Power Hungry
by bfurner

Comment by magnumruss:
i am not liking the processed look of the hands.

Power Hungry
by bfurner

Comment by AmeedEl-Ghoul:
I like the composition, the expression and for sure the eyes, 7 from me,

Warm Water
by bfurner

Comment by Erwan_B:
Really nice.

The Green Mile
by bfurner

Comment by Iraklis:
Would've worked better if the path were longer?

The Green Mile
by bfurner

Comment by LadyK:
just a bit too green for me, seems inhanced

The Green Mile
by bfurner

Comment by lunensa:
I love that book! The movie was good, too. The greens in this are so pretty :o) Such a simple idea, but you made it work!

The Green Mile
by bfurner

Comment by CarpeLumen:
I could not figure out how to do this shot, and I wanted to, I like how you did it but it does show "mile" and it needs more DOF. 6

Lily
by bfurner

Comment by Yo_Spiff:
This one has some real potential. The first thing I noticed is some graininess. It's noticveable, but not bad. A modest touch of noise reduction in software would fix that. Cropping about 15-20% off of the bottom would improve the composition and make the iced stem the focal point. A little adjustment with curves as well, and This ought to have a lot more pop to it.

I did a quick edit on this in PaintShop Pro.
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I didn't do any noise reduction, as even a slight amount killed a lot of detail. If I'd had the original full res image, that may have worked better. The editing also brought out someother imperfections, but with the full size image available, you can do a better job. Editing steps are listed on the image notes.

Message edited by author 2008-05-14 14:04:08.

The Path
by bfurner

Comment by Yo_Spiff:
Pretty decent composition on this. I see a little banding in the sky, but that is always difficult with a shot like this. Adjusting the colors a little with curves may give the texture of the snow and ice a little more oomph. In fact, the ground is where most of the interesting texture lies, I would suggest cropping or framing it to have more ground and less sky. Here's a similar sundown shot I did. As you can see, I also was unable to avoid the banding in the sky:

Snow Topped 1
by bfurner

Comment by Yo_Spiff:
Nice colors and detail, though I think the DOF is not quite deep enough to grab all of the main subject. Thats ostly a limit of your camera, but backing off just a bit might increase the DOF a little. The subject probably needs to be a touch higher in the frame as well.