allan engelhardt

The colors are great: bright white, blue, yellow. Love it!!

IMHO the compostion needs a little work. It is almost there, but in still life "almost" isn't enough. We expect painstaking attention to detail.

So you probably want two unbroken egg yolks, you'd want to hide the white what's-it-called on the bottom, unbroken, egg yolk, You'd want to get rid of the bit of yellow in the egg shell, you may want to clear up the small bits of shell (?), and you'd probably want to get rid of the "fold" on the plate in the top right corner: This is an exercise in color and bold shapes, not subtleties.

Sooooo close to a really great picture!! The idea is fantastic! In fact, I think I'll be looking for blue plates soon..... Thanks for sharing.

I received a few comments on the previous version of this imagethat I have tried to take into account with this new scan and edit.

More suggestions for improvements and general comments would bemost welcome.

Personally, I'm a little unhappy about that building that appeas inthe middle of the image on the right hand side, but I can't get rid ofit without either (a) leaning the main tower a couple of degreesclockwise or (b) some heavy use of the clone tool.

From the ever-growing http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=174354">PacificCoast Highway folder.

That's a really neat idea! I like it, I like it a lot. Thanks for sharing that.

Technically, there seems to be a bit of blur: a couple of the faces are unsharp. Next time, bring a big lighting kit, enought to light a medium sizes stadium and increase the shutter speed, while keeping maximum DOF. With five minutes on your hands, it should be no problem rigging it up in time ;-)

On a (slightly) more serious note, I can't decide if the people in the foreground should look at the camera or the guy.

It's a fine picture.

It's a lovely picture in any language! Congrats.

I love the texture of that building and the shadow of the photographer showing clearly what would otherwise be hidden.

Where is this place!? I want to go.

Nitpicking: the horizon isn't level, is it??

Is this an improvement over the http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=412318">originalversion? Should I have made a different crop? Additional edits(e.g. blur background)? Or leave it well alone?

Suggestions, comments, etc. would be most welcome. Thanks.

whish I was there....

But I also somehow wish I could see the horizon .. maybe it's just me.

Wow.

Wow!

When I grow up I want to take pictures like Dick B.

Thanks for sharing this one. It is very, very good.

I really like the idea and I think you have done a good job.

Nitpicking, perhaps: Your exposure is too long - the moon has moved a little (unless it's my eyes again!) and appear slightly sausage-shaped. It always amazes me how fast it goes.....

I think that you have done well to capture and retain a lot of detail in the main parts of the door and portal, and that the single person gives a great sense of scale.

I'm not 100% sure about the golden tone, but I guess it kind of works here...?

I have two problems with the image: One small and one huge.

The small one is that the sky is featureless and the top of the building blends in. Maybe you can select the sky and darken it a little in the curve tool.

The BIG one is that the horizon is not level! Please rotate it a little.

The suspense is killing me, the horror of not knowing: What is that thing in the foreground???? Please do tell.

It's a nice shot. It certainly got me looking because of those lovely purple layers and the strong shape of whatever-it-is in the foreground.

Maybe the distant hills disappear just a little too quickly to give it a full 10-rating, but it is a very nice shot. No doubt about that.

Straight heads-on architectural photography has largely fallen out of

fashion (if it ever was in fashion?) with the (justified) argument

that it is unimaginative. The attitude is summed up neatly in a

Pentax advertising campaign where they give you "the standard shot of

the Eiffel Tower" so you are free to take your camera and do something

more interesting with it.

However, it seems to me that the architecture of some buildings are

very much about their front and they way they impose themselves on the

city-scape, and it would be not be fair not to include a shot that

shows the this clearly, and, perhaps, unimaginatively.

So, are direct front-on shots boring and should be culled from the

portfolio, or are they sometimes justified, perhaps if balanced with

other views? Discuss. :-)

And the ultimate test is, I guess, whether the image is pleasing to

the viewer, so fell free to comment on that as well.

Christ Church College, Oxford, England in the early morninglight with a single runner out for some very early exercise.

This is a new crop with a better color balance. Does this lookreasonalbe to you? How could I have improved the composition?

Simple picture, very effective. Balanced, lovely light. Good Stuff .

Terrible scan.