john_h.1

Milky Way AND oversized out of place moon. Way too fake.

I have a couple heavy HDR images of similar scenes. I found that desaturating the sky from fake blue looking overcast but, dramatic, clouds to much more gray was a desirable adjustment. Perhaps you may as well.

I gather so, but, the comment was directed at photographs containing the same subject matter. The comment was more about the view on that rather than the view on the POW itself.

"A figure with their back turned towards the photographer and walking away very rarely makes a good picture"

A subjective viewpoint.

The brightness of the mountains looks too unnatural.

"mastery of PS techniques is evident."

I wouldn't call this mastery.

I agree a bit over saturated but in a way a lot of people will like. HDRish like effect is within reasonable standards plus a well balanced result The shutter choice worked with respect to the waves and the mixed effect. The framing and composition is good. 

A success.

It is Photoshop.

At least the watermark looks realistic.

Interesting variety of symmetry and contradictions mixed together. Some composed, some probably by accident. 

Grotesquely fake looking.

"very well captured"

Post production assembly really isn't a "capture".

It was faked Laurent.

The bird is way too fake looking for something presented to appear as though it were actually there.

I'm glad you like it Charles although I think the rating average is generous. Looking back as an early digital image for me, the composition is adequate for what I had to work with, highlighting the stretch of fog probably a good idea and the post production a hack job. I would do things differently now.

Nice. A bit overdone on the HDR but fixable.

I'm not sure if its really a landscape, I guess it is, but it has more depth and conveys a story and mood more so than the others. Good composition and flash on the snow adds to the image. The bright yellow umbrella in the distance was fortuitous.

The hat and cigar are overly gratuitous and out of place. The hat, in particular, looks like photoshopped in for no particular reason but for the shafow.

"Nice to have captured the lone one stranded in the middle of the brook."

 

Reality check: The image is nice but physically placing a pristine colorful fall leaf on a rock in a stream or a pool at the bottom of a waterfall and having it appear as lower foreground interest in a photo is an old cliche' constantly done technique. Its not a "capture" of "the lone stranded" leaf. It was put there and staged as though it were.

If you didn't notice this before, you will in the future.

"Whats not to like."

 

How fake it looks.

 

That's a blunt assessment but the paste job is so obvious.

A well composed photo which would be quite nice if it didn't have the cheesy "a la van Gogh" effect. 

The model looks uncomfortable and not confident here.

I never asked for one but, if I do, I'll keep that in mind.

The moon is so fake looking, it actually hideous.

"Over baked HDR."

 

Yes. The garish over-effect detracts from an otherwise nice scene.