lucyhollis

Fantastic amount of detail! It's impossible to even tell if this was a black and white photograph or not, but it makes me feel chilled to the bone.

This photograph has so many perfect elements - all that Christal said already! Well done.

Any comments are welcome and appreciated. Thanks, Lucy

Sorry about that. Thanks for the heads-up. It should work now.

I was interested in discussions on: this technique and thought it might add something to this photo. So my method was:

duplicate photo

convert duplicate layer to b&w and merge using 'Soft Light'

Then flattened and used extreme USM.

Finally added some vignette.

 

In fact that dark edge in the centre can be seen in the original file. It has just been emphasised by darkening the shadows.

 

I can see this sort of technique could be overdone and be cliched but for now I think/hope it did add something to this photograph.

 

 

Aged vines in the Temperate House at Kew Gardens, London.

 

Any comments are welcome and appreciated. Thanks, Lucy

Thanks for taking the time to tell me more about this landscape.

Lucy

Oooh I can feel the crisp autumn wind in this photograph! Beautiful.

The lighting, colour all works for me. Skin looks a little overly softened to be natural, ok if you were going for the artificial pure look though.

 

This photo makes me think of a deer in headlights at night, aww so sweet and innocent;)

Well seen! Thanks for the location info too.

Great eye contact! Haha you rarely get that feeling with bug photos, so this one is extrastrong. Very good photography wise too - colour, DOF etc

Definitely a strange landscape! What garden is this? I can't work out the scale as the people on the narrow bit through the water look tiny, but not so much further away!

Beautiful soft colouring, and light of course

Strange forms. Good compostion to accentuate the island's shape.

Great lighting

Nice lighting, the way the shadows creep up on the right gives it the feel of autumn literally turning to winter across the frame!

The smear effect works so well to make this tin shed merge into the landscape, quite literatlly. However I think the image is so strong as a whole the way the colour of the far hillside matches the scrap in the foreground and the green of the roofs match the swash of pines behind. This wasn't just a lucky snap! Well done.

This made me laugh!

The sun shining through a tree in full autumn colour at Kew Gardens,

London. I used a small aperature (f22) to make the sunburst.

 

Any comments are welcome and appreciated. Thanks, Lucy

Aww the bee is camera shy! While that makes a sweet story, I think I'd rather still be able to see the whole of the bee's head, nice and sharp (like the leg is at the moment). Nice soft colours (the lavenders and ambers go nicely together).

Sorry, it seems to dark too me.

Beautiful lighting - I admire the contrast between the dark background and the white petals still with full detail.

Original work!

I would prefer the focus to be on the front or middle petals of the carnation. Also the red is so saturated that a lot of the detail has been lost.

Very interesting 'flowers'. IMO I'm not certain the empty space on the right adds anything to the compostion though.