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The sky is a little melodramatic for my taste, but it goes well. Maybe you could find a good sky at the same time of day/ rough lighting as the plane, and use that instead? It seems to detract a bit from the plane.

 

Still, nice picture, and not a lot of those left.

Too much white sky; it draws your eye up and out of the picture.

I like the strong vertical elements, and the soft, brown, tones. I'm less thrilled about the blown highlights in the lower left, and might suggest a minor crop of the bottom, though that's a personal taste issue probably related to the glaring white.

nicely composed. Some shadow detail on the lower right would be good, but that could be just my screen. Nice use of light, as in your other monochromatic pictures. You have a good feel for it.

but I'd crop tighter on Joe and his companion, since the glaring white house in the background tends to draw your eye away from them. There's also a great expression on the dog's face that would have complemented Joe's in a tighter shot.

There's a little dark mark on the middle left that appears on my monitor that should probably be faded out. Otherwise, good composition and minimalist presentation.

Convert to monochrome, then select Duotone from the same menu. Under Duotone select tritone, and start fiddling with the various curves and colors, or load one of the predefined ones and tweak it until you're happy. The lengthier tutorial here on Photo Net under Learn/Post-Exposure/Digital Editing/Sepia Toning. It works well, and gives you a lot more flexibility

It's a nice vacation shot. For pure aesthetics, I would have cropped in tight on the face and the rock to the left of it. The different textures and rich browns are very appealing to me. To make it work with the kid, I'd burn in the sea and the surface of the rock, so that they don't compete as strongly with the pale kid and water wings, and possibly up the saturation on the face. I'd also burn in the rock near the kids head, since tonally they're starting to merge.

 

Ideally, I'd have made some sort of noise to encourage the kid to turn around, so their face and the stone face were both facing the camera; comparative expressions can be interesting.

I like the contrast, though I could stand to see just a bit more shadow detail in the foreground structure. I don't like whatever the blob behind teh foreground is, and would have personally printed it down below the brightness of the bell-shape. There's also the issue of the cloud touching the top, but that's a matter on how quickly the clouds were moving, and a minor quibble. The high contrast brings out the textures and patterns of the Adobe beautifully.

I might either lighten or at least increase the local contrast on the deers' backs, to separate them from the dark background better. It took me a moment to realize that the smallest head belonged to the body with tail in the right foreground. Still, the expressions are good, and the colors (funky gray foreground, flaming background complementing basic deer brown) really make it for me.

The crossing blades are nice, the colors are good, and the background is rather soothing. One could quibble that the lower right should be printed down a bit, and the almost white blade on the far left cropped out, but that's pretty minor. The bug, however, it still rather small, and not being that brightly colored, not all that interesting.

 

So, either close in on the bug (at least 1/2 the distance), or wait for another one to come by. Extension tubes would help, good quality close-up lenses, or even just cropping the picture more tightly. I'd put the bug just off center, and then cut off 1/2 the frame both horizontally and vertically.

 

Happy macroing.

I like the colors of the windows, but am not crazy about the strong keystoning of the image. The issues with the left-hand window could be taken care of by a local contrast mask in p-shop, which is no different from a little local dodging or burning with a VC filter in the B&W darkroom. If it weren't for the strong grid pattern of the bricks, the keystoning wouldn't be so noticeable. An alternative would be to burn in the top and outside edges of the bricks so that they don't compete so strongly with the reflections in the glass and the pillars.

It's a nice picture. The top of the dog's head needs to be dodged just a touch, where the shadow from the pillow is making it dark and indistinct (at least on my monitor).

I'm not sure I'd crop it so much as burn in the hot spots in the upper left, and apply a sharpening mask to the water droplets on the right. The dark, smooth, reds contrast well with the yellow and the highlights in the drops, so I think I'd start by printing down before cropping

I have to admit that it's a better photo for being 'retouched' by the elimination of distracting elements. I'd probably suggest burning in the upper left corner a bit more, since it's bright enough to compete with the little boy, and tends to draw your eye out of the frame.

Well composed, and very appealing in that warm brown, as opposed to straight B&W. I like both the 'retro' look, and how the contrast and color of the pears makes them look almost metallic.

While less realistic, what if you darkened the sky and forest by about 2 stops, toned down the hay by about 1/2, and then upped the contrast a touch on the horses and lightened the neck of the one in the foreground? It's a nice shot, but it lacks a certain punch.

I agree about changing it to vertical, as it shifts the primary focus from the footprint to the rocks. The shadows on the rocks now give it a sense of movement, since they look to be falling past.

Print down the trees at the top of a bit, since the fine detail is relatively light and distracts from the strong shapes of the rocks and ice, and maybe print the rocks on the left edge down a bit so they compete less with the ice. The bring the overall contrast up a notch or two to increase the brilliance. It's a nice composition, and you can see that there is a good level of detail in both the light and dark regions, so it probably just didn't scan well. It's a good composition though, and probably gains from being seen larger than it is on the screen.

I like this. You should consider cropping that very bottom ledge to clean up the lines, but well done. The composition lends itself beautifully to being twisted slightly

Beautiful, clean, composition. The image gets stronger with each increase in size.

Other than the surfer being a little too centered, fantastic shot.

Blown up large, it's a nice picture. I would probably have moved the heron off-center to the left by a bit, and burned in the log so it doesn't compete as strongly with the subtle colors of the river and bird. I realize it's not always possible, but getting closer or cropping down wouldn't be a bad idea either. Robert Capa's dictum, "if your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough" applies to nature as well as photojournalism. Still, it's a good expression and pose on the bird's part as well.

Very nice. I would crop just below the small rock outcropping on the bottom, since it makes that rock look like (to me at least) a whale swimming upstream into the golden reflection. Excellent image and use of the long foreground.

Excellent color and texture, but the image could be strengthened by cropping the bottom 1/4 of the frame, to emphasize the strong diagonals.