All My Children II
by dtremain

Comment by giantmike:
The head bands and scarves add a little extra something to this image. Without them, I think I wouldn't have liked it as much.

All My Children II
by dtremain

Comment by MacDonald:
little yellow bear wants starry catch light too!

June
by dtremain

Comment by mbrutus2009:
Nice one. Needs a tighter crop though. I think so at least.

Fieldwork at Sundown
by dtremain

Comment by blindjustice:
good earthy photo journalistic feel here- i like the distance and lack of detail. hope it was intentional, it works well.

Fieldwork at Sundown
by dtremain

Comment by EL-ROI:
There are some exposure problems here. The field has that nice golden glow from the sunset lighting, however the sky is fairly blown out. Perhaps the use of a polarizer or a graduated neutral density filter could have helped. Or bracketing exposures and combining as an HDR would have helped even the exposure of the foreground and the background.

Fieldwork at Sundown
by dtremain

Comment by KarenNfld:
Nice job.

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.