On the way to be good

splendida fot... come sempre ;-) Adrj

The colours are wonderful!!! Excellent!

Bellissima, come tutti che fai. Complimenti.

Beautiful!

Perfect! Maria, this is outstanding work! The lines, the color, the composition, texture you can eat and the contrast... well like I said before, PERFECT!!!! Congrats,Ronnie

Nice colors, very ordinary subject, focus is awkwardly placed on the most distant parts of the subject, composition is very plain and expected in my opinion.

you are a so great photographer that your opinion is precious for me, my dearest darling great fiend.

I hope I'm allowed to say I don't see the exceptionally high aesthetic level of this image. It's pleasing for sure, even if the green tint detracts a little bit from the warm atmosphere.

What I find a little disturbing here is the choice of focus , I don't feel very comfortable with the out of focus objects directly in front of me, perfectly centered, unless it is specifically requested by the image composition. Which is not the case here.

Consider this to be a genuine critique, please.

Ciao!

Thanks for your genuine opinion, Antonio.

It's OK but the green cast detracts from the overall look. Easily fixed, though.

Definitely a green cast, no one offers an improvement? Here is my version, not improved, but it's the little wheat at the end of the day, welcoming the shadows so they can sleep snuggled together, in the morn they will pop up again and wave in the delighful breeze and bask in the glorious sunshine!

It could not be sharpened anymore, it had reached it's max. Frame changed as being more saturated it pops a bit more.

http://pics1.homestead.com/files/file2/wheat.jpg

Way better now.

I like a lot your version, but is not what i entend to do. Is really beautiful, but is not maune. Is strong picture. Wonderful, but not maine.

To compare this with EdithB's best in this category and.... Oh. Wait. She doesn't have any photos on here. My mistake. This one is nice.

Thanks, Burt.

Gordon your opion on my work is the same that i have on your, and you know very well what is the sensation that mouves you to write the words that you wrote.

With all due respect, I honestly think this image is vastly over-rated. When you put your work out for the world to view, expect to hear some honest opinions--which you may not want to hear. In my case, that opinion is based on 30 years of reasonably serious study and practice of photography.

 

Judging by your responses to others who have also chosen to say that this image falls short of excellent, it would seem that you need to develop a greater tolerance for criticism.

You too, Gordon. You're older than me, but not for this reason better than me. Your approch with cricicisme is not the way for make maine and other photos better, but only for offend and suppose to be a sort of mafia product, And this is not the behaviour of a person that really is sure of his owen work and ability. If you have to write sone constuctive critique on my work, this is wellcome, otherwise, i'm autorized to think that your intent is only envy and, in this case, please, stay away from my photos. Best regards

I wonder if it might help to consider the difference between insults and constructive criticism? And to focus on the point at issue when we offer comments? To say that a photograph is "mediocre" or "bad" seems to be more of an insult, even if asked for an opinion, than to say things like "I think this could be improved by _________." To give lots of personal information about ourselves (years of experience, academic degrees, publication credits, etc.) might help in some cases IF we have made suggestions for improvement, but I doubt that such autobiographical information gives insults more weight or value. If the point at issue remains the photograph and how it might be improved, then it seems that there is less room for insult on the sending end or offense on the receiving end of feedback.

The image as posted is "way to green" i.e. the colors are off (unrealistic) and it is poorly focused, resulting in a severe lack of depth of field. It simply is NOT a good picture.. I find the intolerance for constructive criticism disturbing, and I concur 150% with Mr. Gordon's remarks above. Tim, your remarks also have merit, and criticism/suggestion needs to be offered in a polite manner, but not neccessarily always nice. I have been watching the image for some time, noted the feedback above and was amazed how long it took before a real critique was offered. The problem is that Maria becomes agressive/defensive immediately and has had problems with this behavior on other instances as well. The re-posted image above is another interpretation of the image, as allowed by the photo.net rules. We all have to realize that if we post an image, we suffer the consequences. If the image is bad, we always have the option of removing it, which is something I do at regular intervals when I realize that I have posted something that really is awful...I just hope that parties above realize that they aren't doing themselves or anybody a favor by falling all over themselves to congratulate an image that needs constructive feedback more than anything else. Now, let's get back to photography...

John, i saw you portfolio. Really great. Fantastic, wonderful, nmagnific, exellent,

But I don't know how to magnify Mr. Gordon's by 150%. My comments were really not meant to be about Mr. Gordon's comments alone, but about the issue in general. I know that constructive criticism, even when given in the best way, can feel like abuse and that this does not make it such. I spent two months training with the Italian Alpini corps in the Alps. We were told (on the first day) to assign ourselves to groups according to skiing ability level. I went to the "intermediate" group until the colonel in charge had us all ski down a little hill so he could observe our skills. He singled me out and said, "Tu! Vai li!" ("You. Go there!"), pointing at the beginner group. That was an important lesson for me. We all need to learn to crawl before we can walk, and then run. The colonel was right, and I was able to get good instruction in the basics that allowed me to make more improvement in the end. Sorry about the long personal story, but it seems to fit. If we tell others that their babies are ugly, let's try to help them find the plastic surgeon.

I remember Special Forces Ski Training at Lenggries, Bavaria. The motto was "ski or else"!!! The first sign in town that training was going on was the noise of the ambulance helicopter...not a good way to learn. Photography the same way. Should be an enjoyable experience. Maria's volume of pictures indicates that she enjoys photography, which certainly SHOULD be the common link for all of us here. For myself, I enjoy photography just as much as 20 years ago...

I wasn't in Special Forces (except in the same sense that "special education" is special, but I knew some guys who moved in and out of SF. Did you ever know Jesse Johnson? He was a captain in the 509th Airborne in the mid 70s, but he retired as a Lt. Col. sometime after Desert Storm. Anyway, this sure is a pretty photo. All's well.

No I worked for an SF fellow named Francis McNamara...a long story...I worked for Evergreen for 12 years, which appeared to be SF at times...