TeArau Rock
by suemack

Comment:
The over-exposure of the clouds is my major problem with this: all that remains here is the shapes, with no sense of the different tones that should be there. Obviously Idon't know what type of camera you're using, but I would have metered fro the clouds to find my exposure setting here (then you would know the brightest part of the image), or if necessary the very edges of the rock, so that you still get that brightness in the metered area, and hoped that the range of the camera would cope with the comparative darkness of the rocks, and could be brought back in editing. Compoaitionally, I think this is too complex to be Adams-like: most of his images are of very strong shapes, without a lot of confusion of different shapes that you have here. The surface weathering on those rocks is beautifully caught, however, giving them some sense of real 'life', which i like.

Skin Tones
by Imagineer

Comment:
Perfect, for the challenge at least. It has that trade-mark slightly centred-feeling composition, great sense of both tone and texture, a near-abstract interest which i find in a lot of his closer work. Great movement throughout frame too. lovely work.

Willow Tree Out Of Season
by spreadcom

Comment:
A fine attempt, except I can't really connect that sky, both the burnt-out area of it, and the seemingly darkened side of it, with the AA style. The tree, and your treatment of the light effect there, is absolutely spot-on, as is your composition, I would say. I wonder to what extent that angle of light is absolutely necessary for that effect - could getting the light a litle earlier/later have kept it out of shot without losing the effect? A very nice attempt.

as far as the eye can see
by Dan the man

Comment:
In the sense of the tonal results of the zone system, this image works fine. where it falls down, for me, is that I can't imagine AA ever shooting with so bland a sky, and including so much of it. He did favour a more cnetred composition than we often see here, and there are strong elements of texture that he would have appreciated, but compositionally this misses.

Got Milk ?
by soup

Comment:

Originally posted by gwphoto: this is not 640x320

>sigh/<

The Trail
by riley

Comment:
I like this, despite it consisting of a number of things I have little time for - perhaps rather, I should say, because of that: the hyper-smoothness is taken so far, the selective de-sat is so almost arbitrary, the sharpenin artefacts in the trees (and their associated wonderful effect in the image right trees. That halo-ing around the branches image left is the only thing that stops me thinking this is rather a work of acccident than genius. I shall, if i have time, have to comback to it to decide what I really think.

Horizon
by tazza

Comment:
Love the light on the sea, not so sure about the blue tones of the more distant clouds. Your cropping, or framing, has reduced the impact of that ragged edge of the top clouds though - I would think the impact would come more from the passing of them, and there just isn't enough of them in shot to generate that impact.

Banned
by Brad

Comment:
Striking stuff. I love the high contrast work on the wire, and the tonality overall, though I'm no fan of the scne behind - it has a pencil sketched quality, that I think works rather to remove any sense of the photographic from the image. It could of course be for all sorts of reasons, but the final effect of it takes it too far from having a sense of the 'real'. It's clearly the work of someone with expertise though.

You do not fulfill my needs anymore....I want the divorce
by scuds

Comment:
i think I would have preferred slightly fewer sharpening artefacts in your shot. I like the composition - it's strong, and the tonality is effective too.

Broken Vows
by Bud

Comment:
This kind of concentration on details really requires hyper-careful preparation: somehow, the tiniest things stand out.