Shore shapes
by marbo

Comment:
Lovely image!

Nature's Pyramid
by Neil

Comment:
Beautiful Scenery!

toddler geometry 101
by hexnymph

Comment:
I really like the shapes. However the limted range of levels leaves this image looking a bit muddy overall. Try to have at least one solid white and one solid black somewhere in the image (usually!)

Autumn Spring
by Neil

Comment:
Great shot and score, Neil! I really like the shadow detail and tonal range.

woods, moss, ferns
by pwm6

Comment:

Originally posted by glad2badad: I enjoy these woodland shots. This one is very well composed and fun to look at. One thing...those are birch trees, correct (if not - nevermind. )? I'm thinking if you tone down the blue channel a little the trees would whiten up some.

Well, thanks for looking at this picture and your comment. Actually these are not birch trees -- they are pine trees -- and the trunks are actually anything but white. The trunks are (as best as I can see them) mostly gray with a hint of blue and brown, so I don't think the color is off that much. The place in the woods where I took this was pretty densely shaded but the sky was a clear blue at the time. The exposure was 2 seconds at f/11. You can get a better look at the trees in this larger version:

//www.pbase.com/pwm/image/47998153/original

In the larger version ,you can also see that one of the ferns in the foreground was jostled by the wind just a bit during the long exposure.

Message edited by author 2006-01-25 10:10:42.

In the Deer's Realm
by AlexSaberi

Comment:
Alex,

This is a beautiful image. One possiblility for improvement might be to crop off the top 1/5 or so in order to get below (and leave out) the very dark branches in the upper left corner.

Paul

Tickets
by pwm6

Comment:

Originally posted by pekesty: Very lively and fun photo. I don't think the line at the bottom is so bad. It's a perspective slant as opposed to a horizontal slant. Your vertical lines look perfect. If it bothers you at all, is there more of the bottom on the original file to space the line furthur from the edge?

Mark,

Thanks for the idea. Actually I went back and looked at the original file, and what you see here is the whole shot, just as I framed it. It isn't cropped at all. At least I was holding the camera horizontal!

Paul

Tickets
by pwm6

Comment:

Originally posted by Germaine: Neat picture! My only suggestion would be to level band of color on the bottom of the ticket booth. (That would never have bothered me that much before I jointed DPC!)

Germaine,

Thanks for the suggestion. Actually, when I picked this photo out of a bunch I shot at the fair something about its disjointed colors and content attracted me. When I was working on it, I actually did try straightening up the perspective lines in Photoshop and when I got it almost perfectly straight I no longer liked it. It seemed to lose the sort of zaniness that attracted me to in in the first place.

I suppose you are right that it would get dinged for the perspective in a challenge!

Paul

Cannibal smile
by esaintpi

Comment:
I'm not sure this is what the topic means.

Freeze Up
by dw_photo

Comment:
Despite the fact that it would be easy to mistake the frost for oversharpening halos, I think this picture still looks overshapened. It's an appealing scene that might be improved by not having the body of water in the center of the frame.