Chain Bridge by night in Budapest
by M&M

Comment by pineapple:
Pretty good. A bridge sometimes looks better from below. It's not often one gets the from above view point.

Chain Bridge by night in Budapest
by M&M

Comment by GuGi:
This is very well done. I have only been up there during the day time, and the view is fantastic, next time I'll make sure to be there in the evening, thanks to your inspiration.

Chain Bridge by night in Budapest
by M&M

Comment by rennie:
Budapest is beautiful. Nice photo, with a lot of details of the bridge. I don't know whether you were able to take different angle, to avoid the lit in the left bottom and the blue spot on the right part, but I think it could help. These are very minor issues. Very nice effect.

Chain Bridge by night in Budapest
by M&M

Comment by hotpasta:
were you flying at the time? ;-) well done

Chain Bridge by night in Budapest
by M&M

Comment by biggis:
This one is a great photo.

Holy place ?
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Comment by Jutilda:
The moon and it's silvery halo with the gold of the building is really powerful.

The last resistant...
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Comment by danthesquidkid:
not enough of the winter. you should have shown a huge winter area with this standing out

Coming or going???
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Comment by Sonifo:
Wow, can't believe you tried this when the roads were bad. Great shot!

TITA
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Comment by KaDi:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

A fine image of a beautiful woman...not quite hang-on-the-wall portrait quality though.

Several of your commenters mentioned the distracting background and I agree. There's just too much information behind your subject to prevent my attention from wantering. I think it would be possible to correct that with some post-process editing by choosing one of the neutral colors (the off-white, perhaps) and filling the background with it.

The lighting does appear a bit flat. It appears you may have used the on-camera flash. This would help illuminate the face but because of its straight on orientation it also flattens out the shadows that help shape the face's features. The pinpoint of light in the center of the pupils also bothers me. I think it draws the wrong kind of attention to the eyes. Using an off-camera flash (just something on a flash bracket) would help avoid these objections. Alternatively, you could keep the flash off and pose your subject near a light source positioned behind your right or left shoulders (off to one side, slightly).

The range of tones, the exposure, the color...all natural and pleasing. The expression on the subject's face seems half-way between emotions, however. I feel that exceptional portraits do more than record the features of a subject, the give us an idea of the person's state of mind, mood, or personality.

Overall, a good study. Keep shooting!
--Kadi

TITA
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Comment by amhunt:
Truly beautiful.