ron c sunshine coast,qld,a

This image is a 'good' example of the way modern art sems to work
i.e -make artwork that annoys,depresses and generally drags down the viewer.There is no redeaming feature here are at all :(

The overexposed glare in the background is rather distracting (allthough not as bad as typical dreary underexposed 'arty' pictures)

Interesting shot,did you use a remote?

The neutral grad absolutally kills any colour in the sky

Well it's a great example of what it is.

Unfortunately though it's basically tired old seventies art,so even if it's the best of it's kind it's never going to be meaningfull in any way

A very nice image,no doubt about it.

Personally i wouldn't have it hanging on my wall though, because the converging lines are far too strong

While i didn't have time to read through others comments i did catch one that says it well - 'Is it an abstract or a landcape?'

Mixing the two so strongly doesn't work

Unaltered (except for turing it upside down )

Does the background blur thing work ? Not too strong?

Thanks Jim,the comment on darkening the sky is a good one,i tend not to think of these things as i'm allways after the realistic look.I now remember seeing a similar (darker) daylight moon shot that looked much better.
I wasn't leaning against anything.Curious myself i checked and found they were taken at 1/1250th ,so it's probably not surprising they are all 'ok'.This particular one is above average though.Just lucky

Yes these lenses are really quite good if you can live with the obvious mirror lens drawbacks.Bob Atkins has done an excellent review/test-do a search for an article titled (i think ) 'mirror mirror'

A really lucky shot i got this afternoon while shooting with a 500mm tamron mirror lens (handheld!).I managed to get off 5 shots and -thankfully- the one where the plane was closest to the moon was also the sharpest.

Highly enlarged-near 100% pixels.

This really is an amazing image.

In fact it would be one of the best i've ever seen but for one blatantly obvious mistake -the wings just aren't right.They look like they have a shrinking/wasting disease.
Also that cloth in the background is pointless.Otherwise a stunner,absolutally brilliant

Glad you like it Andy. That's the moon-it was taken at about 2:30AM

Im abit surprise some want to dramatically change this photo.It's really quite complete as it is i think.
The blured head and shoulders/general background look great against the scattered (and suprisingly sometimes sharp) image through the water.There are aother factors but it's later here and i cant think too well ;)

Overall a great and interesting image that has the *major* attraction of not being thrown together in photoslut

Well,there's worse 'art' around i guess.At least this one looks ok - even if i can't make head nor tail of it

Seriously good-i like!

The only bad thing i can say about it is that the smoothing effect is way too overdone .BR>The perspective,background,pose,facial expression and lack of colour all work extremely well together .It has immediate impact :)

The colour is abit passe to be honest plus the smoothing/soft-highlighting on her face and bust is abit plastic looking.What really intrigues me is the way that slash of light works with the face highlights.Amazing in a small but significant way

This is a very interesting shot to be sure.
My first thoughts are how much better would it have been if everything weren't so soft !Certainly the dust ,low light and nessesary depth of field issues make it difficult to get a sharp shot- but then i checked the authors other work and realised he seems to have deliberatly made everything soft.Bad choice...:(
With a little more sharpness-just a little more,this shot would have been bordering on greatness.As it is it's more a waste of an awsome scene

Blow it up big and donate it to your local airport lounge ,LOL

Haha,good one!Something abit different and interesting

Oh good grief

This one attracted me with it's interesting subject and pose -but it's too dark!Brighten it up abit.It looks like a slide without the highlights!

Very nice-and brings back great memories!

Unfortunately it's overcompressed i think.I suspect this because there are lighter patches where the colours have gone blotchy-and the whole thing lacks detail.
Try re-editing the original and saving it at 100Kb or more.Experiment abit.

VERY nice pic.Great view and very good cropping.
All i would try to improve is the cropping on the right (i want to see how far the cliff extends) and maybe (...*maybe*) see it in colour.
I suspect it might look more real and less like art if it was in colour,but i'm guessing

Like most digital allterations-this is abit of a waste of time

Sorry i must say this image is a loser.
Not only is it obviously faked,it's very badly faked and doesn't look very interesting anyway

Very nice.I **really** love the light airy feel-it gives it a great realism (to me-i tend to hate dim arty images)