Smoke 1
by Pk395

Comment by JulietNN:
SO very close!!! the photo is tilted though and make your head tilt to compensate. In standard editing, you can get that paint brush and put it on white with maybe a 20% and paint that smoke, so that it stands out more,. Or you could dodge it a little. Also , something I do, is I hold my hands up, side by side look at a photo through my hands to see if there would be a better crop. I think if you cropped it in-between those outer plants directly on that white 'chair"(?) on the right hand side and just after that white/red pillar on the left, you would have had a good crop and more dramatic photo. Also, I am seeing, blue in teh sky at the middle of your photo, but then very grey at the left and right hand top sides. If you use a gradient filter set to blue(ish) you would have a great colour for the sky and it would increase teh colour in the upper building.

humanist
by Pk395

Comment by mitalapo:
humanity is indeed a continuum

humanist
by Pk395

Comment by spencelg:
Gorgeous photo!! Not sure about challenge fit, though.

Sky
by Pk395

Comment by blindjustice:
almost security cam fisheye. if you were going for that, kudos.

The thing that separate before and after
by Pk395

Comment by streetpigeon:
Nice meditation on before and after, day and night and other weighty seeming dichotomies. I like how direct and simple it is, no frills, no pretension.

weather 1
by Pk395

Comment by Pk395:

Originally posted by JulietNN: This was so nearly correct, but it did not come together correctly. I think for this shot, with the soft buildings (as Neat pointed out) it would have worked with the other overlay, if you had cropped it right at that moon's edge. It would be soft in real life, a the clouds and rain would dull the edges. You do have the blown out boats on the left hand side, not a lot you can do about that, as it is what it is. But if you had done several exposures you could have stacked a less brighter one with details to replace the ones you have. Or an alternative, if to just crop it out and just have the lower building as your left hand side, then crop the top off to make a more square but cohesive photo. One thing I do is hold my hand up when the photo is on the screen and use that a a crop tool to see if it would look better and when I first started out, I had a piece of cardboard to completly block out portions on teh side , top or bottom. I am sure in no time at all, you will be popping out immaculate images.

The picture is taken by fish eye lens. I de-fish the picture to normal film, I just want to highlight to sky that it look global!

Bokeh
by Pk395

Comment by Pk395:

Originally posted by Zoomdak: Beautiful frog image! Think it could be cropped differently to strengthen the composition.

Appreciate your comments! first time I noted that I could reply in this way.

August MOON
by Pk395

Comment by JulietNN:
I can not believe this!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think this is beyond stunning and a 10 plus, I was waiting for rollover to see it Blue.

August MOON
by Pk395

Comment by JulietNN:
Just simply has to be hands down, the Blue Ribbon. perfection 10

August MOON
by Pk395

Comment by jomari:
Wonderful! Top few.