A Boring Book
by gyaban

Comment:
I love books!

Sleeping Sentinel
by Tez

Comment:
Good job on balancing the HDR look still keeping it natural and not distracting. The colors are the star of the show here and they work so well!

The Shared Umbrella
by Melethia

Comment:
I quite prefer the B&W. I also rather like the way the umbrella blends in with the canopies behind it.

Very well done. You are indeed a B&W girl.

No two alike
by Melethia

Comment:
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Just got my lensbaby comp and I'm excited about the possibilities. This is a very good example. And very nicely processed.

I'd love to hear a bit more from you as to how you set up the lensbaby for this one.

Black Dog
by Melethia

Comment:
Man, this thing just WORKS. Monet would love ya!

What a brilliant pic for just sheer compositional strength.

Only thing I'd like a bit better would be a tiny, tiny bit less strong on the edges of the points of light that got dragged up at the top, but that's impossible in Basic. Something like a Gaussian blur at 1.2 at 40% opacity just in the area of foliage at the top. Through the rest of the pic, it just feels like texture. And very, very nice texture.

Waiting
by dtremain

Comment:
I agree with the others, the pic itself looks pretty cool with nice use of grain, but the borders gotta go.

I don't get 'waiting' either.

Autumn
by dtremain

Comment:
I'm a sucker for triptych, so I'm biased, but I think it's pretty cool.

Again, I'm seeing too much in the reds. Do you check the histogram when editing? especially with the channels split? The pic on the red is quite muddy from being pushed too hard.

The one in the middle is suffering from highlights and the one on the right is... just right.

Old Country Church
by dtremain

Comment:
In the thumbs, this looks very striking. It seems a bit oversaturated in the blues though. This has also brought out a bit of unusual magenta stuff happening there as well.

Even in basic, a hue/sat layer and a selective color layer would have taken care of that I think.

Beyond the Sunset
by dtremain

Comment:
I like the mood and the colors, but I'm having trouble with the intensity of light.

There's an area that works with the 'blooming' effect of the strong light and blown highlights. However, there's also a ton of channel clipping and overly strong highlights through the rest of the pic that seem 'less than ideal'.

Specifically the highlights in the leaves on the ground in the light and the strong reflection off the gravestones on the right. For these areas of highlight, a bit of a circular gradient on a second exposure would probably do a lot of good for the shot, HDR style.

I like the lightness in the shadow areas on the gravestones, especially with the colors there.

Architecture
by dtremain

Comment:
As a raw texture study, I quite like this. It has a nice abstract look.

It's oversharpened and I like it for this pic.