allan engelhardt

Interesting...

Somewhat dark in the right hand side and the street and the shirt seems to be burnt out?

Wow - that's a long fall!

Nicely exposed image. Would it have been better if it had showed more of the foilage?

It's a beautiful waterfall.

I wonder if the composition could have been improved by moving the fall more away from the center?

The colors are very weak -- is this a feature of your scan or are they like that in the original? Try 'color enhance' in Gimp or equivalent...

I like the primary colors of yellow, blue and white. I't almost like a still-life photo.

But there probably isn't enough in the subject to really hold my interest.

It's a busy image, but there is lots of texture and light to explore.

The sky is dull and lets the image down

Very black-and-white with few middle tones - almost lith - isn't it? Interesting technique.

I'm not sure it's an interesting subject, though. Maybe show more of that sigh and those telephone masts?

Nice portrait!

Would it benefit from tighter framing?

This is a nice building.

In your composition, there is too much sky and too much on the sides. Try a longer lens to focus on the main subject.

I like both images. Certainly get rid of the sky and I think there is also a very nice image with the stones, as suggested here. I like them both.

Mmm, nice. Like a painting: the image has a soft, velvety feel to it.

There is probably a touch too much background in the upper- and right sides, and the thing in the foreground is distracting.

It's that bridge again! :-) Welcome back.

It's nice. It's calm. It is much simpler and direct in the composition than the original. I like it.

Two questions:

1. We have lost both of the funny stone sculptures -- was there no way of including one of them to add an additional element for the eye to explore? (Maybe you have already tried this, and it didn't "work"?)

2. The colors seem a little muted this time. Different day, different film, or different scanner? I'll try to upload a color enhanced version. Be aware, though, that it is probably over the top. Not the most subtle of filters. But OK to show the general idea?

Neat image. One to have on the bedroom wall for meditation before sleep.

...you've got there, MV, and you have done well to isolate it from the background: it really standa out (except for that little blue highlight in the bottom, especially in the middle-right).

The water adds interest. I would perhaps have used more water, but I appreciate a certain aesthetics in your arrangement.

My issue is that - at least on my monitor - the highlights are burnt out. Your exposure is probably spot-on average exposure for the flower. The issue is, it seems, that your light is too harsh and there is simply too much range in the image for your print/scanner.

I would maybe have raised the light a little, to avoid the slightly harsh shadow in the upper right "corner" of the flower.

...you just need to crop it to focus on the bird. There is somewhat too much background for my tastes.

Yes, strictly speaking the background does distract from the picture and the poor bird looses a little of its definition because of similarities in tone and because of the white highlights in the background.

But it's a good picture and you did very well to (a) capture it and (b) realise what the potential issues are. Well done.

I like the tonal range in this image. It is certainly better that I would have expected for this camera: at first I thought you had used LF.

It gets a bit dark in the left side: you should probably crop a touch and use that to get rid of that bush (?) as well?

Good effort.

I like it! Business people are always advised to be carful with photographes from the newspapers, less they portrait them with something sticking out of their heads. The classic is the factory chimny with the headline "Full steam ahead for (company/person name)!" They are oh-so funny those people from the local papers... :-)

But here I like the effect and it seems to suit the character.

Maybe off-centre would be better, as suggested by another poster. I would tend to agree, but the attached crop leaves me unconvinced.

Good work.