Closed For Remodeling
by smardaz

Comment by roz:
a real arty shot and it has an excellent feel .... great composition and colours .....

i c u
by smardaz

Comment by roz:
hey jason .. just visiting, especially after your lovely complimentary pm ... and opened this one up coz i couldnt quite make it out as a thumb .. (spose my visit to the optomotrist wasnt entirely successful!!!) ... just love this photograph and astounded that it did so poorly in the challenge ... it is totally excellent ... wot an amazing capture ... WOW .....

Quiet Reflections at Snoqualmie Pass
by smardaz

Comment by Simpa:
beautiful mirrored scene...

Quiet Reflections at Snoqualmie Pass
by smardaz

Comment by hihosilver:
Absolutely lovely...9

Quiet Reflections at Snoqualmie Pass
by smardaz

Comment by raish:
Right then, joke's on me as I now have to plough through 564 images and bump them all (yes, all of them) up. There'll be a third run through for fine tuning. It's day two now and I'm running late, sorry.
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Quiet Reflections at Snoqualmie Pass
by smardaz

Comment by kotzie:
Beautiful shot.

Quiet Reflections at Snoqualmie Pass
by smardaz

Comment by obisgrl:
Wow...incredible reflection!

Arm in arm with my true love.
by smardaz

Comment by Neil:
Greetings from the Critique Club:

Strengths: Fits the theme with a bit of humor. Pretty good control over exposure, considering the strongly backlit scene.

Weakness: If you can forgive the pun, the garbage can trashes the shot. It's very salient and distracting. The haze in the background, and the buildings, don't give this the full lover's lane feel that would have earned this more points.

Suggestions: This would have been really great with a colorful sunset background, or golden hour hues, and using the car/person sillouettes. Or a night scene, with city lights below, depending on the region. In any case, the garbage can needed to go. I haven't read any ocmments yet, but I'm sure that really hurt. You probably should have cropped a bit more at the bottom to, to get rid of the partial plate.

Hope that helps. Good idea, just a bit more time on setup, and you would score well.

Closed For Remodeling
by smardaz

Comment by sevilduvarci:
cool colours and processing.

Closed For Remodeling
by smardaz

Comment by e301:
I'm starting to wonder whether the gamma settings on my monitor have slipped, or something. The midtones here seem quite compressed, I'd love to see a greater sense of the fine detail that expanding them a little might bring to this.