nickolay_lavrik

Pleasant colors. The branches of the trees and the reflections have very nice texture with somewhat predominant vertical lines.

Exceptional!

An excellent example of perfectly justifed use of PS!

Seasonal subject. Not so seasonal situation.

 

Comments and suggestions for a better tittle are welcome.

Traditional definition of photography refers to

"process of producing images of objects on photosensitive surfaces" ;-))

It looks like that definition is getting more and more obsolete.

 

 

Thanks for the comment Matt. I think you are precisely right: the leaf should remain dark but it would be nice to see a little bit more detail in it. As for your question, the background in this photo is a sheet of blue paper. The hue came from uneven lighting with two different light sources.

 

It's original but would it pass the "hanging on the wall test"? It does look like a nicely textured pattern when it's small. I agree that it looks more like a puzzle when it's bigger. There is something in common with newspaper adds when it is even bigger ;-))

Excellent technically. Very well captured moment that creates a whole story.

This photo does not seem to be compositionally perfect but, nonetheless, I like it a lot. It has a nice mood and nice gradation of tones. I think it would be even better if there was no trunk of the dead tree in the foreground.

Thank you all for the constructive comments and ratings. Ivan, I agree that the choice of the background color was not well thought out and that the bleached out tip of the left leaf is somewhat distracting. It looks like it's worth to reshoot this composition on a film camera.

 

 

Thanks for the comments.

"The squirrels and the nuts" are coming soon. It's just a matter of time! 200 to 400 PS hours :-)) would be my quick estimate.

Excellent composition and tones.

Very nice and original.

Marc, thanks for the constructive comments and the welcome message. ;-))

 

 

It's hard not to agree that the image suffers from a disastrous flaw of being static while the captions says "going". Nonetheless, I believe there is some basis for the chosen title. When I stare at the image long enough, it becomes apparent that "going" and, to a lesser degree, "nuts" refer to something that is beyond the frame and, perhaps, not even in the plane of the image ;-))

 

As for the inner "frame", yes, it does underscore existence of the nuts within a certain utilitarian frame (which is actually a cube-shaped basket) of logic that withstands violent forces playing around. It looks like the frame is ready to melt though. The black patterns at the bottom are supposed to symbolize "dark energy" igniting the whole ordeal but I agree that they introduce visual disharmony. Of course, the lively green leaves symbolize resilience and hope. But I agree that the bottom ones are visually redundant.

 

Finally, all the comments that identified the good and the bad about this image helped me to create a couple of new versions. The International Edition of Going nuts attached here contains sharper nuts, the upper leaves only and an extended space at the bottom ;-) Unfortunately, I failed to remove those several nuts overcrowding the left bottom corner (need to improve my PS skills). I also uploaded Going nuts II with a somewhat different composition, tones and colors .

 

Regards,

 

Cold and beautiful!

Comments, suggestions, critique and ratings would be appreciated.

Glad I came across this photo ;-)) :-))

Less common combination of shapes and colors not so frequently seen in flower photos adds to the originality.

Joining all the above.

Beautiful portrait. The choice of cropping and tones are very good. I like the idea of including some more space and details from the room in the background. It helps to create a distinctive mood. The only thing in the background that I find slightly distracting is on the left "touching" her shoulder.

Very nice composition. The details and DOF are excellent. I agree with the previous comment about the strong effect of changing tones of the sky. The shades work well for me. However, I feel that the photo could benefit if the very bottom of the left column were not cropped off.

I like the compostion and the cropping. The caption fills this photo with almost ironic sense. Otherwise would be an abstract.

The cropping works indeed very well here.

Thank you for an excellent idea for the next theme: "The squirrels and the nuts" ;-))

Amazing! Apparently overlooked by the photo.net community.