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Jennifer, I think I understand your other suggestions at least roughly (and somewhat agree - a bit more of that emptiness could go), but could you elaborate what you mean with angle in this case?

I haven't really tried portrait-style photography so far. Recently

however, I took some test shots with the combination of IR filter and

a flash as the source of IR. This was the best of those in my opinion.

I'm curious about what I did right and what not so right, because

portraits are unknown terrority to me and this was done mostly by

intuition.

Whoa, filter or not, definitely eye-catching. The only major gripe I have with this is the relatively large overexposed area.

The combination of reflecting water and ice is nice, but this looks too "busy".

Atmospheric, the darkness of the sky feels almost overpowering.

The edges of the green thing are somewhat jagged - maybe due to the background removal? Otherwise, not bad at all.

First, thanks for all comments so far.

 

About the color version; this actually is the color version. There was just nothing colorful enough to be reflected by the water; the glass was on metallic a washbasin. (a few areas with very slight non-gray tints can be noticed when you know where to look)

 

The "bowl" is a small drink glass. A more vertical version might indeed fit this setup.

This is first relatively satisfying water macro shot with my new

external flash (built-in flash caused ugly reflections). Any comments

and suggestions are welcome.

The rock is perhaps slightly distracting there, although not a major annoyance. All in all, a nice photo.

I'm not sure I like the somehow artifical-looking blue color on the shadow side of the dune and the background could perhaps be more out of focus?

 

But general composition of the photo works for me quite well.

Wonderfully unreal-looking, would easily work as a fantasy illustration.

A winner. Beautiful lightning. The horizon could perhaps be better when non-centered, though. Like the atmosphere of person standing there alone in quite dramatic-looking beach.

Wonderful colors. Feels like the stump is blocking walking down a route defined by the trees on the left side.

While taking the picture, I aligned with the roof, which resulted to

the lighthouse tower itself being slightly tilted due to perspective.

Personally, I actually like it this way more than the roof being

tilted, but I'm curious whether others have the same opinion or not.

I re-uploaded the photo, because there was a nasty one pixel wide vertical line caused by a bug that occasionally turns out in the older version of the GIMP while scaling. No other differences.

Nice colors and frozen moment. It's lacking a bit of contrast though, IMO.

Beautiful. The purplish streak at the bottom and slight unsharpness are only things that make this less than perfect. Otherwise, a very beautiful photo! Best of this folder at the moment.

The major and abptrupt change of color lifts this above average for me. Perhaps if the rocky wedge would reach even longer to the left it might be better, but I guess that depends how the land and water continue on the right of the currently visible area...

Too small image to really say anything much about it...

One of the reasons I wanted to have comments about this picture was that the strength of the effect was on the edge of where I wasn't sure if the diffusion was the major part of the picture instead of only modifying it slightly. Judging by the comments it seems that I'm somewhat close but not quite on the mark.

 

This is why I do not usually use effects like this much; I feel that a somewhat "basic" picture is better than effects overkill, and I do not always trust myself about staying below the overkill level :)

 

The suggestion about having separate degrees of diffusion in different areas of picture sounds like a good plan; I guess this could be done relatively well with some masking before applying the effect or with some use of layers.

 

Thanks for all comments so far!

I do not usually use operations other than cropping, scaling and

unsharp masking very much. However, for this picture I tried adding

some diffusion effect. Does the soft look fit this picture?

 

(The medium-sized version seems to be somewhat muddy due to scaling

and another round of jpeg compression, so viewing the 'large' version

is recommended...)

Rather fabulous water, but I'd probably crop some more from the left side of the picture.

I have toyed with an infrared filter for a few days now, but decided

that I'd like to avoid uploading an IR picture with typical IR

elements (glowing foliage, almost black sky with white clouds etc) as

my first IR photo at photo.net.

 

So, here is what I came up with. Does this succeed at avoiding the

cliches and conveying a dark and menacing feeling? Naturally, all

other comments are welcome.

I like it, however it would be in my opinion be better if the the right (or left, depending on the point of view ;) breast would be fully in picture. The idea of projecting the pattern is nice.

This picture has a very mystical look. Nice lightning.