maui_28.jpg
by meyers

Comment:
I love this! Gorgeous colours, interesting subject matter, and the mast makes a gorgeous diagonal. Would've done very well in a challenge.

maui_13.jpg
by meyers

Comment:
Cool shot. Perfect composition, and the bokeh works well.
The highlights in the lower left corner could do with a bit of darkening (currently they really shift the focus of the photo), and maybe sharpening this a notch would help, but it's already a very good photo as it is.

maui_16.jpg
by meyers

Comment:
Gorgeous colours. Would probably sell as stock photography (I keep seeing stuff just like this on Photographers Direct)

maui_10.jpg
by meyers

Comment:
The composition would be much improved if the two chairs were in the left hand corner. Also, you can use pp to bring out the colours a lot more.
Nice use of the rule of thirds :)

fireworks_01.jpg
by meyers

Comment:
Very pretty! They look oddly like feathers :)
Nice and sharp, gorgeous colours, nice composition.

fireworks_00.jpg
by meyers

Comment:
Ooh, shiny. Very pretty shot. I think you've got the technique spot on - the patterns are very sharp, there's no noise in the sky, it works really well. Then it's just the case of taking hundreds of photos and picking the best ones (exactly what you did). You've officially got fireworks photos nailed.

acen06_black.jpg
by meyers

Comment:
Fantastic portrait. I love the evil facial expression. And I might be biased because I used to dress like that :)

pp suggestions: use a small healing brush to fix a couple of the dark patches on her face, and slightly darken the red in the background in the top left corner (it's blending into her hair). Otherwise perfect.

acen06_circle.jpg
by meyers

Comment:
Very cool! I love the colours, and the composition works really well. Fantastic costume.

Again, the background isn't great - just fix it using burning or something, and it'll totally transform the shot.

acen06_butterfly.jpg
by meyers

Comment:
She's very cute. And I'm extremely jealous of her outfit (it would go ever so well with my username).

The background is distracting, which is a shame. I'd be tempted to shift the light in pp (add a couple of highlights to her face, and darken the background).

Urban Predator
by maxaz1

Comment:
Hey!

Here's the edit:


The idea was to use USM to get rid of the blur, while using multiple layers to get rid of the traces of oversharpening.

-Layer via copy.
-USM at 6pm, around 75%
-Use an eraser to delete the bits of the image obviously displaying an oversharpening halo.
-Repeat again with USM at 1.2px, around 60% to sharpen the finer details.

I also cropped off a bit of the bottom, increased the saturation a notch (+10), and decreased the saturation of the yellows a bit (-8).

The whole thing is a lot easier to fix by selectively applying noise reduction, rather than playing with it later to fix it though.