anthony_childers

Orchid on display at the Atlanta Botanical gardens. Please

critique. I like the colors in here and the unique shape. It is a

bit soft in places, but other than that what do you think?

Very cool picture. These white on black pictures are tricky to expose right. High marks all around!

I like this but there are 3 things that distract me here. 1 the branch haning directly from the top middle. It's not connected to anything, looks funny. 2. the sky is over exposed. Only thing I could think to do here is to take 2 pictures from a tripod one for the exposure you got and another to get better exposure on the sky. If the sun is at the right angle mabye even add a polarizer to deepen the blue and bring out th punch in the leaves far away that look faded. Then using layers in photoshop combint the two for one picture more evenly balanced. 3. The pile of leaves/debris on the forground is distracting to me. I love reflection shots but i would have croped this out. Great subject though, wish I could find more stuff like this to shoot.

great balance of foreground and background both in contract range and composition!

Nice! really draws you into the photograph. Only suggestion I could make is to add a 1 stop nd graduated filter. would darken the clouds on top a shade bringing out more detail in them. Also it would make the sunray on the ocean stand out more. this would draw the eye down the road to the lighthouse, pause, then continue out to the horizion.

Good composition. A bit contrasty for my taste though. Looks like you used a polarizer, may have come out more evenly balanced without one. also check you depth of field scales. The forground subject is fuzzy. would add to the picture if it where sharper.

Request a critique of this pic. Any constructive critizism welcome.

I like the comisition of the shapes in this, with the vivid red

against the bananna yellow of the body.

This was taken on the Appalachain Trail at my camping spot on Blood

Mountain in the North Georgia Mountains. Please give me any

constructive critiques you can. Thanks.

I took this Pic away from the setting sun close to my camping spot.

It is on the Appalachian Trail in Georgia on top of Blood Mountain.

Turned out to be a really great day and fun trip.

Great composition! The picture really comes out at you. And I really like the lighting on the subject.

nice capture. Got the right moment, good comosition, and good lighting. Don't you love it when everthing comes together like that?

Wow interesting light! Almost an electric quality to it. Love to know how you did it.

I might adjust the foucsing point on this one. My eye is not drawn into the photo. I would try to go for having the view drawn past the wine flask into the glass wondering what is in there. I might try to put my point of focus as the leading edge of the glass to have the viewer want to lean over the edge to see in. Otherwise I love the lighting setup and tonality. I would love to know what lighting positions you used and how many lights. It looks like one main from the raer and a fill in the left front but I can't tell.

nice color! The only suggestions I have are keep your subject in mind. I can't tell from looking at the pic what your intended subject is. Also the trees in the back are a stop or so overexposed. I might suggest a 2 stop graduated nuetral density filter. This would darken or "tone down" the background darker than the foreground thus eliminating it as a distraction. My eye is continually drawn back and forth between the foreground shrubs and the trees in the back. I don't believ you meant the trees to be your subject, so doing that would make the foreground seem to stand out more. Hope this is usefull to you.

Richard-Thanks! Tha Biltmore Estate is in North Carolina. Lots of photo opportunities there.

I think the film on this was 400, so I was pushing the quality of the pic when scanned. It does have a lot of blue noise, which I could have spent more time on, plus it got worse when i converted it from high res to a format for the web. Thanks for the commet though. I'll be more patient next time :)

Please critique this shot for me

great picture. Interesting way to capture the subject! My preference would have been to capture this without the water beads though, as it distracts from the main focus of the pic. Just my thoughts though.