Miracle
by mphoinix

Comment:
Lovely flower photo - in a different challenge I would vote this higher. But it does not meet the challenge.

Empire State Building
by digitalpins

Comment:
Pretty cityscape.

Autumn on the Cumberland
by amster

Comment:
I love the beautiful clouds on this one. Pretty setting. My only suggestion for improvement would have been the use of the rule of thirds. I wish that the horizon line had followed more closely on the lower horizontal thirds line.

Serenity
by sajin

Comment:
Pretty shot, I really like the beautiful autumn colors you captured. There is motion blur on the leaves on the left. This feels more like a still life to me than a landscape.

A Simpler Time
by rayg544

Comment:
Too dark

Malibu Creek Canyon
by pjhynds

Comment:
I've been here - you chose a beautiful site. But your lighting is not optimum. Looks like a foggy or cloudy day - I find fog very hard to shoot well. It obscures the details in the mountains and tends to wash out the color. Early morning or late afternoon on a blue sky day would create a more dramatic photo.

Dance of Great Bison Spirits
by elee3009

Comment:
Hi, Eileen. It is hard (but not impossible) to get great shots from a moving car. In another setting (such as Yellowstone - which is where I thought this photo came from) using a tripod, setting your shutterspeed slow - and waiting for the "action" allows you to get the background sharp and your participants blurred. Or in reverse, setting your shutterspeed high and panning (following the subject with the camera and taking a sequence of shots) allows a nicely blurred background and your subjects sharp.

In terms of levels, at the menu bar on the top - there is a pulldown called layers. It is much easier to work and image and make changes when you do things like levels, curves, saturation, and selective color in layers. so you go to the layers pull down, where it says adjustment layer -choose levels or curves . . . . this will create a layer and allow that adjustment. Then you go to the window pulldown - and choose Layers. There is a little eye that you can click on and it will take away that layer so you can see the difference. You can also go back and make further adjustments to a given layer without regard to the order that you worked them. If you have more questions - feel free to PM me.

Playing
by descolano

Comment:
While I like the bright colors and the blurred effect - I find myself wanting either gthe background sharp or the action stopped better against a motion blurred background.

Dance of Great Bison Spirits
by elee3009

Comment:
This is a nice action shot with the buffalos butting heads - but I wish that the backgorund was not blurred and that the buffalos were the only thing motion blurred.

Speed
by fr0zen_steel

Comment:
This seems washed out in color to me - and nothing is sharp. Plus the car and bus compete for my attention. I would prefer to see a car or the bus sharp against a motion blurred background.