addaon stanford

Very poor composition, to my eye... distracting high-brightness screen, partially cut off; cat crowded against the left edge.

Essentially flawless. Get rid of the overdone frame and I'll be perfectly pleased.

Not sure whether to say "cool" or "eww".

I must say, this is more disturbing than enticing.

I'm just not sure why this isn't in your "best work" folder.

I'm not normally a photoshop fan, but this works so well. Bravo.

Focus is a bit too soft for me, but it's still a really good shot.

Cute, but seems overexposed.

Sarah, unfortunately I have to agree, a little boring. I also have to brag a bit about my luck (not, I promise, my skills), as this was also taken out of a car in arizona.

 

Anyway you can at least close out what I assume is the reflection from something on the dashboard, horiontal lines? Or if those are clouds, and I'm just seeing things... they're too low contrast to quite work.

I have to ask... is the color natural, or upped with photoshop?

 

And if you've decided to subject it to photoshop, anyway you can make that bush on the right seem more purely silhouetted, less fringed with red?

Have to agree, clone out the power lines. And I sort of think a slightly longer lens would have helped this, allowed the viewer to get detail on a bunch of hay, not just two rolls. Maybe twice the length, step to your left a bit (but still get the shadow on the right side of the lead bale) and capture the four rightmost bales, skip the left one.

Really cool... takes a moment to figure out. The snow works very well, looks like it was melting just a bit around the trunks, making it slightly translucent.

 

I'd like to see it either much more saturated, with 'natural'' tree colors (I assume the above is what you saw, but it's still much darker and less saturated than I think of), or desaturated entirely to B&W.

How could this have been improved? And what category should it be in?

Highlights are a bit blown out, which is a pity... but I liked the positions of the butterflies and the shapes formed too much to throw it out.

Crappy scan, don't know what's quite going on the lower left hand corner there. The negative and prints are both a clear gradient to black in that area.

Ira, try desaturating a mix of 70% green channel and 30% red channel, removing the blue channel entirely. You may want to darken the grass area by hand, with that mix, or go to 60/40 and see if the house stays dark enough. Show us the results of your experiments!

 

(This is equivalent to having used a filter which absorbs 100% of blue, 70% of red, and 30% of green on black and white film to begin with, roughly.)

Again, I think the sky is just too dark here. Should be blue, not black!

The sky is just too dark. Don't use the polarizer to the point that it looks unnatural.

The trees are a bit grey (unsaturated), and there could be a bit more vertical space... but the shape and ocean color is very interesting. Where did you take this picture from?

Consider cropping to a square frame.

Unaltered, as mentioned above. Color saturation is a combination of what HD 400

seems to do at night (30 second exposure) and a mercury light off in the distance. I've

tried to repeat this kind of thing in other places, and never quite gotten the bright

greens and the smooth gradient of sky color. Any ideas?

Thank you. I'm not so sure I mind the pedestrian, but that taxi is fulfilling its purpose in life by being annoying, I agree.

 

On a tangent, I just noticed that PhotoNet says "Originality: None" when you have no ratings... our harshest critic?

It made me laugh. Good enough for me.

 

And the kid will be humiliated every time someone sees it, in a few years. Ah, children.

Focus a bit to soft for my liking, highlights a bit too strong... and you might want to change the technical details. :-)

Classy. I like it, and I'm not usually a B&W fan.