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    Tradewinds

          10
    Nice and very commendable, but I think the use of the grad ND is a bit overdone. Having the sky darker than the foreground doesn't look quite natural to me.
  1. This one I am not so keen about. The sky is a bit washed out, especially the right hand corner. The plants look a bit chopped off at the bottom, which I don't find overly pleasing. Sorry but I figure it is best to be honest.

    Reaching

          38
    Sorry Will, but I have to say I like your other work much better. You have some amazing work but this one leaves me a bit flat. The HDR makes it all look a bit too perfect - great micro contrast within forground, midground and background, but no overall contrast between the various elements in the picture. The colours and the subject matter don't really speak to me. Clearly others like it, so you can probably ignore my comments.
  2. Its a really great shot and I like it very much. Two things disturb me a little bit. The loss of deatil in the shadow areas bothers me (it looks a bit murky) as does the prow of the boat on the right being cropped off. Stepping back a foot or two to include the prow, while cropping to a more panoramic format to keep the prow and keel of the boat on the left in the same relative position would work better for me.

    C R A C K !

          12
    Really nice work, but it looks a little bit too staged. The gap between the boot and the egg and the fact that the top of the egg is not also being crushed makes it unconvincing.

    "Narcissa"

          131

    Obvioulsy a huge amount of effort and talent went into creating this, but IMHO I don't think it works fully. To pull this of I think the image has to look a bit more natural. The lighting of the model is incosistent with the lighting of the lanscape elements an thus looks too obviously like studio lighting.

     

    The mud juxtaposes and creates tension with the soft look of the water and model, which are otherwise heavenly.

     

    The tree in the background bothers me too.

     

    I guess overall the image looks too contrived and overworked to get me to suspend disbelief. On the otherhand, the image shows talent well beyond most of us.

  3. Nice and well composed, but the light is ordinary (very harsh middle of the day) and the sky lacks some drama. Shooting early morning, late afternoon or in dramatic weather would have added more interest. You could try increasing the contrast in photoshop to darken the sky and lighten the light house to give a but more punch.
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