Trees - Strength and domination
by spaque99

Comment:
Great framing and good contrast but just a touch soft in focus. Too bad there aren't more interesting details to show in the sky.

roots
by whiteroom

Comment:
You will see that in all Adams' images they have high contrast, like yours, but also are perfectly focused. Yours is not. Yours looks to have digital sharpening yet does not seem in clear focus.

Mount Snow Vermont
by ericndeb

Comment:
Contrast is not as high as it migh be to make the trees and snow stand out more. The sky lacks detail and the overall focus is a little on the soft side. You will see that all of Adams' work is focused to perfection.

Wahkeena Falls
by LucidLotus

Comment:
The soft focus of the water is fine, but the image lacks side detail to provide both interest and a setting for the flow.

Sedona
by Tess

Comment:
Good subject and composition. Image is not in the high contrast style of Adams, but it is really the overall focus of the image that is its main issue. It seems both oversharpened and out of focus at the same time. This is common with digital landscapes. I know, I take landscapes all the time and all mine are like that. It is probably the camera's internal processor doing it to you.

Sacramento Mountains and Yucca Plant
by drgsoell

Comment:
Good adams-like landscape shot selection and it has nice clouds in the sky. The image, however is very soft focused. Adams is known for his tack sharp images with very deep DOF.

Morning Glory
by zagman

Comment:
Nothing wrong with the choicse of subject and you have a good deep black. The tiny specks on the petals are distracting and should be cloned out. The stamine suffers from an oversharpened digital look that could also be cloned to remove.

Closer
by eckoe

Comment:
Got the proper adams style high contrast image. The picture is not in good focus and there appears to be some strange type of noise on the left of the tree.

Distant Tree
by mpalitang

Comment:
Nice greys but not really in the Adams style which cover the full range of tones to solid black that usually occupies a significant part of the frame. Very soft focused.

Sandia Peak Tramway
by ElGordo

Comment:
Great idea, wonderful setting and is done in the style of Adams... but the overall technical quality of this image is poor.