Fieldwork at Sundown
by dtremain

Comment by Ammie:
Without the trees in the background, I would have given this a highter score. 6

Blooming Tulips
by dtremain

Comment by charmayne:
nice garden scene well composed

Blooming Tulips
by dtremain

Comment by EL-ROI:
I gave this a low average vote and wanted to leave a few comments as to why. First the good points: You have great color and a very good exposure with very even light. I like the composition as well. The line of the fence at an angle across the foreground and the layers going into the photo with the flowers in the mid ground and the trees and water and finally the bridge. It's a nice, peaceful and a beautiful scene worthy of a shot for the photo album.

What brings this down for me is the lack of good focus. Nothing is really sharp and the plane of focus doesn't seem to land anywhere in the photo. I would have to see the exif to tell if you used a small aperture here. I think you may be somewhere in the f5.6 - f8 range. With good focus, at a minimum the fence should show off the details of it's great texture, and the tulips should be nice and crisp. The background can fade off out of focus slightly to taste. I would go minimum f8 to f11 and maybe even f22 if you want this in HD quality sharpness. But with an aperture that small you may have to use a tripod as you tend to get down into the 1/40, 1/20 or lower shutter speeds which doesn't work out that well handheld and leads to camera shake.

I suspect that camera shake killed the sharpness here due to being handheld at small aperture and longer shutter speeds. There is a general rule for handheld that says use a shutter speed of 1/focal length or higher to hand hold.

Sorry for writing a book but some people complain about not having any detailed comments when they leave lower or average votes. I will revisit this post challenge to hopefully see your shot data.

Blooming Tulips
by dtremain

Comment by Yo_Spiff:
I like the background scene here, but there appears to be some major lost highlight detail on the upper fence rail.

Blooming Tulips
by dtremain

Comment by StickInMind:
that is a nice location but i feel like the sharpen is too strong on the bokeh behind.

Hint of Spring
by dtremain

Comment by StickInMind:
creative crop like an arrow pointing the sky

Wading
by dtremain

Comment by MeMex2:
Great shot!

Wading
by dtremain

Comment by littlemav:
OMG is that a Texas Mall bird?? (I call them that because I see them around the malls in Texas) Crackle or Grackle? Nice capture, espically with the Blackness of the bird you still have excellent detail!

Red Tulip
by dtremain

Comment by Neat:
Nice comp.

Earth Bender
by dtremain

Comment by bvy:
So wrong on so many levels: harsh light, tree growing from his head -- and, of course, the tilt. Still it has a blunt, unapologetic sort of appeal to it -- accentuated by that cold stare.