IMGP5395-edit copy.jpg
by wehrmacher

Comment by sfalice:
qwell done. Nice save of a cute kid portrait.

Native American Princess-after.jpg
by wehrmacher

Comment by sfalice:
Highly successful adaptation of the original. Excellent use of color.

IMGP5285-Update-with-sugges.jpg
by wehrmacher

Comment by stargazer05766:
I really like the appearance of the boy and not so crazy about the blur & other boat perhaps because the tone and mood all of a sudden is different..

paralax addressed.jpg
by wehrmacher

Comment by sfalice:
Because you've made a really good start here, I'm gonna 'nitpik' a bit and suggest that the bird of paradise blossoms do not exactly make a great color match for the orchids. But even if the colors worked well together, the bits at the bottom are, well, just tiny suggestions and could be cloned out without hurting the composition.

Yes, adding the bit of black to the left side of the composition works well to keep from overcrowding at the borders. And the orchids are perfectly exposed. Nice lighting.

Annie and Henna Lady after.jpg
by wehrmacher

Comment by sfalice:
Good looking subjects and nice fuzzing of the background. You could still go a bit further by darkening the background whites, and deemphasizing the disembodied legs in the right bottom corner.

Blue and Green 50mm.jpg
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Comment by Ken:
I don't know what kind of flower that is, but it sure jumps off the screen with those vivid colors. Overall I like it, but I'm not so sure about the composition, it just seems a bit too centered for me.

IMGP5285-Update-with-sugges.jpg
by wehrmacher

Comment by onesaint:
the kid is great. the transition blur is too much for my taste, as TCGuru mentioned. i like the idea, but im not sure how much it is conveyed without you telling us. maybe if the kid sat closer to the dock and the large boat was closer to him, he might seem to look at it more. great PP work in all this.

IMGP5285-Update-with-sugges.jpg
by wehrmacher

Comment by TCGuru:
The blur on the boat in the BG doesn't match the rest... other than that, this is a lovely image and you did a good job of PP in the kid.

Laura-revised.jpg
by wehrmacher

Comment by JerseyGenie:
Much better, Bill.

Waiting for Her Captian
by wehrmacher

Comment by kiwiness:
Well well Bill, I got your photo to critique, isn't that a coincidence :) I will overlook the spelling mistake first of all, it seems no one saw that at all (I wonder if you noticed it yourself?)

The sepia works for me here, kind of like an old fashioned setting. Personally there is impact missing, there has to be something special about a photo that the viewer can look at and say "cool", this is impressive. If this had been my shot, I would probably have asked a little boy to sit on the side of the boat with a straw hat, old fashioned clothes and an old pole fishing rod, and legs hanging of the back of the boat, just fishing, maybe even with a piece of straw hanging from his mouth. Then I would have used your Tamron 70-300, gone back further and at the full 300mm taken the shot so that the whole background is blurred more and you just have full focus on the boat and the boy. I find that the boats in the immediate background and the land way out the back is too sharp and pulls the eye away from your main subject. Okey dokey? See you in Calgary :)