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This waterfall in Glacier National Park is well-shaded.

The hornbill in this image was fighting another, and the scene

suddenly went from vertical to horizontal. Just before shifting, I

decided a vertical shot of the eye would be a nice photo, with an

abstract quality. I then shot horizontal, but it was nowhere near as

interesting. I made this image using a Nikon SB-28DX flash for fill

at the automatic TTL setting. The camera was on S with shutter speed

at 1/30. It was an overcast day at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans,

just after a thunderstorm.

Yep, it's like Galen Rowell's, which you can see here http://www.pdnonline.com/cobrand/nikonnet/masters/galen_rowell/rowell.html

Still, nice work, and I'm sure it took a lot of patience to get it.

An intereting composition. The washed out area from the sun and the ghosting and flaring from the lens are distacting. I think you could crop the structure in the lower right. I don't do much B&W photography, but a yellow or red filter would have darkened the sky and brought out the clouds a little better, I think.

Thank you for your critique and comments. The eye reflections are from both the flash and from natural light, though the reflection from flash is most prominent. You have to zoom in close on his left eye to see the other reflection. This photo was taken at about 2:30 PM, and Casey is facing almost due West, and the sky was clearing after a thunderstorm. His eyes are about 1 foot above camera level. I used PS only to darken the overall photo slightly, to make it match the slide. No color changes, filters, dodge, burn, or any other manipulations were done in PS. The slide was scanned using a Nikon LS-4000 with ICE and GEM (grain reduction) on, and it was sampled 8X. I'm starting to notice that GEM and multisampling seems to reduce sharpness a bit sometimes. I'm not getting the results I expected with my scanner, so any comments on how to use it optimally would be appreciated.

This is a male gorilla named Casey, currently located in the Audubon

Zoo in New Orleans. I made this image just after a heavy

thunderstorm. Casey climbed up into a tree, so I was just below eye

level. A zoo keeper told me he was up there because this 400 pound

gorilla doesn't like to get his feet wet. It took about one hour of

waiting to get the shot I wanted.

nice photo of the whales, except the rocks in the background distract. Less depth of field would help if possible.

some nice photos, but I don't care for the montage. Exchanging the two on the left side would make it a bit more interesting.

Distracting mark or flair in lower left. I don't care for the high voltage lines in this photo.

It looks like the snow overpowered the forground. A split ND would help immensely.

Split ND would help; you could darken the sky and bring out color in the water. The horizon is not straight (camera was not level. Good placement of the children, and the diagonal line of shore is good. I think this would have been a little better just after sunset.

The antennae are unfortunate. I'd get closer, and/or try including something in the foreground.

Better than some of the other SF photos. I suggest submitting far fewer photos of a given subject. On this one, zoom in and eliminate the blank sky.

Having the highway run diagonally through a corner would make it a better composition.

Too much black sky on top.

Way too many photos of San Fran. Cull and submit your best.

Too much blue sky. A split neutral density filter would make it much better if there is anything interesting in the foreground. I would either leave out the ship or make it the subject.

Had this been taken a half second before, this would have been an interesting photo