanJonesOutOnTheCoast:
I adore this well done.

frosted
by rosieapple

Comment by bvy:
Interesting. Where's the window?

frosted
by rosieapple

Comment by Rino63:
not very evident the window shopping but the true problem of this image(as my personal opinion) is that there isn't a clear focus on something.

frosted
by rosieapple

Comment by JuliBoc:
Neat idea. I like the effect. I wish there was a little more light on the flowers. I think I would try increasing the saturation of the yellow just a bit.